Building Big
by David Macaulay
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A companion book to the PBS television series about the creation of bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams, focusing on the connections between the main planning and design problems that had to be solved and the solutions that were ultimately constructed.
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Building Big
May 10, 2004, Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
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Building Big
April 30, 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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"All the structures in this book willingly reveal important things about why and how they were built if we know what to look for."
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This book accompanies the PBS series "Building Big" ("Bridges", "Domes", "Skyscrapers", "Dams", and "Tunnels"). Using some but not all of the examples chosen for the films, this book focuses entirely on the connections between the main planning and design problems that had to be solved and the solutions that were eventually built.
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