ceiling lights & chandeliers
whats inside fascinating structures around the world
as it takes us on a tour of some of the most unique and beautiful structures this book shows how the purpose of each structure dictated its design or location . here are soaring glass skyscrapers for working people and a humble stone barn for working animals ; a sealed tomb hewn out of a limestone hillside for buried reasure and a majestic marble building honoring a goddess . as it reveals what lies inside each structure this book gives insight into the people who designed these buildings into their hopes their lives and their concepts of beauty . included for budding engineers and architects are statistics such as the year built square footage materials used height and other little known statistics . br structures included are tomb of tutankamumn in thebes egypt the parthenon in athens greece temple of kukulcan in chichen itza mexico buddhas place in shanxi province china walled city of toldeo in spain alcazar castle in segovia spain independence hall in philadelphia shaker dairy barn in hancock ma a circus big top tent which traveled to many american cities the guggenhem museum in nyc the sydney opera house in sydney australia the petrona towers in kuala lumpur malaysia the georgia aquarium in georgia atlanta