The distinguished German firm HPP built Europe's first modern skyscraper in 1957 and subsequently has designed dozens of innovative office buildings renowned for their outstanding materials and construction. This first book on the firm since 1973 presents 58 important projects of the last ten years. 285 illustrations, 150 in color.
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The distinguished German firm HPP built Europe's first modern skyscraper in 1957 and subsequently has designed dozens of innovative office buildings renowned for their outstanding materials and construction. This first book on the firm since 1973 presents 58 important projects of the last ten years. 285 illustrations, 150 in color.
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Used-Very Good in Very Good jacket. The distinguished German firm's most significant projects of the last ten years. The distinguished German firm HPP built Europe's first modern skyscraper in 1957 and subsequently has designed dozens of innovative office buildings renowned for their outstanding materials and construction. This first book on the firm since 1973 presents 58 important projects of the last ten years. 285 illustrations, 150 in color. Small dents along lower edges of covers; otherwise, very nice, clean, tight copy free of any marks. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
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Fine- in Fine- jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 287 pages profusely illustrated in color. "This volume, continuing Henry-Russell Hitchock's 1973 monograph on the firm, documents, forty of HPP's most important buildings of the last eleven years including the restoration of their landmark Thyssenhaus skyscraper, originally contructed in 1960 and often compared to the famous Lever House and Seagram Building in New York. Other featured projects include the Munster and Leipzig train stations, the Bayer Administation and Research Center in Wuppertal, and the headquarters for the Victoria and Provinzial insurance companies in Dusseldorf. An illustrated chronological survey of twenty other important projects is also included." FINE-HARDCOVER, FINE-DUST JACKET.
