First Skyscraper in your country!
First Skyscraper in your country!
Gio Ponti exhibition
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Gio Ponti, Rare “811” Lounge Chair, Fabric, Walnut, Rubber, Cassina, c. 1956
About A rare and iconic lounge chair designed by Gio Ponti. Produced by Cassina, Meda, Italy, c. 1956. This chair is sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives. Other Italian designers of the period include Ico Parisi, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Paolo Buffa, and Osvaldo Borsani.
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Heritage Collection
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A Gio Ponti pilgrimage in Italy
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Explore the Genius of Italian Architect Gio Ponti
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See the Incredible Interiors of Mid-Century Design Polymath Gio Ponti
Giovanni Ponti (1891–1979), better known by his nickname Gio, was arguably the most important figure in 20th-century Italian architecture and design. He is best known for his imposing buildings (his Pirelli Tower looms over Milan); his sometimes practical, sometimes impractical furniture (including, in the former category, the lightweight Superleggera chair, produced by Cassina since 1957; […]
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Gio Ponti : les 7 enseignements du génie italien pour faire rayonner votre intérieur – Elle Décoration
Expo jubilatoire de l’automne, la rétrospective consacrée par le musée des Arts Décoratifs* à l’oeuvre immense du génie italien Gio Ponti, promet de faire vibrer Paris. Suivez ses sept enseignements capitaux pour faire rayonner votre home.*Du 19 octobre au 10 février 2019, “Tutto Ponti. Gio Ponti, archi-designer”. Plus de renseignements ici.
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Okey just post a photo of the first skyscraper and construction year in your country. So we can see at what time each country started building skyscrapers….I’ll start with my own country:Boerentoren, Antwerp Belgium:The building was constructed between 1929 and 1932 and was originally 87.5 metres (287 ft) high. It’s often considered to be the first real skyscraper in Europe; it was the tallest in Europe until 1952, and the tallest in Belgium from 1932 to 1967 (currently 18th tallest). In 1954 the tower was extended with an antenna which reached to a total height of 112.5 m (369 ft). In 1976, the roof of the tower was raised by 8.3 m (27 ft), and the current roof height is therefore 95.8 m (314 ft). The building is in Art-deco style and was designed by Jan Van Hoenacker.During construction:Save Share61 – 80 of 132 PostsThe first skyscraper in Russia- Kotelnicheskaya Tower, (176 metres/577 ft), 32 floors.Moscow. It was built in 1952.Save ShareReplyQuoteEdifício A Noite – 192822 floors – 102,8mRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Save ShareReplyQuoteIn Belgium the Boerentoren aka “farmers tower” build in 1929-193197misnt it a beauty Save ShareReplyQuoteThe Plaza Hotel (1907/1909) is said to be the first skyscraper in Buenos Aires, despite having only 63 meters (207 feet).
The Railway Building was constructed between 1907 and 1910 for the british railways in Argentina, reaching 80 meters (252 feet), but it was inaugurated in 1914 because a rumor about errors in calculation was spread. Nowadays, it is the Ministry of Planification.Then, the Palacio Barolo or Pasaje Barolo (1919/23. 100 mts, 328 ft), an incredible building by a half-nuts italian architect called Mario Palanti, who would later work in megalomaniac projects for the Duce in the fascist Italy. It is a symbolic design related to the Divine Comedy and Dante (search the story), requested by a rich bussinesman who was a member of a sect that adores this book and its author.(sorry for my bad english!)Save ShareReplyQuoteHow about this tower?Hwangyougsa(temple) tower constructed in 645, almost 1400 years ago, in Silla dynasty, currently south korea.This tower is not western modern style or concept at all.But it was surely “skyscraper’ for the people at those days.Because its height is 80m high.
Save ShareReplyQuoteBTC,Bucharest 110 meters,25 floors.The first and only skyscraper :
Save ShareReplyQuoteVery nice for a first!!! Any more coming up in Bucharest?Save ShareReplyQuote^^ No, unfortunately .The economic crisis made the investors to lose confidence in Bucharest.Save ShareReplyQuotehno:
PAST Bldg. 1906-08.51,5 m
Elvenking said:
Prudential, Warsaw, 1934, 66m, Art DecoClick to expand…
Save ShareReplyQuoteI always like this skyscraper and think that is some way similar to this one in Milan (it’s official name is Grattacielo Milano, but it’s generally called Torre Breda), built in 1954
When the Latinoamericana tower was built?
stefano1895 said:
but i think that the torre latinamericana is our fisrst real skyscraper
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Save ShareReplyQuoteThere are many ancient buildings around the world 80 m high and more (just an example, the Great Pyramid of Giza: 139 m high, built over 4500 years ago), but we’re talkin’ of skyscrapers, the typology of building born in Chicago in the last two decades of 1800 by the Chicago School of Architecture headed by Sullivan
citypia said:
How about this tower?Hwangyougsa(temple) tower constructed in 645, almost 1400 years ago, in Silla dynasty, currently south korea.This tower is not western modern style or concept at all.But it was surely “skyscraper’ for the people at those days.Because its height is 80m high.Click to expand…
Save ShareReplyQuoteIn Italy probably the first skyscraper is this one in Milan
Torre Rasini (1933/1936 – 48 m) by Giò Ponti (the same Architect of Pirelli Tower built in Milan in 1960)But there is even this one in TurinTorre Littoria (1934/1937 – 87 m)Some one claims for these two ‘twin’ buildings in Milan (1923/1925) to be the first ‘skyscrapers’, but I think that’s rather hard to name these two as skyscrapersSave ShareReplyQuoteA skyscraper must be 1) phallic 2) have 6 or more inhabitable floors. That’s it.
Benonie said:
^^ The definition of ‘skyscrapers’ changed throughout the years. It’s about the first buildings they called “skyscrapers” in your own country.Most of the towers here wouldn’t be called ‘skyscraper’ if built today. But they were enormous at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Most buildings in that time only had a few floors. So a new building with elevators, a steel or concrete structure and 12 floors was called a ‘skyscraper’.Click to expand…
GENIUS LOCI said:
There are many ancient buildings around the world 80 m high and more (just an example, the Great Pyramid of Giza: 139 m high, built over 4500 years ago), but we’re talkin’ of skyscrapers, the typology of building born in Chicago in the last two decades of 1800 by the Chicago School of Architecture headed by SullivanClick to expand…
Not according to the dictionary definition:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skyscraperSave ShareReplyQuoteWiktionary… then I’m gonna edit this, so it will be in accordance with my definition Save ShareReplyQuote1930BudapestNational Social Insurance Buildingarchitect: Komor Marcell, Jakab Dezsőstyle: Post-Art Nouveau
The tower was demolished in the sixties.Save ShareReplyQuote^^ Wow, certanly one of the best towers from that period of time. What a shame it doesn’t exist anymore!hno:Save ShareReplyQuote^^From what I understand they just demolished the last five floorsSave ShareReplyQuoteThe Dubai World Trade Centre.
Completed in 1979.Final Height: 149.05mThis was Dubai’s first 30+ storey building.Then:Now:Save ShareReplyQuoteBangkok, ThailandDusit Thanee Hotel|23 floors (1968)http://blog.tourismthailand.org/EugeneTang/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/16.jpghttp://www.pingbook.com/archive/201003221269239146.jpgSave ShareReplyQuoteThe first high building in Morocco is the Hassan II Mosque (1993) with a minaret of 200m
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