Transcript Great Buildings of the World

Amazing Buildings /
Structures
of the World.
Learning to Build
Models to Scale.
For Year 3m and 3c
Roman Colosseum 48 metres
• Rome, Italy
• Inspired by Emperor
Vespasian
• Builders- Romans
• 70-82 CE
• Built for
Entertainment
• Seated over 50,000
The Colosseum is in Europe.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
56 metres
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Pisa, Italy
1173 A.D.
179 feet tall
World’s most famous tower
Built out of marble
Began to teeter while still
under construction
because of soft soil
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
is in Europe.
Sydney Opera House
65 metres
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Sydney, Australia
Architect Jorn Utzon
1957-1973
Tile-clad and pre-cast
concrete
• Roof sections look
like sails
• Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is in
Australia.
Big Ben, London – 96 metres
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London, England
1858
Famous Landmark
Clock tower
Augustus Pugin and
Charles Barryarchitects
• Weighs over 13
tons
• Clock hands are
14 feet and 9
feet long
Big Ben is in Europe.
The Giza Pyramid
146 metres
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Giza, Egypt
2600-2480 B.C.E.
Pharaoh ordered it
4,000 men worked on it
Built to bury kings
Originally 481 ft. high
Now 449 ft. high
due to erosion
The Giza Pyramid is in Africa.
The Gateway Arch – 192 metres
• Also called Jefferson
National Expansion
Memorial Arch
• St.Louis, Missouri
• Architect: Eero Saarinen
• To celebrate Western
States
• 1961-1965
• Lookout area at the top
• 630 feet tall
• 630 feet between the
legs
• 16,000 tons of steel
• Underground tourist
center
The Gateway Arch is in
North America.
Eiffel Tower 301 metres
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Paris, France
Gustave Eiffel, Builder
1887 to 1889
Built for World’s Fair
300 m (985 ft) tall
Has been hit by lightning
300 meters tall (985 feet)
The Eiffel Tower is in Europe.
The Burj Al Arab, Dubai is 321m
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Burj Al Arab was designed by
architect Tom Wright of WKK
Architects. The design and
construction were managed by
Canadian engineer Rick Gregory of
WS Atkins. Construction of the
Island began in 1994. It built to
resemble the sail of a dhow, a type
of Arabian vessel. Two "wings"
spread in a V to form a vast
"mast", while the space between
them is enclosed in a massive
atrium.
The Burj Al Arab is in the
Middle East.
Empire State Building
381 metres
• New York City
• Shreve, Lamb, HarmonArchitects
• Built from 1929-1931
• 102 floors
• 1,250 feet high to roof
• Built to be the tallest
building in the world and
it was for 41 years
counting the spire which
made it 1,472 feet tall
The Empire State Building is in
North America.
The Sears Towers, Chicago
527 m to tip of aerials and 442 m height of
structure
• The tower is a worldrenowned building, a
Chicago icon. The
eighth-tallest building
in the world, it
remains the tallest
building in the
Western Hemisphere,
standing 1,450 feet
and 110 stories tall.
The Sears Towers is in North
America.
The Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia 452 metres.
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The Petronas Towers, also known as
the Petronas Twin Towers are twin
skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. According to the Council on
Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
(CTBUH)'s official definition and
ranking, they were the tallest
buildings in the world from 1998 to
2004 and remain the tallest twin
towers in the world replacing World
Trade Center in New York. The
buildings are a landmark of Kuala
Lumpur, along with nearby Kuala
Lumpur Tower.
The Petronas Towers is in Asia.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 828 metres.
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The At over 828 metres (2,716.5 feet) and more
than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds the following
records:
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Tallest building in the world
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Tallest free-standing structure in the world
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Highest number of stories in the world
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Highest occupied floor in the world
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Highest outdoor observation deck in the world
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Elevator with the longest travel distance in
the world
Tallest service elevator in the world
The Burj Khalifia in Dubai.