Super Structures(超级建筑物) Inside the world’s most spectacular buildings pdf

Super Structures(超级建筑物) Inside the world's most spectacular buildings Wonderful Digest

Early Greek and Roman scholars wrote travel records describing the world’s most magnificent structures, resulting in the famous Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Today, the only surviving structure is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt,with the others destroyed by time, war,or natural disasters. The only evidence that some of these wonders existed is old literature, so modern archeologists must refer to other buildings of the time to guess at how these structures looked. It has been debated that some wonders may be purely myth and legend.

Christ the Redeemer

Standing over Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Christ the Redeemer is a religious monument on the city’s Corcovado Mountain. Officially opened on October 12, 1931, the interior structure was engineered in reinforced concrete,with the outer layers of the 130-ft (39-m) statue carved in soapstone.

Petra

The ancient Nabataean settlement of Petra in Jordan is reached via the Siq, a half-mile (1-km) gorge. The streets are lined with altars, obelisks, temples, and tombs, all carved into sheer rockface. The Treasury, a king’s tomb, is 100 ft (30 m) wide and 141 ft (43 m) high.