Language so that you can take language and put it into high gear and then slow down. That is something shakespeare lets you do if you are a politician. The night, the night. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Iowa State University professor Thomas Leslie talks about the changes in 19thcentury Architecture Design and technology. New materials and Foundation Methods allowed buildings to be built taller and incorporate more glass to but in more light to interior spaces. This class is an hour and a half. Professor leslie lets get started. Good afternoon to everyone and our expanded classroom today. I want to start quickly with where we are in the course and how this intersects with American History in particular. We have been looking at the history of Building Construction in the west, and we have gotten to the point where we have it developed a fair amount of building structures. We have a couple of new materials we are working with iron and also glass. Finally, we have this conception that we
Whats recommended for me. X1 makes it easy to find what you love. Call or go online and switch to x1. Only with xfinity. It is breaking news. Were learning more about orlando nightclub terrorist omar mate mateen. This is cnn tonight. President obama president obama is scheduled to visit here on thursday. Of course, cnn will carry all of that for you. Heres what we know at this hour though. According to the orlando seorl sentine sentinel, the killer visited the nightclub several times and a disney property two months ago. Was he casing it for potential attack . Also donald trump slamming president obama and Hillary Clinton on the issue of terrorism and getting into a war with the Washington Post. Were going to get into all of that this evening. Want to begin this hour with cnns pamela brown who is here with me in orlando. Shes been working this story and investigating it. Were learning much, much more about omar mateen. Give us the latest on that investigation. What is the latest on the
In an extract from his book Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World s Tallest Skyscrapers, Jason M Barr breaks down the future of city skylines across the globe.