美国十大标志性建筑中英文介绍.ppt

1、美国十大标志性建筑,1.,The Empire State Building,The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the worlds tallest building for more than forty

2、years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Centers North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City and New York State. The Empire State Building

3、has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.3 It was designa

4、ted as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 2007, it was ranked number one on the List of Americas Favorite Architecture according to the AIA. The building is owned and managed by W the transition line where work resumed at the 150ft level is readily apparent.To visit the monument pick up a free

5、 ticket from the 15th St kiosk (on the Mall, south of Constitution Ave), which allows you to turn up at a fixed time later in the day. The elevator up takes seventy seconds and deposits you at the 500ft level in order to enjoy the monuments panoramic 360 views of the city,7.战争墙/越南阵亡将士纪念碑(the Vietnam

6、 Veterans Memorial),，坐落在华盛顿特区。整个建筑由两面有黑色石头组成的V字造型组成，上面按照死亡日期和失踪年月刻满了在越战中失去的58000名美国士兵。曾有人批评建筑过于简单了，可它每年仍吸引着超过150万游客来参观。 战争墙于1982年开放，是十大建筑中，最晚设计和建造的，建筑师是年仅21岁的耶鲁在校学生Maya Lin。还有一个理由让我们记住这个华裔女孩，近代史上的大才女林徽因是她的姑姑，可算是出身建筑世家。 越战纪念碑，简单利落的线条，敞开的大角度V，一端指着林肯纪念碑，另一端指着华盛顿纪念碑。在两端与地平线合而为一，还有黑色的大理石镶嵌在高度的落差之中。就是这么简单

7、，所以震撼如此深刻。读到的说明中有形容它是一本敞开着的大书。当沿着他顺着走下时，就好像是在阅读着叙述越南战争历史的书，黑色的大理石上封存着一去不复返的士兵的名字。没有说明，什么都没有。很严肃，很静，却静水流深的感觉。,8.Golden Gate Bridge,The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world-are visible from almost every point of elevat

8、ion in San Francisco. The only cleft in Northern Californias 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph St

9、rauss, it was the first really massive suspension bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the worlds longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing redundant, and was d

10、esigned to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft.,9.The Pentagon,The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). Its mailing address is Washington, DC 20301. As a symbo

11、l of the US military, the Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself. Those who work within its walls often simply call it the Building. The building was dedicated on January 15, 1943. It is the highest-capacity office building in the w

12、orld and one of the worlds largest buildings in terms of floor area. It houses approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel. It has five sides, five floors above ground (plus two basement levels), and five ring corridors per floor with a total of

13、 17.5 miles (28 km) of corridors.,Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, an escalator ran from the Metro station to the Pentagon lobby. After the attack this escalator was blocked off and later removed as part of the Pentagon Renovation Program,10. the Lincoln Memorial,the lincoln memorial is a fitting tribute to the man who held the country together during the civil war and thereby put an end to slavery in the us. a craggy likeness of abraham lincoln sits firmly grasping the arms of his throne