Building Height Maps

Source: Google Maps Mania

San Francisco Building Height Map

At first glance this map of San Francisco building height might look like it couldn't teach you anything new. After all it isn't as if those tall buildings in the Financial District are trying to hide. However it is a pretty looking map, with each building footprint colored to show the height of the building. If you do want to learn something new you can mouse-over individual building plots on the SF Building Height map to discover the height of a building. -- Google Maps Mania

Source: radicalcartography.net

BUILDING HEIGHTS by Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography, 2006

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Skin of Architecture: Map

Source: Andrés Valbuena archdaily.com

Click Clack Hotel, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia, 2012 designed by Plan B Arquitectos

This hotel is an attempt to open or permeate the norm: it is slim and has four open facades due to side setbacks; the larger facades are set back to allow a double skin of metal and glass, and the main facade articulates urban life and cantilevers the 1.5 m allowed by the building code. -- ArchDaily

Source: Harry Cock archdaily.com

Train Station and City Hall complex, Delft, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by Mecanoo

Within the new station hall an undulating ‘vault’, which has been designed to evoke an “unforgettable arrival experience”, features a scaled 1877 map of the Dutch city rendered in blue and white. -- ArchDaily