Specifying Buildings: A design management perspective

Specifying Buildings: A design management perspective

2001 | PDF | 224 pages | 1,3 mb

Providing an overview of specifying, from selecting materials and products to writing the specification documents, Specifying Buildings is a new guide to this important part of the construction process. Where it differs from most books is in covering the management of the specification process, making sure that the design intent is transferred to the building assembly as specified.

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Peter Zumthor Works Buildings and Projects (1979-1997)

Peter Zumthor : Works Buildings and Projects (1979-1997)

Peter Zumthor is possibly the most innovative European architect working today. His projects inspire enthusiasm with their exactitude, their poetry, and their radically independent aesthetics and vocabulary of form.

This publication, exquisitely designed to the architect's exacting standards, is the first complete survey of Zumthor's oeuvre. As exceptional as the architect's work itself, the book investigates eight realized buildings in detail, including the Home for the Elderly in Chur, the Gugalun House in Safiental, the Art Museum in Bregenz, Austria, and his best-known work, the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland.

 Each of these projects is extensively illustrated with duotone photographs by British architectural photographer Helene Binet and is accompanied by plans as well as commentary written by Zumthor himself. This title also includes a list of projects, a biography of the architect, and an introduction by Zumthor.

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German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

English | 2000 | 192 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth-century architects, were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernists ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.

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Class Architecture

Class Architecture

2006 | PDF | 144 pages | 315 mb

School buildings are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the next generation of teachers and students. 

This book presents more than 40 projects from the USA, showcasing leading elementary and secondary school design. 

Featred projects factor in important design elements including security and safety, new technology, resource centres and energy conservation. 

They must also accomodate flexible learning environments for a range of student groups. Full-colour photos, plans, drawings and descriptive text accompany the projects.

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Blast Effects on Buildings

Blast Effects on Buildings

 2nd edition"

2009 | PDF | 356 pages | 5.8 MB

Blast effects on buildings, second edition provides the latest practical guidance on designing buildings to optimise their resilience to blast loading. 

Focused specifically on the design of commercial buildings, it is an indispensable guide to help engineers reduce the risks posed to building occupants and businesses from terrorist and other explosions.

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Zaha Hadid : The Complete Buildings & Projects

Zaha Hadid : The Complete Buildings & Projects

144 Pages

PDF

With her most recent commission, Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first woman ever to design an American museum. This long awaited first monograph on one of the world's most important architects collects Hadid's entire oeuvre-more than 80 built and unbuilt projects over 20 years- in one significant volume.

The groundbreaking monograph contains Hadid's own striking drawings and paintings, as well as hundreds of sketches, plans, and models. Readers will recognize her built work-the Vitra Fire Station near Basel and the IBA Building in Berlin- and will welcome details of her competition entry for Chicago's ITT Building, and her winning design for the Cardiff Opera House. With generous commentary by the architect and her office, this is a landmark publication.

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Designing Better Buildings

Designing Better Buildings

 Quality and Value in the Built Environment

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. 

This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. 

For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. 

It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. 

And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit.
 

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Architecture in Use : An Introduction to the Programming, Design and Evaluation of Buildings.

Architecture in Use : 

An Introduction to the Programming, 

Design and Evaluation of Buildings.

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Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings

Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings

2000 | 128 pages | PDF | 19,3 MB

Buildings-old and new, ornate or simple-provide an endlessly intriguing subject for watercolorists. Author and artist Richard Taylor gives you all the techniques for capturing perspective, proportion, light and shade, detail and texture. 

After deciding on the right materials, try your hand at everything from sheds and shacks to classical architecture with formal designs, arches, and elegant frontage. Capture the weathered appeal of a crumbling, ruined boatyard; by using lots of water, and downward vertical strokes with the brush, all the dramatic effects of ageing emerge on the paper.

 Stone steps leading up to a quiet Mediterranean courtyard shine in dappled light and warm shadows-deep in the interior, leafy branches, potted plants, windows, and a statue catch the eye. 

Or, paint quadrangles, cloisters; terraced homes, town houses, and street life. Throughout, 120 paintings in various stages of completion, show the effects of color, shadowing, and balance. 

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Transportation Systems in Buildings

Transportation Systems in Buildings

CIBSE Guide D

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Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings

Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings

A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, providing solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues with technical drawings and case-studies. Essential purchase for all construction professionals engaged in this kind of work and students of construction, surveying and architecture.
 

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Energy Conservation in Buildings

Energy Conservation in Buildings :

 A Guide to Part L of the Building Regulations

The conservation of fuel and power in buildings is an important part of the UK government's strategy to reduce national energy conservation. The revision to Part L of the Building Regulations, which came into force on 1 April 2002, lays down detailed and extensive requirements for conserving energy in almost all buildings and it covers most potential causes of building energy consumption.

This guide explains these detailed requirements and shows how they apply to particular cases, with the use of numerous worked examples. It includes a chapter on air tightness and leakage testing, a topic with which many building professionals are unfamiliar.

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Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

2004 / 373.73 MB

file compressed rar in 4 parts 

Presents a global survey of the most oustanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps locating each building, the book illustrates more than 1,000 completed buildings, and includes some of the most influential projects as well as many lesser-known buildings from around the world.

 

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100 of the world's tallest buildings

100 of the world's tallest buildings

1998 | PDF | 220 pages | 159 mb

Presents a spectacular selection of the tallest and most fascinating skyscrapers that have been constructed around the globe. Many photos and drawings.
 

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Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide

The Association of British Theatre Technicians produced its first guide to the design and planning of theatres in 1972. Revised in 1986, it became the standard reference work for anyone involved in building, refurbishing, or creating a performance space. Theatre Buildings – a design guide is its successor.

Written and illustrated by a highly experienced team of international theatre designers and practitioners, it retains the practical approach of the original while extending the scope to take account of the development of new technologies, new forms of presentation, changing expectations, and the economic and social pressures which require every part of the theatre to be as productive as possible.

The book takes the reader through the whole process of planning and designing a theatre. It looks in detail at each area of the building: front of house, auditorium, backstage, and administrative offices. It gives specific guidance on sightlines, acoustics, stage engineering, lighting, sound and video, auditorium and stage formats. Aspects such as catering, conference and education use are also covered.

The information is supplemented by twenty-eight case studies, selected to provide examples which range in size, style and format and to cover new buildings, renovations, conversions, temporary and found space. The studies include Den Norsk, Oslo; The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; The Liceu, Barcelona; Les Bouffes du Nord, Paris; The RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford on Avon; and the MTC Theatre in Melbourne. All have plans and sections drawn to 1:500 scale.
 

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Research and Technology Buildings

Research and Technology Buildings

A Design Manual

A handbook on planning and designing architecture for research and technology, with 70 up-to-date international case studies of built works by architects such as Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw, Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Nicholas Grimshaw.
 

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New Concepts in Apartment Buildings

New Concepts in Apartment Buildings

 english / file DJVU

Apartment architecture has come a long way since the days when functionality took precedence over aesthetic conditions. Today, the two concepts go hand in hand. Each project in this volume goes that extra step beyond meeting basic requirements to providing qualities which add texture and beauty to daily life. As but one example: the building with entire facades of double layers of glass encasing living plants within. Photos, texts, ground plans and construction details all help provide thorough understanding of each project.

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New Apartment Buildings (Architectural Design)

New Apartment Buildings (Architectural Design)

 English.
pdf file.

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Specification for structural steel buildings

Specification for structural steel buildings

 

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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

Sustainable Solar Housing: 

Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

288 pages | PDF | 30 MB

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