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Rock and Pop Venues
Acoustic and Architectural Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Popular music plays a substantial role in most people’s life. The demand and financial revenue of Rock and Pop concerts is large and still increasing with the decreased revenue on recorded music. Based on the first ever scientific investigations on recommendable acoustics for amplified music conducted...
by Patricia Gamburgo
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This eBook contains all the necessary elements to learn and master the TurboFloorPlan® Version 2016 programs
The information can be used and accessed in different ways.
- Following the entire e-book provides a complete training to learn the TurboFloorPlan® programs, not only by following tutorials...
The Plaza
The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row.
From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode...
Built
The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.
While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little...
Networks of New York
An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A guided tour of the physical Internet, as seen on, above, and below the city’s streets
What does the Internet look like?
It’s the single most essentail aspect of modern life, and yet, for many of us, the Internet looks like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our phones and...
by Sally Asher
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The tombs and graves of the St. Louis Cemeteries rise from the ground, creating labyrinthine memorials aptly dubbed "cities of the dead." Most are in even rows with quaint street names. Some are of crumbling brick and broken marble. Others are miniature mansions clad in decorative ironwork with angelic...
by Timothy E. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
With the exception of Mount Desert Island�s Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, the lighthouses of Bar Harbor and the Acadia region are among the most remote and lesser-known lighthouses of Maine. As the vessel traffic changed in these areas in the early 1900s, some of these lighthouses were sold into private...
by Luigi Rapagina, Massimiliano Matarazzo
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Hi, I’m Luigi Rapagina. You may remember me from such automated information kiosks as “The Colosseo Quadrato” or “Piazza di Spagna”. This time I’m going to guide you through the secrets and magic of the Trevi Fountain, the most famous and beautiful fountain in the whole world.Before we start,...
by Trevor Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 ushered in a new style of architecture based on the latest designs from Europe and American—flat roofs, plain facades, reinforced concrete and white paint inside and out. Streamlining was the watchword and houses, from bungalows to detached family homes,...
Public Art in Chicago
Photography and Commentary on Sculptures, Statues, Murals and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Public Art in Chicago collects writings published in the Chicago Tribune about more than 40 of Chicago's most famous and memorable installations of public art: sculptures, statues, fountains, mosaics, murals, and more. The articles included here were published between 1887 and the present and include...
Slow Burn City
London in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With a new introduction for the paperback.
London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.
London...
by David Isaac, John O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Since the publication of the first edition of Property Investment almost 15 years ago, the property sector has undergone some significant shifts that investors must now factor into their investment choices. In this thoroughly updated second edition, the authors address the issues that have risen to prominence...
by Carl Allen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The UK has produced some of the most original, exciting and influential bands in the world and most of them have cut their teeth in one of the myriad music venues that criss-cross the capital. In this comprehensive and compelling book, author and photographer Carl Allen, the ‘Pevsner of Rock ‘n’...
Doing Disability Differently
An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as creative starting points for the whole design...