Or Industrial Buildings list 3

Portsmouth in 50 Buildings

by Garth Groombridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

The origins of Chichester, Winchester and nearby Portchester are from the Roman era, while Southampton (Hamwic) and Fareham date back to the Anglo-Saxon period, but it was not until the twelfth century that Portsmouth was founded, and, even then, it was not until the time of the Tudor monarchs ‒...

Designing Detroit

Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture

by Michael G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017

In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert...

Energy Management in Buildings

by Keith Moss
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006

Managing the consumption and conservation of energy in buildings is the concern of both building managers and occupants and this use accounts for about half of UK energy consumption. The need to manage this has been given new emphasis by the introduction of the Climate Change Levy. Energy Management...

Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand

a revised and expanded edition of Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand

by Simon Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings...

The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Non-Domestic Buildings

by Baker Nick
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009

The refurbishment of existing buildings is a crucial yet often neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings. Many old buildings waste large amounts of energy and provide poor internal conditions for occupants through poor lighting, poor ventilation,...

Tall Buildings

The Proceedings of a Symposium on Tall Buildings with Particular Reference to Shear Wall Structures, Held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014

Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings. This book presents the advances in structural analysis, in methods of design, in methods of construction, and in the properties of materials. Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an...

Newcastle in 50 Buildings

by Steve Ellwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

Newcastle in 50 Buildings takes us on a journey through the city’s proud architectural heritage, from its earliest existing building – the twelfth-century Norman castle which gives the city its name – through medieval religious institutions and Jacobean buildings on the Quayside to the Georgian-era...

Understanding Tall Buildings

A Theory of Placemaking

by Kheir Al-Kodmany
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place. By analyzing hundreds of tall buildings and by providing hundreds of visuals that inspire, stimulate and engage, Understanding...

Fallen Glory

The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

by James Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods,...

Rochester's Downtown Architecture

1950-1975

by Daniel J. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010

Following World War II, many American cities underwent a large-scale modernization to keep up with the changing times in business technology and architecture. With help from federal funding and planning, expansive and low-density modern projects replaced the crowded blocks of century-old buildings. State-of-the-art...

British Railway Architecture and Heritage

by Trevor Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

The majestic architecture of early railway buildings reflected the pride of the railway companies who commissioned them. These awe-inspiring structures ranged from classically-designed stations, waiting rooms and booking halls to mighty viaducts, tunnels and bridges. In this highly-illustrated book,...

Nevada's Historic Buildings

A Cultural Legacy

by Ronald M. James, Elizabeth Harvey, Thomas Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

The history of any place is conveyed through a range of documents and artifacts, including the buildings that over time have sheltered people and their activities. This is especially true in Nevada, a place where the harshness of the landscape and the isolation and mobility of the population challenged...

Southend in 50 Buildings

by Ian Yearsley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Southend-on-Sea is a comparatively modern town. Its origins date to only the eighteenth century, but its geographical spread encompasses six historic parishes: Prittlewell, Southchurch, Leigh, Eastwood, South Shoebury and North Shoebury, whose existence goes back a further 1,100 years to at least...

The Ancient Egyptian Metaphysical Architecture

by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, ...etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and...