Posts Tagged ‘Buildings’

Key Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections and Elevations

Posted 22 May 2010
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  • ISBN13: 9780393732429
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A collection of more than one hundred twenty-first-century buildings of particular interest for study by students and professionals.
Third in the series of Key books, this volume offers newly drawn plans and color photographs of a wide range of buildings by out-standing architects arranged by plan: centralized and radial plans; linear structures; terraced houses; stacked plans; orthogonal and eccentric courtyards; special cityscape responses; and infills, additions, and extensions.
 
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Green Buildings Pay

Posted 22 Apr 2010
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Buildings have a major impact upon the world’s resources and upon the health of people who occupy them. Green buildings are designed specifically to reduce the level of resource consumed, whether energy, raw materials or water. This successful guide examines, through case studies how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. The studies are described by their designers and often also by the client, thereby ensuring that the buildings are seen in the context of market realities. This book will be vital reading for professional groups ranging from design to procurement and management.
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