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Réaliser un mur végétal ne s'improvise pas totalement et mieux vaut avoir un bon mode d'emploi. Cette deuxième édition revue et actualisée permet, avec un pas à pas complet et détaillé, de comprendre le fonctionnement d'un panneau végétalisé.
Réaliser et entretenir son mur végétal
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Réaliser un mur végétal ne s'improvise pas totalement et mieux vaut avoir un bon mode d'emploi. Cette deuxième édition revue et actualisée permet, avec un pas à pas complet et détaillé, de comprendre le fonctionnement d'un panneau végétalisé.
Gardens
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Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages. Factors such as improving the indoor climate and the workplace situation and hence increasing quality of life are the critical parameters of this very special design task. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this(...)
Interior gardens: designing and constructing green spaces in private and public buildings
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Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages. Factors such as improving the indoor climate and the workplace situation and hence increasing quality of life are the critical parameters of this very special design task. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented. The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award-winning ecological offi ce buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old-age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada. Show More Show Less
Design for flooding: Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to climate change
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Design for Flooding presents practices and lessons to create buildings and communities that are more resilient in the face of severe weather, climate change, and the prospect of rising sea level. It covers technical and institutional issues—along with new design and business opportunities—built upon fundamentals of climate and weather, stormwater and floodplain(...)
Design for flooding: Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to climate change
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Design for Flooding presents practices and lessons to create buildings and communities that are more resilient in the face of severe weather, climate change, and the prospect of rising sea level. It covers technical and institutional issues—along with new design and business opportunities—built upon fundamentals of climate and weather, stormwater and floodplain management; best practices of flood-resistant design and adaption to sea level rise; multidisciplinary design that integrates sound ecological and engineering principles; and innovative design and construction to protect and improve water security.
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Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the(...)
Dacha Idylls
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Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, the author captures the dacha's abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that these dwellings are key to understanding Russian life.
Gardens
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Internationally renowned for his weaving and textile design, Jack Lenor Larsen is also an accomplished and passionate gardener. LongHouse, in East Hampton, New York, is a diverse exhibition environment, public garden, and educational destination.This publication highlights the interaction of art and nature both inside the house and throughout the gardens.
Jack Lenor Larsen's Longhouse
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Internationally renowned for his weaving and textile design, Jack Lenor Larsen is also an accomplished and passionate gardener. LongHouse, in East Hampton, New York, is a diverse exhibition environment, public garden, and educational destination.This publication highlights the interaction of art and nature both inside the house and throughout the gardens.
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Contemporary follies
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The book features fifty structures, including work by internationally recognized firms such as Arata Isozaki & Associates, Heatherwick Studios, Patkau Architects, Steven Ehrlich Architects, TEN Arquitectos as well as innovative young studios in all parts of the world: Norway, United Kingdom, Austria, Chile, Germany, Ecuador, Finland, Taiwan, Spain, Canada, Netherlands,(...)
Contemporary follies
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The book features fifty structures, including work by internationally recognized firms such as Arata Isozaki & Associates, Heatherwick Studios, Patkau Architects, Steven Ehrlich Architects, TEN Arquitectos as well as innovative young studios in all parts of the world: Norway, United Kingdom, Austria, Chile, Germany, Ecuador, Finland, Taiwan, Spain, Canada, Netherlands, United States, Czech Republic, France, and Switzerland.
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New York: city of trees
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Benjamin Swett worked as a photographer and writer for the New York City Parks Department for thirteen years. In this collection of personnal narratives, historical observations and color photographs, he focuses on trees with stories to tell, adding a narrative to the city and its cosmopolitan character.
New York: city of trees
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Benjamin Swett worked as a photographer and writer for the New York City Parks Department for thirteen years. In this collection of personnal narratives, historical observations and color photographs, he focuses on trees with stories to tell, adding a narrative to the city and its cosmopolitan character.
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
Guide to New York City urban landscapes
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A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience.
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its(...)
Tree gardens: architecture and the forest
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its expressive structure.
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Art Parks is a useful guide to outdoor sculpture parks throughout the United States in both urban and suburban environments.
Art parks : a tour of America's sculpture Parks and Gardens
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Art Parks is a useful guide to outdoor sculpture parks throughout the United States in both urban and suburban environments.
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