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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at(...)
The bridge : the building of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge
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Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion -from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge.
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Naked architecture
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as(...)
Naked architecture
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An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the post modern period has passed—in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of every kind—architecture today seems to have undressed, almost as though wishing to show how it is made. The rediscovery in recent years of plastic form has brought about a closer relationship between architects and engineers. To this we must add the rise of new issues, such as that of environmental engineering, which has changed from being solely a technical and aesthetic practice into a movement in environmentally conscious architecture. If there is a phenomenon today that is able to hold together the various expressions of contemporary architecture, it is this return to the structure and the methods with which it is realized. Through its six thematic categories, this book provides an account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary construction—the laying bare of architecture.
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Façades légères en détail
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
Façades légères en détail
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Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama complet des multiples composants et de la mise en œuvre des façades légères. Il étudie leurs performances, ainsi que leur entretien et leur maintenance, afin d’éviter usure et vieillissement prématuré.
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
Pedestrian bridges : ramps, walkways, structures
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This book provides an overview of current trends in pedestrian bridge construction.
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes(...)
L'escalier, un parcours dénivelé
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, classiques envolées ou délires baroques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grandioses escaliers d'apparat du XIXe siècle, fastes de l'Art nouveau, sensualité du Modernisme catalan, froids escaliers du Bauhaus, escaliers high-tech, créations oniriques urbaines contemporaines, art conceptuel..., les escaliers demeurent l'un des signes emblématiques de l'innovation technologique et artistique des temps nouveaux.
Engineering Structures
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès(...)
Les grands travaux du siècle : la tour Eiffel
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«Le projet hardi de M. Eiffel souleva de nombreuses protestations dans le monde des arts, rencontra de graves objections de la part du monde scientifique et suscita de vives polémiques. Malgré cela, le célèbre novateur poursuivit son œuvre avec confiance, et, aujourd’hui, la tour de 300 mètres, qui dresse sa flèche élancée sur les bords de la Seine, témoigne des succès éclatants de cette entreprise, qui avait été si discutée à ses débuts. Elle a été l’attraction principale de l’Exposition de 1889 et elle constitue encore un des monuments les plus remarquables de l’industrie métallurgique.» J.-B. Dumont,1891
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Naissance d'un pont
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Ce livre part d’une ambition à la fois simple et folle : raconter la construction d’un pont suspendu quelque part dans une Californie imaginaire à partir des destins croisés d’une dizaine d’hommes et femmes. Un roman-fleuve qui brasse des sensations et des rêves, des paysages et des machines, des plans de carrière et des classes sociales, des corps de métiers et des corps(...)
Naissance d'un pont
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Ce livre part d’une ambition à la fois simple et folle : raconter la construction d’un pont suspendu quelque part dans une Californie imaginaire à partir des destins croisés d’une dizaine d’hommes et femmes. Un roman-fleuve qui brasse des sensations et des rêves, des paysages et des machines, des plans de carrière et des classes sociales, des corps de métiers et des corps tout court. Prix Médicis 2010.
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
Golden Gate bridge: history and design of an icon
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Architect Donald Macdonald designed the Golden Gate Bridge's current tollbooths and bike rail, set the guidelines for it's retrofit, and is at the centre of the discussion around the subject of the proposed suicide barrier design. Through his eyes the balance of aesthetics, geometry, and engineering that fashion the bridge is made clear
Engineering Structures
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
Bay Bridge: history and design of a new icon
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The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open in October 2013 and Chronicle author Donald MacDonald is its architect. McDonald and coauthor Ira Nadel now turn their signature approach onto this new Bay Area landmark.
Engineering Structures
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume,(...)
Building: 3000 years of design, engineering and construction
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From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young professionals as well as general readers, explores the materials, classic texts, instruments, and theories that have propelled modern engineering, and the famous and not-so-famous buildings designed through the ages, from the Parthenon to Chartres Cathedral and the dome of St. Peter's, from eighteenth-century silk mills in England to the Crystal Palace, and on to the first Chicago high-rises, the Sydney Opera House, and the latest "green" skyscrapers.
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