Titre et auteur:

Skyplane : form, technique, content / edited by Richard Francis-Jones [and others].

Publication:

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2009.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Série(s):

Content ; 5

Notes:
On cover: What effect do towers have on urbanism, sustainability, the workplace and historic city centres?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern objects / Lawrence Nield -- Skylines / David Leatherbarrow -- After the towers / Joseph Rykwert -- The power of smallness : the Austrian Cultural Forum / Kenneth Frampton, with introduction by Richard Francis-Jones -- The Dong tower / Xing Ruan -- The virtue of Babel : the Hong Kong residential tower / Desmond Hui -- Can the tall building be artistically reconsidered? Koolhaas's CCTV Headquarters / Gevork Hartoonian -- The spectre of the skyscraper : an exploration of images / Paul Hogben -- 'Skyscraper megalomania' : the AMP building at Circular Quay / Robert Freestone -- Torbreck : projections of Californian landscape and ultramodern lifestyle / Andrew Wilson -- Tower, slab, and space : the Australia Square ensemble / Philip Thalis -- To lighten : in the glare of 01 Bligh / Chris L. Smith -- Architectural wit : aesthetics, spectacle and ideology in the Griffins' proposed Capitol Building / Deborah van der Plaat.

Résumé:

In Skyplane, some of architectureʼs leading thinkers and practitioners examine both the global phenomenon of the tall building and its adaptation to the Asian-Pacific context, addressing the following questions: What effect do towers have on our culture and urbanism, environmental sustainability, building economics, the workplace and historic city centres? Can such giants be humane and made more formally engaging? Can architectural influence go beyond the façade or cope with self-aggrandisement and rampant symbolism?"--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780868408224 (pbk.)
0868408220 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Tall buildings.
Tall buildings Environmental aspects.
Architecture Human factors.
Urbanization.
Immeubles de grande hauteur.
Immeubles de grande hauteur Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.

Vedettes secondaires:

Francis-Jones, Richard.
Content (Series) ; 5.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 272271
Cote: BIB 205523
Statut: Disponible