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Ken Yeang : Eco Skyscrapers

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For many, eco skyscrapers are synonymous with Ken Yeang. In more than three decades of practice, Ken Yeang has almost single-handedly pioneered and developed this building genre. This book presents Ken Yeang's work on the design of ecologically responsive skyscrapers, and includes his essay on applying green-design principles to the skyscraper typology, as well as a preface by Steve Featherstone, an introduction by David Scott (Chairman of The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) and a critique by Professor Ivor Richards. Ken Yeang makes it clear at the outset that the skyscraper building type is probably the most ecologically unfriendly of all building types, but states that until an economically viable alternative is identified, it is necessary to make them as humane and as sustainable as possible. Each project is presented together with data on its climatic location, the local vegetation, plot ratio, net and gross areas. The book is invaluable to those seeking to design green skyscraper.

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High Society: Contemporary highrise architecture and the international highrise Award 2006 / Aktuelle hochhausarchitektur und der nternationale hochhaus preis 2006

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From the Tower of Babel to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from European cathedrals to the Twin Towers and the currently scandalous Freedom Tower, highrises have always been a symbol of mankind's cultural aspirations and technological achievements. The biennial International Highrise Award specifies that an ideal contemporary tower should make exceptional use of aesthetics, design and technology, and show cost-effectiveness, sustainability and integration into town planning. This album of the 2006 contenders honors foremost the winners, Jean Nouvel and Fermin Vasquez, who designed the Torre Agbar building in Barcelona. The Agbar Tower's distinctive rounded crown had already earned it a nominee spot in Cabinet Magazine's Most Phallic Building in the World Contest. Here, the Highrise Award's more serious honor cites the building's "expressive shape," "pulsating dynamism" and "a multi-layer outer skin that generates its varied and exciting appearance." Runners-up include Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden.

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Les gratte-ciel

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Avec l'apparition des gratte-ciel, véritables symboles de modernité urbaine, le paysage architectural des grandes métropoles connaît, dès la fin du XIXe siècle, des transformations majeures. Ces buildings spectaculaires, qui s'élancent dans les ciels de Tokyo, de Shanghai, de Riyad, de Londres ou de Chicago, sont non seulement les symboles de la croissance économique et financière de ces villes, mais aussi des œuvres d'art. Constructions innovantes -au niveau des techniques et des matériaux de construction - ou géants d'acier, de verre et de granit qui adaptent aux exigences de la modernité des éléments issus de l'architecture traditionnelle, les gratte-ciel transforment les paysages dans lesquels ils s'inscrivent. Si au début le principal défi était celui de la prouesse technique et du toujours plus haut, aujourd'hui les concepteurs privilégient l'habitabilité de l'immeuble et se montrent de plus en plus soucieux du bien-être environnemental. Les fonctions remplies par ces buildings dans un espace urbain en perpétuelle évolution sont très diverses : centres financiers ou administratifs, bureaux ou sièges d'entreprises, centres commerciaux ou hôtels. Cet ouvrage recense les gratte-ciel les plus spectaculaires et extravagants et raconte l'histoire de leur construction. Des images et des plans dévoilent la structure et l'organisation invisibles des buildings qui ont transformé le paysage architectural des métropoles. Les textes d'Antonino Terranova racontent toute la variété et l'originalité des gratte-ciel.

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The Chrysler Building : creating a New York icon, day by day

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The never-before-seen collection of images in this book documents the construction of the Chrysler Building from street to spire.

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Tower and office : from modernist theory to contentemporary practice

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In "Tower and office", Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization.

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Skyscrapers : structure and design

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An investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world - both recently built and under construction - that explains the structural principles behind their creation. Skyscrapers, ever taller, astound us with their immensity and beauty. Despite the challenges associated with their design and safety, there is continued growth in the size and number of tall buildings being built around the world. In this fascinating book, Matthew Wells, a practicing structural engineer, explains the principles behind the construction of skyscrapers and the ways they are designed to withstand such forces as earthquakes, high winds, and fire. Beginning with a concise architectural and cultural history of the skyscraper, Wells then offers thirty case studies of high profile buildings recently built or under construction by some of the world’s most renowned architectural firms, including Foster and Partners; Zaha Hadid Architects; Cesar Pelli and Associates; the Renzo Piano Building Workshop; and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Each is illustrated in colour alongside accompanying text, drawings, plans, and details that show how the building is constructed and what particular innovative design features it incorporates in order to address such issues as sustainability, the needs of mixed-use sites, local vernacular traditions, and technological advancements in building materials.

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Gratte-ciel contemporains

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Mieux que toute autre espèce de création architecturale, le gratte-ciel est à la fois un élément du paysage urbain et un symbole ancré dans l'imaginaire collectif. A travers une approche originale et pluridisciplinaire du sujet, ce livre expose une réflexion d'ensemble sur le passé récent et le futur potentiel de ce type de construction. Le propos est illustré par une centaine d'exemples contemporains, choisis dans le monde entier et dus à des architectes de renommée internationale, parmi lesquels Christian de Portzamparc, Renzo Piano, jean Nouvel. Les réalisations majeures des dernières décennies sont ainsi décrites, expliquées et replacées au sein des grandes tendances artistiques dont elles sont l'expression. L'ouvrage contient également plusieurs projets inédits pour le nouveau World Trade Center de New York.

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High-rise manual : typology and design, construction and technology

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What constitutes a high-rise building? A high-rise is, in fact, any building with more than 9 storeys and not just those striking skyscrapers which shape modern city skylines. In the past, architects who designed such structures used to be the exception but in the last 10 years more and more architectural offices have begun to focus on this type of building. However, the sheer complexity of designing and planning the construction of a high-rise as opposed to other building types requires a wealth of specialized experience and expertise. The High-Rise Manual is the first comprehensive reference work on this subject. All relevant aspects of such an undertaking are examined in detail by some 25 specialist authors. Each step is extensively documented. Theoretical contributions present the basic principles of selected topics revealing how the task is viewed from the different perspectives. With countless illustrations, plans, and CAD drawings, this volume highlights the basic principles and details vital to building high-rise structures.

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eVolo skyscrapers 3: visionary architecture and urban design

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The future of architecture and urban design unveiled by 150 innovative projects submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition. The third book in the Skyscraper Competition series showcases visionary designs that utilize the latest technological advances, offer sustainable architectural solutions, explore new territories, propose social change, and examine radical urban strategies. Since 2006 the annual Skyscraper Competition receives thousands of entries from more than 80 different countries. The projects presented in this edition represent the top entries selected by an expert international jury.

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One World Trade Center: biography of the building

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The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and enough concrete to pave a sidewalk from New York to Chicago. With more than seventy interviews with the people most intimately involved, and unprecedented access to the building site, suppliers, and archives, Dupré unfurls the definitive story of fourteen years of conflict and controversy-and its triumphant resolution.