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Author : Dale Chihuly
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ISBN 13 : 9781576841747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)
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Author : Dale Chihuly
Publisher : Chihuly Workshop
ISBN 13 : 9781576841747
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Chandeliers and Towers written by Dale Chihuly and published by Chihuly Workshop. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Chihuly is possibly the best known glass artist in the world, for more than forty years he has been creating remarkable works of art that explore colour, form, and nature. He has often taken his inspiration from the natural world - as shown to sunning effect in his outdoor exhibition at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
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Author : K. Al-Kodmany
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784660175
Total Pages : 501 pages
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Download or read book Eco-Towers written by K. Al-Kodmany and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-Towers introduces readers to groundbreaking designs, most progressive projects, and innovative ways of thinking about a new generation of green skyscrapers that could provide solutions to crises the world faces today including climate change, depleting resources, deteriorating ecology, population increase, decreasing food supply, urban heat island effect, pollution, deforestation, and more. The book suggests that the eco-tower culminates the cultural and technological evolutions of the 21st century by building and improving on the experiences of earlier designs of skyscrapers and philosophies particularly green, sustainable, and ecological. It argues that the true green skyscraper is the one that engages successfully with its larger urban context by establishing symbiotic relationships with the social, economic, and environmental aspects. Since tall buildings are becoming larger and taller, serving greater number of people, and exerting higher demand on the environment and existing infrastructure, any improvements in their design and construction will significantly enhance urban conditions. The book elucidates how green skyscrapers better serve tenants, mitigate environmental impacts, and improve integration with the city infrastructure. It explains how skyscrapers’ long life cycle offers the greatest justifications for recycling precious resources, and makes it a worthwhile to employ green features in constructing new skyscrapers and retrofitting existing ones. Subsequently, the book explores new designs that are employing cutting-edge green technologies at a grand scale including water-saving technologies, solar panels, helical wind turbines, sunlight-sensing LED lights, rainwater catchment systems, graywater and blackwater recycling systems, seawater-powered air conditioning, and the like. In the future, new building materials and smart technologies will continue to offer innovative design approaches to sustainable tall buildings with new aesthetics, referred to as “eco-iconic” skyscrapers.
Author : Charlie Thornton
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
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Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (879 download)
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Author : Ian M. Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119084210
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
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Author : Francis Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135858691
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
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Author : Joseph J. Korom
Publisher : Branden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780828321884
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Author : Russell Sturgis
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Author : Pierre Martin Dufresne
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3038210188
Total Pages : 178 pages
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