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Green Buildings Pay
Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainability and the Design of Transport Interchanges
The interchange is a new form of transport building which integrates into a single whole various modes of public transport, putting the passenger first (rather than the infrastructure). This book presents design principles for transport interchanges and offers analysis of best practice in the UK...
Published January 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Rough Guide to Sustainability 3rd edition
A Design Primer, 3rd Edition
The comprehensively updated and expanded new edition of this no-nonsense student and practice primer equips the contemporary architect to deal with the profession's most important challenge: designing buildings for sustainability. Brian Edwards' book pulls together many of the disparate, complex...
Published March 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Libraries and Learning Resource Centres
2nd Edition
Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evaluations of international case studies demonstrate the principles of library design.Available for the first time in full colour, the second edition of...
Published March 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
2nd Edition
This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings...
Published September 4th 2008 by Taylor & Francis
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Courtyard Housing
Past, Present and Future
Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other...
Published September 19th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
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The Modern Airport Terminal
New Approaches to Airport Architecture, 2nd Edition
This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a...
Published February 14th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
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Green Buildings Pay
Green Buildings Pay examines, through case studies of commercial and university buildings, how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. The case studies are described by their designers and often also by the client, thereby ensuring that the...
Published September 24th 2003 by Taylor & Francis
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University Architecture
Some of the most exciting architecture in the world can be found on university campuses. In Europe, America and the Far East, vice chancellors and their architects have, over several centuries, produced an extraordinary range of innovative buildings. This book has been written to highlight the...
Published February 7th 2001 by Taylor & Francis
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Sustainable Housing
Principles and Practice
Written by experts, Sustainable Housing brings new perspectives on residential sustainability, using case studies of latest practice. This book is based upon the 'Housing and Sustainability' conference at the RIBA in 1998, which intended to guide action into the next century, setting down key...
Published July 12th 2000 by Taylor & Francis