Search Results - "construction"

City Planning In Japan

Renzo Piano : projects and buildings 1964-1983 / by Dini, Massimo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Massimo Dini -- The scientific approach -- Reinforced polyester space frames -- Woodworking shop -- Prestressed steel and reinforced polyester structure -- Shell strcutural systems: a pavilion for the XIV Triennale -- Italian Industry Pavilion at the Osaka Expo -- Fiat VSS experimental vehicle -- Arvedi tubular structural system -- Mobile structure -- Mobile structure for sulfur extraction -- Standardized hospital module -- Mobile construction unit for Senegal -- Transport vehicle -- Neighborhood Workshop in Otranto: an experiment in urban reconstruction -- IBM travelling exhibition -- Evolving space -- Industrialized construction system for a housing estate -- Office workshop for the Renzo Piano studio -- Open plan home -- B&B Italy office building -- One-family homes -- Industrialized construction system for evolving-type home -- Exhibition complex -- Culture and technology -- Georges Pompidou cultural center -- IRCAM: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music -- The Menil Collection -- Reuse of the Palazzo a Vela for the Alexander Calder retrospective -- Gentle renewal -- Design for restructuring the islan of Burano -- Renewing the old Quartiere del Molo -- Urban conversion of the Schlumberger works -- Neighborhood Workshop for local maintenance -- Restructuring a street block in the ancient city center -- Urban continuity -- Building for the Banca Agricola Commerciale, Automobile Club Italiano and collective services -- IBA design for extending the Nationalgalerie and housing -- An axis of services -- The journey backwards -- An experiment in educational television: the program "Open Site"…”

Large Parks / by Czerniak, Julia

Table of Contents: “…-- Uncertain parks: disturbed sites, citizens, and risk society -- Matrix landscape: construction of identity in the large park -- Large parks: a designer's perspective -- Re-placing process -- Conflict and erosion: the contemporary public life of large parks -- Legibility and resilience.…”

Unconventional Builders / by Van Dine, Alan

Du Plateau Beaubourg au Centre Georges Pompidou / by Piano, Renzo

Table of Contents: “…Climatisation, Escaliers mécaniques, Ascenseurs, Charpent tertiarie, Réseau des fluides, Installation électrique, Facades, Protection anti-feu, Terrasses/Place, Systèmes internes/Finitions, Mobilier -- L'Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique. Site, Études, Construction, Vues internes -- Le Centre Georges Pompidou. …”

Flying panels : how concrete panels changed the world / by Alonso, Pedro Ignacio

Table of Contents: “…Notes on concrete panel construction in the United States / Michael Abrahamson -- When the panels learned to fly: Raymond Camus and his panel factories / Natalia Solopova -- Paradise of prefabricated mass housing: The mosaic facades by the Jasrsky Brothers in soviet tashkent / Phillip Meuser -- Decorating in moderation, moderating character: Domestic space and the soviet person in the Era of Mass Housing / Christine Varga-Harris -- D4-gruppen 1955-1961: Pioneers of the Swedish post-war panel era / Erik Stenberg…”

Housing in Egypt / by Hyland, A.D.C. (ed.)

Table of Contents: “…Abdel Quader -- Housing Finance / Salah Zerouala -- Building materials and Construction / A.D.C. Hyland --- Section 2: Cairo / A.D.C Hyland -- Introduction / A.D.C. …”

Manual de construcción de edificios / by Chudley, Roy. 1932