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• 1. Business rationale
• 2. History of site
• 3. Architecture
• 4. Construction
• 5. Environmental credentials
• 6. Transformational change
• 7. Completed building.
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This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the facade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses.
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• Principle
• 1: Place Principle
• 2: Structure Principle
• 3: Function and Flexibility Principle
• 4: Comfort Principle
• 5: Sustainability Principle
• 6: Legibility Principle
• 7: Light Principle
• 8: Sound Principle
• 9: Surface Principle
• 10: Details.
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The rules of architecture have been discussed since the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius coined the trilogy 'firmitas, utilitas and venustas', most commonly translated as firmness, commodity and delight. Put simply, this means that a building should stand up and endure, that it should serve its function, and that it should give pleasure to its users and the wider community. Great buildings, like great art, contain something that is impossible to define or pin down. But that greatness, in almost all cases, overlays the principles set out in this book. While one cannot guarantee that a building will be great, if all the principles are followed, you will avoid the pitfalls to which too many are subject. This new title in Vivays Publishing's '10 Principles' series provides clear explanations of each tenet along with useful illustrations to help the reader visualise what is being discussed. The author assumes no background on the subject, but an interest in learning more about what goes into making a building work. An experienced writer on this subject, Ruth Slavid provides a useful and illuminating primer to the field that is accessible to students of architecture, architects or architectural historians or anyone interested in the principles behind the buildings that surround them.
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• 10 readings: Michael bell and Sze Tsung Yeong
• Italo Calvino
• Robin Evans
• Richard Francis-Jones
• Berthold Lubetkin
• David Mamet
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Cedric Price
• Peter Webel
• Lebbeus Woods. 100 architects: Abalos & Herreros
• Hitoshi Abe
• Marcos Acayaba
• Actar Arquitectura
• Aja-Espil-Cobelo
• Allen + Smout
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• AMP Arquitectos
• Anamorphosis
• Andresen O'Gorman
• Jun Aoki
• ARRAK
• Ashton Raggatt McDougall
• Cecil Balmond
• Shigeru Ban
• Barkow Leibinger
• Baumschlager Eberle
• Michael Bell
• Gautam Bhatia/The Architecture Alliance
• De Blacam + Meagher
• Will Bruder
• Caruso-St John
• Kees Christiaansen
• Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture
• Preston Scott Cohen
• d'ECOi
• Neil M. Denari
• Denton Corker Marshall
• Donovan Hill
• Winka Dubbeldam/Archi-Tectonics
• Dunne + Raby
• Shin Egashira
• Erick van Egeraat
• Engelen Moore
• Faivre-Roman
• Wolfgang Feyferlik
• Foreign Office architects
• Xaveer de Geyter
• Gigon + Guyer
• Giraudi + Wettstein
• GDSI Arquitectura
• Christian de Groote
• Vicente Guallart
• Hodgetts + Fung
• Carl-Viggo Holmebakk
• Alberto Kalach
• Glenda Kapstein
• Kennedy Violich
• Matias Klotz
• Koning Eizenberg
• Kengo Kuma
• Lab
• Lacaton-Vassal
• Thomas Leeser
• Leon Wohlhage Wernik
• Duncan Lewis
• Greg Lynn
• Michael Maltzan
• Peter Markli
• Marcel Leili
• Mikko Metsahonkala/Quad
• Willy Muller
• MVRDV
• Hisoshi Nakao
• Neutelings/Riedijk
• Ben Nicholson
• Njiric + Njiric
• Jo Noero
• TEN Arquitectos
• Marcos Novak
• NOX
• OCEAN
• Shinichi Ogawa
• One Architecture
• Peripheriques
• Fernando de Porras-Ysla + Arantxa La Casta
• Rob Wellington Quigley
• Riegler Riewe
• Kevin Rhowbotham
• Robberecht en Daem
• Enric Ruiz-Geli
• Sanaksenaho Architects
• Sauerbruch Hutton
• Kazuo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
• Smith-Miller + Hawkinson
• Soriano + Asociados
• Souto Moura
• Billy Springall + Miguel Angel Lira
• James Sterling
• Studio Asymptote
• Stutchbury Pape
• Jyrki Tasa
• Turner Brooks/Eeva Pelkonen
• 24/seven: Zoe Smith and Graeme Williamson
• UN Studio Van Berkel + Bos
• West 8
• Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
• Anders Wilhelmson
• Wood/Marsh
• Riken Yamamoto .
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This is a comprehensive view of contemporary architecture, presenting the work of 100 exceptional international architects. It provides an opportunity to see a diverse, inspirational collection of recent work, selected by 10 of the world's best informed architectural critics. The architects are presented in A-Z order, with four pages allocated to each practice, including an accompanying text by one of the ten critics. It is intended to be a global selection. Some of the architects have yet to gain recognition worldwide, but among the names are those who have achieved international publicity and acclaim for their work during the mid-1990s. The work shown here features over 250 buildings and projects, including recent built work as well as projects currently under construction, due for completion in the 21st century. The work also features 10 essays written by the critics specially for this publication, which give their view of current architectural issues. In addition, they have chosen 10 cultural references, from designed objects to film, theory and literature, which show the range of influences in today's rapidly changing design environment. Works reproduced in this volume include writings by Italo Calvino, David Mamet and Peter Weibel, among others.
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You'll be amazed by what's happened since "10x10_2". Green architecture has gone from novelty to necessity, walls have gone from necessary to optional, hula hoops have become a building material. Local is the new international. Architecture is the new art. The 100 architects featured in this volume, the latest in our successful "10x10" series, are pushing the boundaries of design and redefining the very meaning of architecture: a building sliced in half in order to design the space in between; a one-ton floating object of seeming weightlessness; a high-end shop in downtown Seoul covered entirely in vegetation; and, a skyscraper that seems to disappear on sunny days. This is architecture as you've never seen it before. "10x10_3" is a comprehensive and global view of new architecture, presenting the work of 100 up-and-coming architects from around the world, selected by 10 of the best-informed critics, curators, and architects. They include Joseph Grima (USA); Kengo Kuma (Japan); Peter Schmal (Germany); and Ai Weiwei (China). Arranged alphabetically by architect, the book features more than 1,500 illustrations of approximately 350 buildings and projects from the past five years, including recently built work as well as competition entries, theoretical projects, and works under construction. Each curator has contributed a short essay written exclusively for this publication on one building or one architect that he or she believes to have had a profound impact on the course of architecture, plus ten brief essays on his/her nominated architects. The book includes biographies of all the architects and curators. Slovenia. Portugal. Chile. China. India. Brazil. Canada. Mexico. Hungary. Japan. Korea. Taiwan. Russia. These are just some of the countries where these young firms practice. "10x10_3" will introduce you to the architects redefining what it means to design today, and the architecture that will forever change the way you think about what's possible. This is cutting edge. This is now. This is "10x10_3".
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The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. Originally founded as the Thirties Society in 1979, its first major case was the fabulous Art Deco Firestone factory on the Great West Road. Its remit has always been to protect the best of all types and styles of architecture and design from neo-Georgian to Art Deco, Modern Movement to pre-fab, and its campaigns now extend to brutalist and high-tech buildings. This book showcases photographs of 100 buildings - one for each year from 1914 - which represent the range and quality of work the Society protects and the amazing range of fascinating buildings we have in Britain. Each photograph is accompanied by information about the building, including why it stands out in a 100 years of architecture. The authors include noted experts in the fields of architecture, heritage and design, including Gavin Stamp, Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley and Rowan Moore. In addition, the book includes the best overview of modern architecture with essays on The Inter-war Decades (Gavin Stamp), Post-war Architecture (Elain Harwood) and Postmodernism (Timonthy Brittain-Catlin). Some of the buildings featured in the book include De La Warr Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican housing, Bracken House, Cenotaph, the Firestone Factory, BT Tower, and pre-fabs.
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For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century architectural projects they would teach to students. The contributors were encouraged to select built projects where formal, spatial, technological, and organizational concepts responded to dynamic historical, cultural, social, and political circumstances. The capacity of these buildings to resist, adapt, and invent new typologies solidifies their timeless relevance to future challenges. The result is presented here in this unique volume: a master list of the top 100 must-know built works of architecture designed and completed between 1900 and 2000. Ranging from houses and apartment buildings to museums and buildings for education and government, the book offers a wealth of extraordinary works of design and construction and is an essential edition for anyone with an interest in architecture and design.
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