Building Types

Incorporating a diversity of practices, cultural and organization change, and new building forms, this book provides ideas, inspiration and analysis of the multitude of ways in which an office space can be designed and utilized. Updated to cope with technological advances, as well as including a new..

Incorporating a diversity of practices, cultural and organization change, and building forms, this book provides ideas, inspiration and analysis of the multitude of ways in which an office space can be designed and utilized. It provides analytical design solutions to meet real challenges and increas..

Looking at current and past school environments in the UK, US and Australia, School Design Together focuses on how schools are designed to organise and use spaces for learning and teaching...

Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions presents post-occupancy evaluations of four high-profile museums and their additions in the United States and helps museum stakeholders understand their successes, shortcomings, and how their designs affect both visitors and employees who use them every day..

Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. However, in recent years, the enclosed "mall" has evolved and diversified with new types of retail environments that were developed to better suit their locale and meet p..

This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use...

Increasingly, sport and leisure amenities are needing to be versatile, user-friendly and of lasting value to local and wider communities. With case studies from around the world this book is a definitive reference for practitioners and students in sports and leisure, building design and facilities m..

Reveals design solutions, details, and concepts that have been explored and used by design firms from around the world. This book offers an array of designs from the traditional to the contemporary, from the historic renovation to the office and serves as a portfolio of the varied responses and solu..

Provides the first comparison of green building performance, using cost and energy use data that has been verified by independent third parties...

Looking at relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place, this book considers the distinctiveness of post-compulsory education, and what matters about the design of its spaces...

Looking at relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place, this book considers the distinctiveness of post-compulsory education, and what matters about the design of its spaces...

Based on two actual building projects, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the possibilities of including young children’s perspectives in the design and review of children’s spaces...