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Author: Adrian Devaun Smith
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1864704330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination and exploration of the issues that the Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) deals with and how they may be implemented
Author: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781954081376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from the unique design experience at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) as architects of the next world's tallest tower and several others under construction, "Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go?" highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers. The book is a mixture of under construction and design-only projects divided into several chapters that are organized according to their special characteristics: Innovative Systems, Harnessing Energies, Designing an Icon, Extending Ecologies, and Achieving Megatall. Each project, completed between 2007-2020 at AS+GG, is discovered through context, program, form, research and development, and performance, highlighting the stories, challenges, and lessons learned.
Author: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (Firm)
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adrian Devaun Smith
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 1864701692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdrian Smith was a consulting design partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM). His career at SOM spanned more than 30 years and includes a term as the firm's chief executive officer, and as chairman of the SOM Foundation. P
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Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781954081390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781954081833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the book Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo the architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to define the center of Expo 2020. The book is essentially divided into three phases of design. The first phase focuses on the inspiration and conception of the project. Architectural studies, sketches, and models show the process that led to the final iconic form. The second phase introduces each of the parcels including the garden, trellis, offices, hotels, the Leadership Pavilion, and the Arrivals Plaza. Each chapter illustrates the design process, architectural details, and the development of the technical systems. The third and final phase summarizes the construction process, sustainability achievements, and looks to the future to reveal the District 2020 legacy master plan concept by AS+GG.
Author: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 2022-05-09
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781954081352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects and publications. The projects featured in the monograph cover a wide variety of AS+GG's high-performance, energy-efficient, aesthetically striking architecture on an international scale in a wide range of typologies and scales, from low- and mid-rise residential, commercial, and cultural buildings, to mixed-use supertall towers. Projects explored include supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and high-tech laboratory facilities.
Author: Adrian Smith
Publisher: Images
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781864703856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneers of high-performance architecture for the 21st century.
Author: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 2022-09-12
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781954081369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world's largest expositions to small, flexible, high-technology theaters to expressive and functional auditoriums. The book of global cultural work includes building designs from Chicago to Istanbul, Astana to Dubai and features both photography of built spaces and unbuilt ideas. In this book Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture reviews projects to answer questions that relate to how buildings can be used to enhance the experiences of the users beyond set programmatic requirements by asking questions like: How can architecture and design help advance the technologies, the operations, the program, and the way buildings perform? At a more sensorial and experiential level, the book explores how architecture can speak to the soul to create a place in between the art and the audience.
Author: Georges Binder
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1864704128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis breathtaking new book, compiled by tall buildings specialist, Georges Binder, showcases more than 100 of the tallest buildings in China across more than 25 cities, including those towering over the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and emerging supercities, such as Chengdu, Guangzhou and Tianjin. Georges Binder summarises the history of the Chinese tall building landscape from the 1930s to the present day, and features the best in contemporary design, including emerging architectural trends, showcasing each project with beautiful imagery and detailed plans. The book also delves into the hard architectural statistics and buildings’ features with gritty detail. These skyscrapers are a fitting symbol of China’s new-found prosperity, ambition and architectural flair.
