Main entry:

Gregory, Rob.

Title & Author:

Key contemporary buildings : plans, sections, and elevations / Rob Gregory.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Notes:
"The CD-ROM includes files for all the plans, sections and elevations featured in the case studies of the book"--P. 240.
Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index.
CENTRALIZED PLANS: Ixtapa House / LCM/Fernando Romero -- Poli House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects -- T House / Sou Fujimoto -- Seifert House / BAU/KULUR, Michael Shamiyeh -- Element House / Sami Rintala -- Eden Project Biomes / Grimshaw -- City Hall / Foster + Partners -- Lewis Glucksman Gallery / O'Donnel + Tuomey -- Sami Parliament / Stein Halvorsen and Christian Sundby -- Mercedes-Benz Museum / UNStudio -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Snøhetta -- Jægersborg Water Tower / Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps -- Imai Daycare Tower / Shigeru Ban -- LINEAR STRUCTURES: ESO Hotel and Information Centre / Auer + Weber Architekten -- The Peñalolén Campus / Jose Cruz Ovalle Architects Associates -- St Andrews Beach House / Sean Godsell Architects -- Care Centre / Sou Fujimoto -- Social Housing / Eduoard François -- Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science / Takaharu + Yui Tezuka -- Dutch Embassy / van Gameren and Mastenbroek -- Lucky Drops House / Yasuhiro Yamashita with Masahiro Ikeda -- TERRACED HOUSES: Amtmandsstien / CASA Arkitekter -- Sound Wall Homes / VHP s+a+l -- Exhibition Houses / Architectural Office Marlies Rohmer -- EOS Housing / Anders Wilhelmson -- Bastion Island Waterside Homes / DOK architecten -- Helsinki Terrace / Marja-Ritta Norri -- Two houses on Borneo Sporenburg / MVRDV -- 1028 Natoma Street / Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects -- BedZED / Bill Dunster Architects -- STACKED PLANS: 30 St Mary Axe / Foster + Partners -- Torre Agbar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- Torre Cube / Carne Pinós -- Simmons Hall / Toyo Ito -- America's Cup Building-Veles e Vents / David Chipperfield Architects dn b720 Arquitectos -- Lloyd's Register of Shipping / Richard Rogers Partnership -- Seattle Library / OMA -- Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts / Zaha Hadid Architects -- House & Atelier Bow-Wow / Jo Crepain -- Air Traffic Control Tower / Zechner & Zechner -- COURTYARDS, ORTHOGONAL: Long Island Residence / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects -- Villa V / 3 + 1 Architects -- Lecture Halls III / Javier Garcia-Solera Arquitecto -- Teaching Pavilion / Juan CarlosSancho Osinaga + Sol Madridejos -- Whale Housing / deArchitekten Cie. -- Swiss Re Offices / BRT Architektenh -- MoMA / Taniguchi and Associates -- Caja General de Ahorros / Alberto Campo Baeza -- Baumschulenweg Crematorium / Axel Schuyltes and Charlotte Frank -- Hu-tong House / Waro Kishi + K Associates/Architects -- Novy Dvur Monastery / John Pawson -- COURTYARDS, ECCENTRIC: Valley Center House / Daly, Genik Architects -- Rozak House / Troppo Architects -- Mattin Arts Center / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects -- Diamond Ranch High School / Morphosis -- Palmach Museum of History / Zvi Hecker with Rafi Segal -- Dutch Embassy / OMA -- Makino Museum of Plants and People / Naito Architect and Associates -- Federal Environmental Agency / Sauerbruch Hutton -- Tango Housing / Moore Rubel Yudell Architects & Planners -- de Young Museum / Herzog & de Meuron/Fong & Chan -- Rectory Building / Alvaro Siza Viera -- CITYSCAPE RESPONSES: Mauritskade Apartment Building / Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects -- Building D / Cino Zucchi -- Town Hall Extension / Rafail Moneo -- Jaume Fuster Library / Josep Llinas -- Des Moines Public Library / David Chipperfield Architects -- Walsall Art Gallery / Caruso St John Architects -- Walt Disney Concert Hall / Gehry Partners, LLP -- Federation Square / LAB architecture studio with Bates Smart, Architects -- Casa da Musica / OMA -- Yokohama International Port Terminal / Foreign Office Architects -- Phaeno Science Center / Zaha Hadid Architects -- Scottish Parliament Building / EMBT/RMJM -- INFILLS, ADDITIONS AND EXTENSIONS: Hotel Josef / Eva Jiricna Architects -- Rue des Suisses Housing / Herzog & deMeuron -- Anderson House / Jamie Fobert Architects -- Brick House / Caruso St John Architects -- Morgan Library and Museum / Renzo Piano -- Manchester City Art Gallery / Hopkins Architects -- Crawford Art Gallery / Erick van Egerat Associated Architects -- Model Arts and Niland Gallery / McCullough Mulvin Architects -- National Gallery of Ireland Millennium Wing / Benson + Forsyth -- French Ministry of Culture and Communication / Francis Soler and Frédéric Druot -- Kunsthaus / Peter Cook and Spacelab -- Lugano University Library / Michele and Giorgio Tognola -- DeMaere Textile School / Brookes Stacey Randall & IAA -- St Catherine's College / Hodder Associates.

Summary:

"A collection of more than one hundred twenty-first-century buildings of particular interest for study by students and professionals. Third in the series of Key books, this volume offers newly drawn plans and color photographs of a wide range of buildings by out-standing architects arranged by plan: centralized and radial plans; linear structures; terraced houses; stacked plans; orthogonal and eccentric courtyards; special cityscape responses; and infills, additions, and extensions."--Publisher's website.
Third in the Key series, this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century ... Each of the buildings is illustrated with one or two full-color photographs and accurate scale floor plans, elevations, and sections, as appropriate.

ISBN:

9780393732429 (pbk.)
0393732428 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architectural drawing 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Dessin d'architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architectural drawing.
Architecture, Modern.
Edifici Progetti 1999-2006

Form/genre:

Designs and plans.
Compact discs.
Optical disks.
CD-ROMs.
Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260845
Call No.: BIB 191758
Status: Available

Location: Library main 261220
Call No.: BIB 191758
Copy: CD-ROM
Status: Available