Title & Author:

Skyplane : form, technique, content / edited by Richard Francis-Jones [and others].

Publication:

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2009.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Series:

Content ; 5

Notes:
On cover: What effect do towers have on urbanism, sustainability, the workplace and historic city centres?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern objects / Lawrence Nield -- Skylines / David Leatherbarrow -- After the towers / Joseph Rykwert -- The power of smallness : the Austrian Cultural Forum / Kenneth Frampton, with introduction by Richard Francis-Jones -- The Dong tower / Xing Ruan -- The virtue of Babel : the Hong Kong residential tower / Desmond Hui -- Can the tall building be artistically reconsidered? Koolhaas's CCTV Headquarters / Gevork Hartoonian -- The spectre of the skyscraper : an exploration of images / Paul Hogben -- 'Skyscraper megalomania' : the AMP building at Circular Quay / Robert Freestone -- Torbreck : projections of Californian landscape and ultramodern lifestyle / Andrew Wilson -- Tower, slab, and space : the Australia Square ensemble / Philip Thalis -- To lighten : in the glare of 01 Bligh / Chris L. Smith -- Architectural wit : aesthetics, spectacle and ideology in the Griffins' proposed Capitol Building / Deborah van der Plaat.

ISBN:

9780868408224 (pbk.)
0868408220 (pbk.)

Subject:

Tall buildings.
Tall buildings Environmental aspects.
Architecture Human factors.
Urbanization.
Immeubles de grande hauteur.
Immeubles de grande hauteur Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.

Added entries:

Francis-Jones, Richard.
Content (Series) ; 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272271
Call No.: BIB 205523
Status: Available