Titre et auteur:

Recent waterscapes : planning, building and designing with water / edited by Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau.

Édition:

3rd rev. and expanded ed.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2009.

Description:

175 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Translated from the German.
Previously published in English as: New waterscapes : planning, building and designing with water / edited by Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau. ©2005.
First ed., edited by H. Dreiseitl, D. Grau and Karl H.C. Ludwig, published in 2001 under title: Waterscapes. Expanded and rev. ed., edited by H. Dreiseitl and D. Grau, published in 2005 in English as New waterscapes and in 2006 in German as Wasserlandschaften.
Water : spirit of change / Herbert Dreiseitl -- Urban plazas. Civic Square, Seattle ; Water system in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Germany ; Town hall square, Hattersheim, Germany ; New town square in Gummersbach, Germany ; "Water-traces" in Hannoversch Münden, Germany ; Heiner-Metzger Plaza, Neu-Ulm, Germany ; Exemplary water management at DWR headquarters, Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Water management for a research centre near London, United Kingdom ; Center of Excellence, Sindelfingen, Germany ; Light and water installation Breiteweg, Barleben, Germany -- Public participation / Zari Santner -- Urban parks. Tanner Springs Park, Portland, USA ; Toppilansaari Park in Oulu, Finland ; Queens Botanical Garden, New York, USA ; Rainwater retention on the Kronsberg in Hanover, Germany ; Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern, Germany ; Green roof for Chicago City Hall, USA -- Cities moving toward sustainability / Khoo Teng Chye -- Master planning. Central watershed and Bishan Park, Singapore ; Transformation of a city district, Taipei Taiwan ; Conversion of Fornebu Airport, Oslo, Norway ; Dubai business park, UAE ; Restoration of Ernscher River, Ruhr Valley, Germany -- Think global, act local / Wolfgang F. Geiger -- Residential projects. Arkadien housing estates near Stuttgart, Germany ; Rainwater management in Coffee Creek, Indiana, USA ; Solar City, Linz, Austria ; Neighbourhood community, Tianjin, China ; Housing estate in Echallens near Lausanne, Switzerland ; Sewage treatment plant at the Wörme farm community in Hanneloh, Germany -- River restoration. Daylighting of Alna River in Hølaløkka, Oslo, Norway ; Scheme for the banks of the Volme, Hagen, Germany ; Rainwater for the bears in the Zurich zoo, Switzerland ; Three Rivers master plan, Pittsburgh, USA -- Water as an open system / Wolfram Schwenk -- Interior design. Interior courtyard of an old people's home in Stuttgart, Germany ; The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma, Germany -- Art and fountains. Fountain sculpture in Immenstaad, Germany ; Festival des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire, Switzerland ; Open space for a residential development in Ittigen, Berne, Switzerland ; Sonnenhausen estate in Glonn, Germany ; Water playground in Pforzheim, Germany ; Water phenomena in the Gelsenkirchen cooling tower, Germany -- From the idea to the finished object / Dieter Grau, Alexander Edel, Gerhard Hauber, Herbert Dreiseitl.

Résumé:

After decades of being banished from residential areas, water is now becoming an increasingly significant feature in urban design. This book reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water as a creative element in the city, in art, in the landscape and architecture.

ISBN:

9783764389840 (hbk.)
3764389842 (hbk.)

Sujet:

Water and architecture.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Water in landscape architecture.
Urban landscape architecture.
Eau et architecture.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Eau dans l'architecture du paysage.
Paysage urbain.
urban landscapes.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Landschaftsplanung
Wasserkunst
Architecture 20e siècle.

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Beispielsammlung.
Bildband.

Vedettes secondaires:

Dreiseitl, Herbert.
Grau, Dieter, 1963-
Wasserlandschaften. English.

New waterscapes

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 263034
Cote: BIB 194128
Statut: Disponible