'Laboratory Design Guide' takes the reader through the complex stages of laboratory design and construction, offering practical advice and detailed examples.
Brian Griffin's working manual covers the latest designs for new and evolving laboratory practices and equipment and includes current and future requirements for laboratories such as automation. Case studies illustrate the points made and represent the international view of the principles of laboratory design.
'Laboratory Design Guide' will prove invaluable to all those responsible for the design of laboratory buildings: the client; architect; engineer; building project manager and scientist.
Brian Griffin is a full-time laboratory design consultant. His 15 years' experience in this field have resulted in many published articles on the subject and numerous lectures to laboratory managers and scientists. This close contact with the industry has increased Brian Griffin's awareness of the trends in laboratory practice and the need for effective design of new facilities.
Working design manual for all members of the lab design team
Shows the design process from start to finish
Incorporates the very latest designs for new and evolving laboratory practices and equipment

Middelfart Savings Bank is far from just a bank and thus its new head office is not just a traditional office building. It is, in fact, a realization of the bank's ambition to be amongst the best workplaces in Denmark and-- at the same time --to act as a social agent in the local community. 3XN interpreted these ambitions into a tactile design, understanding architecture as a comprehensive framework for social life. Six months after its inauguration, the building has been nominated for several international architecture awards and has been referred to as Denmark's best office building by a leading Danish architecture critic.

This innovative book interprets architectural spaces in the light of the underlying tensions between 18th-century Dublin as a fashionable resort and the attempts by the authorities to deal with some of the results of its apparent profligacy. These include the creation of new institutions as well as other measures designed to remove ugly realities from the street and purify urban space. Based mainly on 18th- and 19th-century archival material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin as an ideal Protestant city by investigating the hidden world behind its wide streets and magnificent Georgian facades. The decision to establish the British Isles first maternity hospital on the northern edge of Sackville Street (today s O Connell Street) was grounded in a series of imperatives where obstetrics and medicine were only part of the overall story. The adjacent Pleasure Gardens, created ostensibly to provide funds for the hospital, introduced new types of social engagement and an increase of commodified forms of entertainment to the city. The Gardens, characterised by acts of spectacle and display, soon acquired an additional reputation as a site of sexual adventure and louche behaviour, one which ultimately would be extended to the city.

Industrial manufacturing facilities have always been an own category in architecture. Ever since the development of factories in the 17th century this type of build-ings have first of all served to improve the production process while reflecting at the same time the workflow. Furthermore plants have also the task of represent- ing the values of the company to the outside world. The volume is dedicated to the inner organization of contemporary factory design as well as to its outer appearance featuring around 60 projects from all continents.

The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the landmarks of modern American architecture. With a master plan and twenty renowned buildings by Mies van der Rohe, IIT has long been a pilgrimage site for architects and students of design. Thousands of visitors arrive each year to see International Style masterpieces such as S. R. Crown Hall, home of IIT's College of Architecture and one of Mies's greatest works.
Today, IIT is in the midst of an exciting new chapter in its design history. A new student center designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture has once again put IIT at the forefront of the design world. Meanwhile, a new master plan for the campus, new landscaping, and a residence-hall complex by Helmut Jahn have reinvigorated student life and revitalized the surrounding community of Chicago's South Side.
Featuring archival images of the Mies buildings as well as newly commissioned photographs of IIT's latest additions, this beautifully produced guide presents a comprehensive architectural walk through America's most distinguished modern campus.

A report on the Arch of Hadrian in Ephesus, with detailed investigation of all aspects of the monument, including reconstructions, inscriptions, analysis of architectural style and technique, some comparison with similar structures elsewhere, restoration and changes in late antiquity, and an illustrated catalogue.

This book, commissioned as an action of the Dublin City Heritage Plan, opens with an historical introduction to eighteenth and nineteenth century banking, beginning with private banking concerns, the emergence of the Bank of Ireland and the arrival of large joint-stock companies. Michael O'Neill is an architectural historian living in Dublin.

In den letzten Jahren hat der Werkstoff Beton eine grosse Renaissance erlebt und geniesst ob seiner skulpturalen Eigenschaften und seiner Plastizitat gerade bei jungeren Architekten grosse Wertschatzung. Auch hat das Material sich weiter entwickelt; es gibt Beton heute in feinporigen, durchpigmentierten Qualitaten, die den naturlichen Alterungsprozess durch Witterungseinflusse ebenso gut wie Naturstein verkraften. Dieses Buch gibt einen Uberblick zu den Anwendungsmoglichkeiten des Baustoffs. Eine Auswahl von 22 internationalen Projekten wird ausfuhrlich dokumentiert und gibt eine Fulle von Anregungen fur Entwurf und Baupraxis. Dazu gehoren David Chipperfields Rowing Museum in Henley bei London, Ben van Berkels Moebius Haus bei Amsterdam, die Schule in Morella von Carme Pinos/Enric Miralles, das Krematorium Berlin-Treptow von Axel Schultes und das Social Science Centre in Oxford von Norman Foster. Der in der Nahe von London lebende David Bennett ist Bauingenieur und als Berater im Betonbau tatig."

Designed by architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet in 1925, the former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International Style of modernism: as one of the genuine highlights of twentieth-century architecture, it has been considered for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The complex, whose name means "ray of sunshine," was originally created as a treatment center for tuberculosis patients. By the early 1960s, the buildings, which had been constructed for limited use in concrete, steel and glass, were in ruin. After four decades of research and planning, its restoration is nearing completion under the supervision of the architects Hubert-Jan Henket and Wessel de Jonge. This publication traces the former sanatorium's past, emphasizing the battle for recognition of the Zonnestraal site's importance, its complex restoration process and providing a critical dossier on the general management of modern monuments.

The Karoo is big sky country; a land of vast plains punctuated by flat-topped mountains, conical hills and secluded valleys, a land of scrubby bushes and hardy trees, where pioneers carved roads out of rock to set down roots in an unforgiving environment.

Here dreams are born, legends are made, and outcasts find sanctuary. It is also an ancient place, whose story is revealed through geology, fossils and artefacts, and whose human lineage predates any written history. Today, the people who inhabit it must manifest the same fortitude that sustained those who left their footprints in the primieval mud.

In Hidden Karoo you will find all this, and more. Through a series of superb photo-essays, this majestic place is revealed as a land where conservation and neglect are seldom far apart, where one town boasts splendidly restored buildings, while along a dusty road lie forgotten villages waiting for... something. Could it be a renewal, or a slow death? There’s nothing novel about the movement of people from country to city, and the Karoo mimics other parts of the world where rural areas become derelict as they are depopulated.

Hidden Karoo presents a snapshot of the region, offering a glimpse into towns and villages, farms and churches, public buildings and private homes, all against a backdrop of awe-inspiring landscapes. Through words and pictures, it prompts us to consider what was, what is and, perhaps, what might be. One constant about the Karoo is change. A book can do no more than capture a moment in time or depict fragments of a place, but in doing so, it bears witness to the past and offers the hope that there may yet be a future for this unparalleled part of our country.