A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world. Using a Then and Now format, historic pictures of cricket grounds are paired with their modern-day equivalent to show the dramatic changes that have taken place. Cricket Grounds Then and Now is a history of some of the most famous cricketing venues from around the world, told through the format of Then and Now photos. Author of the bestselling Remarkable Cricket Grounds and Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds, Brian Levison, has assembled a stunning array of vintage photos of the major Test venues such as Lord's, The Oval, Old Trafford, Trent Bridge, Adelaide and the Sydney Cricket Ground, with which are paired a modern photo from the same viewpoint. There are smaller venues too – Saltaire in Yorkshire with its World Heritage mill as a backdrop; New Road, Worcester, viewed across the River Severn from the Cathedral and Ickwell Village Green with its large oak tree firmly inside the boundary rope. The photos show how some features survived for decades – such as the famous scoreboard on the SCG 'Hill' – or the standing terraces at St.Helens. Some grounds, such as the Central Ground in Hastings, have disappeared altogether. At the larger test venues in Australia, drop-in pitches are now the norm, allowing multiple use of the huge stadia, while in the UK, the county 'outgrounds' have gradually been whittled away. Yorkshire have lost Brammall Lane in Sheffield, Kent have abandoned their occupancy of Dover and Maidstone, while Essex have left Leyton in East London. Cricket Grounds Then and Now is a nostalgic trip around the world's cricketing venues showing both massive changes across a century and occasionally (Cheltenham College) no change at all. Grounds include: Barbados, Berlin, Scarborough, Canterbury, Wellington, Ahmedabad, Ageas Bowl, Old Trafford, Trent Bridge, The Gabba, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Hollywood, Tilford, Dublin, Chelmsford, Sydney Cricket Ground, Aigburth, Buxton, Edgbaston, Philadelphia, Worcester, Headingley, Hove, Taunton, Lord's, The Oval, Pietermaritzburg, Cape Town, Sidmouth and Singapore.

In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organisation ensconced in two rooms on the second floor of a downtown LA commercial block into one of the largest public library systems in the United States-with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centrepiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building's sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library's murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. "A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon," wrote Alexander-a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue's architectural gem.

In fast allen deutschen Grossstadten flammt in der Offentlichkeit immer wieder die kontrovers
gefuhrte Diskussion um den Bau von Hochhausern auf. Die Befurworter verweisen dabei auf die Forderung des Stadtimages mit Hochhausern als Symbolen der wirtschaftlichen Dynamik. Die Gegner sehen durch den Hochhausbau den europaischen Stadtmassstab gesprengt und zerstort. Die Autoren
dieses Bandes aus Planungspraxis und Wissenschaft zeigen, dass jede Stadt ihren eigenen Umgang mit dem Problem der potentiellen Hochhausinvestoren entwickelt hat. Erstmals werden hier die Burohochhausplane deutscher Grossstadte vergleichend analysiert, die unterschiedlichen Planungskulturen offengelegt und die sich daraus ergebenden Perspektiven erortert."

Urban highways are unique windows from which to grasp a city s identity. They can however be responsible for the fragmentation of cities and the degradation of their adjacent living environments. As many urban highways are aging, concerns about their redevelopment, upgrading or dismantling are emerging in many cities of the World. By examining the meaning as well as the opportunities offered by urban gateway corridors, the book attempts to offer a unique perspective on issues related this emerging landscape and transportation issue. More specifically, the book aims to describe the innovative approach to landscape infrastructure planning that was used for the YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes initiative held in Montreal. Over two years, this initiative combined a design competition and a workshop with collaborative efforts between 20 public agencies to rethink a 17 km stretch of Montreal s Autoroute20 gateway corridor. Linking the downtown area to Montreal-Trudeau international airport, the corridor is mainly composed of transport infrastructures and industrial wastelands in dire need of revitalization along with residential areas.The book presents the collaborative process behind the development of a strategic vision for the area, exposes the winning entries of the competition and describes the subsequent steps that resulted in an "atlas of possibilities" for the future of the area. It provides a broad overview of the main challenges facing any project leader who wishes to gather a wide range of stakeholders towards a common goal: building a shared consensus over the prospective development of large-scale infrastructure projects. It also provides the reader with a diversity of actions and solutions to improve the landscape of transportation corridors and their integration within their surrounding environment. Hence, as the book details the local context of Montreal s infrastructural landscapes, it also offers insights and ideas to improve urban highway integration for cities worldwide. Throughout the book, the permanent bond between cities and infrastructures is not only explored through the lens of landscape preservation but also landscape enhancement and development.This three-pronged approach offers a strategy based on the exploration of gateway corridor landscapes for what they are but also for what they could and should be. As the collaborative process allowed for clarifying the local stakeholders standpoint, the design exercises (ideas competition and workshop) were used as tools to improve the outcomes on the latters. The contribution of the designers particularly helped materializing the strategic framework that resulted from the collaborative process through the addition of design guidelines. Overall, the book shows how the consideration of the landscape when it comes to development projects offers not only a rich contextual knowledge from a transversal and multidisciplinary perspective but also becomes a vector for the coherent planning of infrastructures and their integration within adjacent territories and within the city."

2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyze the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects directly involved in the High Line’s design, this volume also brings together a diverse range of scholars from the fields of urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Together, they offer insights into the project’s remarkable success, while also giving serious consideration to the critical charge that the High Line is “Disney World on the Hudson,� a project that has merely greened, sanitized, and gentrified an urban neighborhood while displacing longstanding residents and businesses. Deconstructing the High Line is not just for New Yorkers, but for anyone interested in larger issues of public space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and urban renewal.    

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem ersten realisierten Bau der aus dem Irak stammenden, in London lebenden und an der AA lehrenden Architektin Zaha Hadid, dem Feuerwehrhaus auf dem Vitra-Firmengelande in Weil am Rhein: Essay, Fotos, Modelle, Collagen. Entscheidend die Einsicht, dass ein Werk der Architektur, das sich den architektonischen Konventionen entzieht, nicht mit denselben Mitteln wahrgenommen und beschrieben werden kann, wie sie uns von der Wahrnehmung und Beschreibung traditioneller Architektur vertraut sind

When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century. From the beginning, its design, construction and decoration were a battlefield. The practical and political forces ranged against him were immense. The new Palace of Westminster had to be built on acres of unstable quicksand, while the Lords and Commons carried on their work as usual. Its river frontage, a quarter of a mile long, needed to be constructed in the treacherous currents of the Thames. Its towers were so gigantic they required feats of civil engineering and building technology never used before. And the interior demanded spectacular new Gothic features not seen since the middle ages. Rallying the genius of his collaborator Pugin; flanking the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, ignorant busybodies, and hostile politicians; attacking strikes, sewag,e and cholera; charging forward three times over budget and massively behind schedule, it took twenty-five years for Barry to achieve victory with his 'Great Work' in the face of overwhelming odds, and at great personal cost. Mr Barry's War takes up where its prize-winning prequel The Day Parliament Burned Down left off, telling the story of how the greatest building programme in Britain for centuries produced the world's most famous secular cathedral to democracy.

This book demonstrates how aesthetics, design elements, and visual literacy can be implemented in the library to enhance spaces, programs, services, instruction, and outreach so that your library will appeal to all users. Libraries have come to accept that they must rethink how they appeal to users, and harnessing the power of design can be a powerful means for addressing the changing needs of the community. Decker and Porter introduce "engaging design"-an umbrella term that incorporates multiple design frameworks with a focus on a three-prong approach: aesthetics, design thinking, and service design. These frameworks can be used to guide design choices that will aid in teaching and engaging current and potential library users. In the course of a lively and interesting narrative, Engaging Design introduces basic concepts of aesthetics and good design and explores examples of its successful uses in the academic, public, and special library. It provides simple steps for implementing subtle, but powerful, techniques to improve instruction, human-computer interaction, e-learning, public services spaces, wayfinding signage, and all manner of library programs, events, and services. In addition, the authors recommend easy-to-implement best practices that will help librarians to enhance library-goers' experience. Library administrators will also look to this book for assistance in best addressing the needs of the modern library user. Clearly explains how to recognize, understand, and interpret basic design techniques Teaches librarians how to attract and target their efforts towards specific groups of library users Outlines principles of good design in instruction programs, space planning and design tasks, outreach initiatives, and other library programs and activities Offers easy-to-follow steps to good design for wayfinding, instruction, and library usage

Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime was broadly in step with transnational monument-building trends of the era and their undergirding cultural dynamics. By integrating approaches from cultural history, art criticism, and memory studies, along with previously unexplored archival material, Antony Kalashnikov examines the origin and implementation of the Stalinist monument-building program from the perspective of its goal to "immortalize the memory" of the era. He analyzes how this objective affected the design and composition of Stalinist monuments, what cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful yearning to be remembered, and most importantly, what the culture of self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the future—both in the Soviet Union and beyond its borders. Monuments for Posterity shifts the perspective from monuments' political-ideological content to the desire to be remembered and prompts a much-needed reconsideration of the supposed uniqueness of both Stalinist aesthetics and the temporal culture that they expressed. Many Stalinist monuments still stand prominently in postsocialist cityscapes and remain the subject of continual heated political controversy. Kalashnikov makes manifest monuments' intentional attempts to seduce us—the "posterity" for whom they were built.

Modeme Baukonstruktionen erfordern ein sorgfaltiges Planen, Konstruieren und Ausfuh ren. Dazu sind solide Kenntnisse der Baustatik notig. Dies gilt nicht nur fur den Konstrukteur und Statiker, sondern auch fur den Planenden im Architekturburo und den Bauleiter auf der Baustelle. Bei der Planung, Konstruktion und Ausfuhrung eines Bauwerkes ist nicht nur seine Funk tion ausschlaggebend. Um Bauschaden zu vermeiden, mussen die Baustoffe entsprechend ihren Eigenschaften eingesetzt werden; die Bauteile sind unter Beachtung ihrer statischen Bedeutung zu konstruieren und die jeweils neuesten Erkenntnisse der Bauphysik zu berucksichtigen. Das vorliegende zweiteilige Werk vermittelt die wichtigen einfachen statischen Gesetze und deren Anwendung im Rahmen einer technischen Allgemeinbildung; es dient nicht der Ausbildung spezialisierter Statiker. Manche Probleme werden daher bewusst vereinfacht und dem Zweck des Buches entsprechend besonders praxisnah dargestellt. Viele durchgerechne te Beispiele erlautern und vertiefen die Darstellung; eine sehr grosse Zahl von Ubungsaufga ben, deren Losungen am Bandende gebracht werden, soll zur sicheren Handhabung und breiten Anwendung des Stoffes befahigen. Die beiden Bande werden daher vielen in der Bautechnik Tatigen eine Hilfe bei der Losung ublicher statischer Probleme sein; sie sind zum Selbststudium geeignet. Teil 1 "Grundlagen" geht auf die wichtigsten Probleme der einfachen Statik ein. Ohne komplizierte theoretische Ableitungen werden die Formeln entWickelt und dargestellt, die zur Bestimmung der ausseren und inneren Krafte in den Bauteilen erforderlich sind. Besondere mathematische Kenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Teil 2 "Festigkeitslehre" erklart die Beanspruchung der Bauteile und die Bemessung von Konstruktionsteilen aus Holz, Mauerwerk, Beton und Stahl sowie die Bodenpressung."

Documents the building project which took place in 2012

Flow chronicles the Omega Center for Sustainable Living at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York. Designed by BNIM Architects, the OCSL embraces the concept of sustainable design and construction to the fullest, certifying it as a Living Building striving to have a net zero impact. Built in 2009, the center is an anchor for the groups' environmental efforts, and brings together state-of-the-art energy and waste systems, efforts to work with area farms and organic growers, and a teaching facility that demonstrates local solutions to global problems. It's unique location on one of the most important watersheds in the world--the 13,400-sq mile Hudson River watershed basin--informs its dedication to water quality and responsible stewardship.

Not just a winner, but a major winner. And Fellbach won it by letting Zurich architect Ernst Gisel build its new town hall. And it is just the same as winning the lottery: it takes time for it to sink in and to be really pleased. Winning also means stress, especially if the player never really believed in his luck.

But why be pleased about a town hall, about a collection of official rooms, intended only to make administering the individual citizen even smoother? Can a town hall be anything at all more than a home for all the official panoply of tit-for-tat responses? It can indeed, if you make it into a piece of the town, a good piece of the town ....

Ernst Gisel's town hall for Fellbach is one of the very few buildings that make one enthuse about the town. Like Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie it invites you to linger -- even without a reason: in the Stuttgart museum you are attracted by terraces, ramps and an open rotunda, whereas in the Feltbach building there is a sense of a strong suction that will draw the public into the inner courtyard of the complex. "A bit Italian" -- this is what Gisel himself says about the atmosphere there, and he is right.

The urban quality of the new town hall corresponds with the quality of the detailed architectural solutions and the care with which Gisel devoted himself to the architectural design in the interior.

Art in the building? There is that too. Gisel himself designed the fountain for the market-place facade: architecture on a small scale, a game with volumes through which the water slowly runs. In the inner courtyard, in the town hall square, is a Survival Head by Zurich sculptor Otto Mailer -- a sober monument that corresponds precisely with the confident but modest character of the building.

The new town hall is a fairly perfect piece of architecture and urban art: reticent as a whole, monumental in detail, like for example the solitaire structure in the inner courtyard.

1.1 Problemstellung Der groBe Bedarf an Mineralstoffen im StraBenbau veranlaBte schon vor Jahrzehnten die Stahlindustrie, ihre prozeBbedingt in groBen Mengen anfallenden Nebenprodukte, wie die Hochofen- stuckschlacken im StraBenbau unterzubringen. Es kann kein Zweifel daran bestehen, daB die Verwendung solcher Stoffe im StraBenbau einen erheblichen Beitrag zur Losung von Entsor- gungsproblemen, zur Entlastung der Umwelt und zur Sicherheit der Rohstoffbasis zu leisten vermag. Da das Rohmaterial fur Brechanlagen im Vergleich zu Felsgestein erheblich geringere Korndurchmesser aufweist und die Transportwege d s Materials zur Verwendungsstelle infolge der Lage der Huttenwerke im Ballungsgebiet an Rhein und Ruhr kurz sind, kann auch mit einer Energieersparnis gerechnet werden. Bei der Stahlherstellung aus phosphorarmem Roheisen im Sauer- stoffaufblaskonverter nach dem Linz-Donawitz-Verfahren fallen Stahlwerksschlacken an, die entsprechend dem Stahlherstellungs- verfahren LD-Schlacken benannt werden. Einen Schwerpunkt fur die Anwendung des LD-Verfahrens bilden hier die Huttenwerke an Rhein und Ruhr, so daB auf das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen der wesentliche Teil der in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland an- fallenden LD-Schlacken entfallt. Von betriebs- und volkswirt- schaftlichem Interesse ist es darum bei der derzeitigen Lage der Stahlindustrie im Ruhrgebiet, die hier anfallenden LD- Schlacken einer moglichst wirtschaftlichen Wiederverwendung zufuhren zu konnen /1/. Umfangreiche Laboruntersuchungen zeigten bisher, daB die LD- schlacken weitgehend gleichrangig den Natursteinen sind. Ent- scheidend fur die Eignung eines Mineralstoffs ist jedoch in jedem Fall die Bewahrung unter praktischen Bedingungen. In dieser Richtung wurden auch seit einigen Jahren erhebliche Forschungsanstrengungen unternommen /2, 3/.

The patient room is the smallest cell of the hospital organism. Its layout determines the structure of the ward and is therefore a decisive factor for the entire building. Many requirements have to be met. The patient's sense of well-being can be positively influenced by the design: homely materials, an attractive view and sufficient privacy are important objectives. Equally important are the working conditions for the staff, especially short distances and an efficient care routine. Finally, even the risk of infection can be reduced by a conscientiously planned room layout. This publication provides a systematic overview of the design task patient room and shows exemplary solutions: both typologically and in selected case studies.

Sicheres Haus im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes bedeutet die Verwirkli- Wie die Statistiken zeigen, hat sich die Zahl der Einbruchdiebstiihle im chung einer groBen Anzahl von einzelnen MaBnahmen, die entweder ge- Wohnbereich seit 1965 etwa verdreifacht; davon konnte aber nur jeder setzlich vorgeschrieben sind oder zur person lichen Sicherheit fiir not- vierte Einbruch aufgeklart werden. Hohere Aufklarungsquoten sind wendig gehalten werden. Sie beginnen beim Kauf des Baugrundstiickes kaum zu erwarten. und werden bei der Planung und Bauausfiihrung immer zahlreicher. 1st Es bleibt also vorzugsweise die Moglichkeit, Einbriiche durch die An- dann das Haus bewohnt, kommen neue SicherungsmaBnahmen hinzu. wendung praxisorientierter Sicherungstechniken zu verhindern. Eine absolute Sicherheit wird es nie geben konnen. So konnen z.B. weder Brand- noch Einbruchmeldeanlagen einen Brand oder Einbruch verhindern. Sie konnen aber einen Brandausbruch oder Einbruchver- such friihzeitig melden, wodurch ein Schaden abgewendet, zumindest Verkehrssicherheit aber klein gehalten werden kann. Das Buch gliedert sich in vier Hauptkapitel. Verkehrssicherheit wird in den Landesbauordnungen grundsiitzlic- und in einigen Rechtsverordnungen hierzu insbesondere - gefordert. Hohe Anforderungen an die Verkehrssicherheit werden yom Gesetzge- ber aber auch auBerhalb der Bauvorschriften gesteII t. Aber genausowe- Brandschutz nig, wie es einen vollkommenen Brand-oder Einbruchschutz gibt, wird es auch eine vollkommene Verkehrssicherheit geben, die jeden Unfall An den Brandschutz werden in relativ kurzen Zeitabstanden immer ausschlieBt. Die geforderte Verkehrssicherheit soli vielmehr den Schutz neue Forderungen gestellt. Neben der Einfiihrung neuer Baustoffe sind gegen typische Gefahren bezwecken.

Dem Wunsch meiner Horer entsprechend lege ich meine gesammelten Vorlesungen an der Technischen Universitat Wien gedruckt vor. Es sind Vorlesungen eines Architekten, der seine Hauptaufgabe in der baulichen Realisierung erkennt. Die voraufge- gangenen Reflexionen wie die gewonnenen Erfahrungen nach der Vollendung des Gebaudes sind Hauptbestandteile meiner den Horern mitgeteilten Erkenntnisse. Also: Architektur als Basis. Einen ebenso wesentlichen Bestandteil bilden die Erkenntnisse von Zeit-und Berufsgenossen, die ich meinen Horern - wenn auch kritisch - ubermittelt habe. Es war nicht meine Absicht, eine Gieselmann-Schule zu schaffen, sondern meinen Horern zu ihrer eigenen Vorstellungswelt, zu ihrer Selbstidentifikation zu verhelfen. Foigerichtig haben daher meine leninistischen Horer vor Jahren ein Anti-Wohnbauscriptum verfaBt, und ebenso folgerichtig habe ich die daraus gewonnenen Anregungen verdrbeitet. Mein Dank gilt daher zunachst den Architekturschriftstellern, deren Ouellen ich zitiert habe. Danach Dank und Bitte um Verzeihung an die, deren Ouellen ich zu zitieren vergaB. SchlieBlich danke ich meinen Mitarbeitern: vor allem meiner Frau, die unermudlich und immer wieder anregend Korrekturen gelesen hat, meinen Assistenten Dipl.-Ing. Gunter Lautner, Dipl.-Ing. Peter Scheiffinger, Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Szedenik und Dipl.-Ing. Jan Turnowsky fur die Suche nach den Bei- spielen.

Der steigende Bedarf an elektrischer Energie flihrt zu immer groBeren Kraftwerken, die einen entsprechend groBen Bedarf an Klihlsystemen erforderlich machen. Es werden daher Natur- zugklihltlirme mit moglichst groBer Klihlleistung angestrebt. Bei groBen NaBklihlern ist der Bedarf an Zusatzklihlwasser je nach Wasserdurchsatz erheblich (2000 bis 3000 cbm/h) und kann kaum noch den natlirlichen Wasserlaufen entnommen werden. GroBe NaBklihler haben weiterhin den Nachteil, daB sie zu Glatteis- und Nebelbildung flihren und eine erhebliche Ge- rauschbelastigung der Umwelt verursachen. Trockenklihler sind im Vergleich zu NaBklihlern hinsichtlich des Umweltschutzes wesentlich vorteilhafter, da weder Wasser- verluste noch sonstige Nachteile auftreten. Andererseits sind flir gleiche Klihlleistung bei Trockenklihlern erheblich groBere Abmessungen erforderlich, als bei NaBklihlern. Dadurch ergibt sich eine Entwicklung zum Bau groBer Klihltlirme, wobei Hohen liber 200 m bereits im Gesprach sind. Diese ungewohnlich groBen Abmessungen bringen Probleme mit sich, die bei den Klihltlirmen bisheriger Bauart nicht auftraten, bzw. nur unbe- deutend waren. Es gilt daher, die Belastungsannahmen, die zweckmaBige Konstruktion, die Standsicherheit und Wirtschaft- lichkeit derartiger Klihltlirme zu untersuchen. Zur Zeit der Erstellung des vorliegenden Forschungsberichtes betragt die Hohe des groBten Klihlturmes in der Bundes- republik Deutschland, der gerade erstellt wurde 162 m. Der NaBklihlturm wurde in konventioneller Stahlbetonbauweise flir ein Kernkraftwerk mit 1300 MW-Leistung gebaut.