Having used this website for our search of relevant case studies, I would like to inform you of the publication by John Wiley & Sons of a book that I have written together with the French art historian Julie Gimbal.
It is one of the rare works that explicitly focuses on the urban aspects of high-rise construction, more than on the architecture as such. In a rigorous and highly visual manner we present very different typological ways of inserting towers in an urban fabric. In excess of purpose-taken images we redrew many urban plans at the same scale and present the wider urban context of each major example through to-scale aerials.
In a second part of the book we explain the high-rise regulations and their evolution for seven cities worldwide.
For the last chapter we invited the French engineer and high-rise expert Philippe Honnorat from WSP to write an essay about the complex and antagonistic relation of towers and sustainability.
The two following links will give you an impression of the book's content:
www.wiley.com/go/urbanhandbooks
http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/index...view/97/pdf_49
We hope that the outcome will be inspiring for you, and that you will find some answers to urban questions that a purely architectural study will not be able to provide.
February 14th, 2012, 03:46 PM
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