Mark Magazine 6

This timely book reveals, in layman's terms, the critical role that research has in the future of our planet. Author Daniel D. Watch is passionate about generating widespread support and understanding of the vast research opportunities at hand, whether through financing, political decision-making, education, laboratory construction, or through conducting the actual research. Watch sets the scene with an overview of the impact of research on the global economy; then explores specifics such as research into sustainability; the often controversial areas of biological and biomedical research, including proteomics, bioinformatics, stem cell and biocontainment research; and nanotechnology and neuroscience.

Książka przeznaczona jest dla inwestorów, projektantów, wykonawców, studentów i naukowców zajmujących się w swojej pracy masywnymi konstrukcjami z betonu. Inwestorom wskazuje najnowsze światowe rozwiązania problemów związanych z naprężeniami termicznymi występującymi w blokach betonowych. Projektantom i realizatorom pozwoli zaoszczędzić czas i wysiłek niezbędny do odszukiwania i zinterpretowania wiedzy oraz nowinek z danego zakresu. Dla studentów może być podręcznikiem zawierającym ważne treści dotyczące wszystkich konstrukcji z betonu. Naukowcom, oprócz cennej wiedzy, wskazuje najnowszą literaturę na dany temat. 

Na tle zarysu historii stosowania materiałów budowlanych, ich klasyfikacji i krótkiej charakterystyki poszczególnych grup materiałowych stosowanych we współczesnym budownictwie przedstawiono właściwości materiałowe fizyczne, mechaniczne i chemiczne ze wskazaniem celowości i zasady ich oznaczania, a także przykłady liczbowe. 

Contemporary Japanese architecture has, over half a century, achieved world-wide recognition not only for its highly innovative, often futuristic qualities, but also for its sensitive response to Japan’s cultural and physical context in the challenging setting of its increasingly urbanized environment. Today it is admired perhaps as much as its traditional counterpart, with which it often maintains a meaningful dialog. Botond Bognar’s Architectural Guide Japan introduces over 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture, while outlining its development since the mid-19th century until the present in a concise historical essay. 

DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE Vinoly has designed a lightweight steel-framed column-free building with a wrap-around roof that also forms the walls. The structure floats on a concrete raft foundation over Roman ruins. The building's walls follow the landscape along a curving stretch of trees. At the entrance, huge windows invite the outdoors in and a massive canopy creates the illusion that the building entrance vaults unsupported overhead. Following a narrative beginning with the client's first wild idea and ending when the architect hands over the keys on opening day, this book features an eye-catching design that matches the drama of the building and includes personal contributions from the Uruguayan-born architect, as well as hundreds of sketches, plans and photographs.

Dostępność:na zamowienie Lofts o f Antwerp is the first book in Flanders devoted to this new way of living. A unique journey of discovery leads us on a tour of former warehouses, factories, printing plants, and schools - all now magically transformed into stylish lofts with their own individual character. Their new functions are quite varied, from private dwellings to offices, from an art gallery to a film studio.