"Green architecture helps promote energy saving and emission reduction. The book presents the latest green architecture in China to the world. Through the 22 projects we can see the Chinese architects' understanding and exploration of contemporary green architecture. With the book, you can know more about the current situation of green architecture in China and how they apply modern technologies into specific practices."--

"Contemporary Architecture in China " is a book series aiming to introduce outstanding Chinese architecture to the world. This volume covers projects of school buildings. Many of them are masterpieces that have received high praises internationally. We are honoured to present them to the world, not only for architecture profession, but also for cultural communication."--

"Through showcasing Chinese museums, the book reveals contemporary Chinese architects' exploration of traditional and modern styles. Each museum project in this book conveys an elegant and dignity atmosphere through its distinct features and artistic expressions. In the interactive process among architecture, interior and landscape, each project expresses the architect's respect to collections, atmospheres and visitors' experiences."--

This comprehensive book is a practical how-to guide to developing hot retail projects such as lifestyle centers, mixed-use centers, and rehabs of failed malls. Project sizes range from small, ethnic-oriented community centers to major multilevel malls.--Provided by the publisher.

"Profiled here are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary city, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. "--

"It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled 27 popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists...

- Identificar las condiciones básicas de manipulación de materiales y productos para su carga o descarga en relación con su naturaleza, estado, cantidades, protección y medios de transporte utilizado. - Clasificar y describir los distintos tipos de paletización, relacionándolos con la forma de constitución de la carga a transportar. - Interpretar y aplicar la normativa referente a la prevención de riesgos laborales y de la salud de los trabajadores. -...

Lord Darrell Duppa, along with his friend Jack Swilling, suggested the name "Phoenix" for the city he had cofounded because it described a city born from the ruins of a former civilization. Settled on the ancestral lands of the Hohokam Indians, Phoenix was thriving by the early 1920s when craftsmanship and attention to detail were the orders of the day. Buildings were designed to welcome residents and travelers alike. Today the Fox Theater, the Clark...

The wooden scaffolding surrounding the upper floors of the new skyscraper hotel, Sherry-Netherland, began burning on the night of April 12, 1927. It's uncertain how the magnificent blaze ignited. However one fire marshal believed a salamander heater left behind by plaster workers might have been responsible. The inferno burned throughout the night around the unfinished edifice. It was clearly visible in Central Park, across Fifth Avenue from the Sherry-Netherland....