Contents: 1.A Scientific Approach 2. Architecture of Modernity. 3. The Winter Palace 4. Sir John Soane's Museum 5. Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve 6. Palace of Westminster 7. St George's Hall 8. The Reading Room 9. University of Glasgow Gilmorehill 10. Manchester Town Hall 11. Natural History Museum 12. Birmingham Children's Hospital. 13. Aldo Leopold Legacy Center 14. Great River Energy 15. The Terry Thomas 16. Manitoba Hydro Place 17. Tempe Transportation Center 18. Nrel Research Service Facility 19. Dpr Construction 20. Morphosis Studio 21. Sony’s Osaki New Building Project 22. The Bullitt Center 23. Packard Foundation Headquarters 24. Kimbell Art Museum Extension 25. Mariposa Land Port of Entry 26. Billings Public Library. 27. Oregon Sustainability Center 28. Powerhouse One

Summary: Sustainable Building Design explores outstanding buildings and building designs of the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the artistry of masters of architecture who came before. By dissecting and analyzing great public buildings of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, materials, techniques, and methods are discovered. This book presents the reader with clues and suggestions that will reveal the secrets of these buildings and by doing so provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how these architectural masterpieces work. Using photographs, drawings, sections, plans and diagrams which are painstakingly redrawn for consistency and clarity based on a wide range of documentation, Vidar Lerum compares works of architecture from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is presented with a careful analysis of each building, providing a compelling sourcebook of ideas for students and professional architects alike.

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