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Architecture reborn : converting old buildings for new uses / Kenneth Powell.
Fine Arts Library NA2793 .P68 1999q
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Ken, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use.
- Buildings.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, 1999.
- Summary:
- Architecture Reborn is a detailed investigation into the adaptation and conversion of existing buildings as a distinctive type of architectural design.
- Examples of this work abound. Renzo Piano has transformed the legendary Fiat factory into a cultural and commercial complex; a former public school in Long Island City, NY has become P.S. I Institute for Contemporary Art; and a 1930s factory in Detroit is now the HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies.
- In color photographs and plans, here are forty-four International schemes that demonstrate that reuse Is a positive -- even Imperative -- way to achieve a forward-looking architecture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847821811
- OCLC:
- 41595132
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