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Hauptverwaltung der Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig = Headquarters building of Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig / Konzept und Text, Eike Becker ; [translation from the German, Peter Green].
LIBRA NA6234.G32 L4 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Eike.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Verbundnetz Gas AG (Firm)--Buildings.
- Verbundnetz Gas AG (Firm).
- Office buildings--Germany--Leipzig.
- Office buildings.
- Intelligent buildings--Germany--Leipzig.
- Intelligent buildings.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century--Germany--Leipzig.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Buildings--Germany--Leipzig.
- Buildings.
- Germany--Leipzig.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Headquarters building of Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig
- Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig
- Place of Publication:
- München ; New York : Prestel, 1999.
- Language Note:
- German and English.
- Summary:
- Working alongside the architects in their key role, specialist subcontractors joined forces to form an integrated designer team, and to produce this award-winning structure. By carefully balancing organizational and energy-related requirements, both sections of the building -- the computer center and the office areas -- benefit from the best of modern technology. Heat generated in the building is used in winter to increase the temperature in the office areas and in the atrium between the two sections, while in summer, this energy is used to keep the work environment cool. a Digital regulating system is fitted throughout the entire building ensuring flexibility to changing environmental conditions, and the facades have been designed as informative filters with climatic membrane. The complex's conference center is flooded in different shades of light which change during the course of an evening: an installation designed by the artist James Turrell. The many illustrations, plans, details and copies of original material included in this volume provide an accidentally sound and st the same time highly accessible description of this truly outstanding building.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Becker Gewers Kühn & Kühn Architekten.
- ISBN:
- 3791321307
- OCLC:
- 43494945
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