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Название: Small Houses of the Forties: With Illustrations and Floor Plans
Автор: Harold E. Group
Издательство: Dover Publications
ISBN: 048645598X
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 21,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste," this fascinating volume presents 56 floor plans and elevations of lovely small homes that originally cost less than $15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally well-planned house that was also a sound investment.

Название: Remarkable Ballparks
Автор: Dan Mansfield
Издательство: Pavilion Books
ISBN: 1911682083
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 195,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

What started as America’s National Pastime is now a global phenomenon with multi-million dollar baseball leagues around the world and enough countries playing the game to warrant its inclusion in the 2020/1 Olympics. Remarkable Ballparks looks at the range of amazing places that host baseball games starting with the historic Wrigley Field rooftop grandstands, together with the home of the Green Monster, Fenway Park. In 1960, John Updike writing in the New Yorker described Fenway Park as: “a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark".

Название: Модерн Западной Европы, Украины и Китая: пути трансформации и имплементации
Автор: Ивашко Ю.В., Шуань Ли
Издательство: Феникс
Год: 2015
Cтраниц: 156,ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 71 мб
Язык: русский

В монографии рассматриваются пути трансформации и имплементации западноевропейского модерна по мере его удаления от европейских центров возникновения. Для сравнения взята архитектура модерна Западной Европы, Украины и Китая.

Название: Архітектурний ансамбль Києво-Печерського заповідника = Архитектурный ансамбль Киево-Печерского заповедника = Architectural Ensemble of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Preserve
Автор: М. Г. Матвієнко
Издательство: Київ : Будівельник
Год: 1981
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 120
Размер: 13.3 Мб
Язык: украинский/русский/английский

В книге рассказывается об уникальном архитектурном ансамбле — Киево-Печерском государственном историко-культурном заповеднике, одном из старейших памятников древнего зодчества на Украине.
Основное внимание уделено выставке «Архитектурный ансамбль Киево-Печерского заповедника», экспозиция которой на документальных материалах раскрывает историю развития архитектурного ансамбля Киево-Печерского монастыря на различных этапах его многовекового формирования.

Название: DIY Guide to Ponds, Fountains, Rain Gardens & Water Features: Designing, Constructing, Planting, Revised Edition
Автор: Nina Koziol
Издательство: Creative Homeowner
ISBN: ‎1580115845
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 139,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Learn how to design and install the water garden of your dreams! Perfect for homeowners, beginner to advanced landscapers, gardeners, and landscape architects, this 256-page book provides essential information on designing and installing all types of sustainable home water gardens from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, rain gardens, bog gardens or pondside wetlands, and more!

Название: California Dreaming (Architectural Design)
Автор: Neil Spiller
Издательство: Neil Spiller
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 141
Размер: 38,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

California has historically provided a fertile breeding ground for radical modes of architectural thinking, practice and building, which from the 1920s onwards was sparked by the presence of eminent émigré architects. It was also central to the birth of ‘cool’ mid-century Modernism – all in parallel with the intense concentration of design and experimentation in the film, aerospace and tech industries.

Название: Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Автор: Ben Wilson
Издательство: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385548117
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 25,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior. Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks.

Название: Tiny Houses Beginners Guide
Автор: Alex Freeman
Издательство: Independently Published
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Take Action Today and live Mortgage-Free for the Rest Of Your Life By Designing, Building and Living In The Tiny House Of Your Dreams! The Tiny House Movement has gone a long way from being a quirky housing trend into an actual way of life for people who are ready to down size their lives for practical reasons. Students who are burdened by student loans but prefer to lead independent lives as they enter the workforce find the option to build a tiny house as their starter house. Entrepreneurs who want to take control of their life by starting their own business find downsizing to tiny house living as the most practical approach to managing finances as they start a business. Older folks who are at the cusp of retirement age have been known to sell off their property, the house they built their life and family in, to wind down and settle into old age in a much more manageable space which a tiny house is able to provide.

Название: Seismic Design and Analysis of Tanks
Автор: Gian Michele Calvi, Roberto Nascimbene
Издательство: Wiley
ISBN: 1119849810
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 355
Размер: 32,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A detailed view on the effects of seismic activity on tank structures. As the use of aboveground and underground storage tanks (ASTs and USTs) continues to grow―with approximately 545 thousand in the US alone―the greatest threat to from AST and USTs is the contamination of groundwater, a vital source of drinking water throughout the world and one that close to half of Americans rely upon. These tanks suffer a great deal of strain during an earthquake, as a complicated pattern of stress affects them such that poorly designed tanks have leaked, buckled, or even collapsed during seismic events.

Название: At Home with Nature: A Guide to Sustainable, Natural Landscaping
Автор: John Gidding
Издательство: Countryman Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 115 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Go from manicured lawn to eco-conscious garden with this step-by-step guide from HGTV star John Gidding. Increased awareness of the environment and an ever-present interest in curb appeal means that homeowners are eager for more sustainable, natural landscaping. And why shouldn't they be? In addition to supporting local flora and fauna, ditching grass for lush, native plants helps lower water bills and results in self-sustaining gardens long-term. In John Gidding's At Home with Nature, American homeowners will find thorough blueprints to reap these benefits and bring their dream garden to life.