Stadium Buildings

Abstract This book maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilization of three Parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were fin...

Urban parks play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity, especially in rapidly developing cities. Gandhi Stadium, located in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, offers a unique semi-urban ...

Abstract Dynamics of billiard balls and their role in physics have received wide attention since the monumental lecture by Lord Kelvin at the turn of the 19th cen...

OUP is a publisher, but it is also an architectural patron, a facilities manager, and the inhabitant of buildings in Oxford and across the globe. By 2004 the OUP estate included a ...

Buildings consume nearly 40% of global energy, and no component influences that demand more directly than the building envelope—especially windows. As the primary interface between...

Abstract Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building’s function: how it stands up, keeps...

Abstract This important addition to the literature is the first overall study of the architecture of Norman England since Sir Alfred Clapham's English Romanesque ...

The churches of the Byzantine era were built to represent heaven on earth. Architecture, art and liturgy were intertwined in them to a degree that has never been replicated elsewhe...