Recent waterscapes
Subtitle: planning, building and designing with water
By: edited by Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau ; [translation into English, Michael Robinson]
Edition: 3rd rev. and expanded ed. of: Waterscapes : planning, building and designing with water. 2005.
Publisher: Birkhäuser; Birkhauser; Birkhauser Architecture
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9783764389840
Subjects: Water in landscape architecture; Modern Architecture; Architektur; Wasserkunst; Landschaftsplanung; Urban landscape architecture; Water and architecture
Other titles: Waterscapes. English.
Description: After decades of being banished from residential areas, water is now becoming an increasingly significant feature in urban design. This book reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water as a creative element in the city, in art, in the landscape and architecture.
Notes: Original ed. published in German as: Waterscapes : Bauen, Planen und Gestalten mit Wasser.
Table of contents: title: Water :; title: spirit of change  -- Herbert Dreiseitl -- Urban plazas. Civic Square, Seattle ;; title: Water system in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Germany ;; title: Town hall square, Hattersheim, Germany ;; title: New town square in Gummersbach, Germany ;; title: "Water-traces" in Hannoversch Münden, Germany ;; title: Heiner-Metzger Plaza, Neu-Ulm, Germany ;; title: Exemplary water management at DWR headquarters, Amsterdam, Netherlands ;; title: Water management for a research centre near London, United Kingdom ;; title: Center of Excellence, Sindelfingen, Germany ;; title: Light and water installation Breiteweg, Barleben, Germany --; title: Public participation  -- Zari Santner -- Urban parks. Tanner Springs Park, Portland, USA ;; title: Toppilansaari Park in Oulu, Finland ;; title: Queens Botanical Garden, New York, USA ;; title: Rainwater retention on the Kronsberg in Hanover, Germany ;; title: Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern, Germany ;; title: Green roof for Chicago City Hall, USA --; title: Cities moving toward sustainability  -- Khoo Teng Chye -- Master planning. Central watershed and Bishan Park, Singapore ;; title: Transformation of a city district, Taipei Taiwan ;; title: Conversion of Fornebu Airport, Oslo, Norway ;; title: Dubai business park, UAE ;; title: Restoration of Ernscher River, Ruhr Valley, Germany --; title: Think global, act local  -- Wolfgang F. Geiger -- Residential projects. Arkadien housing estates near Stuttgart, Germany ;; title: Rainwater management in Coffee Creek, Indiana, USA ;; title: Solar City, Linz, Austria ;; title: Neighbourhood community, Tianjin, China ;; title: Housing estate in Echallens near Lausanne, Switzerland ;; title: Sewage treatment plant at the Wörme farm community in Hanneloh, Germany -- -- River restoration. Daylighting of Alna River in Hølaløkka, Oslo, Norway ;; title: Scheme for the banks of the Volme, Hagen, Germany ;; title: Rainwater for the bears in the Zurich zoo, Switzerland ;; title: Three Rivers master plan, Pittsburgh, USA --; title: Water as an open system  -- Wolfram Schwenk -- Interior design. Interior courtyard of an old people's home in Stuttgart, Germany ;; title: The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma, Germany -- -- Art and fountains. Fountain sculpture in Immenstaad, Germany ;; title: Festival des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire, Switzerland ;; title: Open space for a residential development in Ittigen, Berne, Switzerland ;; title: Sonnenhausen estate in Glonn, Germany ;; title: Water playground in Pforzheim, Germany ;; title: Water phenomena in the Gelsenkirchen cooling tower, Germany --; title: From the idea to the finished object -- Dieter Grau, Alexander Edel, Gerhard Hauber, Herbert Dreiseitl.