Product Description: Designing Future-Oriented Airline Businesses is the eighth Ashgate book by Nawal K. Taneja to address the ongoing challenges and opportunities facing all generations of airlines. Firstly, it challenges and encourages airline managements to take a deeper dive into new ways of doing business...read more

Product Description: This publication is entirely centered on the design and delivery of Al Bahr Towers. With 300-colour images, it is highly visual with specially commissioned photography by Christian Richters. An illustrated introduction by the architectural correspondent of The Financial Times, Edwin Heathcote provides an engaging account of the background behind the building: the client, the circumstances behind the commission and its most significant architectural precedents...read more

Product Description: In a world with Jumbo jets, microchips and artifical hearts, architecture had appeared to have lost its wonder, but with the building of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, now the tallest buildings on earth, this has changed and their construction has rightly restored architecture as a world wonder...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Working in close collaboration with the client, this architectural firm working mainly in concrete, created silos, a grinding plan, kiln, and conveyor belt to produce this powerful complex which shows how an industrial plant can become a design event.

Product Description: This comprehensive reference by a senior architect at the EPA covers guidelines for site selection, the design of complete facilities (including sustainable labs) and individual lab rooms, and strategic master planning for architects, engineers, and project managers as well as those who commission, operate, and manage laboratories at every level from schools to industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Kurokawa was commissioned to design the new Kuala Lumpur Airport as well as to create urban-design guidelines for the entire transportation complex. The project will include Kurokawa's main terminal, that, thanks to a generous use of glass, will forge a direct visual link between the rain forest and the terminal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many of America's most impressive structures—from the Chrysler Building to the George Washington Bridge to the Panama Canal—as well as its battleships, railroads, and automobiles had their origins in the Bethlehem Steel plant in eastern Pennsylvania...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)