Urban Towers Handbook - High-Rise and the City

Informationen zum Autor Eric Firley is a French-German architect and urban designer. The author of The Urban Housing Handbook (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2009), he is Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture and heads an international research consultancy. Julie Gimbal is a French art historian with a special interest in high-rise architecture. She holds a doctorate from the University of Rennes on the subject of high-rise architecture in France and is responsible for the second section of the book on high-rise regulations. She also helped to inform the choice of case studies in the first part of the book. Philippe Honnorat, a French Engineer, heads the Paris office of WSP Flack + Kurtz. An expert in Mechanical and Electrical systems, he has worked in the UK and USA, and has extensive international experience in high-rise structures. Honnorat wrote the third section of the book covering sustainability issues. Klappentext The Urban Towers Handbook Eric Firley and Julie Gimbal with Philippe Honnorat For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provided an ingenious solution to high-density living and working - accommodating the greatest number of people in a building with a minimal footprint. In the contemporary context of drastic urban growth, its role can only gain in importance. The question is how to avoid past mistakes and how to conceive the tower as a positive component of an existing or newly created urban fabric. In a thoroughly analytical and comparative way The Urban Towers Handbook provides answers to these questions and serves as a reference book and design tool for architects, planners and developers alike. Its comprehensive graphic documentation includes not only aerials and to-scale plans and sections, but also purpose-made photography, drawings and diagrams. The core of the book is made up of over fifty case studies which have been classified according to three major typological groups and their respective sub-groups: solitaires, clusters and vertical cities. Twenty-one of these examples feature detailed documentation, including classics such as the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and Torre Velasca in Milan, as well as contemporary milestones such as Roppongi Hills in Tokyo and the making of Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. Among others, several districts in Hong Kong, Shanghai and São Paulo have been analysed as existing examples of vertical cities. The case studies section of the book is consolidated by a second section that out-lines high-rise regulations in seven cities around the world, and highlights how planning authorities use tall buildings for the realisation of their urban goals and visions. The third and final section of the book addresses the uneasy relationship between high-rise structures and sustainability, placing the emphasis on the urban implications. Zusammenfassung The Urban Towers Handbook includes 30 in-depth case studies of iconic towers from around the world, organized according to type. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Section A: A visual dictionary of high-rise buildings 1st Group: Solitaires and Twin Towers 1 - Monument Main example: Kingdom Centre, Riyadh Secondary 1: Moscow State University Secondary 2: Burj Khalifa, Dubai 2 - Monument in block Main example: 30 St Mary Axe, London Secondary 1: Torre Agbar, Barcelona Secondary 2: Seagram Building, New York City 3 - Tower as block Main example: Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt Secondary 1: Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco Seconday 2: Hotel Ukraina, Moscow 4 - Tower in block Main example: Torre Velasca, Milan Secondary 1: Kudamm-Karree, Berlin Secondary 2: Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hanover <...

List of contents

Preface
 
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction
 

Section A: A visual dictionary of high-rise buildings
 
1st Group: Solitaires and Twin Towers
 
1 - Monument
 
Main example: Kingdom Centre, Riyadh
 
Secondary 1: Moscow State University
 
Secondary 2: Burj Khalifa, Dubai
 
2 - Monument in block
 
Main example: 30 St Mary Axe, London
 
Secondary 1: Torre Agbar, Barcelona
 
Secondary 2: Seagram Building, New York City
 
3 - Tower as block
 
Main example: Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt
 
Secondary 1: Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
 
Seconday 2: Hotel Ukraina, Moscow
 
4 - Tower in block
 
Main example: Torre Velasca, Milan
 
Secondary 1: Kudamm-Karree, Berlin
 
Secondary 2: Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hanover
 
5 - Twin towers
 
Main example: Kungstornen, Stockholm
 
Secondary 1: Marina City Towers, Chicago
 
Secondary 2: Puerta de Europa, Madrid
 
6 - Tower as team player
 
Main example: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
 
Secondary 1: Thyssen-Haus, Düsseldorf
 
Secondary 2: United Nations Headquarters, New York City
 
7 - Tower on infrastructure
 
Main example: The Standard Hotel, New York City
 
Secondary 1: Shard London Bridge, London
 
Secondary 2: Tour Dexia (CBX), La Défense
 
8 - Tower as module / business as usual
 
Main example: Tour Ar Men, Paris
 
Secondary 1: DUOC Corporate Building, Santiago de Chile
 
Secondary 2: Banco Atlántico, Barcelona
 
2nd Group: Clusters
 
1 - Integrated in existing city fabric
 
Main example: Rockefeller Center, New York City
 
Secondary 1: Villeurbanne Town Hall and new centre
 

Secondary 2: Riverside Center, New York City
 
2 - Towers as urban pattern
 
Main example: Quartier du Palais ('Immeubles Choux'), Créteil
 
Secondary 1: Jianwai SOHO, Beijing
 
Secondary 2: Stuyvesant Town, New York City
 
3 - Linear cluster
 
Main example: Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai
 
Secondary 1: Playa de Levante extension, Benidorm
 
Secondary 2: Rue de la Loi masterplan, Brussels
 
4 - High-rise compound
 
Main example: Moma and Pop Moma, Beijing
 
Secondary 1: Marina Baie des Anges, Villeneuve-Loubet
 
Secondary 2: Icon Brickell, Miami
 
5 - High-rise megastructure
 
Main example: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo
 
Secondary 1: Parque Central, Caracas
 
Secondary 2: Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore
 
6 - Towers in nature
 
Main example: Hansaviertel, Berlin
 
Secondary 1: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille
 
Secondary 2: Newton Suites, Singapore
 
7 - Towers on podium
 
Main example: Front de Seine, Paris
 
Secondary 1: Jumeirah Beach Residences, Dubai
 
Secondary 2: Tour 9, Montreuil
 

 
3rd Group: Vertical Cities
 
1 - US-American downtown:
 
Main example: Downtown Houston
 
2 - High-rise as norm:
 
Main example: Higienópolis, São Paulo
 
3 - High-rise as geographical obligation:
 
Main example: Monaco
 
4 - City of monuments:
 
Main example: Lujiazui, Shanghai
 
5 - European CBD:
 
Main example: La Défense
 
Secondary: La Défense extension (Tour AIR²)
 
6 - City of megastructures:
 
Main example: Hong Kong
 

 
Section B: High-rise building regulations in seven cities worldwide
 

London
 
Frankfurt

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'Informative and thought provoking both for practitioners and space syntax researchers'. (JSS, December, 2011)

Product details

• Authors: E Firley, Eri Firley, Eric Firley, Eric (An Architect and Urban Designer Firley, Eric (University of Miami School of Archit Firley, Eric Gimbal Firley, Firley Eric, FIRLEY ERIC GIMBAL JULIE, Julie Gimbal, Gimbal Julie
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2011
• EAN: 9780470684740
• ISBN: 978-0-470-68474-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Assisted by: Philippe Honnorat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architektur, Planung, Architecture, Planning