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Building Type Basics for Office Buildings
by Eugene Kohns

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects.

Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities.

In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Office Buildings provides essential information needed to initiate designs for all types of office buildings, from dramatic skyscrapers to utilitarian low-rise complexes. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, safety, and security issues unique to office buildings with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there though completion.

Contents

  1. Architectural Issues
    1. Introduction
    2. The Office Building Type: A Pragmatic Approach

  2. Consultants' Issues
    1. Interior Architecture
    2. Structural Systems
    3. Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Systems
    4. Vertical Transportation
    5. Curtain Walls
    6. Alternative Workplace Solutions
    7. Safety and Security

  3. Case Studies
    • Gannett/USA Today Corporate Headquarters
    • Chagrin Highlands Building One
    • Thames Court
    • Tour CBX
    • Endesa Headquarters
    • 11 Chater Road
    • One Raffles Link
    • Ernst & Young Building
    • Espirito Santo Plaza

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