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New waterscapes : planning, building and designing with water / by Herbert Dreiseitl [editor]

Publisher: Boston : Birkhauser, 2005Description: 176p. ill. [chiefly col.] 29cm001: 11884ISBN: 9783764372453Subject(s): Design | LandscapesDDC classification: 714 DRE
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This third, revised edition of best-selling Waterscapes reveals the wide variety of possibilities for using water as a creative element in the city, in the landscape and architecture. The works encompass large-scale masterplans, urban parks, river restaurations but also interior design schemes and art objects.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Water in landscape (p. 10)
  • Tanner Springs Park, Portland (p. 12)
  • Town hall square, Hattersheim (p. 18)
  • Water features in an hotel foyer near Neuchatel (p. 22)
  • Water course at Herne-Sodingen Academy (p. 24)
  • The new town square in Gummersbach (p. 30)
  • Integrated water design for ING Bank, Amsterdam (p. 36)
  • Open space for a residential development in Ittigen, Berne (p. 38)
  • Water is universal (p. 42)
  • The water system in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz (p. 46)
  • The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma (p. 53)
  • Wind- and water-wheel at the Owingen primary and secondary school (p. 59)
  • New Park Concept for Queens Botanical Garden, New York (p. 60)
  • Solar City Linz (p. 62)
  • Rainwater for the bears in Zurich Zoo (p. 66)
  • Conversion of Fornebu Airport, Oslo (p. 69)
  • Sonnenhausen estate in Glonn (p. 70)
  • Housing estate Arkadien Asperg near Stuttgart (p. 72)
  • Festival des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire (p. 75)
  • Rainwater management in Coffee Creek, Indiana (p. 77)
  • Think global, act local (p. 78)
  • Rainwater retention on the Kronsberg in Hanover (p. 82)
  • The Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern (p. 86)
  • Toppilansaari Park in Oulu (p. 91)
  • Sewage treatment plant at the Worme Hofgemeinschaft in Handeloh (p. 94)
  • Scheme for the banks of the Volme, Hagen (p. 98)
  • Green roof for Chicago City Hall (p. 102)
  • The Lanferbach at the Schungelberg estate in Gelsenkirchen (p. 105)
  • Housing estate in Echallens near Lausanne (p. 108)
  • Rainwater management in Krems Business Park, Austria (p. 110)
  • Water as an open system (p. 112)
  • Water phenomena in the Gelsenkirchen cooling tower (p. 114)
  • Daylighting of Alna river in Holalokka, Oslo (p. 118)
  • Fountain sculpture in Immenstaad (p. 121)
  • Water management for a research centre near London (p. 124)
  • Center of Excellence, Sindelfingen (p. 126)
  • The Pearl of Hangzhou water garden, Hangzhou (p. 128)
  • Towards a new water culture (p. 130)
  • 'Water-traces' in Hannoversch Munden (p. 134)
  • Interior courtyard of an old people's home in Stuttgart (p. 139)
  • Heiner-Metzger Plaza, Neu-Ulm (p. 140)
  • Exemplary water management at DWR Headquarters, Amsterdam (p. 145)
  • Restoration of Emscher river, Ruhr Valley (p. 146)
  • Water playground in Pforzheim (p. 151)
  • From the idea to the finished object (p. 154)
  • Technical data (p. 166)
  • The authors (p. 174)
  • Illustration credits (p. 176)

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