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Archina University Of Belgrade?Faculty Of ArchitectureBiblio.com

15X15 Contemparary Green Architecture in China and Serbia

[ARCHITECTURE]. BRUST, M[ichael].Biblio.com

Praktische Darstellung wichtiger Gegenstande der Zimmerbaukunst mit achut und funfzig Kupfertafeln und deren Erklarung. Practical presentation of important architectural elements.

180047665Prague: Franz Gerzabkischen 1800. Folio. 14.25 x 10.25 in. vi 102 pp. Woodcut device on title tables 58 large folding many double-page or larger copper plates couple w/ minor closed tears at fold. Contemporary quarter calf over painted boards raised bands tan & gilt spine labels heavy rubbing & wear to spine corners fore-edges front & rear hinges starting but sewing sound occasional foxing and a couple leaves w/ minor ink marks still a good copy w/ VG- plates w/ ownership signature Louis Moulin. First edition of this very scarce and impressive treatise on 18th-century Austro-Hungarian architecture structural civil and mechanical engineering. Brust was the Royal Architect in Prague at the end of the 18th century and intended this treatise to aid architects and builders in Central Europe during the Napoleonic era. Reflecting the heavy influences of Baroque and Classicism styles at the time he has included numerous detailed plans and instructions on building trusses for roofs from the simple to incredibly large and elaborate. He has even included the spread sheet for materials and costs for constructing the truss and roof to a large public or private building plate 6. There are numerous different church steeples bell towers and even domes with detailed designs and instructions. In addition he has included instructions for building a large industrial wine press; well-drilling equipment; construction cranes for lifting trusses and stone; Japanese gardens; pile driving equipment; constructing bridge piers and timber bridges; the gates for locks in irrigation canals and transportation canals; and finally a detailed plate for water wheels and equipment -- 1 of which using an Archimedes screw. Of particular interest is plate 43 showing plans for the design and ornament of the roofs of Turkish mosques. Worldcat locates 5 copies; Engelmann Bibliotheca mechanico-technologica p. 55. Franz Gerzabkischen, hardcover

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[ARCHITECTURE -- PHOTO SALES ALBUM]. [BRECK, Daniel (Pres)].Biblio.com

A superb sales photo album depicting 40 buildings built across the Midwest and Western United States from 1909-1930 by the Selden-Breck Construction Company through the Progressive Era World War I and the Jazz Age. These images capture steel and concrete frame buildings and skyscrapers designed by some of the most important architects from Chicago to Omaha and Houston to New Orleans many still in use in the 21st Century.

190962981St. Louis MO: Selden-Breck Construction Co. General Contractors ca. 1909-1931. Oblong 4to. 12 x 9 in. 40 original silver gelatin linen-backed photographs all w/ photographerâ€™s imprint w/in negative stamped on verso or in a couple cases embossed in lower corner all w/ facing typescript description on verso of the prior photograph except for inserted leaf at front for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Storage Building all mounted on white linen-hinges at gutter margin. Flexible faux-calf post-binder yapp fore-edges gilt lettering stamped on front cover ruling in blind brass screwposts at gutter margin rounded corners minor edgewear rubbing and slight fraying to foot of spine still a NF bright exemplar. This salesman sample & souvenir sales photo album depicts 39 different buildings 2 for St. Louis MO iconic Civil Court House across the West and Midwest with specific descriptions on architects lot size owners building date style of building and location. Some of the most significant American architects from the opening decades of the 20th Century are represented here such as Albert Kahn Chicago Illinois as well as how their partnership with Selden-Breck transformed the Western and Midwestern urban architectural landscape. Photos depict the Univ. of Michigan Library now the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library along with the Michigan Union Building at South Street & South Univ. Ave. in Ann Arbor MI; as well as Kahnâ€™s 12 story building erected in 1925 for the Mahoning National Bank in Youngstown OH. Selden-Breck includes here as well the Kemp Hotel in Wichita Falls TX erected in 1920 demolished later in 1964 and well-known as an early popular destination with all rooms air-conditioned; the Bob Waggoner Building in Wichita Falls TX a 7 story concrete frame office building finished in 1920 and no longer standing; along with the â€œChronicle Buildingâ€ in Houston TX a 10 story structure designed by Mauran Russell & Crowell of St. Louis and when completed in 1910 was the tallest building in Houston. The Chronicleâ€™s headquarters remained at 801 Texas and eventually a new glass-and-granite facade was erected and absorbed nearby buildings. As evidenced by the photographs here Selden-Breck Construction Co. cranes and projects dominated Omaha Nebraska as their structures entirely modernized the cityscape and pulled the previously nondescript Western city into becoming an important transportation and architectural hub. Buildings include those of the classic Riviera Theatre a Moroccan Revival design by Chicago architect John Eberson which featured lavish stage shows and movies and was considered the most elegant entertainment facility in the Midwest later sold to Paramount and transformed in the 1990â€™s into the Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center. Others include the Paxton Hotel Lord Lister Hospital Omaha Athletic Club Bankers Reserve Life Sharp Building Conant Hotel World Herald Reserve Apartments and Reserve Apartments. Other historic structures included the Woodmen of the World 18 story skyscraper designed by Holabird & Roche whose Italian Renaissance facade sported pink granite and terracotta 30-foot high ceilings but demolished in 1977; or the Fontenelle Hotel 12 story which operated as a hotel until 1971 and razed to the ground in 1983. All of the rooms originally had a telephone ice water on tap and maintained an around-the-clock laundery service on the 13th floor. Other notable buildings include the Rich & Sons Department Store 6 story building in downtown Atlanta now known as â€œThe 1924 Building;â€ the Hippee-Polk Building in Des Moines IA which when completed in 1913 was Iowaâ€™s tallest skyscraper and now a hotel; or the fascinating Civil Court House in St. Louis MO built 1928 completed in 1930 and and topped with a pyramid designed to resemble the Mausoleum at Helicarnassus one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World featuring 32 Ionic Columns roof of cast aluminum and sphinxes sculpted by Cleveland sculptor and artist Steven A. Rebeck. Two different buildings designed by the famed New Orleans firm Favrot & Livaudais include the Southern Baptist Hospital -- now owned by the Ochsner Health System with the original entrance abandoned now following Hotel Katrina and the Cotton Exchange Building now transformed into a bank and hotel at One Shell Square. Commercial photographers who shot these images include George Beach of Houston TX; Louis R. Bostwick of Omaha NE; Charles L. Franck & Louis T. Fritch of New Orleans LA; many by W.C. Persons Commercial Photographers of St. Louis MO Tyner & Murphy; as well as Fred L. Stone and Rufus Buchanan of â€œThat Man Stone Co.â€ in Oklahoma City OK. Breck 1861-1938 first founded the company in 1903 had worked for the US Geodetic Survey in California the Pacific Coast Railroad Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. before managing the Tennessee Phosphate and later Terminal Traction Co. No similar examples in Worldcat. Selden-Breck Construction Co., General Contractors, unknown

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[ARCHITECTURE -- MID-20TH-CENTURY CEMENT WORKS CONSTRUCTION]. [TURVEY, Bruce (Photographer).]Biblio.com

An extraordinary group of five albums tracing the construction of a massive new semi-wet cement kiln in the Blue Circle Dunstable Works in the mid-1960’s in order to expand the company’s ability to meet growing demands for infrastructure as well as home and commercial construction projects.

196460016Houghton Regis & Dunstable Bedfordshire UK: Associated Portland Cement Manufacturs Ltd. APCM Blue Circle Group Turvey & Turvey Photography Studio 1964-1967. Five vols. Oblong 8vo. 10.5 x 7.25 in. 100; 110; 96; 110; 96 pp unpaginated. all mylar sleeves. With 509 silver gelatin photos inserted back-to-back sized 6.25 x 8.5 in. all w/ photographerâ€™s imprint stamped on verso nearly all w/ neat date stamp in lower fore-edge margin or w/in negative and image some w/ ink annotations in lower fore-edge most w/ pencil negative numbers on versos two inserted newspaper clippings. Uniformly bound in pebbled black cloth over beveled boards â€œBartonâ€™s British Albumsâ€ slide-clasp post-binders interior flap posts rounded corners spine to vol. II perished and with old linen tape repair some scuffing edgewear somewhat shaken due to weight of original mylar page sleeves and photos still a VG- set w/ nearly all of the images retaining bright strong contrast. These remarkable photo albums provide a nearly day-by-day time-lapse sequence of 509 photographs tracing the construction of the massive in-house Blue Circle Group cement kiln manufacturing complex at Dunstable Bedfordshire from 1965-1967 to meet fast growing domestic demands. The British economy experienced sustained growth during the decade and oversaw a revolution in transport with private car ownership rising from less than 40% in 1960 to more than 60% by the end of the decade against the backdrop of massive road building and post-War home building boom. The Blue Circle Group decided to demolish fifteen kilns built from 1921-1938 in Dunstable which largely processed Totternhoe Stone between the Chalk Marl and Gray Chalk in their main quarry with a semi-wet kiln A4. The first album opens with photographs capturing the barren site left by the demolition of the former kilns with housing visible in distance and fenced off from the plant. Subsequent images portray heavy equipment and excavators preparing the site digging the footings laying rebar formwork intermixed with curiously artistically composed images capturing nearby rusting equipment partially demolished company structures as the massive kiln towers slowly rise. Blue Circle construction workers are shown pick-axing to finish off forms cover poured concrete and continue the project. The scale of the project is often revealed by the photographer with workers work equipment or vehicles in fore-grounds and back-grounds. The plant featured an onsite rail system which was partially torn out and rebuilt during the project and the excavations and construction appear to have continued apace. The second volume shows processing machinery desiccators trummels cooling towers and vats. Aerial shots in vols. III & IV reveal the size of the project and scope. In addition machinery and heavy equipment suppliers & contractors included Vickers Ltd. S.T. Challis Wimpey Ltd. ARUP and others with the project overseen by Mitchell Construction. The final album which concludes in Feb. 1967 shows the first batches of test product cements produced from the finished semi-wet kiln. Unfortunately the newly constructed A4 kilns would have a very short production life as the Blue Circle Group attempted to retain their dominance in slurry-based processes by removing water from slurry with filter presses and tried to out-innovate the French and German competitors who employed a Lepol Grate system with great success. Unfortunately the component materials proved unsuitable for pressing the in-house Davis preheater had ongoing technical defects and had to be shut down before the 1973 energy crises impacted Great Britain. Bruce Turvey fl. 1950-1985 was a successful commercial photographer who had donated much of his vast store of images to the Dunstable Council before 2000 and well remembered for his â€œ25 Years of Sundtable 1952-1977: Commemorating the Silver Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1977 and reprinted in 2002. The Blue Circle Group was first founded as the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. in 1900 by combining 24 cement works manufacturers later adding 35 companies in 1911 later expanding across the Commonwealth South and Central America and officially changed their name to Blue Circle in 1978. Aspects of the consortium still operate as a subsidiary of CRH plc an Irish Building materials company who purchased the divested portions after the merger of Lafarge and Holcim in 2015. See: Dylan Moore Dunstable Cement Kilns Cement Plants and Kilns in Britain and Ireland Sept. 2022; Dunstable Photo 2000 Dunstable & District Local History Society Newsletter No. 13 2000. Associated Portland Cement Manufacturs, Ltd. (APCM), Blue Circle Group, Turvey & Turvey, Photography Studio, hardcover

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[ARCHITECTURE -- AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY PHOTO ALBUMS]. [WELLS, Channing M, WELLS, Albert B, & WELLS, J Cheney].Biblio.com

Interesting group of two photo albums with 94 silver gelatin photographs documenting the construction of the famed Lensdale optical factory and adjacent power plant whose innovative design with large windows to allow generous amounts of natural lighting were constructed entirely of cement to be fireproof. The Southbridge MA plant was the largest in the United States at the time of its completion.

190954120Southbridge MA: American Optical Co. Construction Dept. 1909-1915. Two vols. Oblong 4to. 10.75 x 7.5 in. 50; 50 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock with 83 silver gelatin photographs tipped-in sized 5 x 7 in. many dated w/in the negative 1 RPPC w/ split-back laid-in 11 loose photographs 3 linen-backed sized from 7 x 9 in. up to 8 x 10 in. some chipping minor creasing edgewear couple with closed tears. Photo albums w/ Eastman Kodak Forum Album B labels on rear pastedowns minor edgewear slight scuffing still VG exemplars. These albums include historic photographs documenting the construction of the new Lensdale factory power plant and dam from 1909 through 1910 across the Quinebaug River from the main plant in Southbridge Massachusetts. At the time the American Optical Co. was one of the largest and most respected optical companies in the world whose original factory was a converted textile mill. The first of the loose images shows the original plant with its Second Renaissance Revival front and clock tower in the distance with newly graveled road and construction just beginning. The remaining images show the tremendous construction project of erecting this massive fireproof structure built of reinforced concrete with floor to roof windows designed by engineers Samuel T. McIntosh and Albert B. Wells. The earliest photos dated 1909 show the grading of the site building the foundation forms construction of the dam erection of the walls to hold the massive windows pouring of the cement floors for each story and even the steam locomotive used on site. In addition the images show the construction of the steam chimney for the power plant erection of the power plant walls the final stages of the dam to power the the plant and finally the second floor stock room in 1915. By 1910 American Optical was employing over 2000 workers in and around Southbridge producing over 600000 gold/silver optical glass and lens framers per year and would eventually be the supplier for US Troops and Allied forces in World War I. American Optical pioneered hidden bifocal lenses rimless frames Crookes glass Calobar Sun Glasses with UV protections and later the original sunglasses worn by Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew. By 1992 American Optical relocated manufacturing operations to Mexico moved its heaquarters to San Diego and the site was demolished by the US Department of Defense only retaining the historic factory facade in Southbridge’s downtown center. See: National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Southbridge Massachusetts 1989 Section 8 page 14-15; American Optical Celebrates 150th Anniversary June 18 1983. American Optical Co., Construction Dept., unknown

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