Cities and Buildings Database Contains over 10,000 digitized images of buildings and cities culled from all historical periods and from all over the world. Visitors may perform detailed searches for buildings by city, style, title, architect, and date of construction.
Le Corbusier includes online 3D models of his very distinctive buildings, his writings, biographical sketches, and visual images
Land Surveyor Reference Page Reference materials useful in the practice of Land Surveying. Periodically updated to include the latest information on US state rules, regulations and statutes, federal government data sources, maps etc.
Planetizen: information exchange for the urban planning and development community
Scotland's Development Through its Architectural Archives is a virtual archive of over 20,000 items related to Scottish architecture and town planning over the past four centuries
Mies in Berlin/Mies in Ameria highlights some of Meis's most famous works, including the German Pavilion in Barcelona, the Seagrams Building in New York City, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
Irish Architecture Serving as a massive clearinghouse for information about contemporary and historic architecture and urban design practices in Ireland, this site contains the archives of several major organizations. Along with this general material, visitors can find profiles of several major and influential Irish architects, including essays on the work of Eileen Gray, Michael Scott, and Kevin Roche
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Presaging the movements of political ecology, "smart growth",
sustainable
development and other trends of the past three decades, R. Buckminster Fuller
remains one of the most misunderstood Renaissance individuals of the 20the
century. Today, Mr. Fuller is most well known for inventing the geodesic dome,
which he hoped would become a model for low-cost housing across the world.
Base Isolation [Real Player] Base Isolation is a construction technique that maintains a building's stability in the event of an earthquake. This Web site provides 34 pages that describe base isolation and give detailed derivations and equations of the processes involved.
Structurae the International Database and Gallery of Structures. The information contained on the site is primarily aimed at civil engineers and architects; however, anyone with an interest in modern or historical structures should definitely review it. More than 3,000 structures are listed in the database. You can sort the structures by type, function, construction method, geographical location, or alphabetically; or you can browse a 2,500 year timeline. There are also separate databases of large-scale projects and notable engineers and architects.
The Great Buildings Collection
is a wide gateway to architecture around the world. This collection documents
approximately a thousand buildings, offering 3D models. The site contains
sections on buildings and architects, as well as architectural places of the
world.
AECportico: Your Guide to Architecture, Engineering, and Construction from NBS Services of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Crystal Palace The graphics include both models, with interior and exterior animations that give clear and illuminating depictions of the palace. In addition, the site contains images and animations of the building's lighting, as it existed in 1851. This is definitely a site to explore for architects and those users awe-struck by 3-D graphic images.
The Canberra House: contains profiles and images of significant, Modern houses in Canberra, Australia from the 1930s to the 1980s
Skyscrapers.com information on over 43,000 skyscrapers around the world
The Skyscraper Page with information provided for each building: Address, Architect, Height, number of floors, etc. Skyline Photos, links to sources of views
Advanced Buildings: Technologies and Practices from Natural Resources Canada
Architecture.com The official homepage of (RIBA), offers a number of architecture-related resources. The heart of the site is an indexed collection of over 1000 annotated links to architecture resources from around the world, though it currently focuses mainly on Britain. The links may be searched by keyword or browsed by category and subject. A "raw" list of another 1000 sites compiled by the RIBA staff and organized by topic.
From residential houses to hundred-story skyscrapers, many different technologies come together to make a building safe and comfortable. Building design is a continually changing industry, and new advances are being made possible as research progresses.Sustainable development is gaining popularity worldwide in an effort to minimize environmental impact. The Center for Resourceful Building Technology maintains an online guide that describes building practices that are resource-efficient; some information on the center's research projects is also available. Similar in topic is this report from the National Association of Home Builders Research Center . The 70-page document is the final report of an April 2003 conference on green building; it gives day-by-day summaries of presentations and activities in which the conference participants were involved. Office buildings have a number of design issues that need to be considered to make a productive work environment. One such issue is the acoustics in a cubicle workspace. The Canadian Institute for Research in Construction discusses some design factors that can improve privacy even in the very open atmosphere of closely spaced cubicles. In the wake of the 2001 anthrax scare, a research project at Pennsylvania State University has garnered significant attention. This paper introduces immune buildings, which have advanced ventilation and air filtration systems that can mitigate the danger caused by airborne pathogens. Experimental results from the project are also presented. The US Department of Energy High Performance Building Initiative is investigating new technologies to make commercial buildings more comfortable and cost effective. Several interesting technical papers and introductory reports are given on the initiative's homepage, including a technology road map for high performance buildings. This essay from the June 2003 issue of Constructech Magazine highlights a movement toward integrated control systems for all types of buildings. The author notes that having a unified system that automatically manages security, lighting, energy, and several other building operations can save time and money in the long run. Another article, written by a member of the Partnership for Advanced Technology in housing , discusses building materials and practices that can improve residential installation's resistance to major storms and natural disasters. An example of an area that is using these weather resistant designs is in Florida; the article cites the vulnerability of coastal homes to hurricanes and outlines some efforts to build them in a more structurally sound manner. Lastly, the Commercial Modular Construction Magazine is a quarterly publication that centers on permanent and temporary modular building design. The second issue of 2003 has, among other things, a good article that describes the basics and benefits of modular construction.
Further Architecture links