Building Works

Airport

ISBN 1 84138 024 5

Keyword Airports, Technology, Children, Education

Hospital

ISBN 1 84138 025 3

Keyword Hospitals

Until we have cause to consider the details (or until something goes wrong) we rarely appreciate how complex a machine the modern building is. Our houses can illustrate this at one extreme, but at the other are such complex buildings as hospitals and airports: designed to perform, or to support, particular functions and containing a mass of elaborate technology to enable these functions, all integrated and designed to practical ends. The same, of course, applies to our library buildings, from Carnegie...