Stories
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic
Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.
Catalogue
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Ventilation, heating and management of churches and public buildings / by J.W. Thomas.
Thomas, Joseph William.Date: 1903- Books
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Heating and ventilation of dwellings / by the Heating and Ventilation (Reconstruction) Committee of the Building Research Board of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
Date: 1945- Archives and manuscripts
Minor alterations and Additions, 1880s
Date: 1870s - 1880sReference: RET/2/1/17Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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A treatise on ventilation : comprising seven lectures delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1866-68. Showing the great want of improved methods of ventilation in our buildings; giving the chemical and physiological process of respiration; comparing the effects of the various methods of heating and lighting upon the ventilation. Illustrated by many plans of all classes of public and private buildings showing their present defects, and proposing the best means (for the author's judgment) of improving them / by Lewis W. Leeds.
Leeds, Lewis W.Date: 1876- Books
Plumbing and domestic engineering : a comprehensive work written by experts on hot and cold water supplies, drainage and sanitation, lighting, heating and ventilation of houses and public buildings / advisory editor, E. Thomas Swinson.
Date: [1936?]