Stories
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
- In pictures
Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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This is what changed my approach to interior design
An interior designer examines how emotions and cognitive activity influenced her designs, and argues that spaces reflect the people within.
Catalogue
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Proceedings - Institution of Civil Engineers. Part 1. Design and Construction
- Archives and manuscripts
Harlow study
Date: 1966-1969Reference: PP/LOW/R/6Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
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Sanitary engineering : a practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage, and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage, with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge, and numerous hydraulic tables, formulae & memoranda, including an extensive series of tables of velocity & discharge of pipes & sewers, especially computed by Ganguillet and Kutter's formula / by E.C.S. Moore.
Moore, E. C. S. (Edward Crozier Sibbald), 1844-Date: 1898- Books
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Suggestions and instructions in reference to (1) - sites, (2) - construction and arrangement of buildings, (3) - plans of lunatic asylums / issued by the commissioners in lunacy.
Great Britain. Lunacy Commission.Date: 1870- Journals
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Water, maritime and energy
Date: ©1992-