Handbook of specialty elements in architecture

Architects, designers, contractors, planners-this is the book that can win you a reputation as a full-services professional....ready and able to offer clients not only the basic structural plant but also the icing on the cake, those all-important special features that make the building both functionally and aesthetically distinctive: -exterior lighting -interior and exterior trees and plants -interior and exterior works of art (sculpture, paintings, etc.) -pools and fountains -signage -recreation areas for children and adults -audiovisual communications facilities -accommodations for the disabled The only complete reference to these and similar specialty features. This handbook brings you the consulting services of a baker's dozen of expert consultants on these special elements. No longer need you search for and through numbers of library references and manufacturers' catalogs to find the design and construction data you need to provide these features. And no longer, except in unusual cases, need you go to the expense of hiring outside consultants to create and produce them. Right here, in clear-cut text and numerous illustrations, you have at your fingertips information that you just couldn't come by otherwise without considerable digging: -background information on the functions and purposes the features should serve -fresh approaches to the design and execution of these features -practical ready-to-use data for fast, efficient, and economical execution of designs -plus materials, construction, maintenance, and cost data on these projects Do you want to be more in demand as an architect, designers, or planner? Do you want to gain a wider, more prestigious reputation and earn higher fees? If your answer is "yes", the answer is the Handbook of Specialty Elements in Architecture and the total design services it enables you to provide!