Modern Apartment Design

<p><em>Modern Apartment Design</em> provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.</p><p>The book covers a brief history of apartment buildings around the world with a broad outline of different types of apartment blocks. It has a strong focus on the design and actual construction of apartment buildings especially those utilising mass timber such as cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. It also features six Case Study chapters from industry-leading practitioners in the area enabling best practice in architecture and engineering of these new apartment building types to be more widely understood and propagated worldwide.</p><p>The fully illustrated full-colour case studies span the globe and include: Clearwater Quay in Christchurch New Zealand (Pacific Environments NZ); Wynyard Central East 2 in Auckland New Zealand (Architectus); Dalton Works in London UK (Waugh Thistleton Architects); Mjøstårnet Brumunddal Norway (Voll Arkitekter); Brock Commons Tallwood House student housing in Vancouver Canada (Acton Ostry Architects); and Regensbergstrasse apartments in Zurich Switzerland (Dreicon). The book will be of great interest to architects and architecture students.</p>