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Tall: The design and construction of high-rise architecture

EDITED BY GUY MARRIAGE

ROUTLEDGE, 2019

Designed to help those in the industry anticipate design ‘traps’ they might not know about before falling into them, this book is full of ‘lessons learned’, an invaluable collection of tips and tricks from reputed architects and engineers who have built extensively, both in New Zealand and internationally. As its author/editor Guy Marriage puts it: “Knowledge is power, and so the control of the knowledge on a project is

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