Students work in teams to design a tall building, emphasizing the design of vertical load systems, lateral load systems, and floor systems.
Its windowlessness, repeated at most of Yale's other select-society buildings, emphasizes the sacred secrecy of the rites inside.
His buildings emphasized security systems that were advanced for their day, like a 60-man security force for the 20 18-story buildings at Lefrak City, whose elevators had television surveillance.
And although most functionalist buildings emphasized flat, cube-like constructions with little decoration, a few used similar curves in ornamental roles, like Bohuslav Fuchs's own family home, which had an outwardly curving wall on one side of a small, loggia-like recessed balcony.
The current state of the art in building renovation emphasizes technical performance and efficiency, costs and user responses to technology.
The Living Building Challenge emphasizes beauty, spirit and inspiration as much as it does quantifiable results, but another exacting standard, called "passive house," focuses solely on energy use — the building's most significant environmental impact.
The green building assessment emphasizes the indoor environment quality (IEQ) by looking into the indoor air quality, lighting quality, acoustics, ventilation and thermal comfort conditions, which can be enhanced by effective initiatives at the early design stage.
"Green" building, which emphasizes the use of recycled and/or recyclable materials, is one of the few bright spots in a depressed sector.
Flashing country homes and vague imagery of burning buildings only emphasizes how cut off from this drama we are.
