Written for architects, building scientists and building services engineers, this reference book examines the ways design teams can take a more creative approach to the design and expression of both active and passive environmental control systems. Increasingly, the overt expression of building control systems has influenced overall building form and design solutions. Case studies from around the world, including many award-winning buildings, demonstrate elegant and successful design solutions.

This Special Issue includes expanded academic papers selected from the forthcoming BBNZ 2014 Conference.
The 2014 Building a Better New Zealand conference was held at The Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland, from 3 September 2014 to 5 September 2014.

Themes:
-Achieving Better Buildings
-Improving the Performance of Materials
-Improving the performance of existing buildings
-Sustainability
-Productivity
-Meeting New Zealanders' housing needs
-Building better cities and communities

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Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects is one of most innovative architectural offices in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity of their aesthetically refined and finely detailed designs.

Dear Rita is a love story gleaned from the letters of a young Marine during World War II. These letters, and the hand-drawn illustrations on the accompanying envelopes, give a uniquely candid look into the passionate love and steadfast devotion that kept this Marine going in the throes of war. Preserved for 70 years, the letters were kept private, read only by George and Rita, until Rita's passing in 2014. Now, the abridged letters - supplemented with anecdotes from George's own oral history of the war, as well as helpful annotation and historical context from George and Rita's youngest son -...