Drawing and case studies
These databases provide architectural drawings and case studies related to building construction.
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Art and Architecture Drawings Database
Art + Architecture Drawings Database
Contains over 400 architecture plan sets held in the Art + Architecture Library at Virginia Tech. The collection concentrates on American architecture of the late 20th century and includes plan sets specific to the Virginia Tech campus and Blacksburg.
Emporis Research
Emporis Research
Updated continuously, Emporis provides data on architecture, construction, and real estate developments from all over the world. Search by company (consultancies, contractors, design firms, engineering firms, suppliers), building type, style, construction time frame (complete, under construction, approved, proposed, demolished, visionary, on hold), exact location and address, total height, structural height, number of floors and cubical space, date of construction project, structural system, materials, etc. Contains roughly 300,000 photos of buildings.
ULI Development Case Studies
ULI Development Case Studies
ULI Development Case Studies provides full-text case studies describing the development process of building projects (in HTML). Studies include general descriptions, contact information for the development team, the building site's background and history, special features of the project, what did and did not work on the project, key facts and figures, and photos of the site or floor plans. 1981-present. Limited to simultaneous user.
Digital Sanborn Maps - 1867-1970 from UMI
Digital Sanborn Maps - 1867-1970 from UMI
Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Virginia and Washington, D.C., useful to urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, and environmentalists. Data contained includes the outline of each building; size, shape, and construction materials; functions of structures; locations of windows and doors; street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, and house and block numbers. Displays images in the browser using a plugin for zooming and scrolling.
- Patrick Tomlin
- Head: Art + Architecture Library
- (540) 231-9272
- tomlin@vt.edu
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100A Cowgill Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Resource provides open access publishing opportunities and open access publications.
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