Too much money is spent maintaining and repairing old buildings. Some people think that they should be knocked down and give way to modern buildings. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. ...
This paper reports the characteristics of energy consumption on 7 types of buildings (office, retail facility, school, hospital, hotel, community center, sport arena) in Rukuoka that is situated in south-western part of Japan. The energy consumption of the buildings is analyzed by Principal ...
Though they were built to last and used more stone in their construction than most Japanese buildings, castles were still constructed primarily of wood, and many have been destroyed over the years. Today there are more than one hundred castles extant, or partially extant, in Japan, out of aro...
One of the unique features in the history of buildings in Japan appearing in and around the latter half of the 17th century is the Koshi, a wooden grille, also called the Monomi, a viewing stand built in the streetfront walls (Tuiji) of the residences of certain high-ranking Imperial Cou...
comprisinga series of buildings preserved as objects, andecomuseums, involving the interpretation of all aspects of an outdoor environment, provide examples of this. In addition, so-calledvirtual museumsexist in electronic form on theInternet. Although virtual museums provide interesting opportunities ...
Museums are buildings in which we see many things of artistic, cultural, historical, traditional and objects of scientific interest. It is a great source of knowledge. It not only gives us knowledge but also makes us familiar with our history, culture, civilization, religion, art, architecture ...
The costs of individual natural disasters frequently reach the tens of billions of dollars. Such costs may be associated with damage to crops, buildings, andinfrastructurethat occurs annually in areas prone to tropical cyclone activity or heavy seasonal rains, with some events, such as thePakistanfl...
Gravity— The downward pull is a bigger deal with bridges than buildings. Unlike a home or a skyscraper, most of what’s under a bridge is empty space. Load— The weight of the bridge itself is combined with the weight of whatever it carries. The longer a bridge is, and the more peop...
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Mandalas in China, Japan, andTibetare basically of two types, representing different aspects of the universe: thegarbha-dhatu(Sanskrit: “womb world”; Japanesetaizō-kai), in which the movement is from the one to the many; and thevajra-dhatu(Sanskrit: “diamond [or thunderbolt] world”; ...