Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world''s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri ...
Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world''s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, ...
How do you set up a children\''s room that is fun, colorful, or perhaps more traditional? One that leaves enough room for playing and daydreaming and makes children\''s heart beat faster? A child\''s room must be fun both for its smaller inhabitants and for the parents, who usually arrange them: it\''s ...
Pete Nelson, the world''s best-known treehouse designer and builder, wants to put readers in trees--his motto is, "get ''er done, so you can BE in a TREE." His new book is a comprehensive source of inspiration and practical information about treehouse design and construction. To that end, he explains ...
Inventing Modernity The godfather of Italian design Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking in design history. Trained initially in architecture, ...
The book is a compendium of homes, including apartments and single-family houses, that have been remodeled to suit contemporary lifestyle needs. Rehabilitations of living spaces are often done to reanimate existing constructions that, over time, have become impractical, if not obsolete. The challenge ...
An unrivalled exploration of the world''s most surprising and inspiring brick architecture - in a stylish, compact new format In this reimagined and easy-to-use….
In The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture the internationally acclaimed US-American architect Peter Eisenman world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005) confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing features he regards as the foundation of architectural ...
Travel in style on a budget with these fun design hostels around the globe. Hostels are more fun! Would you like to explore cities with like-minded people when you travel? Live the local life, and take part in communal activities? A new wave of hostels is emerging that offer just that, with an extra ...
This book offers a broad and comprehensive catalogue of contemporary uses of natural stone in private homes, public buildings and public spaces, with particular emphasis on both traditional and modern applications.
