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The wide range of projects presented in this volume constitutes a comprehensive survey of the latest trends in the architecture and design of bars and restaurants. Each project has been selected for its innovative use of materials, color, lighting, textures and form in the creation of a unique and unforgettable ambience. The selection features works by RCR, Diller+Scofidio, Rojkind Arquitectos and Jakob + MacFarlane as well as by up-and-coming practices from around the globe.
THE BEST, BRIGHTEST AND MOST COLORFUL INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLES. FULL COMMENTARY ON COLOR USE IN DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS. A MUST-READ FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS.
This book is a carefully selected compilation of some of the most outstanding projects in today's hotel design, where the constant renewal of guidelines and regulations lays new foundations for the emerging dialogue between the traveler, the hotel and the setting. Included are floor plans, elevations and technical specifications for each of the projects, all accompanied by explanations from the architects themselves. Prestigious names in the field such as Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito + B720 Arquitectos and CL3 are among the featured architects, together with other emerging architects, which have been included in this essential design compendium.
Dozens of special touches that add style and character.More that 550 full-color photographs plus 245 illustrations and plans.Creative ideas for making cities more pleasant, more livable, more human.Cities don?t have to be faceless lines of gray boxes. Urban Spaces: City Embellishments presents dozens of fresh ideas for bringing big cities back to a human scale-little details like a carved facade, a tiny green space, benches, touches of bold color, a shelting doorway, planters, and more. Each of these warm, distintive touches is expertly explained by the best authority available: the designing architects themselves.
This volume contains some of today's most creative and innovative shop designs. Renowned international architects have contributed their finest work, pushing the boundaries that define this fascinating area of design. Full color photographs, plans, sketches and detailed explanatory texts provide excellent insight into each of the featured projects. For architects and designers in the field, as well as students and those with a more general interest in shop design, this book will surely be an invaluable source of inspiration.
This book encompasses an extensive selection of non-commercial exhibition designs, applied to a wide range of different environments, including museums, shopping malls and educational centers. A line-up of outstanding international architects and designers has made use of the latest technologies in the field to create spaces that entice, educate and delight. Full-color glossy photographs, rigorous graphic documentation and explanations by the authors of the works themselves accompany the selected works. All this makes this publication a necessary and exciting tool for architects, designers and students, as well as for all professionals wishing to extend their knowledge in the field.
The examples included in this volume are a clear demonstration of the optimization of resources used in social housing architecture. These projects offer a great variety of typological solutions that are as flexible in their material fulfillment as in their functionality. Every project in this book is thoroughly documented and profusely illustrated with full-color photographs, offering a wealth of information for architects, students, or anyone else who is interested in new forms of social housing architecture.
THE BEST NEW DESIGNS FOR CHILDREN. COLORFUL, PLAYFUL AND SAFE. ORIGINAL IDEAS THAT ARE SURE TO INSPIRE.
Various prestigious architects present their most recent creations for apartment buildings, from the most innovative and avant-garde proposals, to those that attempt to create spaces whose personalities adapt to their contents. Conventional vertical dwellings, buildings for specific groups and residential complexes share a common spirit: rigour, imagination and respect for both the per-sons who will occupy them and the environment in which they are located. The works of MVRDV, Satoshi Okada, Peter Lorenz and Archi-tectonics, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, ingenious solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture.
A MUST-HAVE FOR ARCHITECTS. 300 PAGES OF CUTTING EDGE DESIGNS. FULL COLOR PHOTOS, PLANS AND CONSTRUCTION DETAILS.