Архитектура

Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s.

Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University.

Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley.

What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last!

In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet.

With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you can transform your lawn into a livable garden and bring nature's beauty into your life!

Packed with over 200 gorgeous photos and discerning advice, this easy-to-follow handbook clearly illustrates every step you'll need for creating beautiful, do-it-yourself window treatments. From handsome shades to dramatic drapes to charming ruffled panels, each style comes with: step-by-step instructions that make creating any style a breeze; common problems and easy solutions to resolve all your decorating dilemmas; inspirational tips for choosing just the right print and colour fabrics; and, illustrations, photos and a thorough glossary to explain everything you'll need to know.With such a comprehensive guide, novices and skilled crafters alike can easily transform dull windows into show-stopping displays. Packed with scores of fun projects, this handbook is your one-stop guide for making a stunning and stylish impression with your home.

Nikki Boyd here shares her best advice for how to create an organised, beautiful and welcoming home. Nikki developed and honed her five essential steps to an organised home through her experience working as a professional organiser. In her book, Nikki teaches you to: assess your home to transform the spaces within to enhance your lifestyle; declutter and curate your possessions to keep what is useful and meaningful; clean with efficiency, adding an element of pleasure to everyday tasks; organise so you can find what you need, when you need it; and beautify and decorate to create a welcoming atmosphere for family and friends.

In Chapter 1: Inspiration, Sara draws inspiration from truly tiny spaces such as boats and caravans as well as her own home — a diminutive workman’s cottage in a London suburb.

In Chapter 2: Elements of Design, she discusses how even the most straightforward planning decisions can be complicated by the constraints of small spaces and suggests clever design solutions.

The third chapter, Elements of Style, explores ideas for making compact interiors work through the use of creative styling and decoration.

In Chapter 4, a series of case studies takes a closer look at imaginative treatments for pocket-size interiors, showcasing a variety of tiny spaces including a terraced ‘two-up, two-down’ worker’s cottage, a tiny studio apartment with a clever mezzanine that incorporates a bathroom, and a pint-sized coastal hideaway.

About the author

Sara Emslie is an established interiors stylist and writer. With more than 15 years experience, her work is regularly featured in magazines such as World of Interiors, Homes & Garden, Livingetc. and Red. Sara lives in Richmond, London, in a beautifully small house, which provided the original inspiration for this book.

The beauty market is developing and booming world wide. Wellness programs allow one to rediscover one's own body and inspire us to look toward inner tranquility. This trend demands architecturally-holistic approaches which recongnizes the unity of the room, the beauty experience and the perception of one's own body. The balance between body, mind, and spirit can only be found in an esthetic atmosphere. Thus the hairdresser on the corner is turning into an extraordinary wellness oasis - often created by outstanding designers and architects. Architects, designers and industry often face theses challenges together, the results ar quite individual and unique. Over 60 successful projects are presented extensively and for the first time in this volume with exclusive photos and even including some of the plans. Of course not only hairdressers studios are shown but the whole field of BEAUTY: Cosmetics, Gyms and Dayspas.

Presents more than 30 modern bedrooms designed by renowned architects and interior designers

The bedroom is in many ways the most important room in the house as it is your personal sanctuary and is nowadays often used for much more than just sleeping in, being the hub of home life. This book provides a host of ideas for creating an attractive, comfortable bedroom for adults or children. There is excellent advice on how to organise the room, the best styles of decoration, the appropriate lighting and also choosing the bed.

The book is broken down into the following sections: Making the best use of space, The initial planning, Decorative options, All about the bed, Choosing the rest of the furnishings, and, Where to go for what.

The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927 when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his career. Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process. He further explains how Soviet design and planning institutes were organized with reference to the Union of the Architects of the USSR and describes the creative ideals of his generation of architects, who are today identified as Soviet Modernists. As a time witness, his memories cannot be recounted in their whole complexity by historians. Novikov also describes some of the conditions that affected his own creative fate and that of others. This book reflects the characteristics of Soviet life and its connections to architects’ professional activity. Felix Novikov’s confessions are more than that of an architect; they give a testimony to daily life in the Soviet Union from Stalin to glasnost.

___________

Феликс Аронович Новиков — известный советский архитектор, академик Международной академии архитектуры, доктор наук. В книге он делится своими ценными воспоминаниями о непростых и нестандартных условиях, в которых трудился он сам и работали его современники, о взаимоотношениях с коллегами и властью. Читателям будет интересно узнать, как проектные институты раньше взаимодействовали с Союзом архитекторов и какие творческие задачи вдохновляли архитекторов его времени. В этом издании Феликс Новиков дает ответы на вопросы, которые сегодня интересуют многих специалистов и любителей советского модернизма.

Imagine an airport that welcomes you as visitor or neighbor; that takes you efficiently from terminal to plane; that is sustainably designed and filled with light and air; that you’ll be happy to linger, shop, and eat in. Not only does this airport exist - it was built by Foster + Partners. In copious photographs and architectural plans along with informative text, this book celebrates the architecture and technology of the Beijing Airport’s International Terminal. Readers will learn how the building is designed to cope with the unpredictable nature of the aviation industry and how it incorporates a range of environmental strategies that make it energy efficient and economical to operate. In text and illustrations, this book shows what makes the International Terminal of the Beijing Airport a standard for all others to follow.

A portrait of the best architects and interior designers working in Belgium today. 

This is the follow-up book of both "Belgian Masters" publications, with all new reports by famous architects and interior designers.

Venice, with her winding canals and magnificent palaces, has enchanted artists, poets, aristocrats, and visitors for centuries.

Turn the pages of this beautifully produced collection of photographs, and it's easy to see why. For the past two hundred years, Venice has remained practically unchanged, a testament to the glorious, singular design of La Serenissima. In stunning full-color photographs, Bellissima Venice presents the city from numerous dramatic perspectives: From panoramic rooftops, unhurried gondolas, and columned palace galleries. From the Piazza San Marco to San Giorgio Maggiore, from the Rialto Bridge to the Bridge of Sighs, from the Grand Canal to snaking water alleyways, Michel Setboun's exquisite images distill the essence of Venice's serenely seductive beauty.