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This book presents several examples of emerging residential architecture, linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions.

Refinement in the finishing, restraint in the layout and painstaking integration of construction elements into the surroundings are just some of the criteria that have to be taken into account in their design. Although each of the houses featured in this selection follows its own stylistical path, they all surprise with their technical resources and the range of sensations they induce.

In all of these houses, the architects have paid special attention to the dynamics found when different family members live together, and they have thus geared their efforts toward seeking a balance between design for design's sake and functionality.

This title features 55 outstanding lofts from all over the world. Lofts are apartments that are generally built into former industrial buildings. They have their origins in the New York of the 1950s. At that time, artists and bohemians in search of cheap places to live and work began to move into abandoned late-nineteenth-century industrial buildings that once had been sweatshops, furniture companies, printmaker shops, warehouses, depositories, and factories. They seized to create a new American version of the Parisian artist's atelier. Nowadays, the tendency to convert warehouses and factories into homes has extended everywhere. Once low-cost living spaces for artists, often occupied illegally by students, they have grown into elegant, luxurious residences reserved for a wealthy elite. This book provides 55 lofts from all over the world, from huge industrial to small business spaces. It is rounded off with more than 600 illustrations, architectural plans and computer graphics.

Books fulfil myriad functions in our lives. They provide essential information, foster enthusiasms and spark memories. But these personal treasures also add colour and a true sense of personality to our homes.

Books Make a Home explores the important role they play as Decoration, as well as functional items. Author and bibliophile Damian Thompson tours the rooms of the home in turn – Living Rooms, Home Libraries & Studies, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms, Corridors & Staircases and Children’s Rooms – discovering a host of techniques for stacking, shelving and closeting volumes, and illustrating how each space can be brought to life by books. Alongside inspirational photography is a wealth of practical design solutions for each space and every size of collection. You will learn how to make the best use of existing storage and create new space for an ever-growing collection; how to combine books with other personal effects to create eye-catching displays; and helpful feature spreads will illustrate how to organize and care for your books.

Beautifully presented and elegantly written, scattered with quotes from famous readers throughout, Books Make a Home is an insightful guide to enjoying books with the eye as well as with the mind.

This stunning book offers insider access to Lake Maggiore's Borromeo Palace, a resplendent achievement of baroque Italian architecture. This is a perfect volume for classic Italian art and architecture lovers.

In a unique natural setting--the Isola Bella island on Lake Maggiore, surrounded by the Alps -- stands the sumptuous palace built, and still owned, by the Borromeo family. Photographs guide the readers through the halls of the palace, which overlooks the lake and offers charming views. The halls and rooms are furnished with luxury furniture, marble, and stucco decorations, and enriched with ancient sculptures, armory, and a valuable collection of six Flemish tapestries woven in gold and silk. A large painting collection can be admired in General Berthier's gallery.

About the Authors:

Stefano Zuffi is an independent art historian focusing on art of the Renaissance and baroque periods. Massimo Listri is an Italian photographer who specializes in architectural photography. Already a longtime collaborator of FMR magazine, he has published several books and exhibited his photographs in Italy and abroad.

Alberto Botti and Marc Rubin graduated from the architectural school of the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. They soon formed a partnership and have since been responsible for hundreds of projects, ranging from single family homes to high-rise buildings, in addition to their urban planning work. In the 1960s, Botti Rubin designed the first exposed concrete high building. Today, they are responsible for the highest South American office building clad in glass and granite, whose unusual silhouette is already a landmark in the São Paolo skyline. Featured projects include among others the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (German Hospital), British Brazilian Center in São Paulo and the Centro Empresarial Naçies Unidas.

Design stands for a kind of sign that is a bridge between the ideas and creative philosophies. Whatever we design must involve two parts: the bounded part and the unbounded one. Any bounded thing in the world, influenced by factors of idea, conception and culture, will form into a concrete one, something bounded. The same sense applies to architectural design.

Bounded & Unbounded carefully selects over one hundred hotels from all over the world, classifying them according to architectural style and offering a discussion about the architecture for designers.，introduces a detailed creative process from the concept to the space design, showcasing a serious of hotel buildings in accordance with diverse culture and local conditions.

This book is a demonstration of unbounded creativities based on architectural designs blended into the background of multi-component cultures. You will find 56 hotels and resorts from over 20 countries under management by world famous hotel groups, such as intercontinental, Accor, Shangri-la, Hilton and Starwood. Categorized into ten popular styles, those hotels feature cultural elements from south Eastern Asia, India, Arabia and Middle East. Ingenious design strategies applied in the projects are showcased through 2,000 high res images in perspectives of architecture, landscape and interior.

When a hotel is located within a city, there is limited space for advertising design and attracting business. It is difficult to make the hotel stand out from the fierce competition. The way it can be done is found in this book, which includes 49 luxury hotels from over 20 countries. Those representated are inspiring hotels, newly opened members from hotel groups, such as Accor, Marriott, Inter Continental, Shangri-La, Mandarin Oriental, Kempinski, Jumeirah. To illustrate designs within limited spaces and trends within the hospitality industry, this book is divided into four categories: Making use of the Local Culture and Traditions Combining Unique Themes with Avant-garde Creativity When Minimalism Meets Art Aesthetics Application of Energy-saving Technologies and Eco-friendly Materials These topics represent design trends found in diversified business hotels, employing full colour photographs which will inspire endless designing possibilities.

Although most people consider the home the place where they get the best night’s sleep, people who have stayed at the hotels in this book might disagree. After an exhausting business trip or a long day of shopping, true pleasure is not at home, but in an impeccable room where a basket of fruit and a bottle of champagne, a soft bathrobe, and a new bar of perfumed soap await you. You can log onto the internet, videoconference with your loved ones, or miss them while relaxing in the Jacuzzi. You can sit on a sofa by Antonio Citterio, next to a Philipe Starck stool, by the light of an Ingo Maurer lamp. Who wants to feel as though you’re in the home you’ve always dreamed of?

The art of fine dining has evolved over the years. Restaurants that were once hailed for their grandiose banquets have taken a back seat to some of their smaller cousins.

Boutique Restaurants is a collection of some of the most creative restaurant designs in the world, from edgy and modern to traditional and laid back. Including work from some of the industry's most exciting architects and designers, this book explores store fronts, wall décor, place settings, lighting, and furniture. With beautiful full-color photographs throughout, this compilation gives examples from all over the artistic spectrum of how to create or update a boutique restaurant to make it stand out from the rest.

The use of extraordinary designers, architects, artisans and chefs have created the thirty-four boutique restaurants in this book that are shaping the evolution of the food industry as we know it, by limiting their seating, and raising the bar.

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008 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-Mediterranean Style

024 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-British Style

040 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-Spanish Style

054 A Journey of Discovery Villa, Type K

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316 Waterfront Mansion Villa

330 A Comfortable Village

340 Poly Oak Villa Project

350 Kong

Bracket is a new book series structured around an open call for entries that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. It is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect.

Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging thematics in our global age that are shaping the built environment in radically significant, yet often unexpected ways.

“On Farming” looks at the capacity for architecture to address ideas and issues of productive landscapes and urbanisms. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed.

Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community and represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy.

The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. Farming is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

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This book has chosen more than 130 remarkable brand image design programmes of catering services all over the world. From the perspective of the industry’s character, the book has combined it with the culture and requirements’ differences among various countries and areas as well as social groups, showing readers the most forward-looking and practical brand image designs of catering services. According to the types of catering services, the book has been categorised into five sections, including restaurants, bars, cafes,fast food restaurants and fruit parlours, involving the design of logo, business cards, envelopes, menus, related articles, souvenirs, packing cases, web pages, and indoor and outdoor environments, etc.

Here, each programme is special and inspiring. We believe it will provide readers with distinctive and exciting visual experience, and invite you to ponder the future of the industry’s brand image design.

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More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies.

This quality reprint includes the most enchanting colour plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird’s-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun’s original texts on the history and significance of each urban center as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Brave New Houses showcases thirty of the most exciting new houses and five daring projects from southern California, a region that has always been a crucible for experimentation in residential design. They express the needs of courageous individuals who decided to please themselves, flout conventional wisdom and collaborate with talented architects. Brave New Houses will appeal to everyone who has thought of making a fresh start by designing, or buying, a one-of-a-kind house.

These architects respond to varied sites – from the canyons of Santa Barbara south to the mountains of San Diego County. Modest or grand, expansive or tightly compressed, angular or sensuously curved, their solutions offer a cross-section of the best of contemporary design and are linked only by their openness to nature and the benign climate.

Here are the successors to Richard Neutra and R.M.Schindler, John Lautner and Frank Gehry: architects who break out of the box to create houses that express their vision for clients and, sometimes, themselves. They are sensitive to environment – there's no wasted space, no striving to impress. They speak to the present and offer an appealing alternative to claustrophobic historicism.