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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.

In 1956, Time magazine called him one of the “form-givers of the 20th century“: with his invention of steel-tube furniture, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) has made his mark in the history of design at the tender age of 23. He started his architectural career as one of the Bauhaus’s most influential architects with the 1932 Harnischmacher House. Even Breuer’s earliest work was marked by the search for a symbiosis between local and global, big and small, smooth and rough. His sparse use of materials emphasized the balance among textures, colors, and shapes. In 1943, he conceived the “binuclear” house concept - the splitting of living and sleeping areas into separate wings - which he first applied to the Geller House I (1944-1946), and which would attain great popularity. After designing the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1953-1958), reinforced concrete, with its formal plasticity und structural elasticity, continued to give monumental character to buildings such as the Abbey and Campus of St. John’s University in Minnesota (1953-1961), the IBM Research Center in France (1960-1962), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1963-1966) in New York City. With his keen sense of proportion, shape, and material, Breuer is one of the most important Modernists and is still very much central in the discussion of contemporary architecture.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

• approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
• introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
• the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
• an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The complete monograph on Marcel Breuer (1902 – 1981), the last of the first generation of Modernist architects.

The most comprehensive book on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed In Europe and the United States–from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the USA.

About the author:

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He previously taught at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); Louis I Kahn (2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (2005); Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); Unity Temple (1997); and Fallingwater (1994), all by Phaidon Press. McCarter is based in St Louis, Missouri.

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining "form-givers of the 20th century." 

Today, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, colour, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth. In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer's complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of "binuclear" housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. 

Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer's journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:

- an introduction to the life and work of the architect 
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

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 size, Brick takes a fresh look at one of the world's most familiar and popular building materials. Presenting 180 diverse and fascinating examples, from the Ziggurat of Ur dating from 2100 bc to modern and contemporary masterpieces by Mies van der Rohe and Kazuyo Sejima, Brick beautifully illustrates how this humble material has been an architectural staple for centuries.

About the Author:

William Hall runs his own design practice in London, working with clients such as Calvin Klein, MoMA and Tate. Hall is the author of Concrete and Wood, also published by Phaidon.

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- This new edition of a much-loved book is the latest addition to Phaidon’s most successful architecture series – with all of the extraordinary and insightful content of the original edition, in a tactile new format, now available at a very affordable price
- The best brick architecture, from ancient times to the present day, featuring contributions by both celebrated and lesser-known architects
- Each project is beautifully illustrated over double-page spreads and is accompanied by an engaging and informative extended caption
- Textured covers enhance the tactile experience of enjoying each book in this series
- Now available in a new mini-format edition, perfect for gift-giving, that sits beautifully alongside its sister volume in this format, Concrete

It all begins and ends with white.

White is everywhere, from sculptures and art installations to interior and furniture designs to fields of snow and mythical animals. In its countless tones - eggshell, ballerina, off-white, edelweiss, and so many more - white elicits a range of emotions, depending on the viewer, the design, the culture, the use.

Brilliant: White in Design examines the spectrum of colors and talents inherent in white, exploring how it is used, and viewed, in art, design, architecture, and nature. Noted design writer Linda O’Keeffe parses the language of white and considers its strengths and, at times, its weaknesses. She shows that living with white has soothing rewards and dust-collecting drawbacks; that beige is not a four-letter word but a glamorous alternative to its more pristine counterpart; that designing with white reduces everything to pure form; and much more.

In more than 250 photographs, O’Keeffe showcases work, both recent and historic, from around the world - France, Japan, Spain, England, Mexico, Canada, South Africa - and across the United States. Designers and artists include Jonathan Adler, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, Andy Goldsworthy, Kelly Hoppen, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Richard Meier, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, Andrée Putman, Robert Ryman, Philippe Starck, Kelly Wearstler, and Vicente Wolf.

White always makes a statement. It is distinct, versatile, and unparalleled; it is brilliant.

Nothing enlivens a room like a touch of nature. Taking the terrarium trend to the next level, this stunning guide will inspire crafters, garden lovers, and décor fans to turn flowers, leaves, and branches into striking, organic décor. Acclaimed designer and stylist Shane Powers presents 20 simple yet arresting projects for bringing natural tranquility to any space. Suited for garden enthusiasts and black thumbs alike, the projects use a range of live and dried plant materials to create colorful dried floral garlands, eye-catching willow wreaths, intriguing water gardens, and timeless succulent landscapes.

With step-by-step instructions, styling and container ideas, helpful resources, and gorgeous photography, Bring the Outdoors In offers countless ways to welcome the natural world into any space.

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