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The formula to make your vacations a highlight for all the family: exquisite hotels, deluxe comfort, relaxed parents and happy children. manager magazin, the monthly business magazine for professional decision makers, and teNeues have selected the top family vacation spots around the world. These fantasy destinations cater to all ages and offer activities for every member of the family. Stunning photographs and comprehensive information help you find the perfect hotel for your family.

* An essential reference for family trips
* An ideal gift for those seeking more time with their family

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Vacations at last? Time to discover the most beautiful and unusual travel destinations in the world. manager magazin, the monthly business magazine for professional decision makers, and teNeues recommend travel spots that combine top-notch service with discreet elegance and cuttingedge design. The magnificent photographs and evocative descriptions get you right in the holiday mood.

* An overview of all the hippest holiday destinations
* A thoughtful gift—especially for those who need a great break

It's the weekend: 48 hours of free time! Turn off your Blackberry and recharge those creative batteries — or spend some precious time with your partner. manager magazin, the monthly business magazine for professional decision makers, and teNeues have selected the best short-stay destinations in Europe. Illustrated with attractive photographs, this convenient guide shows you just how top executives unwind. Each hotel has unique charm, superb service and unparalleled amenities. The only decision you'll have to make is where to go first.

Exhibition Design offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including:

• developing a brief and working with clients
• design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility
• presenting ideas to clients
• the practicalities of production

Visual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings, computer renderings, charts and tables of information - all for a wide range of exhibitions around the world, permanent and temporary, including museums and galleries, visitor centres, brand experiences, festivals and trade fairs. The book will inform and inspire, as well as equip students and new exhibition designers with a valuable guide to the profession.

Designing exhibition space is a challenge for designers to ensure that they create a work in a limited time and space. The stand design needs to be innovative and visual, but must also serve as a back-drop to the products and services that it has to promote. This book, which is aimed at designers, exhibition professionals and design students, is a collection of 50 innovative stand designs, all involving different styles, techniques and ideas from the simply, yet classy to the high-tech and experimental designs. The book highlights designs from around the world and is divided into two sections : Exhibitions and Trade Fairs.

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The London architectural firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, founded in 1983, has been drawing attention since the 1990s with its wealth of innovative and imaginative designs – notably its spectacular and structurally ambitious bridges. The best-known and most highly acclaimed are the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2001) and the Floral Street Bridge (2003). The firm has won many prizes, including the RIBA Stirling Prize twice. It has also demonstrated the increasingly international scope of its activities by entering the competitions for the Guangzhou West Tower in China and the Tensegrity Bridge in Washington DC, USA.

This book offers detailed documentation of some 15 structures and projects, with special attention paid to the context of each design. The projects presented include the Stirling Prize-winning Magna Centre in Rotherham, UK; the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, UK; the Guangzhou West Tower in China; and the Gatwick Airbridge, UK, among others.

This book is an atlas of images, presenting projects that illustrate the transformations that have occurred in Genoa during the last 10 years. Franz Prati, Director of the Architecture department of the University of Genoa, is the author of this series of original, innovative, and explorative contemporary studies. Genoa can be considered as an advanced Italian architectural laboratory from different points of view. It is a place for occasions and events, whether you consider only the architecture or the town as a whole. Genoa is a platform for current architectural debates for understanding contemporary projects in Italy. This study presents many diverse and unique projects, enriched by conversations and theories. It includes projects by: Franz Prati, Genova Scuelo fi Architettura, Nicola Braghieri, Marco Casamonti, Simona Gabrielli, Giovanni Galli, Manuel Gausa, Masimiliano Giberti, Riccardo Miselli, Pietro Carlo Pellegrini, Gianluca Peluffo, Mose Ricci, Valter Scelsi, and Alessandro Valenti.

No plan, all real scene pictures!

Best seller with the latest, quickest and the most comprehensive architecture designs of Shanghai Expo buildings!

Professional real scene pictures introduce more than 70 projects in the Expo Park comprehensively, with all design elements presented thoroughly from functional areas, parts to materials!

Future architecture, advancing design and leading concept. Enjoying top designs around the world with no need to go abroad.
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The World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is a classical grant meeting in human’s society in the new century. People of various countries will happily gather in Shanghai Expo then to jointly experience the good life in cities and look for the future development of cities. It will be a grand gathering for global civilization.

Sponsored by China and undertook by Shanghai, the World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is the first register-class Expo hold in a developing country. The theme of Expo 2010 is "Better City, Better Life" and the five different sub-themes are “blending of diverse cultures in the city”, “economic prosperity in the city”, “innovations of science and technology in the city”, “remodeling of communities in the city” and “interactions between urban and rural areas”. Undoubtedly, the Expo 2010 will be a great meeting in discussing humankind’s urban life in the new century. The city is a crystallization of human civilization. By virtue of its embracive and regenerating nature, the city has played a significant role in the perfection of order in the human society.

As the initial Expo that takes “city” as theme, the Expo 2010 will adopt the concept of “harmonious city” to be coherent with the theme “better city, better life”, and positively model an example of a “harmonious city”. The concept includes "harmony between man and nature”, “harmony between past, present and future”, and “harmony between human individuals”. The reason of choosing “city” as the theme is because the prospect of the future urban life is a global issue during the important phase for city development in 21st century. Whether in developed countries or developing ones, the topic of “city” can arouse a responsive chord.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be a great event to explore the full potentials of urban life in the 21st century and a significant period in urban evolution. It will be centered on innovation and interaction and offer a wonderful opportunity for cross-culture dialogues.

The vast majority of architects cut their teeth designing small-scale additions to private homes. Extensions can be added to roofs, gardens and underneath buildings or can even be strapped on to the sides.

Following a brief introduction, the book is divided into chapters featuring 40 projects that extend spaces up, down, to the rear, to the side, on the roof, internally and outdoors. Each case study explains how the architects faced design challenges while at the same time meeting their clients needs. Details covered include choice of materials, planning issues, time and cost.

The book also raises issues that clients ought to consider when commissioning an architect to design an extension, from developing a brief to the finished product. At the end of the book there is practical advice for anyone thinking about extending their own property.

Imagine spending the night in a hotel that looks like a giant dog. Or would you rather enjoy the view from an enchanting jungle tree house? Extreme Hotels takes you on an amazing journey along the world's most bizarre hotels and bed and breakfasts, from a survival capsule via a hobbit house lodging and a wine barrel hotel to an underwater resort.

Imagine a world in which every location offers its very own unique adventure: an unusual location, a breathtaking decor, an experimental concept. This stunning 500-page full-colour illustrated book is packed with photographic spreads which celebrate the world's most amazing hotels, bizarre bars, eccentric restaurants and extreme venues. Sleep underwater, grab a drink in a tree, dine up in the air or party in an igloo. Stay overnight in a sewer pipe, a church or a hobbit house - it isn't just Alice that goes down rabbit holes these days!

How about an incentive in an igloo, a wedding in a submarine or a cocktail party in a triumphal arch? From traditional to contemporary, intimate to large-scale - Extreme Venues sought and found the most unique, eccentric and unusual venues on earth. A birthday party in the world's biggest toy store, a gathering in a secret nuclear bunker or a meeting on one of the planet's most rugged islands; it's all possible. So is a reception on the Chinese Wall, a party in an abandoned railroad tunnel or a product presentation under the wings of the Space Shuttle. The event industry has never been quite so entertaining!