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The entrance to a house acts as its visiting card. Its conception has changed enormously over the years, as has its social uses, and the space that was once considered indispensable for receiving guests and keeping the house away form view on first contact - whether out of a desire to preserve privacy or a belief that it was bad taste to put living space on display - has changed to such an extent that it is on the verge of disappearing from many homes. In fact, in many cases the entrance is the axis around which the space will be used to greater advantage and the layout of the various areas will follow a logical order; in contrast, a misguided placement results in an erroneous starting point for a residential project. So, we are devoting these 192 pages to solutions for entrances, of various shapes and styles, belonging to different types of homes from all over the world, drawn up by a wide range of architects.

NEW Environment & Landscape Annual
The series introduce a variety of selected completed works to provide a general view of the present landscape architecture.

The work of renowned international architects has driven forward the boundaries that define the best of todays exhibition design. Alive to the demands of the ever-evolving field, plans, sketches, full colour photographs and detailed explanatory texts provide insight into each of the featured projects. Architects and designers as well as students will surely find this volume a stimulating source of information and ideas.

This is an exceptionally well-explored and exhaustive study of the treatment andapplication of facades from the conception of the design to the final execution of the project. Each chapter focuses on a particular material, the wide range of design possibilities it offers and the relevant construction details. Full-colour photography, floor plans and explanatory texts accompany all the featured projects ensuringthat the reader has an authoritative guide to this area of architecture. Ground breaking works combine with eye-catching aesthetics to make this publication an indispensable reference.

Over the course of time designers have managed to optimise fireplaces to avoid problems such as smoke and smells. However, heating the home is no longer the sole aim of chimneys and heaters. They create cosy, warm atmospheres, allowing us to enjoy the magnetism of their flames. This book presents designs of both wood and gas fuelled chimenys and heaters, made from a variety of materials and original designs.

A collection of the latest in comprehensive design solutions for food retailing such as restaurants, cafes, sweet shops, and fast-food eateries. One of the key to the success of restaurants, bars, and other like establishments is creating the right ambience, and then styling the staff and interiors to complement the chosen concept. Shop cards that customers want to take home, gift boxes that endow just a hint of special status, these are all visuals that add to the customer’s experience. New Food Shop Graphics offers a comprehensive overview of food and beverage establishment design, via a varied selection of around 100 outstanding examples from Japan and abroad, all chosen for their superlative design sense. This book contains many examples of design - menus, shop cards, coasters, etc. - not usually accessible without actually visiting the premises. With the addition of the shop’s exteriors and interiors, these visuals provide a total introduction to shop design.

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Created by The Plan, one of Europe’s leading architecture magazines, 'New Forms' does what most books on cutting-edge architecture do not: it reveals the details of a building’s design and construction.

Most architects today are savvy to the power of digital renderings and media, but few can present drawings in a manner that can be understood by those working outside the project. These drawings reveal what images and photographs cannot: how some of the world’s most challenging buildings have been constructed.

• From double-curvature shapes to geometrically demanding structures, twenty projects by the world’s most exciting practices are shown in exacting detail through specially created plans, sections and elevations.
• Includes detailed plans of such buildings as Rem Koolhaas’s Casa de Musica in Porto, Norman Foster’s Chesa Futura apartments in St Moritz and UN Studio’sVilla NM in upstate NewYork.
•The information has been culled and created in close collaboration with the architects, with a view to highlighting each building’s particular innovations.

Ever since human beings discovered how to control the growth of plants, the garden has been a place in which they have found peace, enjoyed playing, cemented social relationships and revelled in sensory pleasure. In the garden we are communing nature and are experimenting with design and architecture. In times of increasing shortage of space but the concomitant desideratum for an oasis of calmness, only creativity will serve this purpose. new garden design keeps ready with innovative solutions and amazed with enthralling interpretations.

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by modernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

Garden ideas spring from many sources, and new gardens today, abstract in design and with seemingly no connection to the formalities of a paradise garden or its Persian, Indian or Greco-Roman and Mediterranean antecedents, echoes them all. New Garden Design aims to show how many ancient lessons haven't been forgotten. These gardens are fertile ground for creation, perception and meditation.

Zahid Sardar is the design editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and has reported on garden, interior and architecture design for twenty years in the Bay Area. His work appears in Chronicle Magazine and other national and international design publications such as House & Garden, Western Interiors and Design, Elle Décor, Architecture, Metropolis, Elle Decoration and Schoner Wohnen magazines. He has designed, authored or contributed to several books on design and culture, including San Francisco Modern, Textile Arts of India, and Three Stories of the Raj. Sardar has also lectured at the Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley Extension program and at garden seminars at the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco, as well as for The Garden Conservancy in Northern California. He lives in San Francisco.

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Provence today is a paradise for garden makers, a natural haven where designers from all over the world mingle with homegrown family gardeners and local horticulturists. Few places have seen as many contemporary garden creations, in as wide a variety: from picturesque to minimalist, private to public, suburban plot to rural field, miniature landscape to vast environment. New Gardens in ProvenceV features 30 of the most extraordinary recent gardens in this remarkable region. Written by Louisa Jones, a specialist in Provencal food and culture and author of the now-classic Gardens in Provence, this breathtaking book visits new gardens along the Côte d’Azur, in Marseilles, Saint-Rémy, and Aix, and throughout the gorgeous countryside of southeastern France. Almost 300 stunning photographs take us behind the garden gate to experience the beauty of meadow and woodland tableaux, magnificent stone terracing, formal topiary arrangements, lush flowerbeds, and even a mountainside project by artist Andy Goldsworthy.

While these man-made landscapes may reflect international trends in garden design, they never lose their harmony with the countryside. As this beautiful book demonstrates, today’s gardens are not only a reflection of the region’s “sense of place,” but also an integral part of the Provencal art de vivre.

Much of modern architecture has been conceived using glass to create minimal structures, to extol the notion of lightweight construction solutions and to allow maximum daylight into buildings. However, it is only in the last 15 years that the full potential of glass architecture has been realised. Brent Richards demonstrates that a new aesthetic in glass architecture has arrived, one that emphasizes opacity, depth, discovery, mystery and shadow and uses glass to generate a multi-sensory experience. The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of the key moments of glass in architecture and describes developments in glass technology over the last 20 years. It goes on to feature 25 recent examples of glass architecture, with specially commissioned colour photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Dennis Gilbert. It includes the work of such well known names as Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and Herzog & de Meuron.

280 color illustrations, 205 B/W plans & drawings

This work contains detailed case studies of 26 projects by 22 architectural offices. Featured designers include Mitchell & Giurgola, Greenhill Jenner Architects, Avant Travaux Architectes, Behnisch & Partner and Francesc Montaner. Presented in this publication is a compilation of recent work, by a diverse selection of prestigious architects, on hospitals, health centres and other buildings of medical utility. Projects have been selected for the new interpretations, fresh points of view and innovation that have gone into their design. The book is lavishly illustrated with vivid photographs and architectural drawings, as well as information - from conception to completion - on the materials and construction processes necessary to execute the designs. Furthermore, the fine architects concerned have contributed their own explanatory texts, comments and anecdotes. It is no surprise that this book will serve as an endless source of inspiration for the professional or the layman, with designs that are destined to determine the future of architecture.

Carles Broto, an architecture scholar and one of the founders of the IAC (institute for alternative culture). Following a successful period at the Atrium Group (Barcelona), he has now joined Grupo Links - Structure as the publishing director of various contemporary architecture collections. He is currently investigating the evolution of new American housing, as part of a multi-country project. He lives in Barcelona.

The rapid evolution of new kinds of lifestyles over the past 20th century have generated new working schemes and new ways of carrying out professional activities that have transformed the working area into an integral part of the domestic space. Freelance professionals often opt to establish their office at hone for economic reasons, as well as for the opportunity to work within a personalized space that is both aesthetic and comfortable.

The long-awaited follow-up to New Hotels presents a showcase of some of the most recent and inventive projects by the greatest names in hotel design. Architecturally speaking, a hotel presents the opportunity to challenge the aesthetic uniformity that currently plagues the design of public places. The search for a misunderstood modernity has spawned a crop of dismal clones all over the planet, in no way lightening the dreary burden of endless preconceived ideas afflicting the traditional hotel industry. Hoteliers have quickly recognized that ongoing changes in taste and needs within society call for a "live or die" approach to hotel service as a priority objective. The concept of "luxury" is continually evolving; it no longer means providing ostentatious spaces, full of glitz and chandeliers. Today's visitor wants to feel different simply because of where he or she is staying, which means that nowadays luxury is a matter of finding that sought after, special difference, such as cultural centers inside the hotel, 24-hour bars, personal assistants rather than receptionists, and varied types of cuisine. According to this vision, the hotels that are visited in New Hotels 3 are the ultimate expression of this new conception of luxury. Each one has its own personality born of merging innovation with local character. Without the former there is no progress; without the latter we run the risk of fading into that great morass of inconspicuous absurdity.