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Watch your sketches take on a life of their own with the help of Sketching Basics: One Point Perspective. Master the art of producing quality one point perspective sketches via detailed, easy-to-learn sketching methods and step-by-step illustrations.

Artists at all levels will find this book invaluable in honing basic art techniques and enhancing sketching skills used in various arts and design fields, including architecture, interior design, graphic design, multimedia and the applied arts.

Master all the art techniques you need to produce a quality sketch drawing. Simple, fuss-free methods of sketching are accompanied with step-by-step illustrations, thorough explainations and great techniques. Suitable for all artists at all levels.

400 color photographs

Can it get much better than relaxing in a comfortable, modern hotel after a long day on the ski slopes? Whether you're a beginner learning on the bunny slope, an ex-Olympian re-living his glory days, or a non-skier who enjoys sipping rum toddies in the lodge, you'll find the perfect place for a winter get-away in this comprehensive, beautifully Illustrated book. Designed to suit every taste, Ski Hotels serves as an illustrated guide to the best resorts in Europe and North America. Includes an introduction and informative captions.

One of the largest and most prestigious architectural firms in the world, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) has set the standard for American corporate design practice for more than half a century. A building by SOM is a product of a precise 'fit' between client, architect and context. The firm's projects cover the globe, from Manhattan to Moscow, Chicago to Shanghai, London and Berlin to Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Ho Chi Min City. From high-tech structures to finely detailed interiors, from superscale office towers to urban place-making, SOM's work traverses an extremely wide range of architectural practice, demonstrating the firm's commitment to the broadest possible provision of design services.

There are many books about tall buildings, but few focus exclusively on residential high-rises. Perhaps this is because they are traditionally not as high as commercial high-rises. However, this is no longer the case; not only do many now compare with other high-rise buildings when it comes to height, but a building designed for living is particularly interesting in that it conveys a sense of the purpose and function of the building. Sky High Living explores a selection of the most arresting residential tall buildings from around the world, predominantly from North America and Asia. Compiled by Georges Binder, building and data expert on high-rise design.

Explores the variety of high-rise buildings and the technologies behind them that make them not only effective as the buildings themselves, but also harness the natural environmental factors that make them more ecology and energy efficient.

  Slope & Rooftop Garden
8   Stockholm's Garden Library
20  Sky Village
30  Ewha Womans University Campus Center
36  Geumcheon-gu Office
50  VM Mountain Dwellings
60  Tropical Dream
70  Kring_ KumHo Culture Complex
84  Hyundai High School
90  Hudson Yards
94  House of the Healing Hill
100 Manhattan Roof Terrace
110 HUB ENTERTAINMENT
116 Sunjin Rooftop Space
124 Deerfield - Koch
128 The Cybertecture Egg
134 Pearl River Tower

    CourtyARD
138 DIO Public Relations Center
142 cafe yeoni
150 Xi Floating Stainless Steel Cloud
164 iGuzzini  Headquarters
168 Park Tower

    Balcony & Veranda
178 Dancing Apartment
182 Architectural Moussaka
188 Urban Cactus
194 NHQ CSOB
204 Rio Papaloapan
214 Synergy

    Hanging Garden
218 Ex Ducati
224 PRUGIO VALLEY
234 Kikkerville
240 Iceberg
246 KUELAP Lodge-Museum
250 Shenzhen Logistic City
254 parcel D

No other building type captures the imagination like the skyscraper, yet following the World Trade Centre tragedy, its future has been called into question. In Skyscraper, Eric Höweler presents convincing evidence that the future of tall buildings is as secure today as it was over one hundred years ago.

Described and accompanied by striking full-colour photography are over fifty new constructions that punctuate the skylines of the major cities around the world. Incisive essays delve into cutting-edge skyscraper design and building, as well as offering a brief history of the skyscraper, the evolution of the ‘green’ or sustainable skyscraper, their symbolism and design, and the meteoric rise of the skyscraper in Asia. A special section is devoted to the designs for Ground Zero, including never-before-published drawings and plans.

Far from being a dying form, the skyscraper continues to exert a huge influence on the international landscape, and a continued reinvention of the form awaits us in the next decade.

This vibrantly designed, updated and expanded edition celebrates every facet of the skyscraper as an architectural icon.

Few buildings rivet our attention like skyscrapers. As the race to build higher and higher continues, these symbols of success and economic power dominate and reshape urban skylines across the globe. Opening with Chicago’s Reliance Building, built in 1894, and closing with plans for the London BridgeTower, scheduled to be completed in 2011, eye-catching two-to-four page spreads in this up-to-date and comprehensive volume capture over fifty of the world’s most important skyscrapers. Each building is breathtakingly photographed and an accompanying text offers intriguing historical details, notes on construction, and engineering feats. Tracing the evolution of these magnificent structures, Skyscrapersillustrates their significance not only in architectural history, but also as a reflection of humankind’s most competitive and optimistic urges.

Ever taller and more dramatic, skyscrapers are being built everywhere. This book looks at contemporary examples, from the perspective of both their architecture and their engineering. The author explains the structural principles behind the creation of tall buildings and how they are designed to withstand earthquakes, high winds, fire and terrorist attack. An introduction covers the architectural and cultural history of the skyscraper, using choice examples to illustrate key engineering developments and the variety of basic design types. The main part of the book then analyzes 29 of the most interesting recent skyscrapers from around the world. Each project is illustrated in full colour, while the text, architects/'/ drawings and details show how the each is constructed and what innovative design features it incorporates. Featured architects include Foster & Partners, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid.

The Venetian blind pays homage to the shade, as a subtle mechanism capable of showcasing the light. Because, all in all, light is all we have left. We architects build spaces for the light to inhabit. Is an element of climate control that provides thermal inertia to the facade.  

The facade represents a building's outer skin, and it is through this outer skin - the design, choice of materials, textures, and tones used in its composition, that architects can endow a building with a particular character. This title provides a detailed look at some of the resurgence in the use of slats and venetian blind style designs.

This book explores the resurgent trend in using slats and venetian blind-style facades. The facade represents a building's outer skin, and it is through this outer skin - the design, choice of materials, textures, and tones used in its composition, that architects can endow a building with a particular character. Slats Facades is a superbly illustrated volume that provides a detailed look at some of the recent resurgence in the use of slats and venetian blind style designs. Filled with full-colour photography and detailed architectural plans and drawings, alongside discussions on how the architects and designer approached each project, this is must-have resource.

Славутич – украинский провинциальный город к северу от Киева – во многом кажется принадлежащим другой эпохе. Город был построен после ядерной катастрофы, которая произошла в 1986 году на Чернобыльской АЭС, для переселения рабочих электростанции из загрязненной Припяти. Славутич – последний идеальный плановый город Советского Союза.

Однако тема Славутича весьма актуальна – особенно в период политического кризиса в Восточной Европе. Славутич является архитектурной манифестацией дружбы советских народов. Архитекторы восьми республик СССР участвовали в планировании и строительстве города. В результате, постмодернистская архитектура Славутича одновременно характеризуется социалистическими, советскими парадигмами и региональным воздействием Кавказа, Балтии и России. Кроме того, поиски последнего поколения советских архитекторов экологически устойчивой, удобной для жилья архитектуры, безусловно, актуальны и сегодня.

Архитектурный путеводитель по Славутичу документирует все районы и большинство зданий города, давая критический анализ уникальной поздней советской архитектуры и градостроительства в контексте Перестройки.

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Slavutych, a Ukrainian provincial city north of Kyiv, seems in many respects to belong to a different era. Built after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 to replace the contaminated dwellings of workers from the power plant, Slavutych is the last 'ideal' planned city of the Soviet Union.

However, the city is also highly topical - particularly in times of political crisis in Eastern Europe. Slavutych is an architectural manifestation of the Soviet people's friendship, with architects throughout the Soviet Union involved in its planning and construction. As a result, Slavutych's postmodernist architecture is both characterised by socialist, Soviet paradigms and regional influences from the Caucasus region, Baltic States and Russia. Furthermore, the search of the last Soviet generation of architects for an environmentally sustainable, habitable architecture is of course still relevant today.

The Architectural Guide Slavutych documents numerous buildings and all city districts, providing a critical analysis of unique late Soviet architecture and urban planning in the context of Perestroika.

Any urbanite has faced the challenges of limited living space. This valuable survey of the latest in small-scale apartment and loft design features the best examples of smart and chic urban living from the most fashionable cities around the world. The apartments, lofts, and small houses profiled here prove that small-scale efficiency, as well as beautiful, thoughtful design, can overcome the apparent constraints of a tiny setting.

Each project includes a case history describing the challenges that confronted the designer and how these constraints were overcome.

Creating colour schemes to enhance the feeling of openness, taking advantage of high ceilings to make multiple levels, and using movable furniture and sliding doors to maximize space are some of the clever solutions that anyone can apply to their own homes.

Full of colour photographs and helpful floor plans, this book is a remarkable showcase of the latest design trends and creative ideas to turn any small space into a comfortable and modern home. It is an inspiration to anyone in interior design or residential architecture, as well as to anyone looking to improve and revitalize a small-scale home.

They are small but they have charm and character. Not much space to play with, but once you get cartain limitations there is no reason why you should not succeed inachieving spectacular results.

Saving Space. Big ideas for small buildings

Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages and push their designers to do more with less.

A dollhouse for Calvin Klein in New York, a playhouse for children in Trondheim, vacation cabins, and housing for victims of natural disasters are all part of the new rush to develop the great small architecture of the moment. The 2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito is here, but so are emergent architects from Portugal, Chile, England, and New Zealand. From world-famous names to the freshest new talent, come discover architectural invention on a whole new, small scale.

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