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This title offers an in-depth focus on seven recent renovations of a most diverse range of properties, including the complete restoration and redesignation of an impressive country estate and park garden, the metamorphosis of one of the most authentic castles in the Dordogne (dating from 1453), the redesign of an apartment in a distinctive residence in the historic centre of Brussels, the conscientious restoration of a sculptor’s studio in modernist style, the revival of a 19th century castle, the soft renovation of a nineteenth-century courtyard farm and the contemporary transformation of a historic windmill.

Timeless Wood features exclusive wooden creations for your garden - wooden outbuildings such as carports, sheds and poolhouses, as well as terraces, garden furniture and wall decorations.

Author Tine Verdickt describes the handicraft needed to build these amazing creations. The beautiful photography is by Marca Dorpmans.

The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. Conventional vertical dwellings, buildings for specific groups, and residential complexes share a common spirit: rigour, imagination and respect for both the persons who will occupy them and the environment in which they will be located. The works of Frank O. Gehry, Claus en Kaan Architecten, Herzog & de Meuron, alongside other renowned architects provide stimulating answers, ingenious solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture in the century to come.

The best projects going on in the design of country houses around the world. Projects have been selected on the basis of how they have broken the mold and innovated in the field, making this a highly useful sourcebook for architects, designers and students of architecture looking for creative directions in the design of the contemporary country house. All steps of the design process, from conception to construction, are exhaustively documented.

280 color illustrations, 150 B/W plans & drawings

Museums, universities, schools, libraries and other educational centrescultural facilities are the public face of a society. Here are Today's most creative educational and cultural buildings, all designed to blend form and function. Dozens of outstanding projects from around the world are shown with full-color photography and construction plans that reveal the essential aspects of planning these very public buildings. Today's Culture Facilities is truly a snapshot of our times, an architectural record of our most prized institutions.

Eduard Broto, Phd in Architecture and active member of the COAC architecture association. He has carried out extensive research and analysis into the way architecture is evolving in response to the new challenges created by a rapidly changing world. Author of many articles about architectural trends, and supervisor of NEW HOUSING CONCEPTS. This compilation illustrates new trends in single-family housing. He lives in Barcelona.

The architecture used to create educational environments strongly influences how well both students and teachers perform. Spaces that stimulate while at the same time helping students to concentrate, in the long-run, will make a valuable contribution to shaping the societies we live in. This book presents a collection of schools, universities and institutes, designed to encourage, stimulate and focus the minds of their users. Full-colour photographs of the projects, together with plans and explanations from the architects themselves guide readers through this instructive resource, and provide inspiration for architects and designers and all involved in the immensely important field of education.

This book takes a new look at the uses of wood in home construction. Each of the featured projects is clearly explained by the designers themselves and share the highest degree of architectural quality in the innovative application of wood. Sophisticated residences, contemporary family homes, and small but remarkable wood cabins represent the variety of domestic dwellings discussed. This latest review also includes outstanding photography and working plans, with a concise text that successfully conveys the main features of each building and how the the use of wood can enhance the defining characteristics of the design.

A perfect companion volume to Country Houses Today and Beach Houses Today, with the same commitment to innovating seen in each of the dozens of projects included. With particular emphasis placed on all of the technical aspects involved in the design and construction processes, all beautifully illustrated with outstanding color photographs, this book is an absolutely vital work for any Architect or Interior Designer.

This beautiful book draws on the rich collections of the Musée de la Toile de Jouy to produce the first-ever complete history of these textiles. The illustrations include original designs conserved in the museum, exceptional historical examples of clothing and furniture, documents relating to their manufacture and to the founding of the company, and examples of contemporary uses.

When printed and painted cottons from India first appeared in France in the 17th century, there was a reaction to their enormous commercial success and an embargo was placed on their import. In 1759 this ban was lifted, and the Manufacture Royale de Jouy was founded to produce printed cotton fabrics that could compete with the popular imported ones. Within a few years, the factory was the biggest of its kind in Europe and some 30,000 designs were created, many of them the work of renowned 18th-century artists such as Fragonard and Boucher.

The Toile de Jouy textile has become increasingly popular among designers and decorators, who incorporate its classic patterns in upholstery, wallpaper, linens and stationery. For anyone interested in the history of textiles or design, or looking for fresh ideas for interior decor, this book will be an inspiration and a fascinating reference.

Originally referring only to the famed fabrics of Jouy-en-Josas,‘toiles de Jouy’ has today become the catch-all term for the delightful printed cottons preferred by the aristocratic elite in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, made famous by the palaces of Marie-Antoinette and Empress Josephine. Sarah Grant introduces the design, dyeing, and printing processes that created these textiles, and their role in interior decoration and clothing, both then and now. Sumptuous new photography of the V&A’s extensive toiles collection illustrates the cottons’ diversity – floral, literary, antique, allegorical, bucolic and ‘exotic’, among others – offering inspiration to everyone with an interest in textiles and interiors.

Powder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny – the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitaryware in New Zealand. This amusing but also highly informative photographic journey reveals the idiosyncrasy and inventiveness that characterize the construction of the humble toilet around the globe. Along the way, the reader encounters every possible permutation, from the traditional English 'thunderbox’ to the Swazi thatched 'beehive’ hut, and discovers the fascinating cultural and historical differences that can make our travels to other countries so enjoyable.

Tokyo constitutes the most populated metropolitan area on the planet, it houses 33 million inhabitants.

It is also, possibly, the megalopolis with the highest proportion of recent architecture, what is a result of two significant events: The earthquake of 1923 and the bombardments of World War II.

The economic development that took place after the war gave rise to a modern city that stands out on account of its complex infrastructures. In no other city are the boundaries between inside and outside, public and private, up and down as blurred as in Tokyo; this lack of frontiers has shaped an urban setting without parallel which is reflected equally by the most state-of-the-art skyscraper and the most intimate store. This amalgam of architectural typologies has established itself as a reference point for designers from all over the world.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order to the architects and designers, presented in a very clear layout. Plans show the layouts of the buildings and single rooms.

Featuring a total of 104 restaurants with superlative design selected from the restaurants opened between January 2004 and April 2005.

Featuring the interiors of 100 wining and dining establishments newly opened or renovated between January 2005 and April 2006.