Общественные здания и пространства

Selection of 29 architectural projects that contain an auditorium.that have been finished from the year 2000 until the present, that is to say, within the first decade of the XXI century and located in Europe, (Spain, France, Luxembourg, England,...), and also North America, South America, Asia and Australia. The buildings are introduced with a brief general description, with high quality floor plans and photographs, concentrating on providing details about the auditoriums, their interiors and furnishings. The book starts off with a brief illustrated overview on the evolution of theatres and auditoriums throughout the history of architecture, from ancient times to the present day. There are also some brief interviews with various creators who explain their own design process. There are projects belonging to outstanding architects such as Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Ricardo Bofill, Rafel de La-Hoz, Estudio Cano Laso, COX, MBM, Oscar Tusquets, Navarro Baldeweg, and Cesar Pelli amongst others.

Kim Young-Sub + Kunchook-Moonhwa Architect Associates has been involved in the construction of some of the most significant religious centres in Korea. The firm's work is deeply rooted in a fundamental spirituality, which is also found in Korean culture. Traditional Korean design is about subtle curves rather than straight lines, roofs that reach to the sky rather than remaining flat, and finishes of thick curved pine. These influences are clear in Kim Young-Sub's buildings as is his remarkable attitude towards space, from which he creates churches with large areas, voids, which are about symbolism and landscape. In addition to his religious buildings, a selection of Kim Young-Sub's residential, educational, welfare and commercial buildings is also featured in this superbly illustrated publication.

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle needed transforming as it was overshadowed by large buildings that surrounded it. The award-winning Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, known for its restoration to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, was commissioned to intervene. The firm was able to integrate site, circulation, building and context that beautifully reconciles the site with the rest of the campus. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects is based in New York City.

Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects created a spectacular three-level terminal, approximately one million square feet, to accommodate 16 million passengers each year. Readers will be thrilled and inspired with this closer look at the new Terminal that has caught the admiring eye and earned the appreciation of thousands who put it to the test each day. Cesar Pelli & Associates is based in Washington, DC.

The Burton Barr Central Library (Phoenix Central Library) has quickly become a point in the community’s pride while serving as an exciting background to the region’s library and information needs. It is a regular tour stop for visitors as well as architects and scholars from around the world. This architectural masterpiece works with the beautiful desert setting, and is designed to display the natural beauty of the West. The top of the library has a great public reading room, reminiscent of older libraries, with the entire non-fiction collection. The design is a mix of futuristic aspects combined with a respect for historical detail.

Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or the other way around?

Heavily illustrated throughout - with historic images, spectular color photographs, detailed drawings - this volume is an informed and enjoyable presentation of a building type that is at the heart of cities small and large.

Newhouse starts with a survey of venues from ancient Greek and Roman times and progresses to contemporary works around the world. She singles out Lincoln Center in particular for its long history and its transitions and remodelings over the years. Two major chapters cover the present: one focuses on recent work in the West, including the National Opera House of Norway in Oslo by Snøhetta (2008), the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas (2005), and many more; the second examines the boom in concert halls in China. A final chapter looks at projects that are currently planned and the future of an architecture for music.

James Wines is a larger-than-life character whose work cuts a swathe through modern architecture. Since 1970, when he founded SITE, the highly regarded architecture and environmental arts organisation based in New York, he and his practice have led the way in progressing a more socially and environmentally responsive architecture. Early work from the office includes iconic structures such as the Notch Project (1977), Sacramento, California. Nowadays, SITE offers a wide range of design services such as buildings, landscapes, public spaces, interiors, graphics and industrial products. This new addition to IMAGES' Master Architect Series offers a valuable insight into SITE's creative approach and teamwork, as it documents some of the studio's most outstanding projects.

Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000 km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 13 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art.

From the shores of the Black Sea to the endless Kazakh steppe, these bus stops show the range of public art from the Soviet era and give a rare glimpse into the creative minds of the time. The book represents the most comprehensive and diverse collection of Soviet bus stop design ever assembled from: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Abkhazia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

With a foreword by writer, critic and television presenter Jonathan Meades.

After the popular and critical success of his first book, Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union to hunt for more Soviet Bus Stops. In this second volume, as well as discovering unexpected examples in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine, Herwig turns his camera to Russia itself. Following exhaustive research, he drove 15,000 km from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new variations of this singular architectural form.

A foreword by renowned architecture and culture critic Owen Hatherley, reveals new information on the origins of the Soviet bus stop. Examining the government policy that allowed these ‘small architectural forms’ to flourish, he explains how they reflected Soviet values, and how ultimately they remained – despite their incredible individuality – far-flung outposts of Soviet ideology.

Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented

For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, there was something supernatural about the Metro. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art, combining Byzantine, medieval, baroque and Constructivist ideas and infusing them with the notion that Communism would mean a communal luxury for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realisation of a Soviet utopia.

Following his best-selling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture. Along the way, Herwig captures individual elements that make up this singular Soviet experience: neon, concrete, escalators, signage, mosaics and relief sculptures all combine build an unforgettably vivid map of the Soviet Metro.

The photographs are introduced by leading architecture, politics and culture author and journalist Owen Hatherley.

Table of Contents

Essay by Owen Hatherley Soviet Metro station photographs from: Moscow
St Petersburg Tashkent Kiev Baku Tbilisi Minsk Yerevan Novosibirsk
Yekaterinburg Samara Nizhny Novgorod Kryvyi Rih Dnipro Kharkiv

The consideration for designer of modern health care facilities is not only to provide a clean and efficient health care environment. Patients’ health, safety, emotions are not only depend on staff ’s professional skill, and the environment also has healing benefits, which won more recognition. Specialized hospital focuses on one medical discipline, its space design thus must carefully consider specialized medical and procedure model and patients’ special requirements. Children’s hospital (pediatrics/adolescent), women’s hospital (obstetrics and gynecology),
cancer centre (cancer and radiotherapy and chemotherapy) and mental health hospital included in this book are “artworks” with healing function, which created by architects, interior designers, ar tists and health care staff together.

Двадцать первый номер архитектурного журнала speech: посвящен теме общественных центров – едва ли не самой социально значимой и одновременно самой многообразной типологии современной архитектуры. В центре нашего внимания – пространства и здания, предназначенные для публичных собраний, общения и совместного времяпрепровождения: от крохотных сельских клубов до масштабных комплексов общегородского значения, в которых завидное разнообразие функций сочетается с яркой иконической архитектурой.

Важно и то, что помимо вновь построенных зданий мы подробно анализируем объекты, ставшие общественными центрами на далеко не первом витке своего существования, ведь именно эта функция как нельзя лучше подходит для возрождения как бывших промышленных построек, так и утративших свое религиозное значение культовых сооружений. В эпоху тотальной компьютеризации, когда виртуальное общение начинает вытеснять реальное, наличие, разнообразие и доступность общественных центров приобретают особое значение – во многом именно эти здания и выступают гарантами созидательного функционирования сообществ.

There is no doubt that the sporting spaces of today, both recreational and professional, are increasingly refined and sophisticated. Whether to meet public demand for enhanced leisure facilities or as sporting arenas for top-level international competitors, these sites require the very latest technology. This pictorial review showcases contemporary sports facilities from around the globe. Projects featured in this volume include football and athletic stadiums, venues for water and court sports, racing tracks and velodromes, and a variety of auxiliary sports facilities.

This book includes a total of 47 excellent sports buildings which are designed by famous architects around the world. Through the high quality images, detailed drawings and beautiful words, the book fully expresses all aspects of the sports building designs. With rich contents and clear ideas, the book will be a good reference to all readers.

In ancient Greece, the term stadium was defined as a footrace over a distance 192 m. This distance measurement was then later used as a description for the competition facility. Nowadays a stadium is considered a total competitive sporting complex with field, oval-shaping running track, shot put, javelin and broad jump facilities as well as viewer seats and press boxes. Nowadays, stadia are not only simply sporting sites, but also act as tourist attractions, distinguishing features and gathering place for clubs. This tendency has led to increased value being placed upon architecture in stadium design. Additional uses for covered stadia may include stores, offices, hotels and restaurants. In the following, various solutions of modern stadia design are presented. In so doing, examples of various use types and sizes will be addressed.

32 projects are introduced, they are catching the eyes because of an extraordinary architecture. As well the “inner life” with VIP lounges will be shown. Included are all 12 stadiums which are scene of the soccer world championship 2006. Plans and sketches will be enclosed to every project.