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Dazzling illustrations and concise, helpful texts make this an indispensable reference for anyone curious about the great architects and buildings of yesterday and today.

From Alvar Aalto to Peter Zumthor, from the Renaissance to the 21st century, this comprehensive guide introduces readers to the major names, schools, and structures in the field of architecture. Each entry focuses on a seminal figure and one of his or her career-defining works. Arranged alphabetically, the book is easy to use, and the large, superbly reproduced color illustrations allow readers to examine the details of each of the buildings it celebrates. The volume also features a glossary of architectural movements and technical terms. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, this reference guide is a great addition to any coffee table.

In our modern, high-tech society, traditional craftsmanship has increasingly had to give way to mass production. Synthetic materials have taken over from natural ones, and the world of construction in 2008 appears to revolve around efficiency, standardisation and cost optimisation.

However, a growing number of individuals are reacting against these tendencies by working to create authentic and personal living environments.

This new home-design philosophy has had an impact in many areas: a lot of distinctive old residences, farms, country houses and other homes are undergoing careful restoration; industrially manufactured furniture is being replaced by unique, handmade pieces; and preference is given to natural materials and finishes, rather than mass production.

Within this context, it is easy to see why valuable construction materials and pieces from the past are being reclaimed, restored and reintegrated into properties: these “architectural antiques” ensure that every home can have a unique cachet.

Whether it’s an 18th-century wooden floor, reclaimed Burgundy slabs, authentic handmade roof tiles and slates, antique fireplaces, or other historic features, these construction materials always offer the opportunity for every home project to have an authentic character, as is clearly illustrated by the many inspiring projects featured in this book.

Dealers in antique construction materials also occupy a very important place in these developments, convincingly demonstrating how their unique discoveries, often to be found in a variety of warehouses and showrooms, can be integrated into magnificent homes. The growing professionalism within this sector has in recent years ensured that an increasing number of architects, interior specialists and private individuals have been able to find materials that suit them perfectly within the ever-expanding assortment of architectural antiques.

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Doors are prominent and essential elements of all buildings. They pave the way into and out of a building. Thus, doors are simultaneously an article of daily use and an explicit statement of the homeowner. They can serve as an invitation just as well as a barrier. Due to the variety of potential uses and statements the door is an integral, yet very intricate architectural component.

Through the eye of excellent photographers with exceptional attention to detail, this volume attempts to capture the magnificent diversity of doors from all architectural epochs and styles found in Europe’s greatest cities. It documents the entire scope of entrance design from ancient to brand new, from frugal to pompously ornate, from functional to playful.

The volume is part of a series, which is focused not on prominent buildings at large but on ingenious and extraordinary details.

The new series sends the reader on a journey across European metropolises. Thereby, the attention is focused not on prominent buildings at large but on ingenious and extraordinary details. Each book concerns with a different constructional element. The first three volumes present doors, windows and façades from all architectural epochs and styles. Whether new or old, nice or bizarre – here you will find an architectural kaleidoscope of a special kind.

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The first and authoritative story of the rise of interior design from an intimate trade industry to celebrity decorators of today, as seen through the eyes of Architectural Digest and intimately told by Paige Rense-the magazine's iconic former editor-in-chief for over four decades.

Respected as the international authority on architecture and design, Architectural Digest magazine gives readers an exclusive look into the most spectacular properties and private homes of celebrities and cultural figures, highlighting the work of the world's top architects, designers, and interior decorators. This volume celebrates the evolution of the revered magazine as told through the voice of its legendary editor for four decades, Paige Rense. An epic visual history of the magazine's meteoric rise penned by Rense, this volume documents exclusively and intimately the renowned magazine's history and cultural significance, and celebration of the ever-evolving homes and lifestyles.

This volume is full of candid recollections, commentary, archival covers, and interior shots of the magazine and also features the work of the world's top architects and interior designers such as Mario Buatta, Philip Johnson, Tony Duquette, and Sally Sirkin Lewis, as well as the homes of celebrities like Truman Capote, Sonny & Cher, Elton John, Diane Keaton and Ralph Lauren. Each chapter, written in the first person -- is followed by lavishly illustrated anecdotes from Rense's memories of past issues. As the editor who gave readers a glimpse into the most enviable homes around the world, Rense is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Architectural Digest, a tale that her nearly one million loyal fans and readers of the magazine will be eager to read.

About the Author:

Paige Rense became editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest magazine in 1975, turning a provincial black-and-white Los Angeles publication with a circulation of 50,000 into an international superstar with a monthly readership of 5.4 million. She is also a published author and the founder of the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award. She has been the recipient of: The Museum of Arts & Design Achievement Award (2006), The American Academy of Achievement Award (2000), The Pratt Institute Founder Awards (1997), The Interior Design Hall of Fame Award (1985)

This volume provides an overview of architectural drawings from the Middle Ages to the 19th centuries portraying the cultural habits, tastes and styles of each.

The homes of the bourgeoisie in Vienna and London, the Sun King's palace, the private residences of Italy's oldest families all feature, as do places of worship that range from country churches to city cathedrals, royal chapels, solitary bell towers and large monumental complexes as well as the various transformations of St. Peter's Basilica, the heart of Christendom.

Project Introduction:

Vol. 1

Metal Façade

022 Dream Downtown Hotel
016 S.P. Ibermutuamur Building
030 Monteagudo Museum
042 CIB-Biomedical Research Center
054 Dex Showroom
062 Liverpool
070 Origami Building
080 Tori Tori Restaurant
204 Green Cast

Glazed Façade

086 The Yellow Diamond
096 Hesiodo

Concrete Façade

108 RATP Bus Centre
120 Stripes
130 Slit Court
140 Yardmaster’s Building

Brick Façade

148 Prebold Apartments

Ceramic Façade

158 Xinjin Zhi Museum

Coating Façade

166 La Cite des Affaires

Fabric Façade

210 Fabric Façade Studio Apartment

Wooden Façade

222 Rossignol Global Headquarters
230 School Center Lucie Aubrac
244 Garden House

Blend Materials

178 Drautalperle
184 VERBUND Headquarters
192 Herma Parking Building
250 The New Noain City Hall

Vol. 2

Metal Façade

002 U15 Office Building
012 CMT
020 Reflets du Drac
030 71 Council and Private Flats in Sète
038 Block 20 Dwellings and Commercial
046 SIPOPO Congress Club
054 Edogawa Garage Club
060 Dogan Media Center
066 Social Service Building
074 Jesenice Administrative Center
084 Parking Garage Jeroen Bosch Hospital
090 Kukje Art Gallery
096 Grande Bibliothèque du Québec
104 Ferreteria O’Higgins
114 Friem Headquarter
224 Cabel Industry
232 Tampa Museum of Art

Glazed Façade

124 International Commerce Center
132 Gaes Headquarters
142 Metropolen Office Building
244 Health Department Headquarters

Wooden Façade

148 Sports Center in Citadel’s Park
156 Infiniski Manifesto House
162 FIS-SST Office Building

Blend Materials

168 The Cube
176 Town Hall Hotel
182 Science Park
192 East Village Lofts
198 Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts
204 HDI Office Building
212 Bank Muscat
254 Kumho Culture Complex
266 Galleria Chenonan Department Store

Vol. 3

Plastic Façade

002 London Shooting Venue

Metal Façade

012 Salewa Headquarters
022 L’Atoll
030 One Ocean
038 The Pod Pavilion
046 The New Gerngross
146 Social Housing Tower in Plaza Europa
156 55 Baker Street
164 EDF Archives Centre
172 LATTICE in Beijing
180 Carabanchel

Glazed Façade

054 Social Dwelling in Madrid
188 Diagonal ZeroZero Telefonica Tower
196 Housing ZAC Claude Bernard
210 Zamet Centre

Concrete Façade

062 Day Nursery
072 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
080 G&J Office Building
218 The River Jöekaare Residential Tower

Coating Façade

228 Celosia

Wooden Façade

234 Telefónica Corporate University

Blend Materials

090 De Kameleon
102 YJP Administrative Center
110 Jewel Box in Bangalore
118 Advice House, Lysholt Park
126 Kiefer Technic Showroom
134 ZVE Fraunhofer Institute
242 Remota Hotel
252 Jewell
258 Jansen Campus

Just as its name implies, innovation means unsatisfactory to the current situation and process of developing new methods and techniques. It could be applied to tool and technology, procedure, and work pattern etc.

Innovation in architecture refers much to the changes in the façade of the architecture, the transformation of the interior structure, the development and application of the low-carbon materials, the improvement of the façade techniques and the load-bearing techniques, the regulating of the architectural functions, and the combination of architecture and environment.

This book compiles more than one hundred projects (mainly foreign projects) and categorizes these projects into categories of morphology innovation, structural innovation, material innovation, technology innovation, and function innovation according to the innovation concept in architecture. The innovation of these projects independently uses models of a certain kind of innovation or combines some classical models of several innovation patterns at the same time. We hope that the advancing innovation concepts in foreign architectures could bring more idea collision to the insiders of the architectural industry and help them create more new and better architectures for the world’s development.

006 Pattern Innovation
008 Frog Queen
012 Sky Village in Rødovre
014 Sogn Arena - Mercedes Benz Showroom
018 T-Clinic
020 United Oil Gasoline Station
024 Virgin Active Health Club
030 The Akmani Hotel
036 De Eekenhof
038 Stadsdeelkantoor Zuideramstel
040 AquaDomi Floating Hotels
044 Raffles City, Hangzhou
046 Saxo Bank
050 The Museum of Middle Eastern
Modern Art (MOMEMA)
054 Culture Centre
056 Randers Museum of Art
060 Fujitsobo
062 Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre
066 The Salt Crystals
068 An der Alster 1
072 Structure Innovation
074 House of Twelve
078 Aonni Mineral Water Plant
080 De Cecco Business Center
082 Barber Shop
084 Chemist’s Shop in the Town Wood
088 San Paolo Bank
092 Campus Restaurant and Event Space in Stuttgart
094 Headquarter for the Middelfart Savings Bank
098 Freshwater Plaza
100 StatoilHydro Building
104 Biochemistry Building at the University of Oxford
108 Setai Hotel & Condominiums
110 Openhouse
114 MUMUTH Theatre
118 Cocoon
124 Voestalpine Office Centre
130 Material Innovation
132 Olisur Olive Oil Factory
138 Built Landscape
142 Office Building in Alfonso Gomez Street
146 ESCADA Headquarters
148 Galician Architects Central Office in Vigo
150 Kemang Medical Care
154 SSC voestalpine Stahl Service Center
158 Armann Sports Club
160 Bowling Pitch
162 Nisha Bar-Lounge
166 10 Hills Place
168 Dot Envelope
172 Sports and Leisure Center
176 Cave Restaurant
178 Sheraton Incheon Hotel
182 Partyrent’s Representative Office
186 Ajman Municipal Headquarters
188 Olivers Place Office Building
192 LM Harbor Gateway
196 Lysholt Tower & KPMG Building
200 The Icelandic National Concert & Conference Centre
202 Function Innovation
204 NZI Centre
208 Ventolera Winery
214 Casa da Torre Winery
220 Rouen Grand Mare
226 Tori Tori Restaurant
230 Jasmax Studio
234 IT-Fornebu Portal Building
238 Terminus Hotel
242 Jerusalem
244 Oslo International School
248 Salon O
250 Technology Innovation
252 Mirror Tower
254 Future Hotel Showcase Room
256 Bryghusgrunden Project
260 Vertical Village
262 “Seven Peaks” in Zira Island
266 Taipei Performing Arts Centre
268 Landmark East
272 Ecology Building
274 ITER - CEA Cadarache
276 Rubi Offices
278 Alila Cha-Am Hotel
282 Southern Ocean Lodge
286 Paladares da Quinta Restaurant
288 Emerging Landscapes
290 Office Building with Training Workshop
292 Gwang Gyo Power Center
296 Mexico Torre Cuajimalpa Apartment
300 Enea Headquarters
306 Edge House
310 Sapphire Gallery
314 Hotel City Garden

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800 photos/illustrations

Architectural Interiors: More Bars & Restaurants gathers together some of the most outstanding restaurants from across the globe, including every conceivable cuisine and niche. Filled with page after page of hip and stylish ideas that combine contemporary design language with chic cosmopolitan aesthetics, this volume will delight and inspire architects, designers, and bar and restaurant operators, as well as the design-savvy public. With luscious photographs taken from stunning angles, both conventional and creative, More Bars & Restaurants shows the best of irresistible design that simply whets the appetite.

800 photos/illustrations

Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts and instructional diagrams. Six built projects provide readers with concrete examples of the ways in which these principles are applied. Short essays by architect Steven Holl, artist Sylvain Dubuisson, and landscape architect James Corner explore the role of lighting in defining spatial compositions.