Архитектура

Packed with over 200 gorgeous photos and discerning advice, this easy-to-follow handbook clearly illustrates every step you'll need for creating beautiful, do-it-yourself window treatments. From handsome shades to dramatic drapes to charming ruffled panels, each style comes with: step-by-step instructions that make creating any style a breeze; common problems and easy solutions to resolve all your decorating dilemmas; inspirational tips for choosing just the right print and colour fabrics; and, illustrations, photos and a thorough glossary to explain everything you'll need to know.With such a comprehensive guide, novices and skilled crafters alike can easily transform dull windows into show-stopping displays. Packed with scores of fun projects, this handbook is your one-stop guide for making a stunning and stylish impression with your home.

Nikki Boyd here shares her best advice for how to create an organised, beautiful and welcoming home. Nikki developed and honed her five essential steps to an organised home through her experience working as a professional organiser. In her book, Nikki teaches you to: assess your home to transform the spaces within to enhance your lifestyle; declutter and curate your possessions to keep what is useful and meaningful; clean with efficiency, adding an element of pleasure to everyday tasks; organise so you can find what you need, when you need it; and beautify and decorate to create a welcoming atmosphere for family and friends.

In Chapter 1: Inspiration, Sara draws inspiration from truly tiny spaces such as boats and caravans as well as her own home — a diminutive workman’s cottage in a London suburb.

In Chapter 2: Elements of Design, she discusses how even the most straightforward planning decisions can be complicated by the constraints of small spaces and suggests clever design solutions.

The third chapter, Elements of Style, explores ideas for making compact interiors work through the use of creative styling and decoration.

In Chapter 4, a series of case studies takes a closer look at imaginative treatments for pocket-size interiors, showcasing a variety of tiny spaces including a terraced ‘two-up, two-down’ worker’s cottage, a tiny studio apartment with a clever mezzanine that incorporates a bathroom, and a pint-sized coastal hideaway.

About the author

Sara Emslie is an established interiors stylist and writer. With more than 15 years experience, her work is regularly featured in magazines such as World of Interiors, Homes & Garden, Livingetc. and Red. Sara lives in Richmond, London, in a beautifully small house, which provided the original inspiration for this book.

The beauty market is developing and booming world wide. Wellness programs allow one to rediscover one's own body and inspire us to look toward inner tranquility. This trend demands architecturally-holistic approaches which recongnizes the unity of the room, the beauty experience and the perception of one's own body. The balance between body, mind, and spirit can only be found in an esthetic atmosphere. Thus the hairdresser on the corner is turning into an extraordinary wellness oasis - often created by outstanding designers and architects. Architects, designers and industry often face theses challenges together, the results ar quite individual and unique. Over 60 successful projects are presented extensively and for the first time in this volume with exclusive photos and even including some of the plans. Of course not only hairdressers studios are shown but the whole field of BEAUTY: Cosmetics, Gyms and Dayspas.

Presents more than 30 modern bedrooms designed by renowned architects and interior designers

The bedroom is in many ways the most important room in the house as it is your personal sanctuary and is nowadays often used for much more than just sleeping in, being the hub of home life. This book provides a host of ideas for creating an attractive, comfortable bedroom for adults or children. There is excellent advice on how to organise the room, the best styles of decoration, the appropriate lighting and also choosing the bed.

The book is broken down into the following sections: Making the best use of space, The initial planning, Decorative options, All about the bed, Choosing the rest of the furnishings, and, Where to go for what.

The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927 when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his career. Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process. He further explains how Soviet design and planning institutes were organized with reference to the Union of the Architects of the USSR and describes the creative ideals of his generation of architects, who are today identified as Soviet Modernists. As a time witness, his memories cannot be recounted in their whole complexity by historians. Novikov also describes some of the conditions that affected his own creative fate and that of others. This book reflects the characteristics of Soviet life and its connections to architects’ professional activity. Felix Novikov’s confessions are more than that of an architect; they give a testimony to daily life in the Soviet Union from Stalin to glasnost.

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Феликс Аронович Новиков — известный советский архитектор, академик Международной академии архитектуры, доктор наук. В книге он делится своими ценными воспоминаниями о непростых и нестандартных условиях, в которых трудился он сам и работали его современники, о взаимоотношениях с коллегами и властью. Читателям будет интересно узнать, как проектные институты раньше взаимодействовали с Союзом архитекторов и какие творческие задачи вдохновляли архитекторов его времени. В этом издании Феликс Новиков дает ответы на вопросы, которые сегодня интересуют многих специалистов и любителей советского модернизма.

Imagine an airport that welcomes you as visitor or neighbor; that takes you efficiently from terminal to plane; that is sustainably designed and filled with light and air; that you’ll be happy to linger, shop, and eat in. Not only does this airport exist - it was built by Foster + Partners. In copious photographs and architectural plans along with informative text, this book celebrates the architecture and technology of the Beijing Airport’s International Terminal. Readers will learn how the building is designed to cope with the unpredictable nature of the aviation industry and how it incorporates a range of environmental strategies that make it energy efficient and economical to operate. In text and illustrations, this book shows what makes the International Terminal of the Beijing Airport a standard for all others to follow.

This is the follow-up book of both "Belgian Masters" publications, with all new reports by famous architects and interior designers.

Venice, with her winding canals and magnificent palaces, has enchanted artists, poets, aristocrats, and visitors for centuries.

Turn the pages of this beautifully produced collection of photographs, and it's easy to see why. For the past two hundred years, Venice has remained practically unchanged, a testament to the glorious, singular design of La Serenissima. In stunning full-color photographs, Bellissima Venice presents the city from numerous dramatic perspectives: From panoramic rooftops, unhurried gondolas, and columned palace galleries. From the Piazza San Marco to San Giorgio Maggiore, from the Rialto Bridge to the Bridge of Sighs, from the Grand Canal to snaking water alleyways, Michel Setboun's exquisite images distill the essence of Venice's serenely seductive beauty.

Any space that involves descending from our typical aboveground environment is a provocation to our sensory perceptions. Such hidden spaces evoke latent mythical images and confront us with the clash between nature and artifice in our built environment. This book explores the character, use and design of underground space as a space of its own. International examples of commercial premises, restaurants, sports facilities, subway stations, museums, churches, libraries, concert halls, houses and other building types form the core material. Interviews with many renowned designers including Norman Foster, Floris Alkemade (OMA) and Francine Houben (Mecanoo) convey the architects' own views on the subject. Essays reflect on the cultural aspects, planning conditions, design considerations, technical requirements and sustainability aspects of building below ground level. Chapters include: Urban Development, Architecture, Functions, Perception and Cognition, Constructions, Energy and Interior Climate.

Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the case with Belyayevo, an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a typical microrayon – the standardised neighbourhood system that successive Soviet regimes laid out across the USSR in what was the most expansive programme of industrialised construction the world has ever seen. Belyayevo’s buildings, and the desolate spaces between them, are identical to thousands of others, but is it different? Kuba Snopek argues that it is. Home to many of the artists of the Moscow Conceptualism school, the place was written into the character of their art. Snopek argues that this intangible heritage is the key to saving a neighbourhood many feel has had its day. But as Russia comes to terms with its Soviet legacy, will such arguments fall on deaf ears?

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Традиционный советский микрорайон, ничем не примечательный, один из тысячи подобных... Или же проект, достойный списка ЮНЕСКО и внимания исследователей?

Куба Снопек – архитектор, который заставит читателей задуматься о том, что внимания заслуживают не только памятники, известные своей уникальной архитектурой, но и непримечательные здания, формирующие лицо периферийных районов. Куба Снопек уверен, что обычный московский район Беляево должен войти в список объектов всемирного наследия и приводит свои убедительные доводы.

The top artistic quality of Berber carpets has already been a source of inspiration to artists such as Paul Klee and Le Corbusier. This book links the motifs of Berber carpets to rock art symbols and artefacts created by the first human civilisations, demonstrating that Berber carpets employ the same rules when using symbols and shapes.

Ever since the "fall of the Wall," Berlin has witnessed an unprecedented surge in new and re-construction. Striking multi-billion Euro trade complexes have helped revitalize Berlin, bringing it architecturally in step with the rest of the world. But alongside these monuments to capitalism are equally exciting developments in the city's residential architecture. This book looks at a number of extraordinary living spaces designed by leading architects, featuring beautifully produced color photographs and descriptive texts. From new private houses that are as complex as they are luxurious, to the widely lauded and wildly creative regentrification of the drab, concrete blocks that once symbolized the stagnation of the GDR era, these private spaces reveal the insurgence of youthful energy, ideas, and optimism that make Berlin one of the most exciting places to live in today's world.