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Living by water appeals to an almost universal desire to become one with nature.

Whether it’s an exclusive villa on the Costa Brava, a modern holiday home in Cape Town, a beach house in southern Europe or an idyllic residence in Australia, the owners and their (interior) architects always go in search of the essence of what it means to live in close contact with the sea: a relaxed way of life, simple and pure, modestly in keeping with contemplation of the constantly changing natural elements and the infinite horizon.

"We would like to take you with this book on a journey to some of the most beautiful and purest places on the globe. Skies are cerulean blue. Follow us as we set sail for distant, dreamy shores."
Diane Dorrans Saeks

Coastal dwellings around the globe that will inspire your life and dreams

"We would like to take you with this book on a journey to some of the most beautiful and purest places on the globe. Skies are cerulean blue. Follow us as we set sail for distant, dreamy shores."
Diane Dorrans Saeks

A house on the sea is something that many people dream of. This book takes you to the most beautiful locations in the world where the dream became true: full-page colour photos show places such as Øresund, the beaches of Mykonos, the dunes of the Hamptons and the coast of Brazil. Villas designed by famous architects like Poul & Hanne Kjærholm are presented, but also low-budget paradises built by the owners themselves, including a kind of Robinson Crusoe hut hidden in the tropical jungle on the coast of Costa Rica.

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.

In Secret Gardens, readers experience the magic of discovering beautiful, intricately planned and meticulously cultivated hidden worlds.

More than 200 spectacular images showcase 14 private gardens, extraordinary examples of landscape design that are inaccessible to the public, and which have never, or very rarely been featured in any publication.

From France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Caribbean, and more, these gardens offer a dizzying range of horticultural and conceptual diversity. The designers reflect on the steps that went into bringing the garden to life, and the book concludes with biographies of landscape architects whose work is featured within, explaining the creative vision of some of the most respected design professionals working today.

Landscape gardens featured include: - Fernando Caruncho, Majorca, Spain - Jinny Blom, Hertfordshire, England - Timothy Vaughan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Louis Benech, Pays d'Auge, France - Geoff Haughey & Richard Cadness, near Auckland, New Zealand - Ludwig Gerns, Germany - Dominique Lafourcade, Provence, France - Vladimir Sitta, Sydney, Australia - Erwan Tymen, Finistère, France.

London is a city of hidden gardens, a place where few ever glimpse the colourful secrets behind the sober townhouse facades. But the gardens are there, and beautifully revealed in this lovely book.

These gardens go beyond convention; they range from the large, classical and formal to tiny jewels. There are gardens on roofs and gardens in basements, gardens with water, English cottage gardens and modern gardens. There are gardens of artists and gardens of practical enthusiasts, collectors’ gardens, passionate plantsmen’s gardens, gardens restored, revived or reclaimed.

Thanks to the shared dreams of the owners and the ingenuity of London’s finest designers, this intriguing selection of unique places will delight and inspire anyone with an interest in gardens and gardening – and in learning one or two secrets along the way.

Explore the fabled beauty of Sera Hersham-Loftus's renowned interior decorations. The innovator of the seductive boudoir trend, Sera shows us the best of her design style adapted to a wide range of settings, including her own home, which has become one of the most popular locations for fashion, celebrity and interiors photo shoots. She has transformed everyday rooms into dream-like parlours and intimate hideaways, drawing on the idea of seductive meeting places for romantic rendez-vous as inspiration. Sera's elegantly Bohemian and hedonistic atmospheres are laced with an edgy rock'n'roll feel, attracting a cult following for her style all over the world. Intoxicating mixtures of crumbling antique furniture alongside huge blown-up black and white photos of her favourite rock stars fill the space. Both dark and light salons take on an air of seduction once decorated with Sera's trademark touches, from the enchanting soft lighting created by her 'Rude' lampshades - fashioned out of lingerie laces and trimmed with exotic chandelier drops - to her exquisite handmade wallpapers, inspired by opulent Parisian style. Including stunning photography by Gisela Torres, this provocative book perfectly epitomizes the spirit of Sera's seductive interiors - intensely sensual, delightfully playful, sublimely elegant and always filled with soul.

The 5th edition of the Spanish Graphic Design yearbook is dedicated to the different categories in Graphic Design - editorial, packaging, corporate identity, logos, posters, catalogues, exhibitions, etc. - also including a New Media section featuring websites, video and multimedia projects. The jury members for this years' selection have been: Sergi Arévalo, Laura Armet, Ricardo Bermejo, Ramón Castillo, Oyer Corazón, Pilar Gorriz, Marc Guardiola, Enric Jardí, Jose Mª Morera, Alfredo Olmedo, Ibán Ramón, Sebastián Saavedra and Tilman Solé.

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.

Explaining in detail the definition and design process for a real self-sufficient architecture in energy, water and food at the lowest possible price, this book aims to promote the establishment of a new model of architecture, called “integrated architectural model.” which is to substantially improve the design of buildings, educate society and to integrate in the architecture the least amount of technological additives. Similarly, buildings can generate the basic food and water capable of ensuring the survival of its occupants. To illustrate this comprehensive architectural model, we analyze five innovative and visionary projects by Luis De Garrido.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the technology company HP have developed an international contest with the idea of “self-sufficient city". It is an invitation to reflect on how we will live in the near future in the light of the social, cultural and technological changes in which we are immersed. This publication presents the projects of the 107 finalists between 708 participant proposals. From connected metropolises, eco neighbourhoods, self-sufficient buildings, intelligent homes or any other proposal for a short-, medium or long-term project such as the winning ones: “HURBS” proposed by Sergio Castillo Tello and María Hernández Enríquez from Spain and “WATER FUEL” by Rychiee Espinosa and Seth Mcdowell from the United States.

Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling. In the early 20th century, the concept of “dwelling” was defined as a “machine for living”, a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing a sustainable or self-sufficient dwelling, a living organism that interacts with its environment, exchanging resources, and which functions as an entirely independent entity. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has collected a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing.

Images of the Mediatheque have widely circulated in architectural media since 1995, when Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) that expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. Second in the series of Verb monographs, this book presents the process of design and construction of Ito's prototype during the six years between the building's initial design through to its completion in 2001. The Mediatheque aspires to integrate real and virtual worlds - or, in Ito's words, “the primitive body of natural flow and the virtual body of electronic flow”. Long after its completion, the Mediatheque is still evolving. An evolutionary building that combines the virtual and real into one design objective. Photos, drawings, and text.

In Serge Ramelli's photos, people are a secondary subject. What matters is the setting, the mood, the light, the environment. Typical elements and landmarks are shown as no one has quite seen before, except, perhaps, in a dream, or in a movie. In his unique and masterful way, Ramelli imbues a cinematic quality in the everyday. The viewer is spellbound by the suspense and suggestion of his images: what will happen next? 

Anyone familiar with Ramelli's black-and-white photographs of New York will marvel at the different sides of the city he captures in color-the luminosity of the yellow cabs and traffic lights and the interplay of natural and artificial light. Times Square, Broadway, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty-everyone has a different, mostly romantic, association with the many icons of this storied city, perhaps inspired by a book, a movie, a song, or a visit. That poetic trace, and many more, are sure to be found in this photo tribute, which reveals both the treasured NYC hotspots and lesser-known corners of the metropolis. 

A beautiful New York photography book unfolding in Ramelli's characteristic cinematic style-now, at last, in colour.

About the Author:

The French photographer Serge Ramelli specializes in urban and landscape photography. He is represented by YellowKorner, the leading publisher of art photography, with more than 78 galleries worldwide. Ramelli’s hit photography courses and tutorials have more than 300,000 YouTube subscribers. He has published photo books on Paris, New York, and Venice. Los Angeles is his fourth book with teNeues.