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Creating a distinctive image while guaranteeing autonomy for each shop, integrating communal areas and handling parking and public facilities are just some of the challenges of designing shopping malls. Outstanding examples of the successful resolution of these challenges are included in these pages. Floor plans, textual information, sketches and full-color photographs make this an exhaustive reference for design professionals, architects and urban planners.

This book is bursting with some of today’s most original and impressive work in the field of shop design. Leading designers and architects showcase their finest projects to create a dazzling compendium of ideas full of imagination, while at the same time intelligently designed for a specific purpose: to sell the products. Explanatory texts accompany striking, full-color photographs which highlight all facets of each and every one of the featured projects. This is truly an essential book in the collection of all professional designers, students and enthusiasts alike.

Smart business owners know the value of well-designed signs. They capture the customer s attention, provide the first impression and communicate the type of business. Sign Gallery 7 offers a wide range of excellent signs for businesses and budgets of all types. These are the winners of the annual Signs of the Times International Sign Design Competition. The types of signs include electric signs and channel letters, neon signage and graphics, digital displays, painted and vinyl signs, carved, routed and gilded dimensional signs, digitally printed banners, large-scale wall murals, architectural sign systems, vehicle graphics, entry monuments and more. Sign Gallery 7 provides the photos and descriptions that will help anyone to design and fabricate more eye-catching and effective signs: the kinds of signs smart business owners demand.

About the Author
Signs of the Times is the world leading magazine on sign information, and its annual sign design competition attracts the finest projects from around the world.

Sign Graphics delves into the world of graphic signage and wayfinding, which can be found anywhere from retail stores, museums, theaters, and libraries to airports, subway stations, highways, and public spaces. Signs everywhere attract us with their stunning visual image, while presenting us with a coherent message. This book features sections on "Graphic Identity," which explores visual representations of companies and their corporate image; "Interior Artworks," which examines beautifully designed signs, murals, and posters in interior spaces; and finally "Environmental Signs," which presents eye-catching signage applied to outdoor landscapes, creating a powerful visual presence. Complete with an extensive array of beautiful, color images, Sign Graphics is a detailed look at cutting-edge sign and wayfinding designs from top creators and sites around the world.

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Country style evokes ideas of simple, natural comfort and these ideas can be recreated in all types of home. With chapters looking at ways of bringing the country into a city home, creating a relaxed kitchen and choosing colours and fabrics, Simply Country shows you how easily traditional styles can be used to create the ideal of relaxed modern living.

The studio residence of Wendell Burnette Architects is designed to be like an oasis in the Arizona desert, with an interior garden in the entryway full of light, shade, and water. Wendell Burnette’s travels in Europe and Mexico are evident in the international, timeless style found in his architecture. The building is the physical embodiment of the firm’s philosophy, which is the desire to create spaces that engage people. Wendell Burnette Architects is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

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.

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.

Sister Parish was the grande dame of American twentieth-century decorators and is credited with developing the style of interior decoration known as 'American Country Style'. Parish-Hadley, the decorating firm she founded and ran with her business partner, Albert Hadley, was extremely successful and it produced a huge body of work, but Sister's most famous client was Jacqueline Kennedy, for whom she worked at the White House and at Glen Ora, a presidential retreat in Virginia.

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.