Архітектура

Explores the variety of high-rise buildings and the technologies behind them that make them not only effective as the buildings themselves, but also harness the natural environmental factors that make them more ecology and energy efficient.

  Slope & Rooftop Garden
8   Stockholm's Garden Library
20  Sky Village
30  Ewha Womans University Campus Center
36  Geumcheon-gu Office
50  VM Mountain Dwellings
60  Tropical Dream
70  Kring_ KumHo Culture Complex
84  Hyundai High School
90  Hudson Yards
94  House of the Healing Hill
100 Manhattan Roof Terrace
110 HUB ENTERTAINMENT
116 Sunjin Rooftop Space
124 Deerfield - Koch
128 The Cybertecture Egg
134 Pearl River Tower

    CourtyARD
138 DIO Public Relations Center
142 cafe yeoni
150 Xi Floating Stainless Steel Cloud
164 iGuzzini  Headquarters
168 Park Tower

    Balcony & Veranda
178 Dancing Apartment
182 Architectural Moussaka
188 Urban Cactus
194 NHQ CSOB
204 Rio Papaloapan
214 Synergy

    Hanging Garden
218 Ex Ducati
224 PRUGIO VALLEY
234 Kikkerville
240 Iceberg
246 KUELAP Lodge-Museum
250 Shenzhen Logistic City
254 parcel D

No other building type captures the imagination like the skyscraper, yet following the World Trade Centre tragedy, its future has been called into question. In Skyscraper, Eric Höweler presents convincing evidence that the future of tall buildings is as secure today as it was over one hundred years ago.

Described and accompanied by striking full-colour photography are over fifty new constructions that punctuate the skylines of the major cities around the world. Incisive essays delve into cutting-edge skyscraper design and building, as well as offering a brief history of the skyscraper, the evolution of the ‘green’ or sustainable skyscraper, their symbolism and design, and the meteoric rise of the skyscraper in Asia. A special section is devoted to the designs for Ground Zero, including never-before-published drawings and plans.

Far from being a dying form, the skyscraper continues to exert a huge influence on the international landscape, and a continued reinvention of the form awaits us in the next decade.

This vibrantly designed, updated and expanded edition celebrates every facet of the skyscraper as an architectural icon.

Few buildings rivet our attention like skyscrapers. As the race to build higher and higher continues, these symbols of success and economic power dominate and reshape urban skylines across the globe. Opening with Chicago’s Reliance Building, built in 1894, and closing with plans for the London BridgeTower, scheduled to be completed in 2011, eye-catching two-to-four page spreads in this up-to-date and comprehensive volume capture over fifty of the world’s most important skyscrapers. Each building is breathtakingly photographed and an accompanying text offers intriguing historical details, notes on construction, and engineering feats. Tracing the evolution of these magnificent structures, Skyscrapersillustrates their significance not only in architectural history, but also as a reflection of humankind’s most competitive and optimistic urges.

Ever taller and more dramatic, skyscrapers are being built everywhere. This book looks at contemporary examples, from the perspective of both their architecture and their engineering. The author explains the structural principles behind the creation of tall buildings and how they are designed to withstand earthquakes, high winds, fire and terrorist attack. An introduction covers the architectural and cultural history of the skyscraper, using choice examples to illustrate key engineering developments and the variety of basic design types. The main part of the book then analyzes 29 of the most interesting recent skyscrapers from around the world. Each project is illustrated in full colour, while the text, architects/'/ drawings and details show how the each is constructed and what innovative design features it incorporates. Featured architects include Foster & Partners, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid.

The Venetian blind pays homage to the shade, as a subtle mechanism capable of showcasing the light. Because, all in all, light is all we have left. We architects build spaces for the light to inhabit. Is an element of climate control that provides thermal inertia to the facade.  

The facade represents a building's outer skin, and it is through this outer skin - the design, choice of materials, textures, and tones used in its composition, that architects can endow a building with a particular character. This title provides a detailed look at some of the resurgence in the use of slats and venetian blind style designs.

This book explores the resurgent trend in using slats and venetian blind-style facades. The facade represents a building's outer skin, and it is through this outer skin - the design, choice of materials, textures, and tones used in its composition, that architects can endow a building with a particular character. Slats Facades is a superbly illustrated volume that provides a detailed look at some of the recent resurgence in the use of slats and venetian blind style designs. Filled with full-colour photography and detailed architectural plans and drawings, alongside discussions on how the architects and designer approached each project, this is must-have resource.

Any urbanite has faced the challenges of limited living space. This valuable survey of the latest in small-scale apartment and loft design features the best examples of smart and chic urban living from the most fashionable cities around the world. The apartments, lofts, and small houses profiled here prove that small-scale efficiency, as well as beautiful, thoughtful design, can overcome the apparent constraints of a tiny setting.

Each project includes a case history describing the challenges that confronted the designer and how these constraints were overcome.

Creating colour schemes to enhance the feeling of openness, taking advantage of high ceilings to make multiple levels, and using movable furniture and sliding doors to maximize space are some of the clever solutions that anyone can apply to their own homes.

Full of colour photographs and helpful floor plans, this book is a remarkable showcase of the latest design trends and creative ideas to turn any small space into a comfortable and modern home. It is an inspiration to anyone in interior design or residential architecture, as well as to anyone looking to improve and revitalize a small-scale home.

They are small but they have charm and character. Not much space to play with, but once you get cartain limitations there is no reason why you should not succeed inachieving spectacular results.

Saving Space. Big ideas for small buildings

Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages and push their designers to do more with less.

A dollhouse for Calvin Klein in New York, a playhouse for children in Trondheim, vacation cabins, and housing for victims of natural disasters are all part of the new rush to develop the great small architecture of the moment. The 2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito is here, but so are emergent architects from Portugal, Chile, England, and New Zealand. From world-famous names to the freshest new talent, come discover architectural invention on a whole new, small scale.

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 Saving space. Big ideas for small buildings

Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less.

A dollhouse for Calvin Klein in New York, a playhouse for children in Trondheim, pop-up stores for fashion stars, vacation cabins, and housing for victims of natural disasters are all part of the new rush to develop the great small architecture of the moment. The 2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito is here, but so are emergent architects from Portugal, Chile, England, and New Zealand. Alvaro Siza and Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) display their eye for tiny detail alongside artists Doug Aitken and Olafur Eliasson. From world-famous names to the freshest new talent, come discover architectural invention on a whole new, small scale. 

Bars are places where intercultural and multidisciplinary contexts are born, where styles, materials and activities fuse into one, where any given scenario can be staged from the harmony juxtaposed by our senses. These are places that put social mechanisms into motion: those based the need for individuals to communicate. They are places characteristic of any city on Earth, ones which represent the global reach of contemporary modern design, ones that aim to strike a balance where no single feature stands out over another.

Gardens are filled with structures: gazebos and pergolas, pools and children's playspaces, sheds, fences and arbors. These pose a unique challenge to planning a landscape that successfully navigates and envelopes the structures. Landscape design expert, Gordon Hayward, presents situations in which garden structures have successfully been incorporated into the overall plan. With clear, straightforward and insightful text this is fully illustrated with photographs and watercolors. It is a thoroughly inspirational and practical resource.

Big doesn’t always mean better. Small City Houses wants to prove that you don’t need many square meters to create wonderful spaces. The book is a collection of small homes that symbolize contemporary cultural coded values: compactness, efficiency and minimalism.

This book brings together a selection of ideas for urban dwellings which respond to the scarcity of construction space in a particularly way. From homes on miniscule and problematic plots of land to small planned urban refuges, the projects included here prove that the lack of square metres actually promotes creativity, equally in respect to that of the architects as of the occupants. In these homes, the finest details are taken care of, each and every corner systematically put to good use, helping to create a feeling of spaciousness and wellbeing.