Архитектура

На берегу Южно-Китайского моря в городе Шэньчжень американский архитектор Стивен Холл завершает реализацию уникального проекта – штаб-квартиры крупнейшей в Китае девелоперской компании Vanke. Офисы, отель и апартаменты «спаяны» здесь в единый объем, распластанный горизонтально и оторванный от земли – под землей при этом спрятан конференц-центр, спа и парковки. Общая длина надземного корпуса достигает высоты нью-йоркского Empire State Building, что делает определение «горизонтальный небоскреб», происходящее из эскизов Эль Лисицкого, оправданным при описании этого объекта. Такая архитектура, конечно, требует нетривиальных инженерных решений: небывалых величин достигают пролеты и выносы консольных частей. К тому же здание, находящееся в тропиках, имеет высочайшие показатели сбережения затрат на кондиционирование. Читателям журнала предоставляется возможность познакомиться и с архитектурным замыслом Холла, и с находками его партнеров – конструкторов, инженеров и строителей.

В последнем номере журнала TATLIN PLAN за 2008 год вниманию читателей предстанет, пожалуй, ключевой объект китайской олимпиады – Национальный стадион в Пекине, построенный по проекту швейцарских маэстро Пьера Херцога и Жака де Мерона. Стадион, способный вместить до 96000 зрителей, с самого начала окрестили «птичьим гнездом». Его основу – конструктивную и визуальную – составляет уникальная наружная несущая оболочка, на первый взгляд абсолютно нерегулярная, как гнездо хищной птицы. Швейцарские архитекторы загадали китайским инженерам своеобразную головоломку, которую те с блеском решили, придумав, как с помощью неповторяющихся несущих и ненесущих стальных стержней общей длиной 36 км и массой 45 тонн соорудить задуманную конструкцию. Читатели TATLIN PLAN смогут узнать все подробности архитектурных, конструктивных, инженерных решений этого удивительного объекта.

Журнал TATLIN PLAN представляет один единственный проект. Вся архитектурная «кухня», подробные сведения по проектированию объекта, его инженерии и технологиям, которыми пользуются сегодня самые передовые архитекторы. Актуальность издания предопределена его характером. Журнал уже пользуется спросом не только у практикующих архитекторов, но и привлекает внимание конструкторов, инженеров и строителей.

Журнал открывает рубрика, подробно представляющая историю создания проекта (эскизы, рендеры, макеты, схемы). Основной блок составляет подборка основных листов рабочей документации. Рассказ об объекте завершается фотографиями процесса строительства и готового здания. Каждый номер содержит подробное описание архитектурных и технических решений, подробные данные об авторах и разработчиках проекта.

Front yards make strong first impressions. Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book gives you the tools you need to make your yard's first impression spectacular. The first outdoor book in Taunton's popular Idea Book series, this book is filled with practical ideas on everything from creating an inviting entry and driveway to lighting for mood and safety to designing the right foundation plantings. Dozens of site plans and creative solutions to common landscaping problems make this an invaluable hands-on guide that puts curb appeal within reach of every home.

Taunton's Front Yard Idea Book is packed with...

• creative landscaping plans for all site shapes and sizes -- from tiny, in-town lots and homes on steep slopes to traditional suburban neighborhoods and country farmhouses
• everything you need to know about how to improve curb appeal
• innovative solutions to common landscaping problems, such as poor drainage, unwanted views, limited parking space, and lack of privacy

35 unique projects to make full use of any small space you have, whether you live in the country or the city. Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales.

‘Emma Hardy has created a book perfect for the novice gardener. Everything is broken down into simple steps, which makes it feel more like a DIY project than a gardening chore’ - Design Sponge

 'Short on space? Never fear – a new book shows how you can use cake stands, eggshells and even colanders to create tiny container gardens for your home’ - Telegraph Gardening

No matter how tiny your space – indoor or outdoor, garden, balcony or even a windowsill or tabletop – here you will find original and inspiring ideas. The projects range from an elegant fern terrarium and a scented spring bulb basket to colourful woven bags and sacks filled with cheerful summer blooms. There are edible gardens, including fruit bushes planted in catering-sized kitchen pans and a vertical garden of herbs grown on a wooden stepladder. You will find ideas for using salvaged containers, such as a metal bathtub filled with vegetable plants, food tins used for an indoor garden of wildflowers and wooden drawers filled with trailing plants. And at the teeniest end of the scale, there are miniature tabletop gardens created in eggshells! Children can learn basic gardening skills too, by following the step-by-step photos to make a magical fairy garden or a mysterious dinosaur terrarium. Whether you are looking for ideas for all-year foliage or for a summer display of flowers, wanting to grow your own veggies and herbs, or needing to revamp your balcony, Teeny Tiny Gardening provides all the inspiration and practical knowledge you need.

About the Author:

Emma Hardy is a stylist and designer who has worked on various lifestyle and interiors magazines, including Country Homes and Interiors and Marie Claire. Her previous books include Decorating Gift Baskets, Green Crafts for Children and Sewing in No Time, all available from CICO Books. Married with two daughters, Emma lives in south London.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Architecture on the move

As economic problems make some shy away from grandiose, long-lasting buildings, a wave of new temporary buildings and architectural is sweeping over the planet. These can have uses from emergency relief to concert or performance venues. Another fascinating area that is covered here is exhibition and fair design, a veritable treasure trove of exciting designs that come and go in the space of a week or less, to show fashion, jewelry or design. Fashion shows or art displays are all part of this dynamic trend that includes some of the great names in contemporary architecture like Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, but also many architects that you have never heard of until now!

Featured architects and practices include:
Werner Aisslinger, Atelier Bow Wow, Aybar Mateos, Cecil Balmond, Shigeru Ban, Bernardes Jacobsen, BIG, Alberto Campo Baeza, Carmody Groarke, Santiago Cirugeda, Coop Himmelblau, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Ecosistema Urbano, Olafur Eliasson, Ammar Eloueini, Essentia, Established & Sons, Fantastic Norway, Mark Fisher, Massimiliano Fuksas, Laurent Grasso & Pascal Grasso, Zaha Hadid, Heatherwick, Institute of Computational Design, Toyo Ito, Adam Kalkin, Ken Min Architects, Koers Mulder, Adolf Krischanitz, Liu Jiakun, LOT-EK, MAPT, Miralles Tagliabue, MOS, Eric Owen Moss, NASA, Ivan Navarro, Jean Nouvel, OBRA Architects, OMA, OMD, John Pawson, Philippe Rahm, Raumlabor Berlin, Francesc Rifé, Michael Rojkind, Rotor, Tomas Saraceno, SO-IL, Tamassociati, Javier Terrados Cepeda, UNStudio, Helena Willemeit, Tokujin Yoshioka.

Ten in One: The Architects. A special edition gathering ten seminal Basic Architecture monographs

The Basic Architecture series is a building aficionado’s delight, with crisp images and texts that give you the full picture. This reference work combines 10 complete monographs for the price of three, introducing us to the architects who challenged and changed the way we live: Aalto, the Bauhaus, Gaudí, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Niemeyer, Ponti, and F. L. Wright.

People say that the most successful homes are the most sustaining and invigorating to live in, or even just to visit. This is true of Barton Court, the house in Berkshire where Terence Conran has made his country home since 1977. It has been a family home, a centre to his Habitat Design business, a factory and studio for producing commercial and domestic furniture, a laboratory for testing his recipes and writing cookery books and has a working fruit, vegetable and herb garden, supplying produce for his restaurants. Through the objects that Terence has collected, and the things he finds on his travels, we can learn, not only about the man behind a multi-million pound empire, but the processes that stimulate his creativity and the sources of his inspiration.

200 color photographs

Whether one lives in a house in the country or an apartment in town, terraces are a treasured amenity, extending living spaces to the outdoors while allowing nature inside. This lavishly illustrated fantasy book highlights twenty spectacular terraces of every variety−rooftop terraces, garden terraces, solariums−and provides tips on how to renovate, dйcorate and make maximum use of the space allotted to each. Located around the world, many have been designed by the world’s leading architects and will provide wonderful inspiration for anyone seeking to improve an existing terrace or add a new one.

Terraces, Balconies, Roofgardens and Patios – This book offers different exterior spaces classified by type: terraces, balconies, patios and roof garden; projects articulated around the work areas that comprise the most representative trends of the modern garden. Large format book with quality photographs and plans.

Terry Farrell was one of the pioneers of the Postmodern style, as seen in his iconic early TV-am building. This is the first book to focus on his interiors, where he consciously developed that style in its heyday and beyond.

As well as the original design for TV-am, the book includes 19 of his most striking interiors, such as the Charles Jencks House, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, and Charing Cross Station. Divided into three chapters on home interiors, gallery and museum interiors and workplace interiors, the book shows how Farrell’s designs have been influenced by his work as one of the world’s foremost urban planners and how they are integrated with their urban context.

Terry Farrell Interiors and the Legacy of Postmodernism will appeal to all those interested in contemporary architecture and interior design. It serves as a unique and invaluable document of the Postmodern era and makes Farrell’s argument for the continuing legacy of Postmodernist architecture.

 Terry Farrell is a widely renowned architect whose work can be found all over the world and includes such major works as the MI6 building and the Charing Cross redevelopment in London, The Peak in Hong Kong and Incheon International Airport in South Korea.

Never before has a volume of such lavishness been devoted to printed textiles. Covering the past two centuries, during which the Industrial Revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, Textile Designs presents a dazzling, comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration.

These are presented by pattern and motif, in contrast to the chronological displays in most books and museums. The dates and countries of origin are supplied wherever known.

This visual encyclopaedia groups textiles by pattern under five headings: Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles. Because of the world-wide interest, this edition includes translations of all the pattern names, as well as brief general introductions to the book in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

Textile Designs will be indispensable not only to fashion and decoration professionals, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for quiltmakers and collectors, and a delight for all lovers of the beautiful.

This book provides ideas and projects for using fabrics and textiles in the home. It contains details of all of the fabrics available and their characteristics. It is the textile Bible for the 21st century. Using textiles cleverly is an essential part of interior design and decoration. They give a room, focus and depth and bring warmth and softness to the most unprepossessing space.

This book reveals the richness and charm of textiles from all over the world and shows how even the smallest scrap of a beautiful old fabric can enhance an interior.

The book shows how textiles have been used around the world throughout history and demonstrates how they can be used today. This book uncovers the secrets of the top designers and features a selection of interiors showing how to use different types of textiles.

This book surveys the astonishing array of textiles made, worn, used and displayed throughout the Islamic world, from the glorious fabrics of the past to those still being produced today.

Lavish illustrations feature examples from around the globe, including embroidered Persian prayer cloths, Anatolian ikat coats, Ottoman knitted purses, Caucasian striped silk bags, Berber women’s shawls, Arab appliquéd tent decorations, Yemeni indigo robes, Indonesian batik sarongs, West African strip-woven cloths, and much else besides.

Region-by-region coverage offers concise details of local history, particular textile traditions, materials, dyes, special forms of decoration and information on current practice. Also explored is the fascinating fusion promoted by the merchants, missionaries, migrants and conquerors who travelled the world promulgating Islam and trading textiles widely.

The variety on display is stunning, from hemp to sumptuous velvets and silks; from quilting, felting, beading and knitting to block-printing, tie-dyeing and hand-weaving.

Textiles owe their development to religion, commerce, exchange and travel, and their vibrant and creative preservation to tenacious regionalism. Artists and designers from India, Mali, Madagascar, Morocco, Burkina Faso and Nigeria have reinvigorated art and fashion by using the fabrics and graphic elements they find on the streets of London, Paris and New York and other cities.

Extraordinary technological developments, from colour-changing, light-sensitive camouflage to emergency shelters of cement-impregnated fabric bonded to an inflatable plastic, are included here alongside the simply beautiful, such as Eley Kishimoto’s patterns that point to the historical exchange of ideas between the East and the West, or the astonishing colour transmutations of Morphotex.

Pieced together much like the fine garments it portrays, this colourful volume guides the reader on an international textile tour, presenting in over 700 glorious photographs a raft of remarkable clothing, people and fabric from all over the world.

Taking the reader from Vietnam to Benin, from Central America to Eastern Europe, the book is brimful of stunning costumes, sumptuous fabrics and breathtaking detail.

Both an ethnographic textile map and a fabric-inspired travelogue, it explores and reveals many secrets about international textile crafts, including weaving, dyeing and appliqué. All designers, as well as anyone who loves fashion, will find this volume a huge source of inspiration, as will fans of off-the-beaten-track travel destinations.