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Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for half the cost of a comparable conventional home. Welcome to the straw bale house! Whether you build an entire house or something more modest-a home office or studio, a retreat cabin or guest cottage-plastered straw bale construction is an exceptionally durable and inexpensive option. What's more, it's fun, because the technique is easy to learn and easy to do yourself. And the resulting living spaces are unusually quiet and comfortable.

The Straw Bale House describes the many benefits of building with straw bales:

- super insulation, with R-values as high as R-50
- good indoor air quality and noise reduction
- a speedy construction process
- construction costs as low as $10-per-square-foot
- use of natural and abundant renewable resources
- a better solution than burning agricultural waste straw, which creates tons of air pollutants

The dream of summertime, waterfront living as embodied in the cottages of the Thousand Islands.

The Summer Cottage captures the charm of island living and waterfront houses, featuring the cottages and summer estates of the Thousand Island region, an archipelago of nearly two thousand islands in the St. Lawrence River between the U.S. and Canadian borders of New York and Ontario. Stunning beauty and quiet majesty mark the landscape encompassing this mighty river and its forested islands, on which are set the summer retreats that are so richly photographed here.

Boathouses, riverside porches open to fresh air and nature, gardens, and wonderful rooms that welcome the visitor are hallmarks of these homes. Featured are examples of the most charming and inspiring houses of the region, which range in style from Eastlake and Queen Anne to Arts and Crafts. These homes invite the viewer to share in the spirit of romance of a bygone age, which, fortunately for us - in these houses - has not yet slipped by.

This book, the one mainly targets at the showing of signboard and façade design of some excellent shops, selects more than 200 distinctive cases to give its readers fully interpretation. Its brilliant organization, with incisive text and fancy pictures, further enhances its readability. 11 different categories are covered in this book, including flagship store of luxury brand, leisure and entertainment facilities, dining space, art space, commercial plaza and etc. Some are international top brands like LV, Hermes and Armani; others may be less famous tiny shops of unique shopfront designs. So rich in content that this book will play a very big part in guiding the designers with various shopfront designs.

Project Introduction:

006-007　Flagship Store of Luxury Brands
008-011　Swarovski　［Central, Hongkong］
012-013　Swarovski　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
014-015　Salvatore Ferragamo　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
016-017　Prada　［Central, Hongkong］
018-019　Prada　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
020-023　Prada　［Shanghai International Financial Center］
024-028　Novo　［The Mixc, Shenzhen］
029-029　Novo　［Grand View Mall, Guangzhou］
030-033　Nike Store　［Beijing］
034-035　Miu Miu　［Tsim sha Tsui］
036-037　MaxMara　［Hongkong］
038-043　Louis Vuitton　［Central, Hongkong］
044-049　Louis Vuitton　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
050-059　Louis Vuitton　［Shanghai］
060-061　Hermes　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
062-063　Hermes　［Beijing］
064-067　Harvey Nichols　［Hongkong］
068-069　Gucci　［Central, Hongkong］
070-071　Gucci　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
072-073　Gucci　［Central, Hongkong］
074-075　Gucci　［Beijing］
076-077　Armani　［Central, Hongkong］
078-082　Giorgio Armani　［China Central Square, Beijing］
083-083　Fendi　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
084-085　Dior　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
086-087　Coach　［Central, Hongkong］
088-088　Coach　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
089-089　Chanel　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
090-090　Cartier　［Central, Hongkong］
091-091　Cartier　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
092-093　Cartier　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
094-095　Burberry　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
096-099　Burberry　［Beijing］
100-101　Adidas　［Beijing］
102-103　Fashion Store
104-108　:Chocoolate　［Beijing］
109-109　6ixty 8ight　［Hongkong］
110-110　Bla Bla Bra　［Hongkong］
111-111　Broadcast　［Beijing］
112-112　Diesel　［Hongkong］
113-113　Hosa　［Shanghai］
114-115　Teddy Family　［Beijing］
116-117　Joyce　［Hongkong］
118-119　Uniqlo　［Beijing］
120-121　Catalog　［Beijing］
122-122　Timberland　［London, UK］
123-123　Mascot Fashion　［Guangzhou］
124-124　Pa Fashion Store　［Guangzhou］
125-125　Esppit　［Hongkong］
126-126　Ariose & Years　［Hangzhou］
127-127　Sport 100　［Shanghai］
128-129　Luggage, Shoes and Hats Store
130-130　Lancel　［Shanghai］
131-131　Le Saunda　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
132-133　Longchamp　［Hongkong］
134-135　Mcm　［Hongkong］
136-137　Shoes　［Shanghai］
138-139　Watch & Jewellery
140-141　Anubis　［Shanghai］
142-142　Fochtmann　［Germany］
143-143　Kornmesser　［Austria］
144-144　Schullin　［Austria］
145-146　TiffanyY&Co　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
147-147　Lukfook Jewellery　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
148-149　Chou Tai Fook　［Hongkong］
150-150　Chou Sang Sang　［Hongkong］
151-151　Shining House　［Hongkong］
152-152　Breguet　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
153-153　Egg Optical Boutique　［Hongkong］
154-154　Franck Muller　［Shanghai］
155-155　Omega　［Hongkong］
156-159　Rolex　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
160-161　Rolex　［Causeway Bay, Hongkong］
162-162　Van Cleef & Arpels　［Tsim Sha Tsui］
163-163　Zenith　［Hongkong］
164-165　Commercial Plaza
166-167　Raffles City　［Beijing］
168-168　IFC Mall　［Shanghai］
169-169　Taikoo Hui　［Guangzhou]

The retro-futuristic epoch is one of the most visually spectacular in architecture’s history.

The utopian buildings of the 1960s and 1970s never go out of style. This book compiles radical ideas, rediscovered photos, and visionary structures.

Driven by idealistic visions, utopian architecture aimed to overcome social divisions and political strife, to put us in touch with nature, and to enable us to live humane, healthy lives. For half a century, it was both hope and inspiration.

The Tale of Tomorrow surveys this diverse twentieth-century phenomenon, featuring renowned works like The House of the Century or the TWA terminal, as well as lesser-known masterpieces, and profiling major thinkers such as Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, and Eero Saarinen. By digging through archives, corresponding with descendants of departed architects, and restoring photographs, the collection of utopian approaches herein maintains a visual power and infectious optimism.

Looking at past dreams, The Tale of Tomorrow is a call to reclaim our future.

Two decades ago, Tedd Benson helped kindle the dramatic rebirth of timber framing in this country. Today Benson and others are combining centuries-old timber-framing techniques with modern building materials to create houses that are as beautiful as they are durable and comfortable. In this book, Benson traces the history of the timber frame and tells how to create a new house in the tradition of old-world craftsmen.

Today's timber-frame house presents unique building problems. Where do you put plumbing and wiring if you don't have stud-frame walls? How do you incorporate glass into the framing to create dramatic views? How do you insulate a timber-frame home? How do you ensure that the building meets codes? In this one-of-a-kind book, a master timber framer shares extensive experience solving these problems. This new edition brings the latest advances in timber framing to life with hundreds of full-color photos and rendered drawings -- all the information you need to join the  revival.

The best work by Tom Scheerer, the contemporary dean of American interior design, presented in a two–volume set with a stunning caning–patterned slipcase

Elegant. Restrained. Unpretentious. Sophisticated. Informal. These seemingly contradictory adjectives all characterize the inimitable interior design of Tom Scheerer, who has himself dubbed his style “Relaxed Modernism.” For more than three decades, he has brought his singular touch to city apartments, country houses, and tropical getaways. Each of the dozens of projects compiled in this two–volume set reveals the fierce intelligence, impeccable sense of proportion, and encyclopedic knowledge of design history that inform his deceptively effortless work. In a New York Times review of Scheerer’s first book, Tom Scheerer Decorates, design journalist David Netto describes it as “a highly personal exploration of the vanishing art of great American design, as pioneered by Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley. Scheerer . . . is perhaps its most expert proponent today.” This collection, slipcased in the pattern of the designer’s signature caning, confirms Scheerer’s inclusion in the American design pantheon.

About the Authors:

Tom Scheerer began his decorating career in the mid–1980s after graduating from Cooper Union with a degree in architecture. He formed his own firm in 1995. He is the subject of Tom Scheerer Decorates and the author of Tom Scheerer: More Decorating. His work is regularly featured in Architectural Digest, Town & Country, House Beautiful, and Elle Decor. He is named annually to the AD100 list of top interior designers. He divides his time between New York, Paris, and Harbour Island.

Mimi Read is the author of Tom Scheerer Decorates. She writes about architecture and design for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and many other publications. She lives in New Orleans.

Francesco Lagnese is an internationally acclaimed interiors and travel photographer whose work appears regularly in Condé Nast Traveler, US, UK, and Italy, Vanity Fair, House Beautiful, Town & Country, Town & Country Travel, and Architectural Digest. He lives in Germany.

This second installment in the new Top Architects series is dedicated to the best architects from Japan. Together with renowned names such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Arata Isozaki, and Waro Kishi, this book presents rising stars in architecture in Japan. Each of the profiled works includes a biographical review of the architect and the architect's general vision of the work.

It is often said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. In The Touch, Kinfolk and Norm Architects present an alternative: that good design is not only visually appealing — it engages all of the human senses.

The Touch presents five essential building blocks of human-centric design — light, materiality, color, nature and community — and welcomes you into over 25 spaces that exemplify how haptic design elements can provide a richer quality of living. This new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects offers a wealth of inspiration through stunning photography, philosophical essays, and practical tips from the minds of design industry leaders.

About the Authors:

Nathan Williams is the co-founder of Kinfolk, a magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 2011, Kinfolk has become a leading lifestyle authority connecting a global community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo. Williams is the author of The Kinfolk Table, The Kinfolk Home, The Kinfolk Entrepreneur and The Eye.

Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen is a founding partner at Norm Architects with over a decade of experience as an architect, designer, art director and photographer. Norm Architects creates products, homes, exhibitions and commercial interiors for some of the most renowned design brands.

Since its foundation in 1897, Country Life has consistently featured new British houses, thus building up an unrivalled photographic archive on twentieth-century architecture and one that covers a much wider variety of houses than any other.

This archive forms the basis for Alan Powers' new study of twentieth-century houses, illustrated with 200 stunning colour and duotone photographs, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. The book is divided into chronological chapters covering the 1920s to the 1990s, preceded by an enlightening introductory essay on the changing nature of architectural style over the course of the century.

Both town and country houses are included, as well as remodellings of earlier buildings where the result has a clear twentieth-century character, such as London's glorious Eltham Palace.

"The Ultimate Garden Designer" is the complete guide to the world of garden design, packed with expert advice that shows you exactly where to put your patio and plant your perennials. With a comprehensive plant directory, a vast selection of garden features and over 600 beautiful colour photographs, plans and drawings, this book is the next best thing to hiring a garden designer.

Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use of excess earth - they are a pleasure to walk over and through.

In this collection of his recent work, Charles Jencks explains his particular approach to the landform. Like the prehistoric earthworks of Britain that have been an inspiration, such as Stonehenge, his landforms contain cosmic symbolism, and they draw together sculpture, epigraphy, water, gardens, scrap metal and architecture. They address perennial themes - identity, patterns of nature, death and the power of life - but in a contemporary way, based on the insights of science. So Jencks portrays universal aspects of DNA, the spacetime warp of a black hole, the extraordinary way cells divide and unite and some basic forms of life.

Other designs include sharp comments on recent events: a water garden of war in France critiques the 2003 invasion of Iraq using 'waterpults' and 'hose-guns' among other interactive features; a white garden made from birch trees, flying bones and computer graphics deals with some fatal consequences of modernity. Jencks addresses, with wit and irony, some of the strange possibilities that arise with extra-large landforms. Northumberlandia, perhaps the largest human figure ever made, presents the question of which body parts one can walk on safely, which are dangerous and which need to be suppressed. What became perhaps the heaviest work of art in the world, at 20 million tons, was also the opportunity to transform a large open-cast mine into a dynamic landscape of giant mounds and sculpted lakes.

As in his The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, to which this book is a sequel, Jencks seeks to define a new landscape iconography based on forms and themes that may be eternal, in the sense that they crystallise nature's laws, some of which have been recently discovered. To see a world in a grain of sand was a poetic quest of William Blake and, in a different sense, to find the universe in a ritual landscape was a goal of prehistoric cultures. Jencks allies these spiritual affinities with the view of science that stresses the common patterns that underlie all parts of the cosmos, thus making them like our home planet, and the universe in a landscape.

When reading the Chinese city, which this book sets out to do, it is not the well-known cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi an that are in the focus of attention, but rather the essentially Chinese of the Chinese city, those characteristics or attributes that are more or less shared by all Chinese cities. The spotlight is on their spatial grammar, their syntax, in short: their code. Only by deciphering their common traits a view to the underlying structure of Chinese cities is opened, and we can begin to reasonably evaluate and classify the diversity of impressions. Deciphering the code of the Chinese city also enables the author to read new Chinese towns designed by Western architects. Thus, readers are provided with valuable insight on China s booming urbanization and urban development.

An authoritative volume on the most innovative new residential design in cities around the globe

This carefully curated book presents twenty-five new and recent spaces for city living. Author Ron Broadhurst has selected projects that represent a set of ideas that can be described as belonging particularly to our time and which will shape how we think of living in the city in the future. Where the great experimenters of the last century were stripping away ornamentation and creating free-flowing spaces for the first time, today’s innovators are pioneering research in the potential of new materials for both formal invention and environmental sustainability and creating bold and sophisticated essays in the adaptive reuse of spaces originally designed for other purposes.

With the newest work from such design luminaries as Andrée Putman, Annabelle Selldorf, and Richard Meier, as well as emergent talents like Barbara Bestor and Messana O’Rorke, The Urban House is a uniquely coherent volume on the best in new residential design.

About the Authors:

Ron Broadhurst is the author of Houses: Modern Natural/Natural Modern and Next Houses: Architecture for the Twenty-First Century, Retreat: The Modern House in Nature Pritzker Prize–winner

Richard Meier is a world-renowned architect whose five-volume monograph was published by Rizzoli

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No city has played a more seminal role in the development of "landscape" as a concept than has Venice. In a city where the land and gardens are reclaimed from a lagoon environment whose ecology is in jeopardy today, they are the very basis of life, dwelling, and culture. This book develops a typology of gardens distinguished by their predominantly small scale, all of which work with essential dimensions of landscape architecture: private and public space, usefulness and beauty, and open space in a densely built environment that is permeated with history.

From nearly one hundred city gardens, squares, and courtyards, public parks and temporary gardens, this book identifies garden layout and design elements that involve both material factors – spatial and design-related features – as well as the social circumstances of their use.

The areas presented include the Arsenale, where the Paradise Garden was created for the 2008 Biennale by Gustafson Porter, and the giardini and public gardens that – since their creation two hundred years ago – have served as a laboratory for making Venice into a modern city with a strong appeal to the "natural"