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Ultimate Guide to House Framing leads homeowners through the steps of building a structure by means of platform framing, the most popular style of framing in use today. The book also covers the latest in eco-friendly materials as well as green framing techniques.
The most up-to-date source for framing information, the book provides readers with everything they need to know about building, including structural loads and how they interact, sizing lumber, working with tools, and reading blueprints. It then takes the reader through the framing process - from foundations to fl oor framing, wall framing, roof framing, sheathing, and more.
This expanded and revised edition ends with three project chapters: building stairs, finishing a basement with steel studs, and framing a bay window.
Each chapter covers both construction and design information.
 

825 photos and illustrations to guide readers through the framing process

Over 320,000 of previous editions sold to date. Has consistently ranked as one of BookScan's top 50 titles within the House & Home category

Step-by-step instruction on floor, wall, and roof framing, with information on selecting and sizing lumber

An entire section devoted to the latest in "green" framing materials and techniques

Building stairs, finishing a basement using steel studs, and installing a bay window

Resource guide, index, and glossary

This sumptuously illustrated, beautifully produced book takes the reader on a visual tour of more than sixty of the world's most outstanding hotels. Divided equally among metropolitan and resort hotels in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East and packed with hundreds of color photographs, Ultimate Hotels is a must-have for anyone interested in distinctive style, service, and design in accommodations.

730 color photographs

State-of-the-art kitchen design strongly reflects the 21st century lifestyle. Now, more than ever, the kitchen really is the heart of the home, and there is a kitchen to suit every personality and design sensibility. The aim of this comprehensive selection of new designs is to showcase the best of what is happening in kitchens today. This book features the innovative use of materials by brands like Boffi, as well as original and alternative use of space by architects such as Messana OґRorke.

The lighting designer is at once an artist and an engineer. He uses the best technology available to reveal scope, space, and form both in landscapes and in urban environments and aims to do so in a way that achieves a functional, creative, and environmental result. This relatively recent profession is the focus of the latest title in teNeues Ultimate series. Lighting Design presents an illustrated overview of Hervé Descottes many projects. Founder of the renowned New York design firm L Observatoire International, Descottes collaborated with architects such as Steven Holl (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki), Frank Gehry (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA), Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and OMA/Rem Koolhaas (three museums in Seoul, South Korea), and Richard Meier (Restaurant 66, New York City).

730 color photographs 

This “city of light” has long been a world leader in so many ways, not least of them in design. This attractively illustrated book covers the most up-to-date Parisian design from the fields of architecture, interiors and fashion. With an in-depth round-up featuring projects for cultural, commercial, and residential spaces, we get a privileged glimpse at what’s happening in this creative capital. We also are granted access to the latest developments in product design and other specialties. Browse this book for a whole host of designs by native Parisians and those who work or live here.
* A comprehensive resource for all those wanting to know the latest design trends from Paris
* This sourcebook provides an extensive overview of recent design projects in Paris accompanied by biographies of and interviews with the architects and designers involved in each

730 color photographs 

Each of the more than sixty restaurants and bars featured in this compendium was carefully chosen for its remarkable interior design. Hundreds of color photographs highlight the groundbreaking work of the world's most distinguished architects and designers-their use of startlingly new combinations of color and texture to create unique, often otherworldly environments. Destinations covered are located throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia.

Today, the parameters of shop design have expanded exponentially. No longer is the retail landscape crafted only for shopping convenience and to reinforce brand identity. It has evolved to reflect the role of shops as a public space where we spend a large part of our leisure time. For this reason, architects and designers are increasingly pushing the boundaries when designing shop interiors. The result: the creation of unique and spectacular spaces within the city; spaces which engage and entertain even the most jaded browsers and add to the city’s dynamism.

Ultraluxe. A byword for comfort, where the ambience is comprised of carefully crafted interiors, unrivalled amenities and superlative service; in which the most discreet of staff attend to their guest’s every wish – in locations ranging from the international hot spots of Paris and New York to far flung villages in Cambodia, to exclusive island paradises and private villas in the Gulf offering the ultimate in spa treatments. From safaris to snorkelling to rural retreats, here is a selection of only the very best from around the globe.

Lavishly illustrated and written by an expert in the field, this is a book for the seasoned traveller in search of the latest destinations, for the adventurous looking for ideas for their next journey, for the design savvy who want cutting–edge accommodation in the world’s most prestigious cities, for interior designers and hoteliers looking for fresh inspiration, and for those who simply want to dream.

UN Studio, led by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, creates spaces that are surprisingly innovative.

Their work doesn`t rehash Modernism but rather embraces the digital age via the invention of new, time-based techniques expanding the imagination, exploding the hierarchy of the design process, and encouraging the input of different disciplines. UNStudio`s architecture is the result of a design strategy that repeatedly and constantly advances in different ways via leitmotifs called "design models." The most important examples of this new kind of architecture are the New Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, which has become the town`s new landmark. Another manifest aim is to come up with fundamentally new ideas for complex infrastructure projects and to give these a contemporary structure that fosters future (including urban) development.

This can be seen, for example, at the central train station in Arnhem, at the Ponte Parodi pier in Genoa, and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture´s (CCA) prestigious "Competition for the Design of Cities." This book presents an overview of UN Studio`s work to date.

About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

- approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
- introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
- the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
- an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings