Общественные здания и пространства

A unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. 

Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century hôtel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a distinctively contemporary setting, each residence rivals the next in its beauty, art collection, and period furniture set against a backdrop of accomplished refinement. 

Alain Stella invites us over the threshold inside the most prestigious chancelleries and ambassador residences in Paris — from China and Peru to Egypt and Poland. Tapestries inspired by Goya’s drawings grace the lavish salons at the Spanish residence. Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand created a minimalist interior at the Japanese residence that evokes the refined style of a traditional Japanese home. The palace of Eugène de Beauharnais — home to the German ambassadors since 1818 — retains its elaborate Empire style, intact since the time of Josephine. 

Superb photographs, specially commissioned for this book over the course of a year, divulge the secrets of these previously unpublished artistic and architectural treasures.

About the Author:

Alain Stella is a traveler and writer. He has published numerous books with Flammarion including The Book of Coffee (1997), The Book of Tea (1992/2005), The Little Book of Coffee (2001), French Tea: Mariage Frères—Three Centuries of Savoir-Faire (2009), Distinctive Vintages (2008), and The Book of Spices (2000). 

Francis Hammond’s photographs have been published in French Tea: Mariage Frères and Elegant Entertaining (2009). He regularly works in the fashion and advertising industries, contributes to international magazines, and divides his time between New York and Paris.

HKS, headquartered in Dallas with offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Orlando, Richmond, Salt Lake City, and Tampa provides professional services in architecture, planning, structural engineering, interior architecture and graphic design. Founded in 1939, the firm has grown to be one of the largest architectural and engineering firms in the USA, with more than 500 employees and projects located in over 200 cities, in 42 states. HKS's business philosophy emphasises the performance and achievement of client goals. The deliberate and effective application of this service philosophy has resulted in the consistent delivery of projects that are well designed, technically well executed, and completed within budget and on schedule. This book documents a selection of the firm's best work.

The hospital of the future views itself as being a modern service provider: the patient is a customer who is wooed with a medical and care-focused service. Central aspect of this new thinking in the field of health care provision is the quality of life and the well-being of patients, staff and visitors.

Architecture and design are becoming integral components of the approach to treatment and recovery. Special uses of light and colour, sustainability in the choice of materials and the flexibility of rooms: all form innovative concepts in contemporary hospital architecture – whether brand new building, conversion, or extension project.

Hospital Architecture for the Future focuses its attention on 80 high quality buildings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Using texts, photos, design sketches and ground plans, the collection illustrates the shape of pioneering trends in contemporary hospital buildings. All of these architects have one thing in common: the endeavour to make the individual, and the needs of the individual, the key focus of their designs.

Hospital design is one of the most complex, yet also the most interesting architectural projects, as it is a unity of technology and construction. This book present a series of case studies of selected hospital buildings, from the last five years, which both illustrate the functional importance of such purpose-built edifices but, furthermore, gives consideration to the aesthetic criteria of the architecture. Through these highly illustrated case studies, this book explains the essence of hospital design.

Colour does not have to mean gaudy – the representative book demonstrates the different functions of colour in an architectural design. It supports the creation of atmosphere and space, provides orientation aid or contributes along with lighting effects to a special night ambience. The proven expert Dirk Meyhöfer, who has chosen about 70 projects from the last five years, provides background information, including the role of colour since the days of the Bauhaus.

From the contents:

_Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum (Neutelings Riedijk Architects)
_Federal Environment Agency in Dessau (Sauerbruch Hutton Architects)
_Olympic Village in Turin (Steidle Architects)
_Idea Store Whitechapel in London (Adjaye / Associates)
_Disney Store Headquarters in Los Angeles (Clive Wilkinson Architects)

This book collects recent completed civic office buildings world wide. Various types of civic office buildings are included, such as government office building, justice center, fire station, Emergency Operations Center, shelter and etc. With abundant beautiful pictures, you would find an all-round illustration of different designs of the up-to-date civic office buildings.

While emphasizing the function of public service and government administration, the architects present the buildings with diverse styles and distinctive features. Here readers would be fascinated by the elegant charm of the architecture and some of the designers here, with amazing and stunning creativity, offers us an authentic view of the world civic office buildings which illustrated with exquisite picture and limpid texts.

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is an extensively illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award®-winning visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. Its tale begins with a small team of craftspeople, engineers, and artists who pioneered analog effects that had never before been attempted or realized on the screen for Star Wars. Industrial Light & Magic continues their story through the effects facility’s mind-bending work, over the following three decades, on more than three hundred films - from optical printing to the digital and computer-generated-effects era. A behind-the-scenes record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven moviemaking magic, the book features candid stories from the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural landmarks, such as the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, E.T., Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park.

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is the first and only book to focus on the company’s work during the last sixteen years, detailing its creative and technological innovations on dozens of blockbuster films. Through firsthand accounts of the problem solving that has pushed the art form of visual effects to its limits and created visual experiences that could only have been dreamed of in the past, the book features extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Muren, John Knoll, Scott Farrar, Roger Guyett, Ben Snow, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and many others. Their accounts are supplemented by more than 400 images from many of ILM’s breakthrough movies, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, offering a crash course on the most groundbreaking visual effects created today.

This interdisciplinary collection is a window to current events in architectural sphere for the year, made in two volumes annually. *Public Facilities *Culture Facilities *Residence Facilities *Medical & Welfare Facilities

This interdisciplinary collection is a window to current events in architectural sphere for the year, made in two volumes annually. International Architecture Annual 7 Selected from the different fields for the best works as to see through Architecture from Jan. to Dec. 2003 made by two volumes. *Public Facilities *Business Facilities *Neighborhood Commerce Facilities *Medical Treatment Facilities