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When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose - drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the architecture, infrastructure, and even the natural environment of the country.

"Carscapes" relates the history of the car's impact on the physical environment of England from its early beginnings to the modern motorway network, focusing especially on its architectural influence. The authors offer a detailed look at the litany of structures designed specifically to accommodate cars: garages, gas stations, car parks, factories, and showrooms.

Presenting a comprehensive study of these buildings, along with highways, bridges, and signage, "Carscapes" reveals the many overlooked ways in which automobiles have shaped the modern English landscape.

Fighters made of bronze, gigantic wall reliefs depicting heroic workers or cosmonauts, and socialist pomp….

When you enter subway stations in Eastern Europe and in countries that were once part of the USSR today, time seems to stand still. The stations are chroniclers of the history and art of a long-vanished world power. In this volume, photographer Frank Herfort presents around 20 metro systems of the Soviet era from Moscow to Bucharest, from Baku to Tbilisi. His focus is on the details, capturing over 700 works of art with his camera. They were conceived as prestige projects, thousands of kilometres apart and created under different conditions at different times. The stations in his photographs come together to form a holistic and comprehensive representation of socialist art that does not stand alone but relates to the everyday life of people today.

With texts by Knesia Smirnova, specialist in monumental Soviet art and architecture, deputy director at Shchusev State Museum of Architecture.

Frank Herfort has spent over a decade photographing interiors of various public spaces throughout Russia and Eastern Europe. An architectural photographer by trade, Herfort’s personal work is a homage to the décor of the Soviet era that is still very present. Yet, transported into the present, the boundaries between time and context blur and the readers are enabled to create their own narratives.

School buildings are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the next generation of teachers and students. This book presents more than 40 projects from the USA, showcasing leading elementary and secondary school design. Featured projects factor in important design elements including security and safety, new technology, resource centres and energy conservation. They must also accommodate flexible learning environments for a range of student groups. Full-colour photos, plans, drawings and descriptive text accompany the projects. The book was complied and written by architect and critic Michael J. Crosbie, author of best- selling Architecture for the Gods.

Some 130 commercial interiors by designers from all over the world are assembled here to demonstrate the latest design ideas in this field. Various types of commercial spaces and functions are included: offices, restaurants, hotels, cultural events, fitness centres, exhibitions and retail stores. All are newly completed and show an imaginative manipulation and interpretation of design. Exceptionally fine photographs and brief introductions further contribute to a comprehensive reference for commercial interior designers.

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The poetic aspect of a construction material – about 70 projects from the last five years present how architects “knead” concrete structures, which amazing qualities can be developed by exposed concrete and that concrete does not need to be grey. In this book, it is shown that the popular material has more to offer than it is usually assumed.

In this book, Chinese star architects/architectural design firms present their works completed since 2000. These buildings are created with innovative concepts and unique architectural languages for cultural events, such as museum, art galleries, and memorials. They witness the inheritance and development of Chinese culture in contemporary China, and they are the windows created by Chinese leading architects for the world to know Chinese culture.

Project Introduction:

008 SHANXI GRAND THEATRE
018 SERVICE COMPLEX BUILDING FOR STUDENTS OF BUCEA
024 FEI XIAOTONG MEMORIAL MEMORIAL IN JIANGCUN VILLAGE
032 359TH BRIGADE ARAR SETTLEMENT MEMORIAL HALL AND PLAZA
040 MASSACRE NANJING MEMORIAL HALL EXTENSION
052 ZHUJIAJIAO MUSEUM OF HUMANITIES & ARTS
062 G-DOT ARE SPACE
070 JIA PINGWA LITERARY ART MUSEUM
076 ZHENGDONG DISTRICT URBAN PLANNING EXHIBITON HALL
084 MOUNT HUA VISITOR CENTRE
094 CULTURE AND SPORTS CNETRE, ANTING
104 JINTAO VILLAGE COMMUNITY PAVILION
112 NORTHSTAR DELTA PROJECT EXHIBITION CENTRE
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250 INSIDE-OUT ART CENTRE
256 INDEX

The Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank O. Gehry was the magnificent catalyst of a building boom at the end of the last millennium. Since that time, the architecture itself, whether new buildings, renovations or reconstructions, significantly contributes to the attractiveness of a museum and its surroundings. This title presents more than 170 museums, constituting a cross-section of the possibly most interesting and diverse building assignments of our time – whether elegant, daring, or experimental, depending on the institution and the area of specialization.

In addition, the volume also presents the history of the collections, explains the origins of the collection base and highlights key exhibits. The background of each museum is presented along with educational or conservation goals. The book presents the most diverse museum types – from company and corporate museums, via technology and natural science museums, up to literature and history museums, and, of course, a multitude of art museums.

From the contents:

- Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, USA (Studio Daniel Libeskind)
- Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada (OMA)
- Langen Foundation in Hombroich, Germany (Tadao Ano)
- Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias in Valencia, Spain (Santiago Calatrava)
- Louvre Abu Dhabi in UAE (Ateliers Jean Nouvel)

The re-use of buildings is not only natural and necessary, it's amazing. This book offers a selection of churches, convents and monasteries converted for new uses. Preserving their old structure and very special rooms, these buildings have become modern and luminous spaces: art centers, galleries, hotels, theaters, lofts, houses, commercial buildings, and more. Converted churches shows 35 highly suggestive projects, as a result of this contrast between the original shell and the modern elements, transformed by renowned or just brilliant architects and designers such as Jean Nouvel, Luis Vicente Flores, Matthew Lloyd Architects or Paredes Pedrosa.

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU s projects include recent urban structures like the BMW Welt, Munich (2001 07), the Musée des Confluences, Lyon (2001 10), and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2003 11). These and many others are presented through photographs, renderings, planning materials and sketches and offer the reader a look at realized structures as well as construction projects that are still in the planning stages. Texts from Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin and Peter Noever highlight the relationships between the specific work of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and architecture, history, literature, film and art. Project-specific and programmatic texts from COOP HIMMELB(L)AU offer an in-depth look at the conceptual practices of the architects, whose work is some of the most innovative and important of our time.

Turn a company’s identity into three-dimensional reality

• Twenty-five dynamic projects, the best in global corporate design

•  Photos, drawings, technical details, commentary from the designing architects

Architecture turns a company’s image and its corporate identity into three-dimensional reality. New interpretations, fresh viewpoints, and design innovations are the hallmark of the 25 projects featured in Corporate Buildings, a showcase of the best in corporate design. With vivid photographs, drawings, technical details, and commentary from the architects themselves, this book provides an endless source of inspiration and information.

Cox Architects is world-renowned for many aspects of its work, not the least of which has been extending an Australian architectural ethos beyond houses and into large-scale projects such as the Yulara Tourist Resort in Uluru. It is also recognised for creating dramatic and sculptural buildings in steel such as the Brisbane and Sydney Exhibition Centres, the Olympic Aquatic Centre and Superdome, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. In concentrating on work produced in the last five years, this publication profiles and explores the much broader idiom in which Cox Architects practices. The book is divided into two sections, the first comprising a series of essays on the nature of different project types and the second describing recent and current projects, putting philosophy into practice. While the projects have been selected for their diversity of problem solving, client requirements, context and scale, they reveal some constant passions for enriching the city and landscape, for harnessing new technologies, and for imparting environmental sensitivity and cultural relevance to the built environment.

'Cultural Architecture' presents 27 projects by the best Chinese architects and architectural design firms. Featured buildings were created with innovative concepts and unique architectural languages for cultural events, such as museums, art galleries and memorials.

The work of Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (DLN) is a search for an architecture that respects and blends into society. It seeks to anticipate the evolving needs of the community at large and to respond to the perception, sensitivity and culture of the individuals who become the end-users. DLN's architecture is motivated by an appreciation of these complex functional and social requirements that it seeks to convert into space and form. The large office, residential and mixed-use projects designed by DLN have become increasingly well-known city landmarks. This monograph features diverse projects that include the YKK Industrial Building, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong Government Office and Magistrate's Courts, CITIC Plaza, as well as hotels, residential, and institutional projects.