Eduard Broto Knihy

Today?s home buyers want more than cookie-cutter designs. They want visually exciting, technologically smart houses. They want Unique Houses. Here are dozens of truly unique homes, packed with the latest ideas on layout, design, materials, and functionality. Each project is presented with full-color photographs, floor plans, commentary from the architects, construction details, and more. Just as no two home owners are alike, no two of these unique houses are alike―but all of them are sure to inspire.

Factories used to be just dark, Dickensian heaps of brick and concrete, with the occasional plume of black smoke rising from a tall chimney. But the acclaimed Factories and Industries showed the finest examples of today?s factories, smart buildings that are more than just containers for industrial activity. Now Factories and Industries 2 presents even more remarkable buildings, all worker-friendly and environmentally respectful. Here are the latest and most innovative factories, offices, warehouses, even waste treatment plants, all shown in full-color photos with full construction details.

The world?s coolest shoppers spend their money at the world?s coolest shops...the top shops. Last year?s Top Shops impressed store designers everywhere with its dynamic feature projects, full-color pictures, floor plans, construction details, and professional commentary. Now architects and interior designers who want to stay on top need Top Shops 2, packed with the most exciting and innovative stores introduced in the past year. It?s a top shop op that just won?t stop!Tops in store design―trendy, urban, contemporary.Hundreds of color photos of top shops from around the world.

Packed with a wealth of extraordinary and innovative proposals which will shape future residential architecture, this book offers a new coherent, detailed narrative on its subject. Leading architects together with emerging young professionals present a wide selection of projects including conventional vertical dwellings; buildings for specific groups; and residential complexes. All come to life on the page through fine colour photography and are clearly supported by floor plans and commentary. Of particular interest are the inclusion of ingenious solutions to problems, unexpected points of view and perceptions that will unquestionably influence the concept of residential architecture.