Taking a new look at the uses of wood in home construction, each of the featured projects in this book is clearly explained by the designers themselves as they illustrate the highest degree of architectural quality in the innovative application of wood.
Without an engaging and appealing ambience, any budding restaurant or bar will have a hard time drawing patrons in― and that's what the designers of these successful establishments had in mind when coming up with these truly original spaces. This diverse collection is an excellent cross-section of some of the most cutting-edge wining-and-dining hotspots in the world.
Exciting corporate events?planned by architects and designers!Explores new opportunities for design professionals.Dozens of projects, complete with commentary, full-color photos, and plans.
Tiny space? Limited budget? Check out these creative exhibits. The most vibrant and varied exhibits from around the world. Commentary from the designers themselves. Here are some of the most vibrant and varied exhibition stands from the world's top names in design and architecture. The projects featured in Exhibition Design show the endless creative solutions that can be found even in the tiniest spaces, even with limited resources. Insights and explanations from the designers themselves make this an inspiring sourcebook for architects, students, and design professionals everywhere.
This book presents a selection of the most interesting proposals in interior design, showing a return to more humanized concepts, based on the profound relationship between human beings and the space they inhabit.
In ancient times, every town had a promenade, an open public space for people to see and be seen. Today?s modern cities need these meeting places, too. Urban Promenades takes a close look at how this tradition is being interpreted in cutting-edge urban planning. Full-color photos plus plans, sketches, and interviews with the creators of each groundbreaking project make this book a must-have for everyone interested in urban planning, design, or how our society functions.Creative urban planning projects!Full-color photos plus plans, sketches, and interviews with designers!.
Trade shows are expensive. Make those dollars count with great stand design! Trade Show Design is the complete guide to stand design that?s worth its weight in great business deals. Every stand is a three-dimensional marketing tool, and Trade Show Design showcases the most innovative and exciting stands from the world?s top names in architecture and design. Endless creative ideas plus full-color photos, plans, and construction details make this the book no trade-show designer would ever trade away. A close-up look at three-dimensional marketing opportunities!Great ideas, plus photos, plans, and construction details!.
The most thought-provoking, the most innovative, the most creative temporary and commercial stands designs are showcased in Stands and Product Display. These stands are three-dimensional marketing, each one targeted for a specific audience, site location, and product, each one a triumph of design and advertising. Each project is shown in photographs, construction details, and ground plans, plus illuminating text. Stands and Product Display is sure to be consulted again and again, for reference and inspiration.
This book is proof positive that, in the hands of a creative architect, evenhe most tightly "trapped" buildings can be "set free" via a skilfuleworking of floor space, windows, stairwells or facades. Limited spaceoesn't mean limited solutions! This inspiring work is exhaustivelyocumented with textual information provided by the architects themselves,loor plans and gorgeous full-colour photographs
At the turn of the century, commercial establishments were the first to applyhe new construction techniques that emerged from the Industrial Revolution.he new markets and galleries of the European capitals represented the germf what is today one of the best exponents of the latest tendencies in theanguage and materials of interior design. This book presents a wide range ofhops selling clothing, complements and other objects, modern temples ofonsumption that have opened recently in different parts of the world. Theyhow a common inclination towards calm and concise spaces and offer annspiring range of formal proposals full of glamour.
The reader won't find a single brownstone house surrounded by a white picketence here, as these unconventional houses have been designed strictly forhe adventurer at heart. Whether it be the gorgeous wood-filled nave of thearn-like home in upstate New York, the house in Aspen whose wavy modulesascade down the mountainside or the truly unprecedented "soft and hairy"uilding in Japan, to give just a few examples, each radically defiesonvention in its own unique way. Projects have been chosen from the ranks ofrchitecture's renowned masters: Michael Jantzen, Shigeru Ban or Rem Koolhaas,ith details of design and construction provided by the studios themselves.
