Landscape architecture creates and shapes open spaces for human beings. It combines nature and architecture and links grown and planned environments. It depends on local factors such as the climate, type of soil, as well as varying local traditions much more than structural design.
Collection: Landscape Architecture presents the whole wealth of this fascinating sector featuring projects from around the world - from the classic fields of horticulture and park design, to LandArt and urban outdoor design, which make do without grass and trees entirely, up to the current ecological themes of interior gardens and façade greening.
From the contents:
Voelcker Park in San Antonio, USA (Olin with Lucindia Sanders)
Fountain Promenade in Mexico-City, Mexico (Mario Schjetnan)
Dubai Festival City, United Arab Emirates (Cracknell)
Mobile Life Campus in Wolfsburg, Germany (Topotek 1)
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza in Kawasaki, Japan (Earthscape with Ricardo Bofil)
Edition trilingue : français - anglais - allemand.
Trash and trend, street culture and upscale fashion, poor but sexy... Berlin has been a center of current art and culture long before UNESCO awarded it the title of "City of Design" on it. Here, the ceaseless urban flux and multicultural panache inspire the local creative scene, making it many-sided, unconventional and natural; in one word - unique.
Berlin Design presents 100 artists and their work from the world of fashion and new media, as well as graphics and product design. The projects were selected by a jury of eight designers and present a cross section of the best of what the capital has to offer.
From the contents:
lala Berlin (fashion design)
Mark Braun (product design)
realties:united (new media)
hg merz (interior design)
Krieger des Lichts (graphic design)
Factories are truly radical structures, purely pragmatic boxes, spaces for machines that execute clearly defined production processes. When functionality means everything - and budget is limited - architecture finds itself taking on a fascinating role.
Factory Design tellingly shows in what creative and surprising ways architects around the world approach this topic. When architectural stars or declared specialists in the field go to work, the factory becomes an aesthetic object and the calling card of any company. The buildings featured here are factories that easily transcend their functional shells. On hand of richly illustrated projects, this volume documents this typology as a treatise of great architects and subtle means, which reveals high quality in the planning and realization of architectural concepts.
In New York, Berlin and Tokyo, night is the new day, and life is celebrated in some of the most unusual clubs around. With unique style and creative design, a culture of its own is staged.
Modern club design demands spectacular gestures, innovation and creativity. These may find expression in the use of unusual materials, experimental forms and outstanding ground plans. Dance! is a tour through 40 of the hippest clubs in the world's most vibrant cities, the volume presents the current state of international club design.
The powerful designs of both emerging artists and established interior designers transform music into spatial form. The spectrum of club design is as varied as a good DJ's music collection, ranging from the intimate hot-tip club to a well-established dance temple. The result is a fascinating variety of colorful, opulent and reduced design.
Contemporary architecture in the U.S.A. today presents a fascinating interplay of a multitude of regionalisms and architectural traditions with current national and international trends. Accordingly, Collection: U.S. Architecture presents projects by smaller offices with a regional focus, as well as by globally operating stars.
From the portraits of a variety of construction projects, including high rises, museums, country estates, sports complexes, and sacral buildings, emerges a picture that presents the special and unique characteristics that distinguish the architecture between Pacific and Atlantic.
From the contents:
Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA (Daniel Libeskind)
Switch Building in New York, NY, (nARCHITECTS)
Des Moines Public Library, IA (David Chipperfields Architects)
Cube Tower in Miami, FL (Oppenheim)
The Prayer Chapel in Phoenix, AZ (DeBartolo Architects)
The modern business world, characterized by efficiency and technological progress, challenges ever more the creativity of architects and interior designers. The task is to develop prestigious buildings and interiors that are not only functional and motivating, but also able to communicate the company's image and to integrate the latest ecological standards.
Masterpieces : Office Architecture + Design presents 61 exceptional and different projects from all over the world. The featured office buildings and designs are by world-famous architects as well as promising newcomers.
Contemporary office design is a balancing act between meeting functional and technical requirements and creating a unique and comfortable atmosphere. Starting with traditional cubicles, on to custom designed work environments, and ending in open team spaces and interaction areas, Work! presents all kinds of new space concepts and offers a unique glimpse of an emerging world of innovative and elaborate design concepts.
Creativity is given no limits, an exciting interplay of color and light, strict steel-and-glass structure or the self-aware building of the natural material. Presented are 40 projects in the most contrasting styles and designs from around the world.
"No doubt, this is the most judicious guide through Berlin"
Wolf J. Siedler in "Die Welt" about the 1st edition 2002
Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape.
The present architecture guide provides access to this structural spectrum. Three proven experts guide the reader through all the historical architectural eras - from the middle ages right through to the present. The chronological sequence and the high-quality color photos clearly reflect the typical characteristic of every era. As well as approximately 500 individual buildings, the most prominent architects of Berlin and every era are introduced and portrayed. Several route suggestions provide the interested city wanderer with some direction.
Le but et la fonction première de l'orientation et de la conception de la signalisation sont de fournir une orientation spatiale aussi rapide et claire que possible. Les concepts et systèmes respectifs peuvent être conçus pour des bâtiments individuels, par exemple des sièges sociaux d'entreprises, des musées ou des hôpitaux, pour des zones telles qu'un campus universitaire ou un district municipal distinct, ou pour des systèmes complets comme les transports publics d'une ville. En plus de communiquer la direction, l'interaction de la typographie, des pictogrammes, des matériaux, des couleurs et des formes dans ces systèmes délimite également une identité particulière de l'endroit. Sur la base de réalisations internationales, ce titre montre l'éventail des différentes approches et possibilités de mise en oeuvre du graphisme environnemental. Quel que soit le contexte spatial, l'accent est toujours mis sur une communication visuelle compréhensible pour chaque utilisateur. Cet ouvrage est un ouvrage de référence indispensable pour tous ceux qui travaillent dans le domaine de la communication, ainsi que pour les architectes, les décorateurs d'intérieur, les graphistes et même les créatifs de tous secteurs.
