Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 6, 2009

The Stadium: Architecture for the New Global Culture

The Stadium: Architecture for the New Global Culture
Periplus Editions | ISBN: 0794603351 | 2005-07-15 | PDF | 208 pages | 360 Mb

Get into the center of the action with The Stadium, a book that takes you to some of the finest event centers across the globe.
Sports fans in the United States can revisit their own home fields such as the Reliant Stadium in Houston, SBC Park in San Francisco, Oriole Park in Baltimore, and experience international attractions such as the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wembley in London, Arsenal in London, and the Olympic Stadium in Sydney. With 250 eye-popping photos and 70 architectural plans,this book defines the stadium as a worlwide cultural icon.

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Thứ Hai, 29 tháng 6, 2009

Sân golf lấy đất, cả làng bán trâu

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Cả làng Ròn ở huyện Đơn Dương phải bán trâu vì không còn đất trồng cỏ cho trâu ăn. Mới vài tháng mà người dân ở làng Ròn xã Đạ Ròn, (Đơn Dương, Lâm Đồng) đã bán hơn 300 con trâu, thu về mấy tỷ bạc.
Tiền nhiều mà chẳng chủ trâu nào vui bụng. “Làng mình chỉ mong còn đất, còn cỏ, có đắt gấp đôi, người K’ho mình cũng sẽ sắm lại đàn trâu” - ông K’Minh, trưởng thôn Ròn, chỉ tay phía hồ Đạ Ròn, mảnh đất xưa của làng nay đã nhường cho sân golf và khiến những bầy trâu của làng lũ lượt vào lò mổ.
Hai đứa cháu ông K’Bông bên những con trâu cuối cùng ở làng Ròn. Ảnh: V.SỰ
Đồng cỏ bị mất
Số phận những con trâu làng Ròn được phán quyết hơn một năm trước khi cánh đồng lúa nước 80 ha ven hồ Đạ Ròn được giao lại cho dự án sân golf 36 lỗ của Công ty Acteam International (Macau). Những đám lúa nước ấy chính là những mét vuông đất cuối cùng mà tổ tiên làng Ròn khai phá khi 500 ha đồng cỏ nữa quanh hồ Đạ Ròn trước đó cũng đã thuộc về sân golf này.
Nhường đất, dân làng Ròn dong mũi bầy trâu về núi Hồ Tiên chăn thả. Nhưng oái oăm, lối dễ đi nhất dẫn về vùng rừng nhiều cỏ nhất đã bị sân golf chắn ngang. Một góc bờ hồ Đạ Ròn và gần 600 ha đất thuộc dự án cánh đồng cỏ truyền thống của bầy trâu làng Ròn bị vây lại trong vòng thép gai.
“Lúc đó chỉ mới lác đác vài đứa bán trâu thôi, mình bàn với cả làng dắt trâu đi vòng lên rừng thông để thả, vậy mà cũng không yên” - ông K’Bông, một điền chủ từng có bầy trâu tới 50 con, ngao ngán. Quen hơi đồng cỏ dưới chân núi, được vài bữa đám trâu làng Ròn lại mò xuống. Ngay lập tức những chú trâu ấy bị “lập biên bản” và nhắn về cho thân chủ ở làng Ròn với lời cảnh cáo: Nếu... trâu còn tái phạm, cứ một mét vuông cỏ sân golf bị giẫm chủ trâu sẽ phải đền 10 triệu đồng.
“Họ đền mấy sào ruộng nhà mình chưa tới 10 triệu đồng mà một mét cỏ phải đền bằng con trâu...” - trưởng thôn K’Minh băn khoăn. Khiếu nại ra chính quyền, ông K’Minh chỉ mang về được cho dân làng Ròn cái lắc đầu: “Đất đó sân golf họ thuê rồi, bồi thường rồi, phạt 10 triệu đồng cũng đành chịu, xã làm chi được!”.
Mất cả nghề lúa nước
Già làng bỏ lên núi nuôi trâu
Những ngày đến làng Ròn, chúng tôi đã không tìm được già làng K Thinh để hỏi chuyện. Bà K Wuel, vợ già làng K Thinh, nói ông đã bỏ lên núi từ nửa năm trước để chăn đàn trâu gần 20 con, lâu lâu mới xuống núi tiếp tế lương thực hoặc khi làng có việc quan trọng. Biết không thể giữ lại đàn trâu nếu chỉ nuôi ngay tại làng, cũng không thể thả rông trên núi vì sợ lạc xuống sân golf, vị già làng Ròn đã dựng lán trên núi cao, quyết tâm bảo vệ đàn trâu được vẹn toàn. Nhưng bà K Wuel âu lo: Không biết nó còn tồn tại được bao lâu và năm nay già làng K Thinh đã gần 80 tuổi.
Làng Ròn giờ loe ngoe vài chuồng trâu trống hoác, đã vơi mùi phân. Trưởng thôn K’Minh cho biết sân golf mới rào có một năm mà hơn 300 con trâu đã lũ lượt vào lò mổ. Mấy chục con sót lại, đa số là nghé và trâu nhỡ đang cầm hơi với những đám cỏ vét.
Mấy trăm con trâu bị bán chỉ có trâu của nhà K’Minh, nhờ quen thân thương lái bán được giá, năm con được 60 triệu đồng. Còn nhà K’Hùng, có tám con trâu mộng đều phải bán lỗ mấy triệu đồng mỗi con. Nhà K’Lim bán trụm cả bầy trâu lẫn nghé bảy con giá chưa tới 50 triệu đồng. Ngay cả nhà K’Bông, ông già nhiều trâu và quyết liệt giữ trâu nhất ở làng cũng kham không nổi, mới tiễn bầy trâu 19 con về lò mổ. Và đó là bầy trâu cuối cùng tại làng khi những đám cỏ còi cọc ven bờ nước ngày càng thưa dần.
Đàn trâu ra đi, nhiều nhà có thể sẽ không còn theo được nghề lúa nước truyền thống của người K’ho. Năm ngoái, khi bỏ những đám lúa nước lại cho sân golf, gần 20 hộ đã sang làng C’Puot ở xã Pu Tra bên cạnh thuê ruộng. Nhưng giờ bán hết trâu, lác đác đã có vài hộ trả ruộng vì không còn trâu để kéo cày.
Và mất “không gian văn hóa”
Bên con nghé bạc vừa xỏ mũi, ông K’Minh buồn bã: “Mình giữ con nghé này làm kỷ niệm thôi, nó sinh ra từ bầy trâu ông bà mình để lại”. Gần 30 con trâu ở làng Ròn được người K’ho giữ lại, giờ đều chung một niềm luyến tiếc như con nghé nhà trưởng thôn. K’Minh nói: Người K’ho xưa nay nuôi trâu không phải để bán, ngoài việc kéo cày thì trâu chính là con vật thiêng dùng trong lễ hội đâm trâu và những đám cúng quảy. Đám tang: cúng trâu; đám giỗ, đám cưới: lễ vật bằng trâu; đám mừng lúa mới: cũng mổ trâu... Mà trâu được mổ phải nặng ít nhất hai tạ để mời được cả làng nên bầy trâu nào cũng được người K’ho chăm bẵm.
Bờ hồ Đạ Ròn bị vây quanh bởi thép gai. Ảnh: V.SỰ
Những câu chuyện ông K’Minh kể bên con nghé cô đơn của nhà mình có thể sắp thành ký ức. Nỗi âu lo ấy chẳng người dân làng Ròn nào thốt lên. Nhưng họ bắt đầu thấm thía khi đám cúng lúa mới vừa rồi, cả làng phải bấm bụng góp hơn 40 triệu đồng mua hai con trâu đực làm đám, đắt gần gấp đôi so với con trâu làng bán ra. Mua là mua cho đúng lễ vậy chứ những con trâu mang về từ một cuộc bán chác ấy đã không mua được sự ưng bụng của người làng Ròn. “Con trâu xứ khác, ăn cỏ xứ khác, của người ta nuôi. Mình đem cúng chắc ông bà không vui” - ông già K’Bông như nói thay cho cả làng.
Chuyện về bầy trâu đã tan tác, ông Bùi Ngọc Cận, Phó Chủ tịch xã Đạ Ròn, thật lòng: “Mất trâu bà con cũng gian nan, vì người K’ho xưa nay gắn với nghề lúa nước, mất trâu là mất nghề. Tiền bán trâu chắc chỉ cỡ 10% là được tái đầu tư, còn lại bà con tiêu lăng nhăng đâu hết...”.
Ông Trần Đình Thức, Trưởng phòng Văn hóa-Thông tin huyện Đơn Dương, lo những bầy trâu ra đi sẽ mang theo luôn những tập quán về đời sống tâm linh gắn chặt với con trâu và lúa nước của người K’ho ở làng Ròn. Ông thẳng thắn, 10 năm trước khi xây hồ Đạ Ròn và giờ là lấy ruộng lúa làm sân golf, đã không có một dự án “tái định cư” nào cho không gian văn hóa của người làng Ròn. Và không chỉ dân làng Ròn, ngay cả cơ quan văn hóa huyện cũng bị bỏ quên, không cần hỏi ý kiến.
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Architecture - Comfort and Energy


Architecture - Comfort and Energy
By C. Gallo, Marco Sala, A. A. M. Sayigh
Publisher: Pergamon Press Inc
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 008043004X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780080430041
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
Hardbound. In this book we seek to approach the
architecture-energy combination and its relationship to
human comfort and the environment .There are chapters on
thermal comfort, low energy architecture dealing with
various criterion for comfort in different parts of the
World.
The book also seeks to understand how previous generations
lived in harsh climates and without abundant sources of
energy, yet managed to design and build appropriate
dwellings providing both comfort and harmony with the
environment.
Other chapters deal with the bioclimatic concept in Vernacular
Architecture; the major role which climate plays at different
locations and how this can dictate the shape and form of the
buildings and save energy; the importance of micro-climate
and its various elements and usage; ventilation and its
importance in buildings and the technology for modern
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Chủ Nhật, 28 tháng 6, 2009

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Urban Spaces: The Design of Public Places


John Morris Dixon "Urban Spaces: The Design of Public Places"
Watson-Guptill Publications | English | 2001-09 | ISBN: 1584710233 | 329 pages | PDF | 40,4 MB
In less than two years since our first Urban Spaces volume went to press, hundreds of excellent urban spaces have been completed, and hundreds more proposed. The universal appeal of spaces where people can gather continues to generate new parks, plazas, lobbies, atriums, and malls. Both public and private clients are investing in creative urban spaces.

The Urban Land Institute has again cooperated with Visual Reference Publications to cosponsor this second volume showcasing urban spaces created by leading architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners. John Morris Dixon, FAIA, longtime Chief Editor of Progressive Architecture, will explain the design challenges and accomplishments of these outstanding projects.

As you travel through these superbly printed color pages, you will gather invaluable insights in the planning and design of such public spaces as the Civic Plaza in Phoenix, Gantry State Park in New York, and Paseo del Alamo in San Antonio. You will visit public facilities such as the Orlando International Airport and the Long Beach Convention Center in California; retail environments such as the Galleria at Roseville in California and the Park Meadows Retail Resort in Colorado; business complexes such as the 3M Headquarters in Mexico, Sears 2000 in Chicago, and the Conde Nast Building in New York; new in-town communities such as CityPlace in West Palm Beach, Florida and Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia; planned communities such as Narragansett Landing in Rhode Island, the Lake at Las Vegas in Nevada, and Middleton Hills in Wisconsin. Going abroad, you will explore Scienceland in Shanghai, Cavendish Square in Cape Town, and Warringah Mall in Sydney.

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The Architecture of Poetry - The Iranian Embassy in Washington

The Architecture of Poetry - The Iranian Embassy in Washington, DC
NAMEI, MERCEDEH
University of Cincinnati
School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: A thesis for Master Degree
142 pgs. ; Publ. 2007.

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An embassy is a symbol of unique cultural, social and
political aspects of a specific country. Historically it
becomes a place for a country’s representative(s) to
communicate in a civilized and acceptable manner.
Communications among embassies have traditionally been a
great resource for international diplomacy that promotes
peace and friendship. An embassy is an office building
that specializes in diplomatic relationships and a great
representative for one culture. Presenting a culture
requires multifaceted revelation of its aspects. In the
project Architecture of Poetry was derived from Persian
poetry. In order to understand Persian culture and its
classical poetry, the methodology includes discussion of
Ferdosi’s Shähnameh (The Epic of Kings). Persian poetry is
deeply rooted in its history and culture. It was developed
through centuries of repetition and practice. Understanding
Persian poetry reveals layers of history, culture and
traditions. It requires understanding structure, order and
the metaphorical foundation of poetry as well as the reasons
behind lyrics, meanings and characters. The Architecture of
Poetry leads to a design that explores Shähnameh’s poetry in
addition to known embassy structures where the elements
learned from each interweave to create the design of the
Iranian embassy. The structure of poetry corresponds with the
structure of the building, where metaphorical words have
translated into interior details and materials of the façade.
Poetry reading is a slow and gradual process, where punctuation
becomes important to convey the message of poetry. The
translated architectural elements from poetry are not literal;
but they are very abstract. Metaphors of culture and poetry a
re revealed in the structure and details of the new embassy.

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Building Type Basics for Museums

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Building Type Basics for Museums
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0471349151 | edition 2001 | file .CHM | 272 pages | 22,0 mb
The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects. Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.Building Type Basics for Museums provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

Contents

  • Art Museums
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Thứ Bảy, 27 tháng 6, 2009

Interiores magazine - 2009/ 3,4,5,6


Interiores 112 - 2009 June

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Domestic Interiors - Architectural Design



Carles Broto, Domestic Interiors - Architectural Design
Instituto Monsa Publishing | ISBN: 848642660X | 1997
Grandes ejemplos de diseño de interiores en diversas partes del mundo y sus autores, ideas generales y detalles.
Great examples of interior design in various parts of the world and its authors, ideas and general information.

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Thứ Sáu, 26 tháng 6, 2009

Urban Houses - Architectural Design


Arian Mostaedi, "Urban Houses" - Architectural Design
Bilingual edition | ISBN: 8489861897 | August 2003 | 240 pages (full)

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New Shops & Boutiques


Marta Serrats, "New Shops & Boutiques"
Collins Design | ISBN: 006074796X | April 2005 | PDF | 330 pages | 51 Mb
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With the increasingly important cultural role being placed upon shops and boutiques in today's competitive retail environment, the need to provide new and innovative shopping experiences has brought about a redefinition of simple consumerism. Fashion spaces have taken on the role of the museum, presenting product collections as if they were displaying works of art. With this new emphasis on the role of the retail space comes the architectural challenge of creating multifunctional, customizable shells that can be renewed to meet the needs of every seasonal collection.

New Shops & Boutiques takes us inside more than 40 contemporary projects that have captured the public's attention and recognition, thanks to their exceptional interior and exterior architecture and design. From Giorgio Armani and the Sony Tower Showroom, to John Pawson and WonderWall Inc., this shopping tour around the world presents a comprehensive selection of the market's most outstanding commercial spaces and designers. And with more than 500 full-color photographs, New Shops & Boutiques is sure to provide an indispensable guide for the storeowner and architect alike.

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MD magazine. Architecture illustration pack

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Dwell - 07.08/2009


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Good magazine about interior design.


Dwell - June 2009 / UK

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Thứ Năm, 25 tháng 6, 2009

Innovative Public Housing


Broto Carles " Innovative Public Housing "
Links International | ISBN: N/A | 2005 |
The innovative projects of social habitation are presented in a book. Sketches, plans of display and magnificent, fullcoloured pictures.

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Shopping Malls

Carles Broto, "Shopping Malls"
Links International | ISBN: 8496263835 | June 12, 2007 |
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Creating an appealing overall look as well as a distinctive image for each shop...integrating communal areas...handling parking and public facilities...these are just some of the challenges facing the designers of modern shopping malls. Shop and Malls features dozens of remarkable examples of successful malls, each one showcased with floor plans, insightful text, sketches, and full-color photographs that show how the designers met the retail challenge. Shop and Malls is a one-stop shopping resource for design professionals, architects, and urban planners.

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New Country Houses - Architectural Design


Dominic Bradbury, "New Country Houses - Architectural Design"
Links International | ISBN: 1856693961 | 2003
| 240 pages (full)
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For a long time now, the emphasis of radical architecture has rested on the challenge of designing homes in towns and cities and the focus of building in the coutryside has been the conservation, conversion and renovation of existing structures. But now, as more and more people grow tired of the stresses of city living, many have set out for the countryside, taking with them a powerful design consciousness. This book explores the architects who are reinventing the country house and creating new rural architecture for the 21st century. After charting the development of the genre, Bradbury examines 30 case studies that show how architects have taken both modern and traditional approaches to reinventing the country house. The variety, energy and originality of these houses are startling and each shows a fresh, flexible and ergonomic way of living in the surrounding landscape.


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Urban Textures (Yves Lion)

Jean-Louis Cohen, "Urban Textures (Yves Lion)"
Birkhäuser Basel | ISBN: 3764363010 | 2005-07-25 | PDF | 160 pages | 17 Mb
A monograph on this prominent French architect, Yves Lion, and a survey of his oeuvre.

Born in Casablanca in 1945, Yves Lion has been a pre-eminent figure in the French architectural scene and debate for some 30 years. Now, leading architectural historian Jean-Paul Cohen has produced the first overall survey of Lion's work, describing the key themes and focus of Lion's oeuvre, including his pursuit of urban planning and housing issues, and his discourse with James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck, Bernard Tschumi and others.

Comprehensive documentation and illustrations of Lion's buildings complement Cohen's essay. Examples include the Nantes Opera House, the French Embassy in Beyrouth and the Maison Europ enne de la Photographie in Paris.

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Norman Foster - U-Bahnstatiom Canary Wharf in London
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NORMAN FOSTER
Contents:
Los años de formación
Becoming an Architect
Los 60 de Hampstead a Covent Garden
The 60s from Hampstead to Covent Garden
Los 70 en Bloomsbury
The 70s at Bloomsbury
Los 80 en Great Portland Street
The 80s on Great Portland Street
Los 90 sobre el Támesis
The 90s over the Thames
Construir para el siglo XXI
Building for the 21st Century

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The Norman Foster Studio: Consistency through Diversity


By Malco Quantrill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Number Of Pages: 244
Publication Date: 2000-02-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0419197508
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780419197508

Book Description:
Malcolm Quantrill first met Norman Foster in 1991, when he
wrote an article on Foster's Tokyo Century Tower. The result
was a collaboration between Qunatrill and the Foster studio
in the production of this unique study of the Foster ethos.
The Norman Foster Studio offers a number of original
revelations about the philosophy and design methods that have
generated the reputation of the Foster studio over the past
three decades. Quantrill's explorations begin with a
distinctly personal account of Norman Foster's childhood and
beginnings in the world of architecture, and continues with
a dialohue between the author and each of the five members
of the Foster parternship. At the core of this book is the
provocative critique of some of Foster's key buildings and
projects including the Joslyn Museum Extension in Omaha.
In the first truly comprehensive critique of the Foster
oeuvre, the book is fully illustrated throughout and contains
many original drawings by SirNorman Foster and much previously
unpublished material from the practice archives.


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Architectural Monographs - Foster Associates - Recent Works


by Andreas Papadakis
Paperback: 143 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (March 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312071469
ISBN-13: 978-0312071462

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Norman Foster - Building The Gherkin


Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and the future of a major city? Building the Gherkin chronicles the design, planning and construction of the controversial Swiss Re building, an ‘ecological skyscraper’ designed by renowned British architect Norman Foster.

Just a month and a day after the World Trade Center attack in New York, the first steel beam of 30 St Mary Axe (as its officially known) was erected in London on a site that had seen two previous IRA bombings. One question was on everyone’s mind: was it the right time and place to build a new iconic tower?

Sparking further controversy was the building’s design. Meant to address spatial, environmental, and social concerns, its unique design was so radical that it quickly became the target of ridicule in the British press, earning its nickname, ‘the erotic gherkin.’


Building the Gherkin is a fascinating documentary that covers the four-and-a-half year development period. Documenting everything from the initial blueprint design to the give-and-take between client and architect to the furnishing of the workspace, the film provides an essential, rarely-presented, overview of the entire architectural process.

So has the Gherkin become the landmark they all dreamt of? Since its completion in 2004, the building has won a number of prestigious architecture awards, and was voted the most admired new building in the world by fellow architects. But perhaps more importantly, the Gherkin has punctured the zeitgeist. It has been prominently featured in two Hollywood films (Woody Allen’s Match Point and Basic Instinct 2), a comic book, a video game, and has even been blown up by aliens in a popular British science-fiction television series.

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Norman Foster
Norman Foster and The British Museum
# Paperback: 120 pages
# Publisher: Prestel; 1st Edition. edition (August 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 3791325418
# ISBN-13: 978-3791325415
# Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.9 x 2.1 inches
Product Description:
With an introduction by Norman Foster
And essays by Deyan Sudjic and Spencer de Grey

A landmark in the history of the British Museum and one of Norman Foster ’s most significant projects to date, the Great Court has reclaimed and reinvigorated one of London ’s most important public spaces, transforming the Museum. Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Foster ’s work held at the British Museum, this book brings together essays, design drawings, and photographs to provide an unprecedented account of the development and completion of Foster ’s project.


From the Publisher
An introductory essay by Deyan Sudjic presents the Great Court as the culmination of centuries of change within the Museum .a reconciliation of past and future, which has both restored and transfigured the heart of this public institution. Spencer de Grey, a partner at Foster and Partners, documents the design and construction of the individual elements within the Great Court and the vast glazed canopy, which surmounts them. Introduced by Norman Foster and richly illustrated with photographs of the Great Court during construction and in its spectacular finished state, this book provides an insight into the evolution of one of London ’s most remarkable architectural spaces.

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New shops 7 - Made in Italy

San Pietro Silvio, Gallo Paola, "New shops 7 - Made in Italy"
Edizioni L'Archivolto | ISBN: 8876851291 | 2003 | 271 pages

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Architecture on Sports Facilities


Carles Broto, Jacobo Krauel, "Architecture on Sports Facilities"
Gingko Press; illustrated edition edition | ISBN: 8493400777 | September 2005 | 240 pages (full)
When designing sporting facilities the architect must consider an almost endless list of fundamental considerations: capacity, seating configuration, concession areas, multiple entrances, amenities for the teams and media and, last but not least, type. Will the structure be multi-purpose or used for a single sporting discipline? Will it be a stadium, an arena, an auditorium? All of these issues and more are covered in detail in this rare title devoted to the Architecture of Sports Facilities. It presents a range of cutting-edge designs that display exceptional skill in combining aesthetics with functionality, beauty with practicality, and ease of use with ease of access. Due to its complex nature the design of sports facilities rightly occupies a category of its own. So detailed and thorough is this book that it too deserves a category of its own.

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Lofts in Berlin

Lofts in Berlin
English | Tectum | ISBN: 9076886067 | 2004 | 284 pages
If you’ve ever wonder what other lofts around the world are like, look no further. Here’s a book that’s bound to give you some ideas as well as give you some insight on some unique spaces.The Lofts of Berlin is a 130 page volume filled with images of loft interiors from around the world. There is no copy or text, no deep set captions, or sections/chapters of any kind. Rather, the book showcases loft spaces , noting the location of the loft and designer/architect behind it. It is a feast for the eyes.

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Furniture World - 2009/ 1+2,5+6

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Roofs - Architecture in Detail

Links International, "Roofs (Architecture in Detail)"
Gingko Press; Bilingual edition | ISBN: 8489861846 | October 2003 | 180 pages

In this unusual book both established and progressive new architects present their most innovative roof designs as expressive and functional structures. No longer limited to providing protection from the weather, roofs today are open to many interpretations, such as acting as a filter for light or conjugated with a facade to form an unusual binomial. In Roofs, architects and builders experiment with many different materials and many structural alternatives including traditional flat or sloping roofs. The book is illustrated with photographs, plans, and construction details.

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California Home+Design - 2008 (Full)

California Home+Design is the ultimate resource that thousands of affl uent homeowners and design leaders turn to for inspiration and information. With a fresh voice, it covers emerging styles and trendsetting ideas across the state. Frominterior design to architecture, art news to real estate, it’s where to fi nd the very best in California design.
Magazine site: http://www.chdmag.com/
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California Home+Design - January 2008
Endless Vacation: Second Homes Built for Relaxing in Style

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California Home+Design - February 2008
High Drama: Extraordinary Rooms for Every Style

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California Home+Design - March 2008
2008 CH+D Awards

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California Home+Design - April 2008
A Closer Look: Inside Wine Country Living

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California Home+Design - May 2008
In Their Own Backyard

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California Home+Design - June 2008
Living With Art: The Collector's Edition

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California Home+Design - July 2008
Freshen Up: The Ultimate Kitchen-Bath Issue

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California Home+Design - August 2008
Remarkable Remodels

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California Home+Design Magazine (September 2008)

California Home+Design Magazine: - September 2008
Beyond Green: Exploring the Boundaries of Sustainable Living

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California Home+Design - October 2008
A Warm Welcome: Architecture for How We Live Now

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California Home+Design - November 2008
Break the Rules: Redefining Traditional Style

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California Home+Design - December 2008
Let it Glow: Spaces to Gather and Celebrate

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