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This gorgeous full-color guide in the popular design series
showcases 150 apartments that demonstrate the range and imagination
of some of the world's top architects and interior designers
working today. Homeowners, designers, and architects are always
looking for new sources of inspiration. 150 Best of the Best
Apartment Ideas offers hundreds of photos of some of the most
innovative and interesting apartments from around the world. Each
of the entries have been created by distinguished international
architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical,
innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs
and particular tastes of their clients-using eco-friendly and
sustainable materials. Expressing the diversity of current trends
in apartment design 150 Best of the Best Apartments is an
invaluable resource for professionals and students in various
fields, including architecture, interior design, and retail, as
well as homeowners looking to keep current on the latest in
contemporary residential architecture.
'Addictive ... a charter for wistfulness' Observer 'An enchanting
rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times 'The Bible of
pared back, natural living' Der Spiegel 'Take a deep breath and let
the inspiration sink in' GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project
created by a group of friends to inspire their own home building.
As they collected more photos, their site attracted thousands of
submissions from other cabin builders and a passionate audience of
more than ten million people. This book is an invitation to slow
down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty and serenity that
happens when nature meets simple craft.
These days, the architect and designer are both tasked with the
challenge of designing the 'perfect' new home, be it traditional or
modern in style, and everything in between. This grand edition
pulls together an exceedingly diverse collection of 100 of the best
contemporary houses from across the globe, each showcasing new and
recent cutting-edge residential designs by some of the world's
leading architects and designers. Following Images Publishing's
incredibly successful 100 of the World's Best Houses series, this
splendid volume features hundreds of stunning full-colour
photographs that help underline the sensitivity of today's design
practitioners to the natural environment, as well as the care and
attention paid to stunning interior design and comfortable,
practical everyday living. Each project illustrates how architects
and designers showcase their authentic individual expression but
work tirelessly to adapt their signature styles to accommodate the
challenges posed by local topography and variations in climate,
along with a sharp focus on optimum strategies for sustainable
living. A touchstone for those looking to understand contemporary
architectural trends across the world, 100 Houses rounds up a
superb and unique collection that is at once exceptional,
inspiring, and informative.
The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential
architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country
house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the
perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history,
architecture and horticulture. All was designed to impress a
distinguished social circle. However, within weeks of its
completion, the Great War started. The world of English
country-house living changed irrevocably, so Tipping never saw his
hopes for the house come to fruition. Featuring a wealth of
previously unseen material including correspondence, articles and
illustrations, this book insightfully details the design and
building of the home H. Avray Tipping created for himself with the
help of the young Chepstow architect Eric Carwardine Francis. It
also gives a rich and evocative portrait of Tipping and his
friends, with visits from Lloyd George and from Tipping's gardening
colleagues, including Harold Peto, Gertrude Jekyll and William
Robinson. The grand layout of the Mounton gardens on the plateau
above a limestone gorge included a 24-pillar pergola, terraces
overlooking the Severn estuary, a two-storey tea house, a rock
garden and remarkable and innovative water gardens. Over time, the
house was neglected and the magnificent gardens became overgrown.
Mounton could so easily have been demolished and yet, a hundred
years after Tipping completed it, a loving work of restoration of
house and gardens was launched. The final two chapters reveal the
careful adaptation of the interiors of Mounton House and the
spectacular remaking of the gardens by the renowned garden designer
Arne Maynard, all fully illustrated with plans and striking new
photography. This is the story of the creation, destruction and
regeneration of a singular vision.
This publication showcases a curated and handpicked selection of
the most outstanding houses in Mexico. The projects designed by
Antonio Farre represent a one-of-a-kind combination of simplicity
and sophistication blended with nature, turning complicated spaces
into breathtaking houses. The elegant and monumental structures
featured in the book are characterized by the use of local
materials, the absence of columns, and large windows. Balance,
texture, and earthy colors are often found in Farre s interiors,
creating a timeless and welcoming effect. His work has been
published in Design Hunter Mexico, Architectural Digest Mexico y
Latinoamerica, Entremuros, D10, and many others. Superbly
photographed, this volume reveals some of the most luxurious
Mexican homes, including unseen and little published works. This
book is a must-have for architects, interior designers, owners or
potential buyers of properties in Mexico, and those passionate
about contemporary architecture and design.
Townhouses are some of the most interesting creations of modern
urban architecture. This selection of newly designed townhouses
includes unconventional architectural concepts in terms of
imaginative use of space and creative ways of capturing natural
light.
Social housing has a long tradition in Europe. Since the early 20th
century, these often anonymously built and unappreciated structures
have arisen all across the suburbs of Europe’s major cities. In
the multidisciplinary and international research project Mapping
Public Housing, the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
at the University of Porto’s Faculty of Architecture has been
tracing the architectural heritage of social housing. The findings
demonstrate that, in many cases, vibrant neighbourhoods and entire
city districts have emerged from such social housing programs. This
book takes a closer look at exemplary developments in Germany,
Great Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Spain. The case studies
cover a wide range of social and historical contexts, from the
beginnings of social housing in Portugal sparked by German
investment during World War I to the propaganda policies associated
with subsidised housing for the working class in the 1940s, and to
sustainable concepts and ideas for the future. Hidden in Plain
Sight offers a wide-ranging panorama that recognises the
development of subsidised residential construction as a part of
Europe's cultural history and traces the important role that
state-funded housing has played in the emergence of the European
welfare state.
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G.
Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily
Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned
approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard
Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses;
Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and
buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern
movement. Focusing on the Tremaines’ houses and other projects,
such as a visitor center at a meteor crater in Arizona, this volume
explores the Tremaines’ architectural patronage in terms of the
family’s motivations and values, exposing patterns in what may
appear as an eclectic collection of modern architecture.
Architectural historian Volker M. Welter argues that the
Tremaines’ patronage was not driven by any single factor; rather,
it stemmed from a network of motives comprising the clients’
practical requirements, their private and public lives, and their
ideas about architecture and art.
This comprehensive reference work contains scale drawings of every
type of detailing used in contemporary residential architecture.
Each section contains at least 50 drawings drawn to a set range of
scales: 1:5, 1:10 or 1:50, with detailed keys explaining
construction and material. Each drawing is cross-referenced to
other details from the same house. The opening section of the book
forms a directory that shows interior and exterior images of the
source houses, together with credits, a brief descriptive text and
information as to which details from that house are included. The
houses in this section are organized by main construction material
(wood, concrete, glass etc). The book will be an invaluable
reference work for all architects showing the best examples of
residential detailing from around the world.
From the history-steeped ‘home of cricket’ at Lord’s, to the
mecca of Indian cricket at Eden Gardens, this encompassing guide
ranges across five continents to bring you the best cricket venues
the world has to offer. Accompanied by corresponding articles from
The Times of notable matches at each venue, discover the history
behind these remarkable grounds. With its beautiful, full-colour
photography, scorecards, and locator map, this is an essential book
for all fans of cricket. Grounds include: Adelaide Oval, Australia
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Bangladesh Centurion Park, South
Africa Dubai International Cricket Stadium, United Arab Emirates
Eden Gardens, India Eden Park, New Zealand Edgbaston, England Galle
International Stadium, Sri Lanka Harare Sports Ground, Zimbabwe
Iqbal Stadium, Pakistan Kensington Oval, Barbados Lord’s, England
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia Newlands, South Africa The
Oval, England St John’s, Antigua
Exploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in
18th-century France, this volume illustrates how the conceptual
basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern
city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French
architects of the 18th-century. Examining a broad range of topics
from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments,
he shows how the work of these architects was informed by
considerations of symbolic space. Richard Etlin asserts the
18th-century city was a place in which actual physical space was
subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces. He
focuses on the design theory of Boullee and Durand and charts their
legacy through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd
Wright, and Louis Kahn. He defines the distinctive features of
neoclassicism and outlines the new grammar for classical
architecture articulated by theorists and architects such as
Laugier, Leroy, and Ledoux. After discussing the 18th-century
"hotel", revolutionary space, and the transformation of the image
of the cemetary, Etlin examines the space of absence as embodied in
commemorative architecture from Boullee and Gilly to Cret, Wright,
and Terragni. This book provides an accessible introduction to a
century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the
Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar
today.
Following on from In Detail and In Residence, In House features
more of the kinds of homes we all wish we could own. Showcasing the
work of US architectural firm, McInturff Architects, with
photography by Julia Heine, this volume highlights the innovation
and craftsmanship that has won the firm commissions from all over
North America. The firm has an orientation towards contemporary
design that involves considerable client interaction in order to
ensure a highly-crafted finished product. This richly illustrated
volume features extraordinary residential designs, brilliant ideas
and inspirational spaces across the continent. In House is another
fitting tribute to innovative architecture and thinking.
Half-timbered houses, cottages and barnes are a familiar feature of
the landscape, but only rarely do we have an opportunity to see
below the surface and understand how they were planned and
constructed. Timber-framed buildings catch the imagination of those
who work with them because of their beauty, their strength and the
quality of the material of which they were made: English oak. Many
thousands of buildings of all ages still remain to remind us the
strength of the tradition. This book looks behind the commong image
of 'black and white' houses, showing how timber buildings were
built and how they vary from region to region.
An illustrated celebration of architecture using shipping
containers as modular building elements, resulting in affordable
moveable and sustainable prefabricated homes. Architecture with
containers is a form of sustainable architecture creating a very
peculiar aesthetic from recycled material. It is a construction
procedure based on the assembly of modular elements, in this case,
containers used in maritime and rail transport of goods. They are
robust, durable, economical, easily transportable, adaptable and
sustainable. Their versatility makes them adaptable to the most
diverse scales and needs: single-family and collective housing,
shopping centres, offices, schools, hotels, restaurants, shelters,
laboratories and works of ephemeral architecture.
Crime and the fear of crime are issues high in public concern and on political agendas in most developed countries. This book takes these issues and relates them to the contribution that urban planners and participative planning processes can make in response to these problems. Its focus is thus on the extent to which crime opportunities can be prevented or reduced through the design, planning and management of the built environment. The perspective of the book is Transatlantic and comparative, not only because ideas and inspiration in this and many other fields increasingly move between countries but also because there is a great deal of relevant theoretical material and practice in both the USA and the UK which has not previously been pulled together in this systemic manner. This book is for anyone who wants to know about how planning processes and crime prevention activities can be more effectively integrated. It is essential reading not just for planning students but also for those in many built environment and community disciplines, for practitioners in these fields including police and property development professionals, for politicians interested in this area of public concern and those who advise them.
Designed in 2018 by Nina Edwards Anker, acclaimed architect and
interior designer and founder of nea studio, the Cocoon House is a
feat of sustainable design. Located in Long Island, New York, the
completely unique, LEED-certified home, gets its name from the
curved walls which form its cocoon-like shape. The building, which
is half exposed and half opaque, also boosts beautiful skylights
inspired by Goethe's colour theory, which provide sunlight-hued
illuminations throughout. Cocoon House, a book that records every
step of this ambitious project with stunning photography and
insightful text, will appeal to a wide range of readers: those
interested in sustainable design or the progression of solar
technology in building, as well as those who are simply drawn to
nature inspired statement houses, crafted with the utmost
ingenuity. The carefully considered theories that served as
inspiration to the house are discussed in depth, making Cocoon
House a crucial reference book to anyone studying sustainable
architecture as a whole.
When Antje Freiesleben and Johannes Modersohn opened their own
Berlin-based firm Modersohn & Freiesleben Architekten in 1994,
the city, which had been divided until 1989, needed to be repaired
and re-united. The Potsdamer Platz train station and the office
block in the Beisheim Centre in Ebertstrasse, close to this central
and now revitalised location, are two significant projects that
were designed by the firm in the prevalent spirit of urban renewal
of those years. After the millennium, the architects further honed
their approach: whether in the city or the countryside, Modersohn
& Freiesleben consistently develop the character of their
projects in terms of the site, the materials, the construction, and
the lives of their clients. Their deliberate engagement with the
given environment while simultaneously aiming at an inventive
individuality has created an architecture that ensures their houses
are functional objects that combine sustainability with aesthetics.
This new monograph features 12 built houses alongside other
projects from the last two decades. They are located in Berlin,
Brandenburg, Sweden, and Canada. Text in English and German.
Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end homes and
interiors, this gorgeous book is a treat for lovers of residential
architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own
house. Featuring some of the world's most aesthetically creative
and environmentally conscious residential design and construction,
this Pacific collection reflects homes with a deep reverence for
their natural and cultural contexts, from coastal dwellings to
contemporary urban dwellings and mountain cottages. Edited by local
architectural practitioner, Francesc Zamora, this informed overview
spotlights 30 leading pioneers of the green movement, including
architects from such firms as Christopher Wright, Coates Design
Architects, Nathan Good and Robert Hutchison.
In the ingenious projects presented in this book, planners make
creative use of construction techniques, often artisanal, to create
flexible-use living environments that optimize the use of space.
Some recurring elements in this type of planning are enclosures
that integrate and conceal furnishings, new lofts that take
advantage of underutilized interior height, furniture that can be
moved to differentiate areas, and independent volumes that focus
functional areas.
Following her success with Lost Charleston, local author and city
tour guide Leigh Jones Handal brings a fresh approach to one of the
key titles in Pavilion Books’ trademark series. Charleston, South
Carolina is one of the most popular East Coast tourist
destinations. The flashpoint of the Civil War, what remains of Fort
Sumter in Charleston is still a much-visited attraction, and
despite bombardment by the Federal Navy, earthquakes and many
hurricanes, the South Carolina city has retained its 19th-century
charm. City guide Leigh Jones Handal tells the story of the
Charleston she loves through archive photos matched with their
modern viewpoint, including the Jenkins Orphanage whose band were
the likely originators of the Charleston dance. There are vintage
photos of the great plantation houses, plus the grand buildings on
Meeting Street, and the soaring spires of Charleston’s many
churches. Downtown many of the classic mansions, such as the
Miles Brewton House, have been retained, along with the Market Hall
and the Customs House, and though the trolleys no longer run along
Broad Street, it is still recognizable from a century
before. Leigh Jones Handal has uncovered a treasury of
vintages images which have been matched with modern photos to show
new aspects of this enduringly fascinating city.
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