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A visually stunning and beautifully written celebration of park
life around the world. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what
city dwellers already realised: parks are an absolutely essential
part of modern life. From the author who brought you Lido, here are
50 of the world's greatest parks – but not just a list of the
examples we already know. Yes, we'll tell you about those storied
greats such as Central Park in New York and Phoenix Park in Dublin,
but we'll also take you to the Philippines, to Australia, to
provincial Britain and around the world to show you the most
historic and the most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge
that mix the best of nature and architecture. We'll explore what
you can find there, who goes there, why they are important, and how
parks respond to their environments, including ones over a road, on
old rail lines or in Berlin's former airport. Examples include: •
Freeway Park, Seattle, USA: a bizarre and brilliant brutalist park
over a motorway. • Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil: this one
contains amazing galleries and theatres. • Holyrood Park,
Edinburgh, UK: mountains within a city. • Adelaide's parks,
Australia: unique in that the entire city centre is enclosed by
parks. and many, many more. Illustrated with glorious photographs
throughout, this book is a fascinating record of the world's most
interesting and innovative parks, and the people who use them –
you'll want to visit them all.
This compelling and in-depth study looks at some of the most
inspiring and iconic brutalist buildings, in a quest to find the
soul of one of modern architecture's most misunderstood movements.
No modern architectural style has aroused so much awe and so much
ire as Brutalism. This is architecture at its most assertive:
compelling, distinctive, sometimes terrifying. But, as Concrete
Concept shows, Brutalism can be about love as well as hate. This
inspiring and informative photographic survey profiles 50 brutalist
buildings from around the world. Travelling the globe - from Le
Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation (Marseille, France), to the Former
Whitney Museum (New York City, USA) to Preston Bus Station
(Preston, UK) - this book covers concrete architecture in its most
extraordinary forms, demonstrating how Brutalism has changed our
landscapes and infected popular culture. Author and architecture
expert Christopher Beanland writes passionately about how this
style came to be, tracing its origins from the modernist art
movement, the trauma of World War Two and the need for municipal
renewal. Now in a stylish mini format, this is the perfect tour of
Brutalism's biggest hits. "A lively journey around the world's
brutalist buildings" Frieze.com "A dazzlingly shot whistle-stop of
the much-maligned style's greatest hits ... the book showcases
confidence, clarity and the historical importance of the movement."
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Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that
emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism
in architecture.Many of these grand projects stayed on the drawing
board, some were flights of fancy that couldn't be built, and in
other cases test structures or parts of buildings did emerge in the
real world. The book features the work of Buckminster Fuller,
Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Archigram, as
well as contemporary architects such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid,
Will Alsop and Rem Koolhaas.Richly illustrated with photographs,
drawings, maps, collages and models from all over the world, it
covers everything from Buckminster Fuller's plan for a 'Domed city'
in Manhattan to Le Corbusier's utopian dream of skyscraper living
in central Paris, from a proposed network of motorways ploughing
through central London to a crazy-looking scheme for 'rolling
pavements' in post-war Berlin. This is an important book, not just
for the rich stories of what might have been in our built world,
but also to give understanding to the motivations and dreams of
architects, sometimes to build a better world, but sometimes to
pander to egos. It includes plans that pushed the boundaries - from
plug-in cities, moving cities, space cities, domes and floating
cities to Maglev, teleportation and rockets. Many ideas were just
ahead of their time, and some, thankfully, we were always better
without.
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