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Dostępność: na zamówienie Disused industrial buildings can be profoundly beautiful, but as they don't make lots of money people tend to like making them, once more, productive members of our great society. Sometimes, of course, this process can be highly beneficial both aesthetically and socially.

A new direction is being created in the design and architecture of educational spaces. This full-color book showcases over 80 projects featuring the most creative and innovative projects done in the field of education. This volume illustrates how today’s best educational projects are exceptionally functional, economical, energy conserving, and easily maintained, while at the same time being both adaptable and appealing. Educational Environments No. 3 is an invaluable planning and design resource for individuals who must preserve, enhance and convey America’s intellectual leaders. Highlighted are public and private primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and much more.

W dziesiątym numerze, nomadycznego magazynu humanistycznego Format P schodzimy pod ziemię. Eksplorujemy społeczny, użytkowy oraz symboliczny potencjał architektury podziemnej, przeczuwając, że oto wkraczamy w kolejną fazę eksploatacji świata - szturmowanie powierzchni. Po fazie feudalnego zakorzenienia, w wieku XV ludzkość odkrywa ziemię jako glob. Żeglarze zastępują metafizyków w określaniu formy świata, a architektura opanowuje horyzont. Pojawienie się nowoczesnego kapitalizmu w wieku XIX stanowi nowe wyzwanie dla architektury, która pnąc się w górę, podbija to, co wcześniej nie istniało jako przestrzeń spekulacji - powietrze. 

Decorating in black and white is perennially popular and eternally chic. Hilary Robertson demonstrates how, whether used alone or together, these contrasting shades can create dramatic effects at home, from the classic to the eclectic. Sought-after interiors stylist Hilary Robertson celebrates the stylish simplicity of the monochromatic home – elegant interiors in black, white, and every shade of grey in between. In the first chapter, Living in Black and White, Hilary analyzes successful monochrome interiors, providing moodboards for different schemes. Next, In the Mix takes a closer look at the effective tools of texture, light, and scale and pattern and the roles that they have to play.

 Prace portugalskiego architekta Álvaro Siza (urodzonego w roku 1993, Matosinhos) ilustrują rozwój architektury od nowoczesności modernistycznej do trendów XXI wieku.

In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. In these essays Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings, which speak to our emotions and understanding in so many ways, and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality.

This book, whose first edition has been out of print for years, has been expanded to include three new essays: "Does Beauty Have a Form?, "The Magic of the Real, and "Light in the Landscape. It has been freshly illustrated throughout with new color photographs of Zumthor s new home and studio in Haldenstein, taken specially for this edition by Laura Padgett, and received a new typography by Hannele Granlund.

A large garden in the high part of Barcelona declared World Heritage site by UNESCO.