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This latest addition to IMAGES’ Pocketful series offers more than 50 examples of the best residential beach architecture in Australia and New Zealand today. Superb architect-designed homes, which in many cases have been adapted to harsh beachside environments, are explained and illustrated with beautiful photography, plans and descriptive text. A visual feast of stunning ocean views, dunescapes and impeccable architectural design for beachside living, A Pocketful of Beach Houses is a must-have for any beach-lover and includes stunning projects from top Australian and New Zealand architects, such as Molnar Freeman Architects, Stephen Jolson and McBride Charles Ryan.
Dostępność: na zamówienie
This latest addition to IMAGES’ Pocketful series offers more than 50 examples of the best residential beach architecture in Australia and New Zealand today. Superb architect-designed homes, which in many cases have been adapted to harsh beachside environments, are explained and illustrated with beautiful photography, plans and descriptive text. A visual feast of stunning ocean views, dunescapes and impeccable architectural design for beachside living, A Pocketful of Beach Houses is a must-have for any beach-lover and includes stunning projects from top Australian and New Zealand architects, such as Molnar Freeman Architects, Stephen Jolson and McBride Charles Ryan.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Travel has become an integral part of modern life and the geographic setting in which travelers find themselves is constantly changing. To be far from home is at once an adventure and a necessary thing, and as such the expectations placed in the hostelries where travelers spend much of their time rise.
These comprehensive guides cover all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. With town plans and many illustrations.
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Dostępność: na zamówienie In the years 1988-1995 the Japanese architect Tadao Ando built a museum complex complete with a hotel, restaurant and seminar rooms on the island Naoshima (Kagawa). Constructed out of concrete, its platforms and walls extend far out into the landscape, framing the natural surroundings as a picture. Ando's customary restraint in his selection of materials, and his preference for simple forms which allow the serenity of the surrounding land and seascape to penetrate the rooms are much in evidence in this masterpiece.
This volume of a series, focussing on the basic elements of architecture delivers a very close insight into the divers possibilities of designing doors. The door is the most essential component of a house. It is both a seperating as well as an adjoining element and permits entering from an external area to the private interior. This book presents over 80 projects showing exceptional designs of doors and entrances of shops, hotels, private houses, museums and many other spaces all over the world. An index with contact information of the designers and architects is enclosed.
Dostępność:na zamowienie "100 Great Kitchens & Bathrooms: By Architects" examines the role of architects in creating comfortable, visually pleasing and functional kitchens and bathrooms. This title features a stunning collection of recent interior projects examining the vast array of styles adopted by architects around the world, particularly in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Slovenia and Brazil, in the search for that perfect balance between luxury and function. This book includes full-colour photography and descriptions of each design by the architects themselves, providing a unique insight into the craft of the featured architects.
Contemporary Asian Bedrooms opens the door to a new world of slumber retreats, showcasing some of the most eye-catching bedroom designs in luxury homes and hotels in Southeast Asia. Shown here are a range of new design trends, from Zen minimalist to exuberant color kaleidoscopes that make contemporary bedrooms more than just a spot for shut-eye. This book gives homeowners and designers a look at new ideas, shapes, colors and textures that transform the places we sleep into high-style, must-have dream spaces.
Książka przybliża wymierne i symboliczne aspekty wiary ojców. Napisana jest z pozycji miłośnika średniowiecza, na przekór " ludziom renesansu". Autorowi bliska jest myśl Zbigniewa Herberta, wyrażona w Potędze smaku; "...estetyka może być pomocna w życiu, nie należy zaniedbywać nauki o pięknie...", "...trzeba pilnie badać kształt architektury, rytm bębnów i piszczałek..." Treść książki jest zrozumiała dla każdego czytelnika dzięki narracyjnemu stylowi przedstawienia problemów, a także świetnie dobranym, pięknym ilustracjom.
Europa to niezwykła część świata. Zróżnicowanie geograficzne i bogactwo kulturowe usatysfakcjonować może najbardziej wymagających podróżników, zarówno tych żądnych wrażeń, jak i nastawionych na kontemplację. Bo piękno starego kontynentu przejawia się w zapierających dech w piersiach krajobrazach – od Atlantyku po Ural, a także w fascynujących zabytkach kultury odzwierciedlających to, co najcenniejsze dla europejskiego i światowego dziedzictwa.v
W niniejszej publikacji ukazana jest problematyka związana z pracą elektrowni oraz farm w systemie elektroenergetycznym. Omówione zostało oddziaływanie elektrowni i farm wiatrowych na system elektroenergetyczny, wskazane są możliwości i konieczność sterowania elektrowniami i farmami wiatrowymi w podstawowych procesach regulacyjnych, jakie w systemach elektroenergetycznych są realizowane, a także możliwości i konieczność udziału elektrowni i farm wiatrowych w obronie i odbudowie systemu elektroenergetycznego po Black out’cie (pouczający jest przebieg awarii systemowej z dnia 4 listopada 2006 r.).
Publikacja KONSTRUKCJE MUROWE. Naprawy i wzmocnienia autorstwa Bohdana Stawiskiego omawia w sposób kompleksowy problematykę uszkodzeń ścian murowanych, w tym ścian działowych, stropów, sklepień i fundamentów.
Rzetelnie zanalizowano sposoby napraw i wzmocnień tych konstrukcji". Kompleksowo przedstawiono kwestie dotyczącą remontów konstrukcji murowych.
Dostępność: na zamówienie This third issue in a continuing series presents recent work by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the world's largest and most influential architecture, urban design, engineering, and interior architecture firms. SOM places the firm's production in the context of critical discussion among some of the profession’s leading thinkers. Commentaries by artist Candida Höfer, architect Lisa Hutton, engineer Jane Wernick, and critics Diane Ghirado and Wilfried Wang give a frank review of the firm’s current work. This volume includes excerpts from the oral history of Gordon Bunshaft, who led the firm from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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This lavishly illustrated guide to the most beautiful beach hotels in the world should do for sea-side vacations what Ski Hotels did for winter get-aways. The hotels featured are distinguished by masterly architecture and exemplary interior design and range over five continents. Whether in luxurious European destinations or more exotic locales in Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, or the Seychelles (among others), this book includes an inspiring selection of gem-like resorts in the most heavenly surroundings.
Książka stanowi zwarty przegląd dokonań sztuki architektonicznej od antyku po czasy współczesne. Zamieszczono w niej ponad 1000 wspaniałych fotografii, dzięki którym czytelnicy mogą poznać historię 600 ważnych obiektów uzupełnionych o rzuty i detale. Tekstom wprowadzającym w kolejne epoki, odnoszącym się zarówno do poszczególnych budowli, jak i konkretnych dziedzin, m.in. teorii architektury, języka formalnego i dekoracji, towarzyszą znakomite reprodukcje.
"Orla Kiely is a virtuoso of vintage pattern and design." - The Sunday Business Post "Whether you're a fan of Orla Kiely's cult retro patterns or not, it's hard to resist her second book." - Real Homes Internationally renowned designer Orla Kiely describes her career as 'a journey in pattern and colour'. Her distinctive palette, and graphic and stylized motifs in clean repeat constructions, have won her devoted fans across the world, and have helped to turn, what began as a small British business designing bags, into a global fashion, accessories and homeware brand.
Anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaudí—the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works, including villas for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, the expansive Güell Park (which today is open to the public), and the famous church designed in honour of the Holy Family—a project which was begun over 100 years ago and has yet to be completed. Antoni Gaudí's life was full of contradictions.