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Dostępność: na zamówienie This beautifully photographed book explores the lure of the countryside: the wide open spaces and starry skies, the lack of neighbours, noise and pollution, the ability to 'get away from it all'. Many people are choosing to persue their 'sea change' inland, and are creating some spectacular homes in well-hidden locations. However, the diversity and fragility of rural locations provide substantial challenges for the architect of today, primarily, how to insert a building into a pristine environment without affecting often delicate ecosystems.
Since streets become increasingly crowded, living on the top of a buildingpromises privacy and distance. Rooftops have become the symbol of a newlifestyle - an extension and exclusive enjoyment of an area traditionallyunused: the architectural crown of a building has been transformed into anew area for work or living. Architects, designers and town planners haveseen in this final section of a building their last chance to let theirfantasies run free and to dramatically shape the cities' skylines withextensions, attics and unique tops.
Niemal od początków państwa tworzono je najpierw jako obronne gniazda rycerskie, później, od połowy XVII wieku, jako skromne (w porównaniu do pałaców) rezydencje właścicieli ziemskich. W Polsce takich małych siedzib ziemiańskich było stosunkowo dużo w porównaniu z innymi krajami Europy.
The book in a square format sends the reader on a journey across European metropolises. Thereby, the attention is focused not on prominent buildings at large but on ingenious and extraordinary details. This title presents pillars from all architectural epochs and styles. It includes about 700 photographs that illustrate the diversity of European art of building. Whether new or old, nice or bizarre - here the reader will find an architectural kaleidoscope of a special kind.
This is the remarkable story of one of the masterpieces of Islamic art. Made in the middle of the 12th century, this wooden pulpit, perhaps the finest ever seen, stood in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for some eight hundred years until it was burned down in 1969 by a tourist claiming to be acting on orders from God. Its loss to the Muslim world was immense and so the decision was taken by the mosque's guardians, the Jordanian royal family to rebuild it. Nobody, however, could have guessed just how complicated the process would be, nor how long it would take.
