Getting away from it all is as much a part of modern life as late nights at the office and rush-hour traffic. We can all use an escape to exotic destinations, but free time is scarce and the choice of where to go is more important than ever. Paradise is the aim--perfect weather, great food, and breathtaking surroundings--and Hip Hotels: Escape features an extraordinary collection of Highly Individual Places in idyllic locations around the globe. Mexico, Morocco, India, South Africa, Tahiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Bali, Portugal, Spain, the Australian outback
Getting away from it all is as much a part of modern life as late nights at the office and rush-hour traffic. We can all use an escape to exotic destinations, but free time is scarce and the choice of where to go is more important than ever. Paradise is the aim--perfect weather, great food, and breathtaking surroundings--and Hip Hotels: Escape features an extraordinary collection of Highly Individual Places in idyllic locations around the globe. Mexico, Morocco, India, South Africa, Tahiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Bali, Portugal, Spain, the Australian outback--Hip Hotels: Escape covers the full range of potential escape experiences. From the Renaissance beauty of J. P. Getty's villa on the shores of Italy to a handful of luxurious tents on a remote jungle island in the China Sea, from the unique mud-hut architecture of the Mandawa Desert Camp in Rajasthan to the lush surroundings of the famous Marrakesh palm grove, escape hotels combine the impact of extraordinary geography with architectural ingenuity. Simple yet sophisticated, rugged yet refined, these hotels cater to both our instinct for escape and our city-bred taste for comfort and luxury. Like the hotels featured in Hip Hotels: City, some of the most famous names in contemporary architecture, design, decoration, and gastronomy have had a hand in creating these seductive retreats. From Jean Nouvel's design of the Htel St. James outside Bordeaux to Renzo Mongiardino's classic renovation of a thirteenth-century monastery near Siena, from Ralph Lauren's styling of Nelson Rockefeller's former lakeside lodge in the Adirondacks to French superchef Alain Ducasse's conversion of a Provenal farmhouse, these hotels offer paradise exactly the way we want it: perfect.
Publikacja OCHRONA PRZED WILGOCIĄ I KOROZJĄ BIOLOGICZNĄ W BUDOWNICTWIE omawia temat wilgoci i czynników biologicznych, które stwarzają poważne zagrożenie dla trwałości budynków, a także dla zdrowia mieszkańców tych obiektów, a tymczasem ochrona obiektów przed korozją biologiczną nie zawsze należy do docenianych elementów inżynierii budowlanej, rzadko lub tylko fragmentarycznie uwzględnianych w programach wydziałów budownictwa lub inżynierii lądowej i wodnej wyższych uczelni technicznych.
Powodem tego stanu rzeczy jest głównie trudny, interdyscyplinarny charakter tej dziedziny, wymagający łączenia problemów biologicznych z chemicznymi oraz technicznymi.
Poradnik „Jak właściwie zamawiać okna?” to kompendium wiedzy na temat obowiązujących przepisów budowlanych związanych z organizowaniem przetargów na okna. W przystępny sposób przeprowadza czytelnika przez gąszcz okiennych zagadnień i na konkretnych przykładach pokazuje jak najlepiej wykorzystać tę wiedzę podczas organizowania przetargu lub przygotowywania oferty. Jakie okna zamówić do szkoły, a jakie do urzędu? O czym decydują różne okienne współczynniki? I dlaczego cena nie może być jedynym kryterium wyboru?
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As the focal point of everyday life, living spaces in residential buildings offer limitless design possibilities. The variety inspired by influences from all over the world ranges from minimalist concepts employing concrete, glass and steel, to traditional, nature-conscious construction using wood. The volume "Home: Best of Interior Design" of the new "Best of" series presents 40 outstanding projects that feature all aspects of home. The interplay of functionality and aesthetics, combined with the harmonic interaction of color, form and material are at the center of this 400-page illustrated book.
This beautifully illustrated book presents five decades of work by one of the greatest contemporary architects. Alvaro Siza (born 1933) is widely recognized as Portugal s greatest architect and one of the most important architects of his generation. Siza s works have a timeless quality and at the same time an ability to evoke a powerful sense of history. Siza has won virtually every major international architectural award, including the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel for architecture.
This is an introduction to the world's most important architects as well as a look at various architectural styles, movements and processes. It particularly concentrates on the ideas and contriubtions of 50 of the world's most influential architects and at 10 of the major movements in the field and their place in history. Some of the architects included are: Frank Lloyd Wright, Wren, Venturi and Saarinen and some of the topics covered include Modernism, Skyscrapers and Urban Planning. All in all, this is a compact, easily accessible, quick guide to the world's major architects.
Dostępność:na zamowienie * Provides a response by practicing landscape architects to Thomas Sieverts’s concept of urban sprawl * Gives indispensable coverage necessary for a deeper understanding of contemporary trends in landscape architecture and city planning Landscape architecture is a discipline that can bring order to the chaos of contemporary urbanism. It can also give shape and structure to the dispersed city, offering solid answers wherever the debate over the cityterritory and urban sprawl – with good reason – looks set to monopolize the attention of urbanists and architects for a long time to come. As yet, there are very few landscape architecture agencies in Europe that are both deeply involved in the territory and committed to a clear method of work.
Tytułowy wizerunek Wrocławia jest niejako szkłem powiększającym, przez które obserwować można tożsamość miasta i zmiany w niej zachodzące. Wrocław, jako jedno z najszybciej rozwijających się miast w Polsce, podlega obecnie silnym przekształceniom gospodarczym i przestrzennym. Pociągają one za sobą istotne zmiany w obrazie miasta, których badania i opisywanie pozwala określić korzyści i zagrożenia, jakie dla tożsamości miasta przynoszą procesy globalizacji.
An opening chapter, The Poetry, explains how the modern garden has evolved. The book is then split into a series of thematic chapters. The Grammar looks at the basic structure of garden design from initial thoughts, inspiration from the landscape, understanding of proportion, and underlying influences such as art and architecture; The Narrative considers styles of different types of modernist gardens, including roof gardens, courtyard gardens, urban gardens, country gardens, and landscape gardens; this chapter then looks at creative ways of using an ever-changing palette of plants in the modernist garden.
Praca zawiera wiadomości i dane techniczne o trzech grupach materiałów budowlanych: naturalnych materiałach kamiennych, wyrobach ceramicznych i szkle, stosowanych we współczesnym budownictwie. Podano podstawy wytwarzania (lub obróbki) poszczególnych materiałów, klasyfikacje, podstawowe charakterystyczne cechy techniczne, wymagania normowe, zakres stosowania. Omówiono najnowsze materiały stosowane obecnie obszernie już w budownictwie, uwzględniając aspekt ich trwałości. Książka przeznaczona jest dla studentów budownictwa i architektury politechnik i uczelni rolniczo-technicznych
Dostępność:na zamowienie The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture provides an introduction to the key elements of this broad field. From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of today’s most crucial issues. It serves as a guide to the many specialisations within landscape architecture, such as landscape strategy and urban design. This book explains the process of designing for sites, including historical precedent, evolving philosophies, and how a project moves from concept to design to realisation.
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Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design. This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications. Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured. This third part of the new A&D Series (A&D #3) features around ten exclusive city homes. All of the projects have been photographed in recent months: exceptional city residences, contemporary apartments, lofts with character. The starting point was the philosophy that runs through the A&D series: the constant interaction between architecture and interior furnishing and design.
M. H. Baillie Scott (1865-1945) to wybitny architekt brytyjski związany z ruchem Arts and Crafts, autor koncepcji "domu artystycznego", w którym użyteczność idzie w parze z pięknem, a bryła domu, jego wnętrze i ogród współtworzą harmonijną całość. Album zawiera wstęp prof. J. Purchli oraz teksty dr D. Haigh i E. Supińskiej-Polit, wybitnych znawców epoki oraz twórczości Scotta, a także dwa komentarze architekta do własnych projektów, notę biograficzną i bogaty materiał ilustracyjny: fotografie domów, wystroju wnętrz, detali i założeń ogrodowych projektowanych przez artystę.
Mythical homes in the land of the gods
Barbara and René Stoeltie bring you yet another excursion to the best of the worlds country homes—this time to the mythical land of Greece.
Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of the English poet, in Hydra, a stunning 18th century Turkish-Greek palace—the former residence of a Turkish governor, now inhabited by a farmer and his family—on the Argo-Saronic Islands, and the cozy, romantic home of Onassiss ex-pilot Basile Touloumtzoglou and his wife, Tilly.
The magic of Greece's old-world charm drips from the pages of this book, which features 22 homes throughout the country.
YES IS MORE is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG, a Copenhagenbased group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. Unlike a classic architectural monograph, this book is more of a manifesto of popular culture, in which BIG s methods, means, processes and approach to the concept of architecture are revealed as being as unconventional, unexpected and result-producing as the world in which it exists, continually reaffirming its mission with a resounding YES.
Zdaniem recenzenta prof. Wojciecha Wilkowskiego przedstawiona w książce niezwykle obszerna analiza prawna procedur katastralnych ma charakter unikatowy. Jest to pierwsze tego typu opracowanie na rynku wydawniczym dotyczące katastru nieruchomości zawierające odwołania do ustaw, publikacji znanych teoretyków prawa interpretujących określone przepisy prawne czy wreszcie orzeczeń wojewódzkich sądów administracyjnych, NSA, Sądu Najwyższego, a nawet Trybunału Konstytucyjnego.
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Getting away from it all is as much a part of modern life as late nights at the office and rush-hour traffic. We can all use an escape to exotic destinations, but free time is scarce and the choice of where to go is more important than ever. Paradise is the aim--perfect weather, great food, and breathtaking surroundings--and Hip Hotels: Escape features an extraordinary collection of Highly Individual Places in idyllic locations around the globe. Mexico, Morocco, India, South Africa, Tahiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Bali, Portugal, Spain, the Australian outback
