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Dostępność: na zamówienie One of the most acclaimed designers of his generation, Renzo Piano established his international reputation through his collaboration with Richard Rogers and Peter Rice on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop has since completed projects as diverse as the gallery for the De Menil Collection in the USA and the Columbus International Exposition in Italy. This series of four volumes covers his entire body of work to date.

Dostępność: na zamówienie Znaczenie szkła dla poszukiwania światła i ciepła w historii jest nie do przecenienia. Dziś szkło wciąż pozostaje jednym z najbardziej niezbędnych i wszechstronnych materiałów. Poza wykorzystaniem do realizacji fasad, szkło znajduje także zastosowanie jako element struktury, prezentując szeroki wybór kolorów i tekstur. Clear Glass wykorzystując fotografie, rysunki, szkice oraz teksty prezentuje ponadczasowość i nieustającą fascynację tym materiałem.

Spas are becoming increasingly common all over the world. In holiday resorts as well as in private homes, yesterdays bathrooms are giving way to wellness rooms for recovery from modern life's hustle and bustle. Architects and designers integrate their clients longing for rest and relaxation in their designs. "Bath & Spa" presents seventy projects for relaxation, recreation and dreaming with photos, plans and drawings. Whether in a small bathroom or a top-flight spa, surprising design opportunities arise from different combinations of materials. This publication of the series "Architecture in Focus" invites the reader to discover the new trends at this exciting interface between the solid and liquid states.

This informative and engaging book uses inventive and visually stunning infographics to take an unusual look at architecture in a way that would not be possible with words and images. Through a variety of different infographics it compares, for example, the range of materials and colours used by different architects, the relative locations of their buildings, who influenced who, and which architects are the most discussed. It also approaches architecture from more unconventional angles with spreads that show the kinds of architecture favoured by dictators, the networks of love affairs that architects got entangled in, and the defining facial features of famous architects.

This unique look at Calgary Architect Jeremy Sturgess' creative career is presented as a boxed set of nine portfolios in a print run of only 750 copies. Governor-General award winning architect Jeremy Sturgess recently celebrated thirty years in practice in Calgary where he has been based throughout his career. During that time, Sturgess has made a major contribution to transforming the architectural face of the city, from individual houses to large-scale public projects such as the Calgary Water Centre, the Grand Theatre, and Calgary's most recent downtown LRT stations.

W książce kompleksowo przedstawiono zagadnienia kształtowania, obliczania i konstruowania hal stalowych. W usystematyzowany sposób podano wiadomości teoretyczne i zalecenia praktyczne dotyczące projektowania tego typu budowli według PN-90/B-03200 i Eurokodu 3, z uwzględnieniem wyników najnowszych badań światowych i doświadczeń własnych autora. Zaprezentowano współcześnie stosowane wyroby i materiały do budowy hal stalowych oraz zamieszczono przykłady rozwiązań konstrukcyjnych obiektów halowych. W pracy wiele miejsca poświęcono wyjaśnieniu funkcji statyczno-wytrzymałościowej elementów składowych konstrukcji nośnych hal stalowych oraz podstawom identyfikacji modeli fizycznych i obliczeniowych przy projektowaniu z wykorzystaniem technik komputerowych.

DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE The Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Center is a conceptual work of urban architecture of sculptural proportions. The library's design reflects the Humboldt-University of Berlin's status as a world-renowned, time-honoured and yet modern and innovative institution for instruction and research. Located between the River Spree and the elevated commuter rail line in the immediate vicinity of Museum Island, the 10-storey structure rises over the Berlin skyline and is an important fixture of the city's cultural landscape.

May 1884 saw the publication in Paris of a fin de siècle novel that became a perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. A ReboursAgainst the Grain and Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans was written as a seductive textbook of decadence, an antidote to the "banality" of the dominant literary styles, Naturalism and Realism. Symbolism, whose influence would endure well into the modernist era, was an artistic religion-substitute, a spiritually charged cult of beauty.

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.