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Nippon nests: Today's most exceptional Japanese homes So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it's a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting-edge apartment, the best Japanese homes share a love of cleverly designed spaces and warm materials such as wood, bricks, and bamboo.

Podręcznik dotyczący szczegółowych pomiarów geodezyjnych i geomatyki. Autor w przystępny sposób przedstawił zarówno znane - od dawna stosowane rozwiązania geodezyjne, jaki i nowoczesne metody. Szczególny nacisk położył na wykorzystanie najnowszego sprzętu i specjalistycznego oprogramowania komputerowego. Omówił m.in.: historię rozwoju i zarys geodezji, podstawy kartografii, regulacje prawne dotyczące pomiarów, sprzęt wykorzystywany w geodezji, techniki pomiarowe: sytuacyjne, wysokościowe, wysokościowo-sytuacyjne oraz realizacyjne, metody obliczeniowe, sposoby sporządzania map wielkoskalowych, praktyczne zastosowanie geodezyjnych programów komputerowych (GEO-INFO, GEO-MAP, C-GEO).

After many were demolished or 'modernised' beyond recognition in the post-war period, terrace houses were rediscovered in the 1980s, as people moved back to the inner city. Period features were tenderly replaced but many of the buildings remained as they had originally been: small, dark and impractical for family living in the 21st century.

ART DECO INTERIORS Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishing should form a complete design - a 'total look' - dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studios were established, notably in France and the United States, to serve the needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class intent on showing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic: the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vivid geometric carpet.

Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, Olgivanna, is famously quoted as saying that "My husband seemed to thrive on hardships." From the years 1920 to 1932 Wright's fortunes were at a low ebb; he was plagued by financial, personal, and professional setbacks, but saw the time as one of challenges instead of one of defeat. Unable to find patrons, his imagination led to visionary, often splendid, architectural conceptions that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary architecture he would build in the decades to follow. During this period he designed almost fifty projects, of which only a few were realized, but those few are seen today as among his most important creations. 

Wrocław przełomu XIX i XX wieku, przez pewien czas trzecie co do wielkości zaludnienia miasto (po Berlinie i Hamburgu), tętnił życiem. Działało tu bractwo biesiadne o nietypowej nazwie "Tu Panuje Porządek". W jego lokalu można było zamówić między innymi "kapelana polowego" i "Wielkiego Mogoła"... Spragnionych piwa zapraszała najdłużej działająca piwiarnia Europy - Piwnica Świdnicka, ale także inne lokale oferujące złocisty trunek, jak choćby Czarny Orzeł, Świński Ryj czy Czerwony Kogut. Établissements zapewniały różnorodne atrakcje - spektakle teatralne, wieczory taneczne, kręgielnię, strzelnicę, a nawet zawody zapaśniczek czy wyścigi cyklistów.

Lighting is a key feature of almost all interiors but it is often treated in a rather superficial manner in most books. This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. For large schemes, a professional lighting designer is usually employed, but for smaller projects it will often fall to the architect or interior designer to specify the lighting. In either case, it is crucial that the architect or interior designer understands what lighting is available, how it can be used and controlled and how it can be fitted. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved.