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From the idealism of Moore’s “Utopia” to the ease of Gauguin’s Tahiti, islands fuel the imagination. Indeed, who hasn’t day-dreamed of an unique slice of paradise? Editor Farhad Vladi presents the many types of private islands in this compelling volume, featuring everything from Canadian lake isles to Pacific atolls. Within its chapters you will discover a world of islands with castles as well as properties owned by celebrities like Johnny Depp and Ricard Branson. However, islands are not just for the wealthy; they are as much affordable for those who want to spend less.
The embodiment of relaxation and well-being, tropical gardens are man-made paradises on earth. They offer breathtaking beauty and ample opportunity to let one`s spirit flow while enjoying with all senses a full range of experiences – be it the rustle of palm trees, the twitter of hummingbirds, a cornucopia of lush colors, or the exotic scent of vanilla, cinnamon and orchids. All combine to put body, spirit, and soul into peace and harmony. This volume presents exhilarating landscapes from all tropical regions of the world, displaying thrillingly ingenious arrangements of plants and trees.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Vertical gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a grey city street or a cold modern building. This is the first book to present a collection of the most important examples of this emerging trend. Those who create vertical gardens apply the principles of hydroponics (a technique of growing plants in water containing dissolved nutrients) and use ingenious framing systems that allow luxuriant plant life to colonize the exteriors of buildings.
Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming for true for more and more people. So, for the first time in this series of lifestyle books, we are devoting a volume to swimming pools and everything related to the subject: pool houses, bathing spaces, saunas and hammams, and also garden designs, materials used for cladding the pool, terraces, furniture and so on. This book is divided into three chapters. The first section concentrates on outdoor swimming pools and pool houses.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Landscape Architecture Defining the Craft Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of most beautiful and iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.
Dostępność:na zamowienie The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century The last two decades have seen a great explosion in the diversity, functionality, and beauty of modern garden design. The first major survey of contemporary private gardens, this book explores the imaginative ideas behind landscape design today. Lush color photographs, supported by plans, drawings, and lively commentary, thoroughly document gardens by twenty-eight leading landscape architects, featuring work in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia. An international roster of designers is represented here, illustrating acknowledged masters, such as Dan Kiley and Ian Hamilton Finlay, in addition to vital young talents, including Kathryn Gustafson and Susan Child.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Internationally renowned expert Jean-Paul Pigeat sets out to examine both the enduring styles and the bold new trends in garden design. Pigeat juxtaposes traditional and contemporary garden designs, exploring their themes as expressions of a culture's artistic creativity and social structure.
Album poświęcony jest willom Konstancina, zarówno tym sprzed stu lat jak i tym wybudowanym współcześnie. Na jego kartach przedstawiono mało znaną architekturę tej miejscowości, która powstała na przełomie XIX i XX wieku stając się szybko najbardziej ekskluzywnym miejscem nieopodal Warszawy. Dziś Konstancin to polskie Beverly Hills.
Aus dem Inhalt: The Walbrook in London, England (Foster + Partners) Neues Museum in Berlin, Deutschland (David Chipperfield Architects) Barcelona Airport T1, Spanien (Ricardo Bofill) Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine (Arup Associates) Aqua Tower in Chicago, USA (Studio Gang Architects) Wasser wird absehbar und zunehmend zu den knappen unserer natürlichen Ressourcen zählen. Es ist demnach globale Herausforderung, Technologien, Systeme und Produkte für einen nachhaltigen Gebrauch von Wasser zu entwickeln, zu produzieren und einzusetzen.
Spain is a country as extraordinarily diverse in its architecture as it is in its landscape. Ranging from the lush green Pyrenees to the arid vineyards of La Rioja, and from traditional Andalucian haciendas to the creative hive of contemporary trends in Catalonia, Spanish Style provides a luxurious, often dramatic tour of 23 hand-picked homes and boutique hotels across the country, showcasing a superb array of design ideas.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. Featuring many of the worlds most highly acclaimed landscape architects, this book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous construction details. There is also a brief descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project. The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages.
