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Buildings designated brutalist in style were largely built in the 1960s and 1970s, exuding an aura of daring, uncompromising design today. It is the French term "brut,“ meaning raw or unrefined, that lent its name to this particular architectural phenomenon. Vilified for decades as the step-child of modernism, brutalist architecture is now enjoying an astonishing comeback(...)
Massive, expressive, sculptural: Brutalism now and then
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Buildings designated brutalist in style were largely built in the 1960s and 1970s, exuding an aura of daring, uncompromising design today. It is the French term "brut,“ meaning raw or unrefined, that lent its name to this particular architectural phenomenon. Vilified for decades as the step-child of modernism, brutalist architecture is now enjoying an astonishing comeback as the latest discovery among digital trendsetters. As well as fascinating users across social networks, brutalism is also inspiring contemporary architecture. Large-scale sculptural forms, coarsely finished materials and floor plans that defy convention merge with contemporary design to generate enthralling new creations. This book offers a sophisticated overview of post-war and contemporary brutalist buildings and of the relationship – in appearance and design, in the grand concepts and the smallest details – between brutalism today and its ancestors.
Contemporary Architecture
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Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time resilient, recyclable in many ways and reducing greenhouse gases, universally applicable and locally available, renewable and beautiful. Today, new processing technologies extend the spectrum(...)
Wood works: sustainability, versatility, stability
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Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time resilient, recyclable in many ways and reducing greenhouse gases, universally applicable and locally available, renewable and beautiful. Today, new processing technologies extend the spectrum of its possible applications and the combinability with other building materials, enabling new amazing technical and design solutions. In short, almost anything - structurally - can be done with it. Whatever architects and interior designers think of can be realized with wood: from energy-efficient houses via multi-story academic facilities to the interiors of fashionable bars. The traditional building material has become ultra-contemporary and increasingly cutting-edge, offering extraordinarily exciting possibilities for architectural design.
Timber Construction
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The featured architects show different possibilities how stations, warehouses, churches and offices can be converted into hotels. Whether through striking contrast with the new creation or reinterpretation of the existing architecture – or indeed both together – all featured projects are defined by their respectful and thoughtful stance towards the sites they occupy and(...)
Stay overnight: hospitality design in repurposed walls
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The featured architects show different possibilities how stations, warehouses, churches and offices can be converted into hotels. Whether through striking contrast with the new creation or reinterpretation of the existing architecture – or indeed both together – all featured projects are defined by their respectful and thoughtful stance towards the sites they occupy and establish an enthralling relationship between the old and the new.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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The trend towards environmental awareness is decisively influencing the way we live our lives. As Passive Houses have been conceptualized and became part of our...› Lire la suite collective consciousness, architecture stands at the forefront of an emerging modern eco-friendly lifestyle. Taken back to basics, passive house architecture satisfies the desire to reduce the(...)
Passive houses: energy efficient homes
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The trend towards environmental awareness is decisively influencing the way we live our lives. As Passive Houses have been conceptualized and became part of our...› Lire la suite collective consciousness, architecture stands at the forefront of an emerging modern eco-friendly lifestyle. Taken back to basics, passive house architecture satisfies the desire to reduce the use of external primary energy. Depending on the climatic conditions, the utilization of different technologies, methods, and interventions is required, presenting a variety of challenges to the architects. This publication portrays about 60 single family homes from across the world that showcase the great variety of exciting and at the same time sustainable architectural solutions.
Residential Architecture
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Automobile architecture
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The automobile has shaped the appearance of our streets for 100 years now. At the same building types have been created to serve it. Parking garages and gas stations as new species of architecture and showrooms whose exhibition spaces and display windows are markedly different from the usual businesses have decisively changed the cities. This book is dedicated to(...)
Automobile architecture
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The automobile has shaped the appearance of our streets for 100 years now. At the same building types have been created to serve it. Parking garages and gas stations as new species of architecture and showrooms whose exhibition spaces and display windows are markedly different from the usual businesses have decisively changed the cities. This book is dedicated to this type of architecture, showing esthetic and technical solutions of the past few years. Not a few architects have been unmistakable 'car freaks' (Frank Lloyd Wright), or been occupied with the automobile (Le Corbusier: Maison Citrohan), or have actually designed cars (Walter Gropius for Adler). This fascination of the profession can also be seen in the architecture built for the automobile today.
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August 2011
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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L'ouvrage Chefs-d'oeuvre : Pont architecture + design offre un panorama des ponts et passerelles les plus modernes.
Chefs d'oeuvre : pont, architecture + design
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L'ouvrage Chefs-d'oeuvre : Pont architecture + design offre un panorama des ponts et passerelles les plus modernes.
Engineering Structures
Architecture et reconversion
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Partout dans le monde, du fait des transformations de la société et des changements économiques, de nombreux bâtiments ont perdu leur utilité première. Toutefois, du fait de l'engouement que suscitent les techniques de construction anciennes, de l'attention croissante portée au développement durable et de considérations d'ordre économique, il est désormais fréquent(...)
Architecture et reconversion
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Partout dans le monde, du fait des transformations de la société et des changements économiques, de nombreux bâtiments ont perdu leur utilité première. Toutefois, du fait de l'engouement que suscitent les techniques de construction anciennes, de l'attention croissante portée au développement durable et de considérations d'ordre économique, il est désormais fréquent que l'on s'attache à leur trouver de nouveaux usages. Illustré de plans et de nombreuses photographies, cet ouvrage présente plus de cent bâtiments internationaux qui se distinguent par le changement de fonction qu'ils ont subi.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Human beings have always entertained a fascination for the element of water. The architectural design with water offers many opportunities and is not just limited to gardens and the outdoors. Especially in the urban context, pools, waterfalls and trick fountains are oases of calm and provide a creative impulse for urban planning. 50 current examples are displayed in this(...)
Waterscapes: contemporary landscaping
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Human beings have always entertained a fascination for the element of water. The architectural design with water offers many opportunities and is not just limited to gardens and the outdoors. Especially in the urban context, pools, waterfalls and trick fountains are oases of calm and provide a creative impulse for urban planning. 50 current examples are displayed in this volume with texts, illustrations and plans.
Gardens
Cinema architecture
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from(...)
Cinema architecture
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from flamboyant, luxurious and opulent to minimalist, modern and refined.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
Contemporary museums
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The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade and reveals their spatial and architectural concepts: from the white cube idea that exists chiefly to display the exhibit itself, to a flamboyant freestanding structure, which enriches the image of the city and involves the works in its dynamic spatial configuration. A broad diversity of(...)
Contemporary museums
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The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade and reveals their spatial and architectural concepts: from the white cube idea that exists chiefly to display the exhibit itself, to a flamboyant freestanding structure, which enriches the image of the city and involves the works in its dynamic spatial configuration. A broad diversity of museums is considered: museums of businesses and institutes, of technology and toys, of literature and architecture.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions