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Edited and authored by the renowned architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this book is dedicated to a new, eye-catching building by Swiss architect Jean-Pierre Dürig located in Lausanne, also known as the "Olympic Capital." As the structure’s name suggests, Vortex is an 88-foot-high tower in the shape of a cylinder, rising around a single, continuous 1.7-mile-long ramp. Its(...)
Vortex; the architecture of a circle
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Edited and authored by the renowned architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this book is dedicated to a new, eye-catching building by Swiss architect Jean-Pierre Dürig located in Lausanne, also known as the "Olympic Capital." As the structure’s name suggests, Vortex is an 88-foot-high tower in the shape of a cylinder, rising around a single, continuous 1.7-mile-long ramp. Its spiraling movement creates an emblematic shape reminiscent of Olympic rings—a fitting tribute for a building that housed the 1,700 talented young athletes who competed in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in January 2020. Over 130 photographs, sketches, plans, and models illuminate this enormous undertaking, while Jodidio’s informative text offers detailed insight into the phases of design and construction. Imagery of circular references from art, architecture, and nature highlight the inspiration behind the building’s extraordinary shape.
Architecture Monographs
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Completed in 2019, the Swatch and Omega Campus in Biel (Bienne), Switzerland, is a magnificent example of technology, design, and environmental sustainability working in concert to create a space that promotes the health of users and the planet. This book illustrates every aspect of the project, including drawings, plans, and numerous interior and exterior photographs.(...)
Shigeru Ban Architects: Swatch and Omega Campus
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Completed in 2019, the Swatch and Omega Campus in Biel (Bienne), Switzerland, is a magnificent example of technology, design, and environmental sustainability working in concert to create a space that promotes the health of users and the planet. This book illustrates every aspect of the project, including drawings, plans, and numerous interior and exterior photographs. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has experienced firsthand the trauma of natural disasters, which he has addressed in numerous emergency-relief projects. With the Swatch and Omega campus, Ban demonstrates how sustainable architecture can benefit industry as well, and why he promotes timber as the planet's only truly renewable resource. Philip Jodidio introduces readers to the buildings' ingenious and cutting-edge features--a serpentine, cocoon-like facade that echoes the playful elements of the Swatch brand; a gridshell roof structure consisting of thousands of precisely interlocking timber pieces. The Omega buildings with their clean straight lines are equally innovative and express the contrast between the two related brands. A feat of forward-thinking architecture, this corporate headquarters represents a benchmark for future building projects around the world.
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Tadao Ando: Château La Coste
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Cet ouvrage est le récit de l’aventure architecturale qui repose avant tout sur la richesse du dialogue engagé entre Tadao Ando et le château La Coste, site aux multiples facettes. Philip Jodidio commente cette rencontre en s’appuyant sur un foisonnement iconographique incluant les esquisses, les maquettes et les photos des réalisations.
Tadao Ando: Château La Coste
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Cet ouvrage est le récit de l’aventure architecturale qui repose avant tout sur la richesse du dialogue engagé entre Tadao Ando et le château La Coste, site aux multiples facettes. Philip Jodidio commente cette rencontre en s’appuyant sur un foisonnement iconographique incluant les esquisses, les maquettes et les photos des réalisations.
Architecture Monographs
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Une exploration de l'espace qui fait, au sens propre, grimper l'imagination en flèche. La sélection de toits présentée ici vous fait voyager dans le monde entier et découvrir comment une partie autrefois négligée de la construction est aujourd'hui repensée par l'architecture contemporaine, sous forme de somptueux jardins avec vue, d'installations artistiques,(...)
Rooftops : islands in the sky
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Une exploration de l'espace qui fait, au sens propre, grimper l'imagination en flèche. La sélection de toits présentée ici vous fait voyager dans le monde entier et découvrir comment une partie autrefois négligée de la construction est aujourd'hui repensée par l'architecture contemporaine, sous forme de somptueux jardins avec vue, d'installations artistiques, d'appartements au luxe éblouissant ou du bar le prestigieux de la ville.
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Portzamparc buildings
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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States,(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2017
Portzamparc buildings
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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Christian de Portzamparc is renowned for bold yet artful architecture that is at once sensitive to its context while at the same time being novel, adventurous, and frequently exciting. One57, the soaring residential skyscraper in New York, with unparalleled views of Central Park, is perhaps his most famous building in the United States, but his work ranges widely across the globe, from an extraordinary handkerchief puff–shaped boutique for Christian Dior in Seoul to a low-winged arabesque of a building for the wine producer Cheval Blanc to a mysterious temple of the modern for Casarts in Casablanca.
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Small architecture
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities,(...)
Small architecture
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less.
Prefabricated Architecture
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The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world’s most historically fascinating cities–Lahore–has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activity. Since 2007 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been working to preserve the walled city of Lahore. This book explores every(...)
Lahore: a framework for urban consevation
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The cultural capital of Pakistan, and one of the world’s most historically fascinating cities–Lahore–has retained much of its historic heritage despite centuries of turbulence. Today it remains a vibrant epicenter of commercial and cultural activity. Since 2007 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been working to preserve the walled city of Lahore. This book explores every aspect of that effort, including drafting a strategic master plan, mapping strategies for conserving monuments, gardens, and temples, renovating neighborhoods and landscapes, and developing environmental solutions. It focuses on specific sites, such as the Shahi Hammam, or Royal Bath; the Shahi Guzargah heritage trail; the fabled Imperial Kitchen; Lahore Fort–a World Heritage site–and the Badshahi and Wazir Khan mosques.
History until 1900, Asia
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The is the first book to document the highly innovative Terminal in Hong Kong, completed in 2018, with a rare glimpse at all stages of plans, design, and construction. Located centrally in Hong Kong, this is the largest below ground station in the world. The high-speed rail terminus station will connect Hong Kong to Beijing with the largest rail network in history,(...)
Andrew Bromberg at Aedas: West Kowloon Station
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The is the first book to document the highly innovative Terminal in Hong Kong, completed in 2018, with a rare glimpse at all stages of plans, design, and construction. Located centrally in Hong Kong, this is the largest below ground station in the world. The high-speed rail terminus station will connect Hong Kong to Beijing with the largest rail network in history, expected to strengthen the city's strategic position as the southern gateway of China.
Architecture Monographs
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International in scope, the book is an A to Z of ideas for the twenty-first century, from a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand, all designed to have minimal architectural traces--made with local materials that harmonize with the surrounding environment. An outdoor care retreat outside Oslo provides space where visitors can benefit from the therapeutic(...)
Into the woods: retreats and dream houses
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International in scope, the book is an A to Z of ideas for the twenty-first century, from a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand, all designed to have minimal architectural traces--made with local materials that harmonize with the surrounding environment. An outdoor care retreat outside Oslo provides space where visitors can benefit from the therapeutic qualities of nature; a residence in Tottori, Japan, adapts with the changing seasons; a treehouse in Cape Town uses cylindrical towers that are elevated on stilts, offering views among the trees; and in Quebec, three geodesic domes were designed as part of an eco-tourism project to highlight the area's natural beauty. Each house is paired with photographs and plans.
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March 2020
Residential Architecture
Tree houses
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L’idée de grimper à un arbre pour y trouver refuge, ou simplement de voir la terre ferme sous un autre angle, est aussi vieille que l’humanité. Dans cet ouvrage, 50 cabanes perchées, créatives et enchanteresses.
Tree houses
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L’idée de grimper à un arbre pour y trouver refuge, ou simplement de voir la terre ferme sous un autre angle, est aussi vieille que l’humanité. Dans cet ouvrage, 50 cabanes perchées, créatives et enchanteresses.
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