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Pour découvrir les coins saugrenus et pittoresques de New York, ce guide propose des expériences peu ordinaires comme observer les étoiles avec un télescope universitaire, retrouver une statue de Lénine, faire voler sa jupe au même endroit que Marilyn Monroe ou jouer au Scrabble avec les panneaux indicateurs du Queens.
New York, insolite et secrète
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Pour découvrir les coins saugrenus et pittoresques de New York, ce guide propose des expériences peu ordinaires comme observer les étoiles avec un télescope universitaire, retrouver une statue de Lénine, faire voler sa jupe au même endroit que Marilyn Monroe ou jouer au Scrabble avec les panneaux indicateurs du Queens.
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Milan insolite et secrète
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Découvrez une écluse conçue par Léonard de Vinci et les secrets de la célèbre Cène, repérez le bunker caché de Mussolini, découvrez une église en forme de navire, visitez des maisons d'artistes habituellement fermées au public et des collections privées exceptionnelles, admirez la sculpture d'une jeune fille qui se rase le pubis, cherchez les boxeurs sculptés sur le toit(...)
Milan insolite et secrète
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Découvrez une écluse conçue par Léonard de Vinci et les secrets de la célèbre Cène, repérez le bunker caché de Mussolini, découvrez une église en forme de navire, visitez des maisons d'artistes habituellement fermées au public et des collections privées exceptionnelles, admirez la sculpture d'une jeune fille qui se rase le pubis, cherchez les boxeurs sculptés sur le toit de la cathédrale... Loin des foules et des clichés habituels, Milan est de façon méconnue l'une des villes italiennes qui possède le patrimoine culturel le plus important de la péninsule. Elle ne révèle en revanche ses trésors cachés qu'aux habitants et aux voyageurs qui savent sortir des sentiers battus. Un guide pour ceux qui pensaient bien connaître Milan ou pour ceux qui souhaitent découvrir l'autre visage de la ville.
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Founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, Alexandria was for a long time the largest city in the ancient world. Flattened by a tsunami in 365 AD, it was little more than a fishing village when captured by Napoleon in 1798. The 19th century saw it become the center of the Egyptian cotton trade, bringing prosperity and an influx of European merchants. Then came the(...)
Alexandria architectural guide
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Founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, Alexandria was for a long time the largest city in the ancient world. Flattened by a tsunami in 365 AD, it was little more than a fishing village when captured by Napoleon in 1798. The 19th century saw it become the center of the Egyptian cotton trade, bringing prosperity and an influx of European merchants. Then came the bombardment by the English in 1882, which almost flattened the city a second time, and the revolution of 1952, which in effect condemned many of its residential buildings to slow but picturesque decay. The ebbs and flows of history and different cultures (especially Arabic, Muslim, Greek, Italian, English, and, not least, Jewish) have all left their marks on Alexandria's architecture. There are classical ruins; Ottoman fortifications; Egyptian okelles (medieval merchants' buildings); a colorful fishing port; mosques, shrines, churches, and synagogues; mansions and apartment buildings in the neo-Renaissance, art deco, and international styles; brutalist post-revolutionary institutions. And then are oddities such as the Cotton Palace Tower, a skyscraper intended for use as the headquarters of the country s cotton industry but inexplicably abandoned before completion.
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Izmir architectural guide
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Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries. Each one left behind its architectural traces, turning the city into a palimpsest of millennia of urban life. A cosmopolitan, multiethnic port city known as the ‘pearl of the Aegean‘ in the Ottoman Empire, Izmir is now one of Turkey’s largest(...)
Izmir architectural guide
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Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries. Each one left behind its architectural traces, turning the city into a palimpsest of millennia of urban life. A cosmopolitan, multiethnic port city known as the ‘pearl of the Aegean‘ in the Ottoman Empire, Izmir is now one of Turkey’s largest metropolises. This book explores the diverse architectural heritage of the city. Through a selection of 265 buildings, among them the works of architects like Gustave Eiffel and Bruno Taut, it narrates the evolution of Izmir’s built environment from ancient times to the present. To help visitors understand the city‘s urban structure, it also explains the region’s characteristic architectural forms.
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Japan architectural guide
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Architectural Guide Japan introduces over 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture, while outlining its development since the mid-nineteenth century until the present day in a concise historical essay. This updated, second edition of the book presents around 100 new buildings, reflecting the rapid pace of development in the country. It will be(...)
Japan architectural guide
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Architectural Guide Japan introduces over 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture, while outlining its development since the mid-nineteenth century until the present day in a concise historical essay. This updated, second edition of the book presents around 100 new buildings, reflecting the rapid pace of development in the country. It will be available this summer, in time for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. All texts and entries are illustrated with hundreds of colour photos, all taken by the author, and many drawings. Detailed information about each entry is complemented by geo-data in the form of QR codes
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nce the capital of the Aztec Empire, Mexico City has continuously evolved over the centuries to become one of the largest megalopolises in the world. The exuberant metropolis of the present day can be seen as a patchwork of Aztec, Hispanic, and contemporary Western cultures. This guide not only covers large-scale projects such as the campus of the National Autonomous(...)
Mexico City architectural guide, 2nd edition
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nce the capital of the Aztec Empire, Mexico City has continuously evolved over the centuries to become one of the largest megalopolises in the world. The exuberant metropolis of the present day can be seen as a patchwork of Aztec, Hispanic, and contemporary Western cultures. This guide not only covers large-scale projects such as the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the site of vibrant, mural-covered buildings by some of the nation’s leading architects from the 1950s. It also highlights lesser-known gems such as striking modernist chapels and cutting-edge commercial buildings. This expanded edition explores the work of internationally renowned architect Luis Barragán in detail and features an introduction to contemporary architecture in Mexico.
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Guide d'architecture Monaco
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Monaco est avant tout un laboratoire dédié à la densité et à l’intensité. De l’extension sur la mer à la conquête des sous-sols, la principauté rivalise d’inventivité. Plus que New York, c’est elle la véritable capitale de la congestion. Monaco délire ! Ce guide d’architecture est donc aussi un guide d’urbanisme. Le patrimoine de la ville est, par ailleurs, menacé tant(...)
Guide d'architecture Monaco
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Monaco est avant tout un laboratoire dédié à la densité et à l’intensité. De l’extension sur la mer à la conquête des sous-sols, la principauté rivalise d’inventivité. Plus que New York, c’est elle la véritable capitale de la congestion. Monaco délire ! Ce guide d’architecture est donc aussi un guide d’urbanisme. Le patrimoine de la ville est, par ailleurs, menacé tant l’exiguïté de cette cité-Etat appelle un renouveau permanent. D’un pay-sage sans cesse changeant naît un goût immodéré pour la nouveauté et, en réaction, une nostalgie parfois couleur pasti-che. Les styles et les époques s’y retrouvent donc pêle-mêle dans une collection improbable et unique en son genre de con-structions de toutes tailles. Comprendre Monaco invite aussi à regarder deux communes voisines : Beausoleil, autrefois baptisée Monte-Carlo Supéri-eur, et Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Ce livre inédit a été imaginé comme une promenade architecturale conduisant sur les tra-ces de Charles Garnier, Louis Notari, Kevork Arsenian, Jean Ginsberg, Jean Badovici, Eileen Grey et Yvonne Le Corbusier, l’épouse monégasque du maître moderne.
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Founded in the fifteenth century, planned and rebuilt by the French, and then modernised and expanded in the era after independence, the city of Phnom Penh displays a diverse mix of styles. Here, early religious and vernacular buildings, the glittering structures of the Royal Palace, and colonial buildings of the French Protectorate (1863–1953) coexist with the gems of(...)
Phnom Penh architectural guide
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Founded in the fifteenth century, planned and rebuilt by the French, and then modernised and expanded in the era after independence, the city of Phnom Penh displays a diverse mix of styles. Here, early religious and vernacular buildings, the glittering structures of the Royal Palace, and colonial buildings of the French Protectorate (1863–1953) coexist with the gems of the ‘New Khmer Architecture’ of the 1960s. After the destructive period under the Khmer Rouge, the city went through a rebirth. It has seen rapid modernisation and economic development in recent years, and its urban landscape is transforming at a breathtaking pace. This guide offers a comprehensive overview of Phnom Penh’s built heritage, highlighting its history and architectural layers. In addition to covering better-known masterpieces, it also takes readers through the city’s ‘everyday architecture’, revealing places off the beaten track.
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Shenzhen architectural guide
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s(...)
Shenzhen architectural guide
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The first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, Shenzhen is a young city that was essentially built from the ground up at a rapid pace – hence the infamous ‘Shenzhen Speed’. Unlike most places, it has built its fortune on being propelled into the future without any connection to the past. Shenzhen is a place where business, immigration, ports, borders, and nature come together to shape a unique and, at times, mystifying architectural experience. This guide will introduce the reader to Shenzhen’s kaleidoscopic architecture with the help of bilingual coordinates and geodata. It will also refer to the city's political history and cultural geography. By photographing these state-of-the-art works in 2020, the book captures a sort of 'here-and-now' that will soon be transformed once again.
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Tel Aviv architectural guide
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Home to more than 4,000 constructions built in a Bauhaus-influenced yet site-specific modernist style, Tel Aviv’s White City is a world-renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this guide, conservation architect Sharon Golan Yaron highlights 100 such structures along four routes. Furthermore, the book illustrates the uniqueness of Tel Aviv’s contemporary conservation(...)
Tel Aviv architectural guide
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Home to more than 4,000 constructions built in a Bauhaus-influenced yet site-specific modernist style, Tel Aviv’s White City is a world-renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this guide, conservation architect Sharon Golan Yaron highlights 100 such structures along four routes. Furthermore, the book illustrates the uniqueness of Tel Aviv’s contemporary conservation approach, which maintains historic values while promoting the growth of the city through allowing additions on top of historical buildings.
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