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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of(...)
Looking for the voids: Learning from Asia's liminial urban spaces as a foundation to expand
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In ''Looking for the voids'', Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside–outside, public–private, as well as legal–illegal.
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This volume showcases international talent, including such well-recognized architects as Tadao Ando (Japan), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Samuel Mockbee (US), and rising stars like Shigeru Ban (Japan), TEN Arquitectos (Mexico), and Edge/Gary Chang (Hong Kong). Domestic architecture is constantly changing; World House Now showcases over twenty houses all built in the last(...)
World house now : contemporary architectural directions
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This volume showcases international talent, including such well-recognized architects as Tadao Ando (Japan), Glenn Murcutt (Australia), Samuel Mockbee (US), and rising stars like Shigeru Ban (Japan), TEN Arquitectos (Mexico), and Edge/Gary Chang (Hong Kong). Domestic architecture is constantly changing; World House Now showcases over twenty houses all built in the last three years to illuminate current trends in domestic architecture and house styles.
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Metropolis
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Metropolis, c’est un tour du monde de vingt huit villes des plus aimées! Attractions touristiques, immeubles et architecture iconiques, points chaud culturels, lieux et personnages célèbres. 32 villes : Montréal, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Londres, Moscou, Berlin, Zurich, Rome, Stockholm, Barcelone, Amsterdam,(...)
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Metropolis, c’est un tour du monde de vingt huit villes des plus aimées! Attractions touristiques, immeubles et architecture iconiques, points chaud culturels, lieux et personnages célèbres. 32 villes : Montréal, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Londres, Moscou, Berlin, Zurich, Rome, Stockholm, Barcelone, Amsterdam, Athènes, Istanbul, Le Caire, Fès, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bombay, Seoul, Jakarta, Sydney et Auckland.
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xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017], ©2017
Architectural theorisations and phenomena in Asia : the polychronotypic Jetztzeit / Francis Chia-Hui Lin.
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Gardens of empire : botanical institutions of the Victorian British empire / Donal P. McCracken.
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Gardens of empire : botanical institutions of the Victorian British empire / Donal P. McCracken.
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London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997.
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This publication introduces forty recent projects by Japan's hottest retail designer with an extraordinary selection of interior designs for boutiques and retail outlets from high-end luxury space to mega stores in Japan, Great Britain, France, the United States and Hong Kong. Masamichi Katayama skillfully integrates diverse interior design elements including light,(...)
Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama projects # 2
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This publication introduces forty recent projects by Japan's hottest retail designer with an extraordinary selection of interior designs for boutiques and retail outlets from high-end luxury space to mega stores in Japan, Great Britain, France, the United States and Hong Kong. Masamichi Katayama skillfully integrates diverse interior design elements including light, furniture, material and proportion in a unique and unrivalled fashion that translates into flawless design, comfort and functionality.
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Cities without ground
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Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates figure-ground in the city, and in turn re-defines public-private spatial relationships. Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure,(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
December 2012
Cities without ground
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Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates figure-ground in the city, and in turn re-defines public-private spatial relationships. Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure, public transport and natural topography in the urban landscape
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Protest architecture : structures of civil resistance / Nick Newman.
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527 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 2002.
Kohn Pedersen Fox : architecture and urbanism, 1993-2002 / edited by Ian Luna and Kenneth Powell ; essays by Carol H. Krinsky and Kenneth Powell ; introduction by Joseph Giovannini.
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New York : Rizzoli, 2002.
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Posing philosophical questions at the outset, the publication “Being Chinese in Architecture” features seven different projects by Rocco Design in Greater China. The work ranges from single house to residential complex, hotel, cultural building to urban planning - Distorted Courtyard House by the Great Wall, Bamboo Pavilion at Berlin/Hong Kong, Giu-gen-tong Villa in(...)
January 2004, Hong Kong
Being Chinese in architecture : recent works in China by Rocco Design
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Posing philosophical questions at the outset, the publication “Being Chinese in Architecture” features seven different projects by Rocco Design in Greater China. The work ranges from single house to residential complex, hotel, cultural building to urban planning - Distorted Courtyard House by the Great Wall, Bamboo Pavilion at Berlin/Hong Kong, Giu-gen-tong Villa in Shanghai, Boao Canal Village, Hotel project in Chengdu, Beijing Central Business District, and the new winning project Museum of Guangdong.
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January 2004, Hong Kong