When designing new workspaces, architects and interior designers are faced with the challenge not only of creating versatile and dynamic environments, but also of turning the company's image and corporate identity into three-dimensional reality. Today's workspace design is also increasingly characterized by a greater ecological awareness, as seen in the optimization of materials and alternative energy systems of the work included herein. This volume is a select sampling of twenty ground-breaking design programs, each of which is a masterful reworking of the concepts of space, material and colon Presenting work by accomplished architects as well as up-and-coming names, this is an invaluable reference on the current state of office design.

Office Interiors

Lofts and penthouses constitute one of the laboratories of creativity in modern architecture. These spaces are found in buildings formerly used by industry, and because they are diaphanous, they offer the possibility of creating true paradises for living and working. This book presents a broad selection of the finest works carried out in this field, all splendidly illustrated with full-color photographs, plans, and texts that explain the architectural projects behind. A publication providing numerous original ideas for redesigning such spaces while respecting their history and tradition.

Lofts and Penthouses

Take a tour of some of the coolest, most trendsetting shops in the world. Come inside Calvin Klein's chic and classy Parisian interior of the funky rambling landscape of Prada's New York store or Jun Aoki's multi-dimensional design for Louis Vuitton's one-of-a kind Tokyo shop, among others. Explore these groundbreaking designs and see what the architects themselves have to reveal about the design process behind each of the masterpieces included in these pages, all illustrated in full-color photographs accompanied by floor plans, sketches and architectural commentary.

Cool Shops

This book encompasses a wide selection of trade show stands, realized by outstanding international architects and designers ; who have transformed this extraordinary facet of retail design into a fully-fledged art. Each one of the projects included in this volume has been carefully chosen according to a criterion of originality, creativity and innovation. Full-color glossy photographs, rigorous graphic documentation, and explanations by the authors themselves accompany those selected. All of which, added to the complete follow-up of how the design process developed, makes this work a necessary and exciting tool for architects, designers and students, as well as for all professionals wishing to extend their knowledge in the field of retail space design and the architecture of trade show stands.

Exhibition Design

This volume presents an overview of the latest trends in single-family dwellings and the changes which they have undergone. The many projects presented here are examples of a variety of proposals set forth by the most original, internationally-known architects. Plans, sketches, details and photographs are complemented by a text which explains construction solutions, finishes and the techniques used.

The International House - La maison internationale

The residential space, which previously had a single function, is transformed today into a hybrid scenario: a dwelling may be an architect's office, a computer school, an artist's studio, and a busy family home. These facts are analysed in the present volume through the presentation of beautiful examples from different parts of the world. Among them there are the own home and studio of major architects as Wiel Arets, Rick Joy, Randy Brown, Jose Cruz Ovalle and Wendel Burnette, and the home offices of artists, musicians, fashion designers, etc. created by well known architects such as John Pawson, Glenn Murcutt and Dieter Thiel.

The Home Office - Architecture Showcase - Occasion

This book presents a selection of the most interesting proposais in interior design, returning to more humanized concepts based on the profound relationship between mankind and the space he inhabits. Highly diverse and innovative solutions attempt to strike a balance between function and aesthetics, between the essential and the non-essential. Floor plans, technical specifications, materials used and commentary on each project, all provided by the designing architects themselves, offer the reader an in-depth view of the projects. Eldridge Smerin, Drewes Architects, GAP Architetti Associati are just sonie of the architectural luminaries who have contributed to this fine selection.

The new apartment

New Perspectives Coastal Houses

Apartement architecture now - Residential developments

Through recent examples by renowned international archtects as Norisada Maeda, MVRDV, Atelier Tekuto, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architectes and Suguira Office, among others, this monographic work analyses the difficulty of integrating new residential volumes into sites that are particularly narrow and difficult due to their situation and environment, and making them connect with the context through exemplary technical and formal solutions. In all of them, the façade concentrates the most interesting aspects of the composition and construction of the project; it is the face of the building, a privileged view onto the exterior, with connects with the neighbouring buildings in order to weave the urban fabric and close the profile of the street.

Today's City Houses

Lack of space and growing demand have made the twentieth century the age of the vertical dwelling. This book's fine selection of designs exemplifies the various solutions which a number of architects, ranging from well-known architects to those who are just starting their careers, have chosen when designing apartments and blocks of flats. In this volume, a great profusion of notes, plans, construction details, materials and photographs illustrate the silent.

New Apartment Buildings; Nouveaux logements collectifs - Architectural Design; Edition bilingue anglais-espagnol

Home extensions is a collection of twenty extension projects carried out on country houses and urban dwellings, temporary or permanent residences, built in gardens, attics, patios, inner courtyards, backyards and even in the air. Extensions of a durable type and entirely temporary additions, containing anything from a single utility or service room, to a complete residence ; all of these ventures are thoroughly documented at every step of the design process, both technically and graphically, from the concept stage to the point of completion. The internationally recognized architects - SeARCH bv - Bjarne Mastenbroek & Ad Boerman, Moriko Kira, Reichardt Architekten BDA...- that authored these interventions have generously made available all sorts of explanatory guidelines and details of the solutions they implemented. The result of this combination offers a wide choice of suggestions and valuable examples, of great use for the definition of future reform and extension plans ; this book is, in conclusion, an inestimable instrument for all sorts of professionals and architecture students concerning themselves with interior design, furnishing and decoration.

Great Spaces Home Extensions

As urban architecture does not generally enjoy the luxury of unlimited space and natural light, architects and designers are faced with the challenge of creating spaces which are both functional and attractive. The projects in this collection, featuring work from the studios of GAD, Kitayama, FOBA and others, display particular ingenuity in resolving the unique constraints with which each was faced. Where natural light is scarce, one architect opts for a translucent roof of stretched fabric; another, for vertical light shafts. Height restrictions are overcome in one home by a sunken ground floor; elsewhere, limited space is handled by the construction of an external stairwell or perimetral corridors.

Urban Houses - Maisons urbaines

The wide array of designs presented in this volume offers a wide and varied vision of the latest trends in renovating buildings. Reputed architects suggest ingenious solutions for giving old structure a fresh, renewed look and for creating effective spaces for domestic use. Each project includes a detailed explanation through the use of plans, sketches, notes, construction explanations, materials and photographs.

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