Extreme minimalism

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins." Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Buildings made of brick are found in very different epochs and cultures all over the world. Always astonishing, the qualities of brickwork continue to be explored by the world's best architects until today. A key characteristic of the material's success since time immemorial has always been the ease of planning due to its standardized production and the resulting harmonized building processes. In addition to longevity, amazing constructive possibilities as well as inexpensive and at the same time environmentally friendly production are among the qualities that are particularly valued today. Using computer software solutions, and even robots in some cases, today's architects are deploying brick in inventive ways : perforated, pixelated, undulating and more. The featured works from the past and present are a demonstration of how the use and popularity of bricks has not diminished one bit over the millennia, and is even gaining popularity today.

Bricks Now & Then - The Oldest Man-Made Building Material

Theaters, concert halls and opera houses are among the most fascinating architectural tasks of today. Large metropolises as well as medium-sized and smaller communities are enhancing their cultural infrastructure with spectacular new buildings and renovated historical structures for the performing arts. As prestige projects, buildings are emerging that first of all offer compelling designs and functions, but also shape and enrich their settings as outstanding individual structures. Masterpieces : Performance Architecture + Design presents 69 contemporary international projects by famous architects and up-and-coming young designers. The diversity and creativity of the projects are presented in-depth through high-quality images and plans coupled with informative texts.

Performance Architecture + Design

Contemporary Landscape Architecture - Masterpieces around the World

L'industrie hôtelière se met elle aussi au recyclage. Lorsque des architectes d'intérieur transforment en hôtels des immeubles préexistants, ils font preuve de créativité et d'ingéniosité tout en respectant la structure d'origine, l'objectif étant non seulement d'offrir aux clients des lieux authentiques, mais aussi d'économiser l'espace, de lutter contre l'expansion urbaine et de préserver des bâtiments anciens. Le présent ouvrage illustre dans quelle mesure il est possible de transformer en hôtel une gare, des bureaux, une église ou un entrepôt. Qu'elles jouent sur le contraste entre ancien et nouveau, qu'elles réinterprètent à leur manière l'architecture du passé ou qu'elles fassent une synthèse de ces deux approches, toutes les réalisations présentées créent un lien fascinant entre hier et aujourd'hui et témoignent d'un grand respect pour les lieux qu'elles investissent.

Stay Overnight - Hospitality Design in Repurposed Spaces

The increasing popularity of inner city residences makes townhouses the ideal starting point for new approaches to urban living. This results in projects that revive the traditional concepts of the narrow and multi-storied residential buildings, of London and New York for example, and at the same time enhance it, expand it, convert it, and even completely reinvent it to come up with answers to the omnipresent lack of space in inner cities. All have in common that they allow its inhabitants to fully enjoy urban life with all its possibilities but also to withdraw from it just like in a single-family house.
To accomplish this spaces are stacked and linked, which results in generous layouts in the smallest areas, existing buildings are expanded by multi-functional residential units and whole apartment blocks grow on tiny building lots. Yet the approach goes beyond new spatial concepts, because it also includes innovative approaches to energy efficiency and sustainability by using new materials and construction methods. All these factors combine to prove that the townhouse has rightfully gained its current popularity.

Townhouse design

The work environment is experiencing an upheaval - offices that combine personality, functionality, and just the right atmosphere are currently in demand. Customized company spaces create optimal work conditions that also contribute to the motivation and productivity of the employees. At the same time, they also act as the company's calling card, becoming an important part of company culture. The business philosophy is reflected not only in the choice of location, but also in the personalized interior design. To fulfill the high demands of office design and construction, architects and interior designers have developed innovative ideas for places of business, setting new standards for corporate architecture. Offices presents about a 100 successful, exciting solutions. The richly illustrated volume demonstrates how articulated space concepts in combination with selected materials and meticulously planned details create offices of vastly divergent character. The reader is introduced to prominent examples from internationally acclaimed stars of the architectural world, as well as to lesser-known projects from young design and construction practices.

Offices

In the 21st century, stations of ail kinds must be multifunctional, which has led to a spectacular renaissance of station construction in these days. Around the world, new facilities are being created that offer much more than representative buildings for arrivais and departures - contemporary concepts combine the most diverse types of transportation, while integrating retail and office spaces, hotels and restaurants. By using high-quality images and plans, this volume presents international projects of famous architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid as well as by promising young designers. The projects range from large interregional and regional stations, which shape the urban identity of their locations, to tram and subway stations located above and below ground.

Stations

Plante à la croissance particulièrement rapide, le bambou est surtout connu pour être la nourriture de base du grand panda. C'est aussi et surtout un matériau de construction traditionnel dans de nombreux pays d'Asie et d'Amérique du Sud. Les architectes occidentaux, qui l'ont récemment découvert, l'utilisent de plus en plus pour leurs réalisations, et cela tout autant pour ses excellentes propriétés physiques que pour son empreinte carbone particulièrement avantageuse. On trouvera dans cet ouvrage de nombreux exemples illustrant les diverses applications possibles de ce matériau à la fois léger et très résistant, en compétition directe avec le bois, le béton et l'acier. Certaines réalisations sont entièrement en bambou, tandis que d'autres utilisent ce matériau de construction en association avec d'autres.

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