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Images Publishing Group
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The importance of exterior living spaces, such as courtyards and patios in our daily lives, is brought into focus within the pages of this attractive volume. Long associated with calm, stillness and tranquility, this area is where the outside meets the inside. Courtyards have been an important architectural feature for thousands of years, and through time, their popularity has not waned. Today these exterior living spaces play both a decorative and functional role where water, walls, lighting, plants and sky all combine to convey security, calm and quiet. This beautiful volume presents residential exterior living spaces from the different corners of the world, from South America, Europe, Japan, the Middle East and the USA. Includes stunning photography and text descriptions. |
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This miniature book is a pocket-sized version of IMAGE'S best-selling book 100 of the World's Best Bars. Each bar has been selected for the sophistication of its design and its ability to cater to a wide variety of customers. The result is a fun international guide to some of the world's most trendsetting bars. It is sure to be an ideal travel companion for the savvy bar-hopping jet-setting crowd, as well as the would-be jetsetter! |
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Pioneering the holistic process and green building in New Jersey, William E.S. Kaufman founded WESKetch Architecture in 1995. The principles that drive the creative force of the firm today are generated from deep within the individual roots of the organization. Teams of architects, interior designers, master craftsmen, and landscape designers help execute the result. The outcomes are a unique blend of modern lifestyles and meticulously crafted traditional residential constructions affectionately portrayed in the book as “home”. The subjects featured are an eclectic selection of individual style, material and form. The homes reflect their owners’ programmatic and aesthetic sensibilities and the regional vernacular of their respective surroundings. |
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A garden, whether small or large, is made up of many different elements and details. Grouping these design elements is like a recipe: choosing a balance of the right details creates a perfect garden in any space. Garden Details breaks down the elements of garden design and shows how each can be used to create unique garden spaces. It includes ideas for a multitude of garden elements — from distinctive stonewalls and manicured formal lines to artistic whimsy and colour-coordinated borders — in a variety of garden types ranging from water gardens through to drought-tolerant dry gardens. Marg Thornell’s sumptuous photographs transport you from one garden to the next — in locations as diverse as Australia, England, Europe and the United States — and reveal how to make the most of your own garden space. This valuable sourcebook can be used in many ways: from browsing for inspiration with nothing particular in mind to a more purposeful search to help with a particular project on the drawing board. Garden Details is a book to immerse yourself in — to motivate you to create the garden paradise you want and deserve. Whether you are a complete novice or a professional landscape designer, Garden Details will provide you with all the ideas and inspiration you need to make your garden truly spectacular. |
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View From the Top peeks into the private spaces of some of the world's most magnificent penthouses and apartments and offers a rare insight into not only the designs and lifestyles experienced in these palatial mansions in the sky but also a look at their amazing vistas. From edgy, sharply dressed apartments with front-row views of famous harbours to grand villas facing the waterfront in places like Venice and Monaco and of course eye-popping pied-a-terres and penthouses in the heart of Manhattan and London, View From The Top displays visionary architecture and extraordinary settings in one richly illustrated volume that showcases the cache of living among the clouds. Come upstairs and admire the view. |
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Peter Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect and educator whose substantial design practice extends over 20 years. Most of his work consists of carefully crafted buildings that relate to a larger setting. A variety of public and private projects completed throughout the United States are featured in this first monograph. The projects in this book are organised thematically as landscapes and buildings, gardens and houses, campuses, townscapes, and transformations. The common threads in these projects are that indoor and outdoor spaces are created in harmony with each other, that buildings are placed to define outdoor spaces, and that natural context and man-made context strongly influence the design. From an understanding and response to these factors comes a timeless and permanent architecture. |
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Peter Pran is often acclaimed as one of the world's most innovative and creative architects. This Norwegian-American has won fifteen national and international design competitions, two AIA design honor awards, including the 2004 design honor award for the Telenor Headquarters, and twelve New York design awards and two American design awards. He has designed buildings in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America. Currently design principal for NBBJ, one of the world's largest international firms, his portfolio of work includes work with Mies van der Rohe on the new National Gallery in Berlin, the Chicago Federal Center and the Toronto Dominion Centre. Pran has also been senior project designer with SOM on several major projects. This new book will look closely at Pran's oeuvre, which includes a selection of his work from 1989 to 2005. Includes introductory statements by leading international architects Thom Mayne, Daniel Libeskind and Odile Decq, and an essay by Fumihiko Maki. |
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During its first decade, Harrison Design Associates has become a leader in the field of classical and traditional design. With offices in Georgia and California, its projects range in style from Mission Revival to magnificent Beaux-Arts Classicism. This volume is a detailed exploration of the firm's works to date. With rich colour photographs, site renderings and plans, the reader visually tours the featured homes and shares the beauty of life in well-designed spaces. The variety of materials and sites will delight all who are interested in architecture. |
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This book presents a selection of GUND Partnership's recent work, reflecting the firm's continuing commitment to the social and narrative power of architecture. Beginning with a respect for the principles of site and context as form drivers, the projects seek to knit together mission and materials in new ways. Whether an urban or campus intervention or a pristine landscape, the most successful solutions are those that tie into their organizing context. At the same time, these projects acknowledge their surroundings without imitation through a commitment to human scale, as clear conception of space and its progression, and a desire to provide delight through the unexpected. Led by founding partner Graham Gund, FAIA, the office is located in a restored courthouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally designed by Charles Bulfinch. The firm is the recipient of more that 100 regional and national design awards for excellence. |
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The work of R.M. Kliment and Frances Halsband Architects is always executed in a manner that is at once spare and engaging; with an esprit that is neither restricted nor self-indulgent; neither mean nor flamboyant. There is no intention to startle the masses, nor does it embody moderation. It is work that finds its own niche — economically, imaginatively, and purposefully. The firm's work bears an extraordinary sense of concern for human presence, demonstrating that architecture is a serious calling. The deep professionalism that it brings to its work, the intensity of its craft, and the disciplined artistry it embodies are only part of the picture. Its example and its active advocacy for thoughtful design are making a significant impact on the architectural profession. |
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