This book presents eight outstanding projects by prominent contemporary architects and designers: inspiring villas, apartments and penthouses, where design plays a key role. Zobraziť viac
This new designed reprint describes the latest developments and tendencies in coating technology. The emphasis is placed on coating applications like automobile production coating, coil coating, automobile repair coating and industrial coating in general. Zobraziť viac
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's inter Zobraziť viac
The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype... Zobraziť viac
Family Houses presents a compilation of examples of the emerging residential architecture, which are linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions... Zobraziť viac
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk... Zobraziť viac
In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists... Zobraziť viac
In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage... Zobraziť viac
Neufert's Architects' Datais an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. It provides, in one concise volume, the core information needed to form the framework for the more detailed ... Zobraziť viac
An indispensable tool for the beginning stages of designing and planning a building project This new edition of a classic, bestselling text provides, in one concise volume, the essential information needed to form the framework for the more detailed ... Zobraziť viac
Combining practical experience with academic analysis this book explores the social and organizational dynamics of performance indicators. It moves beyond the technicalities of measurement and indicators and looks at how performance information is... Zobraziť viac
Featuring more than fifty major projects designed, commenced or completed in the last four years, "21st Century House" looks at diverse visions of the modern house and sets them in the context of the technological and aesthetic concerns... Zobraziť viac
The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants... Zobraziť viac
In this book new trends of wall design are presented by means of numerous projects. The use of new materials allows bright colours and extraordinary patterns, new forms and structures... Zobraziť viac
Today, more than ever, multi-family housing is recognised as vital to modern, urban communities. This type of housing requires immense dexterity from an architectural perspective... Zobraziť viac
Whether you living and working from home, sharing a house with friends, a couple starting out together, or trying to make room for the latest family member, all of us need to find room for the space-consuming kit that we all live with... Zobraziť viac
Hybrid Interiors presents twenty-five imaginative interiors where styles, cultures, trends and end uses are mixed and matched. These spaces provide settings for a dialogue between contemporary design and historic preservation, living space... Zobraziť viac
This fully illustrated work features dozens of apartment and loft interiors from around the world-all created by internationally renowned architects and designers... Zobraziť viac
Good food. Fine wine. Cold beer. What else does a restaurant, café, or bar need? Ambience, of course - that perfect blend of warm welcome and cool appeal... Zobraziť viac
This title looks at climate change law and how it has evolved. It describes how carbon projects are set up and operated, and how the credits from those projects are brought to the market. It looks at the operation of the carbon markets. The final part... Zobraziť viac
