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ag4 Mediafacades ENMaintaining transparency while being able to medialise large areas in an economically viable way are parameters which guarantee the success of the transparent media facade. Be it as stainless wire mesh or panels - compared to the standard LED screen the transparent media facade is superior in terms of size, cost efficiency and possible fields of application. Graphics and video, company and brand communication,…
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Aircraft Interiors ENIn this book about 40 projects will be illustrated, cut into the categories privat jets - from small jet to private passenger planes, and furthermore business airlines beginning with small planes, but as well the renowned big planes, as the legendary Boeing 747 or the new Airbus A380 will be presented duly. The projects within the categories will be listed in alphabetical order to the Designer / Architect. Index…
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Airport Design ENAirports are highly appealing places. Gateways to the big wide world, they represent international movement and inspire travel. Spielberg´s film, The Terminal shows the full fascination these places exercise. The boom in international air travel of recent years has resulted in a vast number of new airport buildings – a real challenge for architects. Passenger-flows must be watched, journey times shortened, high…
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Arabian Design ENThis book shows the progression of Interior Design of the Arabian countries. In contrast to many countries modeled according to the Western traditions, the Arabian culture is closely tied to religious and social values. The current discussion regarding contemporary architecture broaches the subject of the importance of tradition and deals with the Arabian identity. The architects have various viewpoints on the…
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Art Spaces Architecture & Design ENA surprising trend can be discerned in museum building since the end of the 1990s, one that still seems to be going strong today: an unprecedented number of grand-scale projects have been undertaken in recent years, ont only by private sponsors, but in many cases made possible instead by public funding. This book not only shows new museums , galleries and exhibition venues for the fine arts, but also features…
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Australia Architecture & Design ENArchitecture & Design Australia is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients…
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Bar Design ENIn recent years society has created innumerable fashionable bars - the result of cutting edge interior design. This volume has a selection of the best bars in the world, from New York to London, Shanghai and Bucharest. The book includes the recent work of the most internationally renowned architects, accompanied by color photos and plans which help with technical understanding of each project. The projects will be…
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Barcelona Architecture & Design ENBarcelona is the cultural center of Spain. A tourist's hot spot and one of the most frequented cities in summer. There is a lot more to Barcelona's architecture than just Gaudí. Since the Olympic Games in 1992 international architects began to shape the capital of Modernism with numerous contructions. Norman Foster, Frank O. Ghery and many more have left their footsteps. The Forum of Cultures 2004 provided another…
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Beljing Architecture and Design ENApart from being one of Asia's largest metropolises, Beijing is an ultimate visual challenge. The country's growing economy and construction boom has attracted the attention of the world's finest architects eager to create masterworks in this city. The new is rapidly replacing the old in the country's political, economic and cultural center. When Beijing won the bid in 2001 to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the city…
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Fabio Borquez Borquez ENBorn 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fabio Borquez currently lives in Germany. In Buenos Aires he studied art, photography and architecture. He won various scholarships for India, Columbia and Germany and has taken part in many exhibitions. His work spans over various areas of design. This book exclusively presents his female nude photography. Borquez's intention is not to put the nude on display, despite having…
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Club Design ENClub Design offers a selection of some of the best designed clubs around the world, putting on display the creations of both renowned and up-and-coming designers that have gained international recognition for the quality and impact of their designs.Contemporary clubs venues come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and flavours, combining past styles with new ones, or configuring entirely novel spaces through…
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Concrete Design ENToday, concrete as a building material has a solid place in the designs of architects and engineers. The times when it used to be regarded as 'cold' and even 'brutal' are long gone now. On the contrary, the improved image of concrete is trendy and chic, but simultaneously unobtrusive and timeless. Thanks to new technologies, in recent years it has also been used both outside and inside as a building material for…
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Contemporary Corporate Architecture ENThroughout history, institutions and governments have always constructed large and ostentatious buildings as a way of demonstrating their power. By means of this aspect of design, many fast-growing, predominantly young but established companies have publicized their growth and shored up their identity at the same time. Contemporary Corporate Architecture has become a further element of a company's identity, achieved…
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Contemporary Fashion Photographers ENInformation Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photographers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic…
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Contemporary House Design ENIt is true, that our society is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. Our way of life is changing along with our needs. In recent years the climate has been changing in a way that is perceptible for the first time in human existence. Therefore new building materials, groundbreaking techniques or a simple return to traditional forms of construction, together with carefully studied systems for saving energy and…
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Contemporary Landscape Architecture ENThe landscape architect shapes the terrain and the space around a pre-existing construction or a developing urban or regional project. His aim is to offer the most poetic transcription of the language associated with a given architectural calculation. These professionals work with animated and inanimate physical structures which spring from geographical and social contexts, as well as from technical and economical…
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Contemporary Urban Design ENThe architectural discipline of urban design falls into the broad category of landscape architecture and is applied as a social and esthetic means for interpreting the shape of cities and towns and their public spaces. The structure of a city is not the sum of its architectural shapes but the integration of these shapes into a specific and dynamic understanding of space. Public spaces become gathering points and…
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Creative Germany ENToday the label made in Germany no longer stands just for high quality and first-rate products - it has also become emblematic of new, fresh ideas and originality. Spread across 500 pages, Creative Germany presents precisely this generation of up-and-coming talents responsible for the brand-new Germanness as seen in architecture, design, art, fashion, photography and advertising today.
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Design Inspirations ENTechnological developments, social and global trends and issues influence the current projects and work approach of designers. Also materials and production methods have never had a bigger influence on up-to-date design than in the age of nanotechnology and biopolymers. Nowadays objects are not regarded purely esthetic anymore, the functionality of design will gain more and more importance in the future. This fourth…
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Door Design ENThis volume of a series, focussing on the basic elements of architecture delivers a very close insight into the divers possibilities of designing doors. The door is the most essential component of a house. It is both a seperating as well as an adjoining element and permits entering from an external area to the private interior. This book presents over 80 projects showing exceptional designs of doors and entrances of…
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Dubai Architecture & Design ENOnly a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its also technically unique facade is just one…
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Exhibition Design ENThere has barely been an important architect in the world for the past century that has not taken advantage of the possibilities of the tentative play and experimentation provided by the design of exhibition sites for trade fairs and world expos. This publication aims at providing a combination of very recent examples from trade fairs and cultural spaces. The spectacular selection of projects ranges from a small…
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Glass Design ENGlass is a defining character of the architecture of a building and its interior design. On the basis of about 50 projects it is shown, how multifariously glass or wood can be leveraged. Plans will be shown. Index with contact information.
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Hi-Tec Architecture ENIn the late 1970s, word spread that there was a new style that increasingly included cutting-edge technological and industrial elements in the construction of buildings. The style was called hi tec and took on the architectural landscape by a storm. Characteristic of high tech buildings are lightness of materials and transparency. The present volume shows many of the most outstanding technological developments in…