International Architecture Yearbook

Architecture 1998: The World's Best Designs! Take a spectacular, full-color tour of the world's most innovative and functional architecture with this edition of McGraw-Hill's International Architecture Yearbook. 600 idea-packed photographs showcase over 120 visually stunning projects--corporate, educational, institutional, public, recreational, retail, and residential--by a who's-who roster of top architects and firms. For each project, you'll find detailed plans and renderings, along with information on the client, location, materials used, cost, and much more. This volume takes you on an unforgettable architectural journey.

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In all probability, the most important socially responsive design that an architect can pursue and probably the most difficult to perform as well. The primary purpose of all featured buildings is education and this ranges from tertiary institutions; colleges; schools; museums; and pre-school facilities.

Educational Spaces: A Pictorial Review of Significant Spaces

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Review of the significant work being created by women architects from around the world.

Women in Architecture

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

The KPF team of design professionals stands out from their peers as architects and planners with a focus on world best practices. The central focus of the firm, which was founded in 1976 in Columbus, Indiana, and now has offices in London and Tokyo as well, is a commitment to designing buildings that respond to the environment physically and from the point of view of sustainability. The portfolio of this 400-person firm includes the world’s best of corporate headquarters, institutional (academic, financial, exhibition, medical), government, residential, retail, media, master plans, renovations and transportation. It is a Who’s Who of world corporations and institutional designs. This portfolio includes major corporate and institutional projects in almost every major center in the world. As befitting a firm of such prestige, and typical of the Millennium Series, this outstanding book, with a bold and informative layout, presents the firm’s landmark and current projects through stunning color photographs

KPF: Selected Works: America, Europe, Asia (The Millennium Series)

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Architect Carol Ross Barney founded her own firm in 1981. Throughout the past 25 years of Ross Barney Jankowski and now Ross Barney Architects, the office has grown to a 35-person firm that places special emphasis on the process of design. The team involved in that process includes not only the architects and consultants, but very importantly, the clients. Her approach, rather unique among architectural offices, relies on input, analysis, and evaluation from many fronts, the development of alternatives, and a collaborative effort that assures there is no one author, but rather guarantees a final work more than the sum of the parts. This publication examines the evolution of Ross Barney Architects, and some of its most significant works, from the US Post Office in Glendale Heights, Illinois to the new Oklahoma City Federal Building, along with a discussion of the rigorous process that each commission goes through from initial ideas to final design.

Ross Barney Architects: Process + Projects

Open spaces, sport and outdoor recreation are important components of people's lives. They provide many cultural, social, economic and environmental benefits and contribute positively to physical and mental health. Everyone, particularly children, the elderly and those with disabilities, should have easy access to open space and the opportunity to participate in sport and outdoor recreational pursuits. The primary purpose of sports parks is to provide for organized sports and physical activity. These spaces need to function with a high degree of organization and should cater for sports uses ranging from junior team training to major competitive events, at both the local and city-wide levels. This impressive book features the newest design projects from designers around the world, and offers new and exciting ideas for sports park landscape design.

Sports Park

Sports & Outdoors

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SMART Landscape is a significant contribution to the conversation on sustainable landscape design, providing energy efficient models and water saving landscape ideas. There are many factors that would help realize energy efficient landscapes, including (but not limited to) the use of energy saving lamps, such as LED; the integration and adoption of renewable energy, including solar-powered and wind-powered landscape lighting; energy-efficient landscape design, particularly through the correct placement and selection of shade trees, and the creation of wind breaks. This book shows techniques for creating landscapes that also save water, for example by choosing correct planting materials; reducing stormwater run-off through the use of bio-swales, rain gardens and green roofs and walls; reducing water usage in landscapes through best-practice water-wise garden techniques, including irrigation using gray water. Permeable paving materials can also help to reduce stormwater runoff and allow rainwater to infiltrate into the ground and replenish groundwater rather than run into surface water systems.

Modern Urban Landscapes

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<li>This publication is dedicated to helping students and designers find inspiration and improve their skills in children's book design. </li>
<li>The majority of works included here have been designed over the last two or three years, so fully reflect recent trends and market demands.</li>
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This book showcases high-quality children's book designs from various countries, covering a wide variety of styles. It presents not only beautiful, cute, and dynamic illustrations, but also a wide range of layout features. There are more than 70 works from all around the world, including pop-up books, picture books, audio books, and activity books - among many others. Most of the designers featured in this superb compilation have many years of experience and have published many acclaimed works.

Making Childhood Colorful: Designing Books for Children

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•Lists 22 contemporary and unique completed house designs for modern Singaporeans who live in tropical environments •Features full-color photography throughout, as well as plans, elevations, diagrams and sections •Provides indepth narratives, elucidating how HYLA builds houses that are punctuated with light and blended with nature •Showcases a clean, contemporary and spacious page design that mimics the light-filled aesthetics of the projects We live in a densely populated world where statements are being made wherever we look. Architecture is forever sprouting taller, bigger, louder, as if the buildings themselves are vying for our attention. Where, then, can the people of a busy city like Singapore find their hidden haven? For those at HYLA Architects, that escape is the home. HYLA's approach to building houses is singular and precise - a marriage of pure forms and dynamic spaces. Exteriors are strong and simple, interiors are thoughtful and sensuous. The works within the pages of this spectacularly beautiful monograph detail the firm's perspectives in sculpting homes that are distinct and sincere. Clarity is the core tenet, and one of the guiding principles of their architectural practice. All of HYLA's projects come with careful consideration for tropical Asian living - always seeking to achieve both modernity and timelessness that reflect culture and society. An exploration of strategies that seamlessly bring together exterior and interior, their creations delicately incorporate climate, surroundings, and, where possible, nature into their composition. While the values of strength, clarity and dynamism remain constant, each site and client differ, and naturally, so do the homes. Consciously, HYLA's houses are often punctuated with light. Using different kinds of filters in various materials, HYLA explores fixed and operable screens to diffuse light, welcome circulation of air, and safeguard privacy. These screens, interchangeable to create patterns on the façades, can be reflective of the resident's mood, allowing these homes to truly take on the owner's individuality. HYLA strives to push the boundaries of modern tropical architecture, continuously seeking to create new typologies that accommodate contemporary Asian lifestyles in a moderated environment.

HYLA Architects: Modern Singapore Living; The Master Architect Series

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<li>Unparalleled variety in style and type: traditional and modern, and everything in between; grand villas and homes with small footprints; posh seaside or rural escapes, resplendent and remote cabins; urban townhouses and dream dwellings</li>
<li>Coverage of projects ranges across most continents, from alpine regions in Scandinavia and Europe to vast rocky outcrops and plains across North and South America; from vibrant New York City neighborhoods to relaxed Australian bushland settings; from dramatic Mediterranean cliff-top backdrops to calm French forest settings, and so much more</li>
</ul>These days, the architect and designer are both tasked with the challenge of designing the 'perfect' new home, be it traditional or modern in style, and everything in between. This grand edition pulls together an exceedingly diverse collection of 100 of the best contemporary houses from across the globe, each showcasing new and recent cutting-edge residential designs by some of the world's leading architects and designers. Following Images Publishing's incredibly successful 100 of the World's Best Houses series, this splendid volume features hundreds of stunning full-color photographs that help underline the sensitivity of today's design practitioners to the natural environment, as well as the care and attention paid to stunning interior design and comfortable, practical everyday living. Each project illustrates how architects and designers showcase their authentic individual expression but work tirelessly to adapt their signature styles to accommodate the challenges posed by local topography and variations in climate, along with a sharp focus on optimum strategies for sustainable living. A touchstone for those looking to understand contemporary architectural trends across the world, 100 Houses rounds up a superb and unique collection that is at once exceptional, inspiring, and informative.

100 Houses: Nature and Nurture

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