Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials. Modern Shoestring proves that building a contemporary house can be affordable and shows how constraints actually stimulate the most creative design solutions. Eighteen residential projects are presented, with emphasis on the goals of the owners, the site, and the cost in the design process. Collections determine floor plans, observatories are built for starry rural nights, and found and industrial materials such as highway construction remnants, laboratory counters, plastic water bottles, and discarded chalkboards keep costs low while imbuing structures with character. These ingenious designs range in cost from $50 to $220 per square foot and represent geographical settings from Los Angeles to Anchorage to East Hampton.

Modern Shoestring: Contemporary Architecture on a Budget

Religion & Spirituality

Sirefman, Susanna

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

The Monacelli Press

Updated and rephotographed edition of a massively successful book: the definitive reference to the city's contemporary architectural scene. Covering a diverse range of enormous- to diminutive-scale projects, this book is an urban study rather than just a building guide. The last ten years of post-urban architecture in New York have involved the infrastructure of the city. And with an energy found nowhere else, Manhattan is so vertically jam-packed that any single structure sends reverberations throughout its vicinity. So New York expands and contracts in large chunks, and this guide reveals pockets of change, gentrification and development: Bryant Park, Battery Park City, the future of 42nd Street and Times Square. All five boroughs and Roosevelt Island have been included. Complexes such as the Jacob Javits Convention Center by I.M. Pei are to be found side by side with Steven Holl's Storefront for Art and Architecture. Interiors as well as complete structures are covered. This book is probably the most comprehensive review available of recent architectural activity in New York. Written to appeal to both professionals and anyone interested in the built environment. 150 b/w photographs.

New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture, Second Edition

Travel

Collie, Keith

Specialty Travel

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

Chicago: A Guide to Recent Architecture

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Artemis-Aidc

The recent trend of building a guesthouse or guest cottage on one's property offers the perfect solution to the houseguest dichotomy. After all, everyone enjoys entertaining visitors yet sharing one's own space with houseguests can be rather trying. The erection of a new self-contained building - designed just for company - accommodates everyone while maintaining privacy. Many of these innovative contemporary guesthouses are architectural gems. The small scale, limited program, and intimate nature of the guesthouse offers a rich testing ground for the architect and client. In particular, issues of domestic privacy and proximity offer a design challenge. This book illustrates and critically describes contemporary private guesthouses from around the globe. Included projects - chosen from an international roster of contemporary architects - are presented within the context of the architect/client design process, so that the role the existing house, the guesthouse program, and the site play in the creation of the work are clear.

The Contemporary Guesthouse: Building in the Garden

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Edizioni Pr

Chicago has been at the forefront of architectural progress for more than a century. This book documents the city's recent architecture, starting with the new O'Hare Airport terminal, Playboy Enterprise's headquarters, giant office towers in the downtown Loop, and more. Exactly 100 buildings, all completed within the last ten years are described and illustrated, with location and access information.

United States

Konemann

This guide covers a range of enormous-to diminutive scale projects in New York. Manhattan is so vertically jam packed that any single structure sends reverberations throughout its vicinity. It focuses on significant projects built since 1990 as well as providing practical information for vistors.

New York

Moberly, Jonathan

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