Describing "The Bird's Nest," the "intoxicatingly" beautiful stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Chinese Conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, The New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote, "The crisscrossing columns create a Piranesian world of dark corners and odd leftover spaces--an effect that intensifies as you ascend through the structure. Light filters through the translucent roof panels, and a network of drainpipes suspended from the roof adds a tough, utilitarian feel. The feverish play of light and shadows is reminiscent of the set for a German Expressionist film. From your seat, you gaze out at the surrounding skyline, where rows of generic housing towers seem to extend to eternity." This large-format, two-volume set features one book on the construction of the stadium from 2005 to 2008, and another that presents The 24 Hour Series, a sequence of photographs taken of the stadium by Ai Weiwei once an hour for one day and night. Also featured are the major installation created by the artist and architects for the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture and related works produced for an exhibition in London in the autumn of 2008.

Ai Weiwei: Beijing, Venice, London, Herzog & de Meuron

Sports & Outdoors

Merewether, Charles

Miscellaneous

Walther Konig

<p>Taking readers on an unpredictable journey, the book offers a subjective view of the baroque palace and its formal gardens. Photographs of the artworks, taken by Anders Sune Berg, converse with images of the site shot by the artist himself. A special series of abstract drawings by Eliasson, created for the book, react to instructions written by Louis XIV on how to view the gardens of Versailles. The book invites readers to drift through the palace, gardens, and exhibition, at night and during the day, to explore the rich other side of Versailles.</p>

ELIASSON: VERSAILLES

Catherine Pégard & Olafur Eliasson Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Alfred Paquement

Melike Kara Where We Meet /anglais

Arts & Photography

SCHONEICH FABIAN

Individual Artists

Faith Ringgold (Revised ed) /anglais

BLANCHFLOWER M/GRABO

Pamela Rosenkranz House of Meme /anglais/allemand

Unknown, Author

Katharina Grosse/Helen Russel Brown: Plant-based Cuisine For a Painter's Studio /franCais/anglais

GROSSE KATHARINA

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Jakob Kudsk Steensen. Berl-Berl /anglais/allemand

ENDERBY EMMA

Rimini Protokoll /anglais

Computers & Technology

SCHIPPER IMANUEL

Programming

<p>Elisabeth Kamenicek, Gregor Schmoll, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Joseph Wang-Kathrein, Michael Nedo, Ulrich Richtmeyer, Verena Gamper</p>

Photography As Analytical Practice / Fotografie Als Analytische Praxis (English and German Edition)

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller Berlin 1966-89 /anglais

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