Dozens of special touches that add style and character.More that 550 full-color photographs plus 245 illustrations and plans.Creative ideas for making cities more pleasant, more livable, more human.Cities don?t have to be faceless lines of gray boxes. Urban Spaces: City Embellishments presents dozens of fresh ideas for bringing big cities back to a human scale-little details like a carved facade, a tiny green space, benches, touches of bold color, a shelting doorway, planters, and more. Each of these warm, distintive touches is expertly explained by the best authority available: the designing architects themselves.
Creating an overall look while guaranteeing autonomy for each shop,ntegrating communal areas and handling parking and public facilities areust some of the challenges of designing shopping malls. Outstanding examplesf how these challenges were met are included on these pages Floor plans,extual information, sketches and full-colour photographs make this anxhaustive reference for design professionals, architects and urban planners
This volume features a wide-ranging selection of residential buildings presented together with their floor plans.The collection illustrates current trends in the design of apartment blocks and the diversity of approaches to issues such as context and community, the efficient use of resources and the configuration urban neighborhoods. Each of the projects presented has been selected for its innovative layout and the originality of the design concepts and strategies employed.This book is a powerful tool to understanding the range of possibilities for the layout and configuration of apartment buildings.
La vivienda sigue constituyendo una inagotable fuente de inspiración para los arquitectos más influyentes de fin de siglo. Su carácter privado y personal ejerce una poderosa atracción- se trata de la intervención en un espacio para vivir. La vivienda, afectada en muchos casos por las limitaciones del entorno urbano, se erige en laboratorio de ideas, en un reducto donde liberar la imaginación. Una amplia selección de proyectos que ejemplifican las varias soluciones aplicables al desarrollo del espacio doméstico convierten a este libro en una obra de referencia esencial para todos aquellos interesados en el diseño interior, la arquitectura y la decoración.
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