Practical Ideas for Home Decoration is based on interiorscreated by some of the most prestigious artists and interiordesigners from all over the world. The aim of this book is to be auseful guide to decorate your home from a very practical point ofview. Each section includes plenty of advice and tips related toinspirational and practical ideas, presented over fully illustratedpags. At the end of each chapter, the reader will find a summary ofsuggestions to put into practice successfully.

teNeues Publishing is delighted to have been awarded the prestigious PRIX VILLEGIATURE 2007 for its book Luxury Hotels - Top of the World. This much sought-after Award is the European tourism industry's ultimate distinction for Hotel books. The prize was awarded to teNeues in the course of a formal ceremony in Paris on 22.10.2007. What makes a luxury hotel "top of the world?" The answers might include exquisite linens, museum-quality furniture, stunning surroundings, and of course, impeccable standards and exacting attention to detail. This selection of the world's very best lodgings profiles the ultimate in accommodations across the globe. This generously proportioned addition to teNeues' Luxury Hotels series contains an extensive selection of delectable hotel interiors, exteriors and surroundings. Perhaps only a select few will ever get to stay here, but now many more can dream of doing so. This special double edition is over 400 pages in length.

A temptation to dream This book explores contemporary interiors in the sun-soaked land that stretches from the Sahara to the Mediterranean: Morocco. The diversity is breathtaking: the rural pis? architecture of the south is a far cry from the Hispano-Mooresque ornamental beauty of the imperial cities. Moroccan Interiors are as endlessly varied as the country itself, from the restored palaces in the medina of Marrakesh (where aesthetes of the international set now live) to humble troglodyte fishermen's homes at Sidi Moussa d?Aglou. The colorful palette of this country and the light there themselves suffuse these very different homes with a vitality that is as distinctive to modern Morocco as it is a reflection of contemporary trends in d?cor worldwide. The author: Lisa Lovatt-Smith was born in 1967 in Barcelona of British parents. She has since lived in London, Madrid and Milan. At eighteen she began a meteoric career at the various international editions of Vogue. She has since decided to concentrate on writi

A complete guide to drawing, perception, and analysis for architects and designers The observation and drawing of real objects are the starting points for the designer's visionary constructions and inspirations. A longtime favorite of architectural students, Douglas Cooper's Drawing and Perceiving: Real-World Drawing for Students of Architecture and Design instills an understanding of the basic principles of drawing that are universal to all design disciplines-mass, volume, form, contour, texture, shadow, and more-as it explores the knowledge, rational thought, and expressiveness that designers rely on to create successful drawings. Now including a CD featuring Cooper's own dynamic instruction, this new Fourth Edition combines theory and technique to prepare students of architecture and design to carry on a dialogue between their perceptions of the physical world and their understanding of the elements of design.

Ken Yeang is internationally recognised as the leading proponent of ecological design in architecture. In 2008, he was tipped by The Guardian to be one of the '50 people who could save the planet'. He has built over 200 buildings globally and published numerous books advocating an environmentally responsive approach to design. He is probably best known as the inventor of the green it was his innovative idea to incorporate bioclimatic features in a high-density building type. It is for this and his ecological urban design that he has gained a uniquely influential position within architecture. Though he has authored many books about his work and his ideas, this is the first definitive book to cover his forty-year career. Featuring 22 of Yeang’s most significant projects, EcoArchitecture begins with his earliest work on environmental design, executed as a student at the Architectural Association and then a Phd student at Cambridge in the early 1970s, and with his most recent projects with Llewelyn Dav

This book presents a total of 44 individually designed summer villas and saunas in Finland. Representing the best of recent Finnish summer home and sauna architecture, each site is presented in detail through photographs, plans, and text by the architects themselves. Harri Hautaj rvi's fascinating text discusses the history and trends of villa and sauna architecture and life, as well as the challenges of sustainable development to holiday-home buildings of the future.

VOA Associates Incorporated , founded in 1969, is a Chicago-based firm with offices in North and South America, and more than 200 design awards to its credit. VOA's emphasis on establishing a close working relationship with each client has resulted in numerous projects that incorporate unique innovative design and planning solutions. The firm strives to develop humanistic working, living, learning and healing environments that represent enduring design qualities that are not dated, but rather are enhanced and admired over time. The firm's unique, personal approach to problem-solving has contributed to its success in commercial, education, government, healthcare, hospitality and interior design projects, many of which are featured in this well-deserved monograph.

Buoyed by shifts in the orfanizational structure of corporations and advances in technology and communication, both office culture and design have dramatically altered in recent years. The way we view our jobs has changed along with the way we do them as work is increasingly being regarded as part of our lifestyle. Within Offices presents some of the most exciting examples of office design to be found in Asia. It showcases over forty offices from around the Asian region, ranging from an office-cafe for freelancers in Tokyo containing a photographer, desks and fax machines, to a communications company's Singapore office containing a cave-like conference room. The workspaces presented here illustrate just how dramatically the design of offices has developed in recent years, as well as indicate the exciting direction that working will take into the future.

By virtue of the drawings of some of the most renowned archi tects, Sketch: Houses. How Architects Conceive Residen tim Archi tecture portrays the evolution in the design of single-family housing projects. Each project encompasses everything from the preliminary outlines to the final presentation plans, including sketches, diagrams, previous plans,photo compositions, etc. They explore each architect's vision of the design of houses and the different phases involved, as well as the way in which the architectural project is graphically- represented.

A step-by-step guide to designing environmentally friendly commercial interiors Millions of people in the U.S. workforce rely on interior designers to create environments that make them happy and productive, as well as promote their safety and well-being. Sustainable Commercial Interiors provides an engaging introduction to and exploration of the vast field of sustainable design as it specifically relates to commercial interior spaces. In Sustainable Commercial Interiors, coauthors Penny Bonda, a noted expert on interior design and sustainability, and Katie Sosnowchik, an interior design editor and innovator, share their passion for environmental advocacy while offering designers and architects the technical knowledge important for success in this evolving discipline. The authors apply the concept of environmental responsibility to the design of interiors, and employ the organization of the LEED Green Building Rating System(r) to sort the design process into five categories: sustainable site

In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it isvital that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of allhuman interventions in the natural environment. Finding greendesign solutions for our built environment must start from thewider scale of regional and urban planning and must then be carriedright through to infrastructural engineering, architecture andindustrial design. Masterplanning affords the chance to redresscurrent environmental imbalances and to reduce the consequences ofour built systems on the environment, with the greater and ofreversing climate change. Ecomasterplanning presents a groundbreaking integrative andcomprehensive approach to masterplanning, illustrated by examplesthat Ken Yeang – the original pioneer of the ‘green skyscraper’ –has designed in a highly visually driven format, the book examinesover 20 of his masterplans from around the world, including thosein the Netherlands, china, India, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore andNorth America.

In this book we aim tO make our readers bet．ter acquaintedwith sustainable architecture．All kinds of options arepresented，since green architecture is not only a question of havinga house built without CO：emissions or one that is completelyself-sufficient with respect tO elec．tricity or waterconsumption．Architecture is considered tO be green when it takesaccount of a number of different factors during the process ofconstructing a house and the impact a build．ing will havethroughout its life cycle：from the moment it is designed，erectedand used un—til it is pulled down at the end of the process．Theprojects shown in this book demonstrate a large range ofsustainable and environmentally friendly resources：from recoveringtraditional architectura]solutions such as cross ventila．tion orthe use of natural light tO new systems of insulation andself-sufficient energy supplies．These ideas and proposals will giveour readers a general idea of a type of architecture that is realand in a con

An up-to-date digest of the latest in design for the aging population. In association with the American Institute of Architects.