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ISBN: 9781864703207
Hardcover: 248 pages
Images Publishing
Price: US$60.00
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Dream
Hotels USA & The Bahamas
by Janelle McCulloch
An exciting look into an array of ultra-chic hotels across the USA,
this new book illustrates that the USA is once again assuming a position
at the forefront of international cool. As much a travel guide as
a study of architecture and interiors, Dream Hotels USA includes insider
anecdotes about famous guests and infamous incidents and provides
exclusive commentary revealing details of the most glamorous, hip
and stylish hotels in the USA. The
book focuses on the work of both established and new-generation
architects and designers whose classic, visionary or provocative
hotels and hideaways have earned the praise of style critics and
travellers from around the globe. Dream Hotels USA visits each destination
to discover why design aficionados and aesthetes from all over the
world are making the pilgrimage to these distinctive and utterly
fabulous hotels. |
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ISBN: 9781864702484
Hardcover: 224 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$87.00
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Taipei
101: The Tallest of The Tall
Rising 101 storeys (509 metres) above its surrounding urban environment,
Taipei 101 is currently the world's tallest building. Designed by
CY Lee & Partners, it was opened in 2004 amid spectacular Chinese
new year celebrations, and has become the international symbol of
the country's economic prosperity.
This
book looks at the technology that made it possible to complete this
super structure, such as the tuned mass damper located on the 88th
floor that stabilises the structure during the region's frequent
earthquakes.
Includes
technical information and data, chapters written by the architects
and engineers who worked on the project, hundreds of colour photographs,
plans and drawings.
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ISBN: 9781864703221
Hardcover: 420 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$95.00
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Architects
49: An Asian Spirit in Contemporary Design
Architects 49 is part of the 49 Group, a multidisciplinary firm of
design professionals and consultants. Its areas of expertise range
from architecture, engineering and construction management to interior
design, landscape design, large-scale planning, lighting design, graphic
design and publications.
Project categories featured in this monograph include office, commercial
and retail, hotel and resort, cultural, religious and residential,
including private homes, and are located in Bangkok, regional Thailand,
and internationally, including the Middle East and other Southeast
Asian countries. Architects 49’s unique collaborative way of
working ensures that each project receives individual attention and
benefits from the collective experiences and resources of the entire
49 Group. |
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ISBN: 9781864703061
Hardcover: 256 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$115.00
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CCDI
Architects: Designing China's Future
China Construction Design International (CCDI) is one of Asia’s
premier architecture firms. It was ranked as the number one private
architecture firm in China in 2004. In 2005 it became the first firm
from China to receive an award from the United Nations Human Settlements
Programme (UN-HABITAT). As a new Master Architect Series title, this
book demonstrates that design in China is at a truly global standard,
is highly influential, and is peaking just as China welcomes the Olympic
Games in August 2008.
Today, it is among a new breed of Chinese firms making a name on the
world stage, with a rapidly growing practice in New York as well as
in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. CCDI has been awarded more than
90 professional awards and is also the fastest growing design firm
in China.
Among CCDI’s completed projects featured in this book are office
towers, sports arenas, residential complexes and cultural centres,
as well as many large-scale planning projects. All projects are based
on its core principles of integrated design, which focus on utilizing
the resources of a city, technology, environment and local public
culture in order to design building solutions to meet the manifold
needs of society. The
book features chapters on CCDI’s many international standard
sporting projects.
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ISBN: 9781864701609
Hardcover: 324 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$87.00
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100
Hotels & Resorts: Destinations the Lift the Spirit
Few people understand the nature of resorts and the secrets of designing
them more than the world renowned architects and designers, Wimberly
Allison Tong & Goo (WATG), whose mission over the last six decades
has been ‘to design experiences that lift the spirit’.
Ranging from luxurious island resorts to exotic desert getaways and
from sophisticated urban hideaways to cool mountaintop retreats, some
of its extraordinary projects include the Hotel Bora Bora in French
Polynesia, The Palace of the Lost City in South Africa, The Ritz-Carlton
Laguna Niguel in California, and the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort &
Spa in Hawaii.
This spectacular volume takes you beyond the foyers to explore the
inspiration and ideas behind the designs, which often begin from a
thought on a notepad. |
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ISBN: 9781864703184
Hardcover: 324 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$90.00
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HOK
Asia
HOK is one of the largest and most
diversified architectural practices in the world. Its first overseas
office was established in Hong Kong in 1984. Originally commissioned
to build the Hong Kong Stadium, it currently has projects in more
than 50 cities in the Asia-Pacific region and offices in Beijing,
Shanghai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, in addition to the Hong Kong
headquarters. This first monograph of the work of the Asia-Pacific
practice demonstrates HOK's commitment to creating the finest sustainable
environments in the region. This book features projects that are
located in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Korea, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore,
Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The project types include major retail
centres, educational and commercial projects, airports, hotels and
resorts. .
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ISBN: 9781864703146
Hardcover: 416 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$90.00
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HOK:
A Global Design Portfolio
Since its founding in 1955, HOK has never been afraid to evolve.
Its often subtle but always steady reinventions have created what
today is an incredibly diverse practice. The firm's ability to connect
designers across building types, design disciplines and regions
of the world is unparalleled. Today, a huge variety of project types
in every corner of the globe - from designing a corporate boardroom
or suburban high school to planning an entire university or new
city - are emerging from the intersection of many HOK minds and
imaginations. HOK's global community of design thinkers has been
galvanised by the increasingly urgent need to create a sustainable
planet while satisfying an enormous spectrum of human activities.
The projects in this book appear in architecture, interiors and
planning categories. These inspiring built environments transcend
their initial purposes to express timeless cultural, organisational
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ISBN: 9781864701623
Hardcover: 268 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$100 |
Moshe
Safdie: Volume One
Influenced by the diverse cultures of Canada, Israel and the USA,
Moshe Safdie’s architecture displays a rich and evolving tectonic
and spatial sensibility. During 40 years of practice, Safdie has
designed cultural, educational and civic institutions, housing,
mixed-use complexes and airports, and developments for existing
urban districts and entirely new cities. This two-volume monograph
illustrates more than 80 of his projects with spectacular photography,
original design sketches and detailed text.
Moshe Safdie:
Volume One features an essay by Safdie on his architecture and influences.
The essays by Paul Goldberger, Peter G. Rowe, Witold Rybczynski
and Michael Sorkin each cover a different facet of Safdie’s
oeuvre. Projects include his seminal Habitat project for Expo 67,
the National Gallery of Canada, Hebrew Union College, restoration
of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem, housing in the USA and Southeast
Asia, and urban designs for Montreal, Senegal, Singapore and the
new city of Modi’in, Israel.
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ISBN:978186470 163 0
Hardcover: 288 pages
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Price: S$100
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Moshe
Safdie: Volume Two
Since Habitat, his seminal experimental housing project constructed
for Montreal’s Expo 67, Safdie has continued to contribute
meaningfully to the development of many building types.
Moshe Safdie:
Volume Two features an essay by Safdie presenting his thoughts on
the significant issues facing architecture today. Complementing
this essay are texts by William J. Mitchell, on global practice
responding to a wide range of varied local conditions, and Thomas
Fisher, on Safdie’s books, which, like his buildings, continue
to influence the international architecture community.
Featured projects include the Salt Lake City Main Public Library,
the US Institute of Peace Headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum
in the US; the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, the Yitzhak
Rabin Center and the new city of Modi’in in Israel; the
Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex in India and the Guangdong Science
Center and the Guangzhou No. 2 Children’s Palace in China.
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ISBN:9781864702866
Hardcover: 288 pages
Images Publishing
Price: S$90.00
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ONLogic:
Speed and Vision
The architecture of Rotterdam-based ONL has developed with great
speed into a mature new style. The firm has not only developed entire
new concepts for building engineering, but has created its own vocabulary
of powerful and meaningful terms that accurately describe its visionary
architecture. The firm's reputation developed via a series of innovative
buildings with complex programs, including the Elhorst/Vloetbelt
Garbagetransferstation, the Saltwaterpavilion, and the WEB of North-Holland.
More recent projects include an acoustic barrier in Utrecht, the
Cockpit Building (a combination of an acoustic barrier and an industrial
building), a showroom and garage for a BMW dealer, the F-side housing
project in the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam, Landmark Kaiserslautern
and the Changchun five-star hotel in China.
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