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L'architecture du parking
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Accueillir un maximum de voitures dans un espace bien agencé pose un véritable défi. Le parking, l'un des aspects les plus négligés de l'architecture du XXe siècle, n'en a pas moins passionné nombre d'architectes prestigieux depuis ses débuts. Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Paul Rudolph ou encore Zaha Hadid et Kengo Kuma ont trouvé là un terrain d'expérimentation pour mettre(...)
L'architecture du parking
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Accueillir un maximum de voitures dans un espace bien agencé pose un véritable défi. Le parking, l'un des aspects les plus négligés de l'architecture du XXe siècle, n'en a pas moins passionné nombre d'architectes prestigieux depuis ses débuts. Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Paul Rudolph ou encore Zaha Hadid et Kengo Kuma ont trouvé là un terrain d'expérimentation pour mettre en oeuvre des idées novatrices sur la matérialité, la forme, l'ossature et l'utilisation, des idées qui au bout du compte ont influencé leurs constructions. Cet ouvrage, qui se déploie sur plusieurs niveaux à l'instar d'un parking, compte quatre séquences : lumière, matière, façade et programme. Les analyses des divers projets dévoilent les projets historiques ou récents les plus marquants en s'appuyant sur des photographies, des plans et des schémas.
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January 2008
Commercial interiors, Building types
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This book presents a striking collection of cutting-edge commercial sites in Japan. Seven of Japan's foremost interior architects showcase their ideas in 34 shop spaces, restaurants, salons, bars and spas. In collaboration with a new generation of entrepreneurs, these designers are reshaping basic concepts of how contemporary Japanese eat, work and shop. A whole new(...)
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October 2004, Singapore
Eat work shop : new Japanese design
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This book presents a striking collection of cutting-edge commercial sites in Japan. Seven of Japan's foremost interior architects showcase their ideas in 34 shop spaces, restaurants, salons, bars and spas. In collaboration with a new generation of entrepreneurs, these designers are reshaping basic concepts of how contemporary Japanese eat, work and shop. A whole new language of design, propelled by IT accessibility and the Japanese penchant for innovation and internationalism, has given this generation carte blanche to redefine Japan as the world's next cultural superpower, unhindered by the barriers of tradition.
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Un château médoquin, un cargo désaffecté, l'ancienne villa d'un consul portugais, les coulisses du Grand Théâtre... Au bord de la Garonne, dans le vieux Bordeaux, sur le Bassin ou dans les vignobles environnants, quarante restaurants, brasseries et bistrots du Bordelais au cadre ou à l'histoire exceptionnels ouvrent ici leurs portes et nous font découvrir leurs secrets et(...)
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January 1900, Paris
Restaurants, brasseries & bistrots du bordelais
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Un château médoquin, un cargo désaffecté, l'ancienne villa d'un consul portugais, les coulisses du Grand Théâtre... Au bord de la Garonne, dans le vieux Bordeaux, sur le Bassin ou dans les vignobles environnants, quarante restaurants, brasseries et bistrots du Bordelais au cadre ou à l'histoire exceptionnels ouvrent ici leurs portes et nous font découvrir leurs secrets et leurs meilleures recettes. Témoins discrets ou animés de leur époque, chacun d'entre eux nous livre, à travers son patrimoine, son art de vivre et sa gastronomie, un peu de son âme...
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Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls: big sheds are all around us yet the story behind their extraordinary growth has gone untold. Beginning with the roots of the big shed – including 19th-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and the Pompidou and(...)
Big shed
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Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls: big sheds are all around us yet the story behind their extraordinary growth has gone untold. Beginning with the roots of the big shed – including 19th-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and the Pompidou and Sainsbury Centres – the book is organized by function: exhibitions, industry, transport, sports and arts. Together these areas account for the best examples of big sheds over the past twenty years, and include work by Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Nicholas Grimshaw and Toyo Ito, among many others. From the vertiginous daring of Tokyo International Forum to Madrid’s award-winning Barajas Airport, these structures have changed the very nature of architecture. Throughout the book Pryce’s dramatic photography captures the buildings’ primal vastness, while technical drawings help explain how they were designed, built and function.
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Marino Narpozzi présente dans cet ouvrage les caractéristiques contextuelles et architecturales de trente prestigieux théâtres réalisés entre 1980 et 2005. Un essai historique, de nombreux plans et photographies, ainsi que des fiches techniques et une riche bibliographie, mettent en évidence l'évolution d'une typologie qui, de l'époque classique jusqu'à nos jours, n'a(...)
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November 2006, Arles
Théâtres : architecture 1980-2005
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Marino Narpozzi présente dans cet ouvrage les caractéristiques contextuelles et architecturales de trente prestigieux théâtres réalisés entre 1980 et 2005. Un essai historique, de nombreux plans et photographies, ainsi que des fiches techniques et une riche bibliographie, mettent en évidence l'évolution d'une typologie qui, de l'époque classique jusqu'à nos jours, n'a cessé d'accompagner les aléas de l'architecture urbaine.
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November 2006, Arles
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Frank Gehry's startling architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has been depicted in two other books by Balcony Press (Iron and Frozen Music). This new release describes the daring and skill that produced the pipe organ which is the visual focus of the auditorium. This book gives honor to the creativity and craftsmanship of those who designed,(...)
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March 2007, Los Angeles
A forest of pipes : the story of the walt disney concert hall organ
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Frank Gehry's startling architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has been depicted in two other books by Balcony Press (Iron and Frozen Music). This new release describes the daring and skill that produced the pipe organ which is the visual focus of the auditorium. This book gives honor to the creativity and craftsmanship of those who designed, fabricated, and installed this instrument. (Façade design by Frank Gehry, tonal design by Manuel Rosales, construction of complex components by Glatter-Götz Orgelbau). It also pays tribute to the artistry of the organists who inaugurated it. The generous quantity and quality of the color photographs are balanced with a readable text that describes the development of this pipe organ from initial sketches, to models, to the completed instrument. Included are interesting interviews with designers, builders and musicians.
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March 2007, Los Angeles
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The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity’s higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out(...)
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January 2007, Rochester
The return of sacred architecture : the golden ratio and the end of modernism
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The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity’s higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out the worst in humanity, reinforcing that which is most base within us. He shows how, through the ancient laws of proportion and number, architecture once expressed the harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos. In early times, the architect worked within a sacred and esoteric tradition of creating structures through which human beings could gain insight into the nature of the divine reality. Today, that tradition has been abandoned in favor of narrowly defined utilitarian principles of efficiency and economy. In The Return of Sacred Architecture, Bangs provides the key to freeing architecture from the crude functionality of the twentieth century: the architects of the modern human landscape must find the deep-felt connection to the cosmos that guided the inner lives of those who built the temples of the past. The form of their buildings will then reflect the sacred patterns of geometry and proportion and bring forth greater harmony in the world.
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January 2007, Rochester
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Construit sur les plans de l’architecte Brongniart, l'hôtel de Monaco abrite l’Ambassade de Pologne à Paris depuis 1936.
Ambassade de Pologne : hôtel de Monaco
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Construit sur les plans de l’architecte Brongniart, l'hôtel de Monaco abrite l’Ambassade de Pologne à Paris depuis 1936.
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25 espaces de bureaux
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Les espaces de bureaux sont familiers et trop souvent sans surprise. Pourtant, en un peu plus d’un siècle, ils ont considérablement évolué. Aujourd’hui, au-delà des impératifs économiques et de la rationalisation des mètres carrés, les technologies innovantes ainsi que les enjeux environnementaux ouvrent la voie à de nouveaux modes de travail et à une architecture(...)
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June 2006, Paris
25 espaces de bureaux
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Les espaces de bureaux sont familiers et trop souvent sans surprise. Pourtant, en un peu plus d’un siècle, ils ont considérablement évolué. Aujourd’hui, au-delà des impératifs économiques et de la rationalisation des mètres carrés, les technologies innovantes ainsi que les enjeux environnementaux ouvrent la voie à de nouveaux modes de travail et à une architecture toujours plus audacieuse. À travers 25 projets réalisés dans le monde, ce livre présente un panorama des tendances architecturales actuelles et explore la diversité des espaces de travail : bureaux en blanc, paysagers ou cloisonnés, tours, locaux industriels transformés, lieux atypiques. Le bâtiment tertiaire doit s’intégrer dans son contexte, urbain ou naturel ; sa dimension symbolique sera la première carte de visite de l’entreprise. Il doit répondre à des exigences de fonctionnalité et de flexibilité mais aussi de confort. Enfin, les modes de travail eux-mêmes évoluent. Le bureau doit-il bannir toute fantaisie ? Des réalisations originales proposent un cadre convivial, inspiré d’autres lieux familiers – la rue, la maison ou la boutique. En effet, comment concevoir aujourd’hui des espaces tertiaires alors que la frontière même entre l’activité professionnelle et la vie en dehors tend à s’estomper ?
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This book explores in detail twenty-four churches in ten countries throughout Western Europe, built between 1900 and 1950. Contemporary photographs and floor plans help readers identify the unique characteristics of each building, and are complemented by texts outlining the churches' architectural highlights. The author discusses the Modernist period from its genesis in(...)
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November 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
European church architecture, 1900-1950 : towards modernity
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This book explores in detail twenty-four churches in ten countries throughout Western Europe, built between 1900 and 1950. Contemporary photographs and floor plans help readers identify the unique characteristics of each building, and are complemented by texts outlining the churches' architectural highlights. The author discusses the Modernist period from its genesis in the Art Nouveau movement, while theologians explore the subject of Catholic and Protestant liturgies and their relationships to the buildings. Together with its companion volume, "European church architecture 1950-2000", this survey is a milestone in the literature on ecclesiastical architecture.
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November 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
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