Four areas in Southern Egypt, around Lake Nasser, now contain ancient monuments that were reconstructed and moved from their original positions during the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s: Abu Simbel, New Amada, New Wadi al-Sebua and New Kalabsha. This guide provides an introduction to the history and culture of Nubia during the pharaonic period. It describes each monument in detail, highlighting its history, religion and art. Also included are a short bibliography and brief descriptions of the four temples that were transported and reconstructed abroad - the most notable now residi... View More...
The Henry Art Gallery at the University, of Washington in Seattle desperately needed transforming as it was overshadowed by the large buildings that surrounded it. The award-winning Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, known for its restoration and addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, among numerous other achievements, was commissioned to intervene. The firm was skillfully able to integrate site, circulation, building and context that beautifully reconciles the site with the rest of the campus. View More...
Each of the more than sixty restaurants and bars featured in this compendium was carefully chosen for its remarkable interior design. Hundreds of color photographs highlight the groundbreaking work of the world's most distinguished architects and designers - their use of startlingly new combinations of color and texture to create unique, often otherworldly environments. Destinations covered are located throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia. 7A visual compendium that includes the remarkable interior design of more than sixty restaurants and bars worldwide. 7Features hundreds... View More...
The Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava is known around the world for his bridge constructions. They combine technology and aesthetics in a unique display of elegance. Concrete and steel achieve a new expressivity in his bridges. View More...
Written by the architect who designed the memorial, this book tells the story of the memorial, twenty years in the making. It includes a guided walk through of the memorial, with archival photographs, original drawings, sketches, and landscape plans. View More...
The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture and Origins offers the reader an engaging armchair tour of one of the gems of American academic architecture. Newcomers to this handsome set of buildings and habitu s of its noble halls alike will find in author Kathryn Horste a discerning and instructive guide. Her observations, together with the more than sixty photographs commissioned to illustrate them, provide a new and memorable encounter with the Michigan Law Quad.Horste starts us off with an examination of the buildings' exteriors, their arrangement and aesthetic impact, and an appreciation of ... View More...
A magnificant book of full-color photographs and text show the history, architecture, and beauty of the barn. BARN is a celebration of an ancient symbol of shelter and harvest, with more than two hundred full-color photographs and an informed text by two expert practitioners of the art and craft of barn restoration. View More...
Office and Office Building Security, Second Edition, is the first book of its type to address issues of violence in the workplace to breaking and entering. As a working guide for administrators, property managers and security personnel, this book is devoted exclusively to total office security programs, detailing hundreds of professional secrets for the safety of employees and the complex. Office and Office Building Security, Second Edition, provides the background to create a safe and secure workplace, regardless of location, size and number of employees. View More...
Leisure time is increasingly a decisive factor in the changing landscape of the Netherlands, and in the trajectory of Dutch society, as both urban and rural zones are reconceived to accommodate a culture at play. In Fun Leisure and Landscape, photographers Janine Schrijver and Otto Snoek collaborate with journalist and editor Tracy Metz to create a report on this social and spatial phenomenon, through interviews with designers, administrators, business people and sociologists, and in photographic essays. View More...
