Millennium S.
6 total works
Daryl Jackson is one of Australia's most successful and prolific architects, and the winner of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal - the highest award bestowed by the institute on an architect who has made a significant contribution to the development of architecture in Australia. Jackson's work has been published extensively, including a monograph of his work by The Images Publishing Group in 1996. Since then, the office of Daryl Jackson has continued to build on its impressive portfolio of contemporary work, both in Australia and internationally. This book describes the firm's recent projects and the way that Jackson and his team approach and tackle challenging architectural commissions. A number of pages are also devoted to the firm's significant urban planning work.
Cox Architects are world renowned for many aspects oft heir work, not the least of which has been extending an Australian architectural ethos beyond houses and into large scale projects such as the Yulara Tourist Resort in Uluru. They are also recognised for creating dramatic and sculptural Exhibition Centres, the Olympic Aquatic Centre and Superdrome, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. In concentrating on work produced in the last five years, this publication profiles and explores the musch broader idiom in which Cox Architects practice. The book is divided into two sections; the first comprising a series of essays on the nature of different project types and the second describing recent and current projects, putting philosophy into practice. While the projects have been selected for their diversity of problem solving, client requirements, context and scale, they reveal some constant passions - for enriching the city and landscape, for harnessing new technologies, and for imparting environmental sensitivity and cultural relevance to the built environment. " 400 col.
Looks at the projects of the Architecture Studio group Created in Paris in 1973, Architecture Studio today integrates the work of seven associate architects, architects, city planners, engineers and interior designers of various nationalities. The group has an open-door policy and has grown bigger with the passage of time: Martin Robain joined in 1973, Rodo Tisnado in 1976, Jean-Francois Bonne in 1979, Alain Bretagnolle and Rene-Henri Arnaud in 1989, Laurent-Marc Fischer in 1993 and Marc Lehmann in 1998. In 1980 they moved to their Rue Lacuee premises, near the Bastille district, which comprise large open workshops dating from the late nineteenth century. From its foundation, more than 400 young architects from all over the world have joined Architecture Studio, eager to try an original approach which assumes a collective philosophy for a collective architecture. Through a collaborative process of conception and an approach to the built project conditioned by the specifics of its context, the architectural practice is constantly evolving.
Projects include the French Embassy in Muscate, the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Convenant in Paris, the Medical Academy Centre in Zabrze, the Institute of the Arab World in Paris and the European Parliament in Strasbourg. SELLING POINTS: - Cutting edge Gallic architecture - One of a handful of French architecture firms that are active in international competition 400 col.
Projects include the French Embassy in Muscate, the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Convenant in Paris, the Medical Academy Centre in Zabrze, the Institute of the Arab World in Paris and the European Parliament in Strasbourg. SELLING POINTS: - Cutting edge Gallic architecture - One of a handful of French architecture firms that are active in international competition 400 col.
One of the largest and most prestigious architectural firms in the world, Skidmore, Owings, andamp;Merrill (SOM) has set the standard for American corporate design for over half a century. A building by SOM is a product of a precise 'fit' between client, architect and context. Manhatten to Moscow, Chicago to Shanghai, London and Berlin to Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City. From high-tech structures to finely detailed interiors, from superscle office towers to urban place-making, SOM's work traverses an extremely wide range of architectural practice, demonstrating the firm's commitment to the broadest possible provision of design services. 400 col.
The central focus of the firm, which was founded in 1976 in Columbus, Indiana, and now has offices in London and Tokyo as well, is a commitment to designing buildings that respond to the environment physically and from the point of view of sustainability. The portfolio of this 400-person firm includes the world's best of corporate headquarters, institutional (academic, financial, exhibition, medical), government, residential, retail, media, master plans, renovations and transportation. It's a Who's Who of world corporations and institutional designs. This portfolio includes major corporate and institutional projects in almost every major center in the world. As befitting a firm of such prestige, and typical of the "Millennium Series", this outstanding book, with a bold and informative layout, presents the firm's landmark and current projects through stunning colour photographs.
Large format publication to celebrate the new millennium. Changes that have occurred in design philosoph are written about as well as depicted pictorially to demonstrate how each firm has adapted to the changes of the times.