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10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries like Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this book examines the most prominent buildings designed by the most noteworthy architects of our time. Also profiled are Americans less not...

A lavishly illustrated book presenting high-class holiday rentals on five continents. Founded in 1977, Engel and Volkers is one of the world's leading service companies specializing in the sale and leasing of premium residential properties, commercial real estate, and yachts.

The decaying remnants of obselete industries and defunct commerce - whether coal mines, shipyards, factories, shopping centres, power plants, warehouses or mills - lie scattered in desolate locations throughout the world. These left-over structures still hold memories of the life that was once there. Transience was built in from the start. When a mine was worked out, it was abandoned; sometimes its machinery was removed to another mine, but often it was easier to equip the new place with more up...

From Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects' Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line to SOM's One World Trade Center, New York City has been home to some of this century's most exciting new architecture. Profiling more than fifty projects that are shaping the city's streets and skylines, this book features color photographs of each building and a brief, informative text about its significance. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Foster + Part...

Architectural photographer, Richard Payne began this photographic survey of small Texas towns as a part-time enterprise - something enjoyable to do in his spare time out of nostalgia, curiosity, and a love of making photographs that reminded him of his hometown. The effort grew into a book that reflects today's Texas small towns and the practice of architecture as a profession and an art. The brief period between 1880 and 1930 was the golden age of architecture in Texas. The downtowns of small t...

Stairways, fountains, and streetlights are among the many overlooked small things that grace our cityscapes. Seeing and appreciating them is the idea behind the "Urban Details series. Many have significant histories and are associated with important civic leaders, and many are merely the result of some functional requirement, but nearly all are the product of the loving hand labor of talented artisans.Discover where Laurel and Hardy pushed a grand piano up a long stairway. Imagine corseted ladie...

For three years, the architecture photographer HG Esch documented with impressive images the energetic renovation of the HVB-Tower in Munich, which has been the head office of the HypoVereinsbank since 2016. The characteristic exterior of the building, mirroring the sky in accordance with the design idea of the original architects Walther and Bea Betz and whose color is constantly changing with the intensity and incidence of sunlight, was replaced by a technologically pioneering facade construct...

There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make "Visions of Heaven" one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, an...

Joyau de l'architecture et de la culture canadienne, l'edifice du Parlement du Canada, aussi appele edifice du Centre, s'est trouve au coeur de la democratie parlementaire canadienne pendant la plus grande partie du siecle dernier. L'edifice du Parlement, et sa Tour de la Paix neo-gothique emblematique, approchant de son 100e anniversaire, il sera ferme pendant une decennie au moins pour subir des renovations bien necessaires. Bien qu'une generation entiere sera privee de l'occasion d'admirer le...

Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation - Makkah, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histories that are stitched together by an abundance of organically rooted communities and cultures. It is a place that accommodated not only sacred structures and sites but also huge fluctuations in population during Ramadan (up to 3 million visitors a ye...

Hamburg's new landmark, the Elbphilharmonie, with its unique architecture and acoustics, is not only a magnet for locals and tourists, but also for artists of all genres and from all over the world. Peter Hundert was allowed to accompany and portray the "heroes" of the Elbphilharmonie for over a year - artists, technicians, visitors. His pictures and original sounds from well over a hundred shows, rehearsals and sound checks are authentic testimonies to unadulterated emotions, intimate moments...

Diedrich Anton Wilhelm Rulfs, the German-born architect who immigrated to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1880, transformed the historic, frontier town into a modern city. The life and work of Rulfs and his interaction with his contemporaries is the story of Nacogdoches in the crucial years at the turn of the 20th century. The substantial visual legacy of Rulfs to the history of a pioneering town can be enjoyed today. Over fifty architectural creations are extant and form the core for the city's extensive...