The book is concerned with a relatively new design discipline at the intersection of graphic design and architecture - wayfinding. It includes the best design solutions from around the world. The publication showcases 245 state-of-the-art wayfinding projects grouped by category; parks, education facilities, corporate environments, commercial spaces, hospitality, transportation, health-care, and so on. The book includes descriptions of the various contexts that influence the design and create identity.

The elegant design of the hotel and the perfect harmony between Japanese traditional culture and the modern design concept in this book present you both sensual and psychological appreciation of the affluent spa culture of Japan, the spa kingdom in the world. With more than fifty well-known and distinguished Japanese hotels included, the book gives detailed descriptions of the scales, facilities, and the design styles of the Japanese spa baths of each hotel in particular. From the interior design of the spacious and bright reception halls, the luxurious ocean-front guest rooms, and the cozy beauty and wellness salons to the exterior landscape design of Japanese gardens and the ideal location near the mountains or by a river, and especially the individualized recuperative spa baths, all demonstrate the work of the Japanese spa hotel master designers.
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This is a book showing interior design works of restaurants and bars in hotels. The book includes a total of 94 interior design projects. It fully shows the details of hotel restaurant and bar design through explicit descriptions of the pictures and drawings of these projects. With rich contents and novel design, the book provides the readers with great inspirations.

A l'heure où le monde change à grande vitesse, que nous disent les paysagistes français(es) ? De quoi est faite leur culture et en quoi leur savoir-faire répond-il aux enjeux sociaux, écologiques et paysagers, tout à la fois locaux et planétaires de notre époque ? Comment participent-ils/elles au grand mouvement de création dans le paysage, l'architecture, les arts plastiques. Ont-ils/elles une approche particulière ?
L'ambition de ce livre est d'offrir un tour d'horizon de la création paysagère française d'aujourd'hui, de la positionner, d'apporter une réponse immédiate et utile aux responsables politiques et professionnels impliqués dans ce domaine, à tous ceux qui participent sans toujours en avoir conscience, à l'histoire de la création de paysage des temps présents.
Dans une période de grands bouleversements dans tous les domaines, que ce soit celui des sciences, des activités, du transport des idées, des hommes et des biens, on a plus que jamais besoin de concepteurs sachant penser les métamorphoses de notre habitat - de la maison au grand paysage, de lui donner du sens, le mettre en oeuvre dans le temps, depuis la concertation avec les habitants, le temps de l'atelier, celui du chantier jusqu'aux modes de gestion quotidiens...
(Extrait de la préface de Michel Racine)
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As the most individualized civil architecture, buildings for cultural events are the best stage for architects to practise their dreams", to express their perceptions to architectural art and ambitions. When culture meets architecture, some memories, some scenes or an attitude will find its medium to exist as a real and touchable thing.

Besides those architectures that record a history or provide information, such as museum, library, memorial, archives centre and the like, more and more multi-functions cultural centres were built in cities, where people gather together for social event, entertainment, or sports, and they are also the new plaza where people can impress their sense of the city's identification deeper.

Selected buildings for culture around the world are included in this book, with an invitation to witness the meeting between culture and architecture.
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5.000 ans de civilisation de la Chine ont donné naissance à d'innombrables et brillants accomplissements.

La Chine est avant tout multiethnique, 56 ethnies exactement d'est en ouest et du nord au sud, ces diverses cultures donnent au monde une inspiration infinie.

Ce livre est un portfolio de conception intérieure, le noyau de la culture chinoise. Il s'agit d'un véritable catalogue de dessinateurs d'intérieurs contemporains portant leur analyse sur l'interprétation et l'innovation de la culture chinoise traditionnelle, et l'exploration moderne de style chinois.

As the embodiment of human cultures, the museum is a global cultural facility, wich evolves into new functions and forms during the endless social development and gradually develops into a multi-functional cultural complexe. The age of traditional collecing and exhibiting functions has passed by ; the contemporary museum architecture needs to meet more requirements.
The book selects excellent competition entries and design proposals for art museums, science museums, history museums and local complex museums all over the world since 2007. The rich materials will repsent the readers a complete design process and reveal current museum development tendency, wich have positive guidance and reference for museum design practitioners.

The worldwide travelling fever propelled the boom of resorts. The popular resorts attribute their success to the excellent architectural and interior design. Before designing an attractive resort, architects and interior designers should know about the basic knowledge and requirements on resort design.

The book, with five parts of master planning, environment design, architectural design, swimming pool design and interior design, concludes the basic design elements for resort design and presents 21 amazing projects. It gives the reader both theoretical principles and practical guidance.

Ce livre présente une collection de 130 intérieurs commerciaux réalisés par des concepteurs internationaux.

Les divers types d'espaces commerciaux sont :
-Bureaux .
-Restaurant.
-Hôtels .
-Espaces culturels (librairies, musées, opéras..) .
-Complexe sportif .
-Lieux d'exposition .
-Boutiques .

Pour chaque projet vous trouverez un plan et des photos couleurs pleines pages.

Ce livre présente une gamme étendue de club et de bars à travers le monde entier.

Les 63 projets présentés de 44 entreprises internationales nous font voyager dans 18 villes à travers le monde. Chaque projet est illustré avec de très belles photographies couleurs pleines pages ainsi que le plan de l'architecte.

Tandis que la plupart des conceptions sont contemporaines, un certain nombre de projets sont conçus avec une sensibilité asiatique. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de référence précieux pour tous les architectes et designers de clubs et de bars, il démontre les tendances et les concepts actuels.

The renovation work is very similar to when cooking different things fit together, but neither has to kill the taste of the other and only with the sum and the balance between the parties and the ingredients that you gain a new and unique flavour compound.

This book selects 36 cases and each case is illustrated through the comparison with images before and after renewing, exquisite drawings and systematic description. It will be a good reference book for designers who are going to renew an existing structure into a hotel as well as hotel clients who want to get a new hotel.

Open-kitchen is commonly seen in European and American countries and imported into China by fashion magazines and interior designers. Now it has become a trendy style to implant it into restaurants and is popular with diners for its stylistic and distinctive features.

The book focuses on open-kitchen design in restaurants and aims to explore the characteristics as well as the relationship between it and the entire restaurant. Systematic theoretical text and typical case analysis go together to give a direct perception of successful open-kitchen restaurant design. It will be a valuable reference book for both interior designers and restaurant operators.

All too often, the design of contemporary industrial structures lacks a deeper quality than being just variations on the 'big-box'type, preferred for economy and efficiency, but only to a limited extent able to respond to context and the needs of human users. In light of the current changes in the production sector, where sustainable approaches in everything from energy supply, material procurement and waste management challenge and redefine the very essence of the industrial sector, a similar new approach to industrial architectural design is also a chance to re-invent the way industry and environment can interact in a positive way.
The examples assembled here touch on different aspects of using architectural quality to go further than the purely functional, by including bioclimatic aspects, workplace design and urban and landscape integration. But they also show the possibilities of simply creating good design with modest means - with few exceptions, industrial architecture is created from low budgets and standardized components. This makes the challenge of the designer all the greater, and proves that architectural quality is not primarily driven by investment but by imagination and invention.
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This book has selected many distinctive brand image design works from excellent designers all over the world.

Food court, as a special catering service place, preserves its own attractive character that common restaurants do hot have. Entering the food court, one will be immersed in the qualified and refined environment. The moment the gustatory and optic nerves go together, it allures you to linger on although you are not hungry or tired to have a meal. That is the charm that resides in the food court.

Space design of a food court covers various aspects. The book combines guidelines and case analysis together and aims to interpret essential elements of food court design in a clear and systematic way as well as to present a visual feast. It will be an exceptional reference book for designers, operators, students and anyone engaged in this field.
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This book has collected a number of distinctive works on card design from excellent designers all over the world. These projects involve the design of invitations, greeting cards, promotional materials and others. The designers employ exquisite graphics, various materials and techniques to create a colourful world of card design.
A large number of classic projects in the book have presented the designers' endless creativity!
Ce livre rassemble un certain nombre de projets sur le design de cartes, qu'il s'agisse de faire part, de cartons d'invitations, de carte de visite et bien d'autres encore.
Originalité et créativité sont les mots d'ordre.

The book has collected a number of recommendable design concepts on hotel brands, focusing on the design of logo, fonts, colours as well as the selection of materials and package design. It aims to help the designers get more indepth, understanding of the hotel industry and the important role that brand image design plays in a hotel.

The effect which the architecture profession has experienced from the economic downturn over the past few years is reflected in the almost complete lack of competitions for real projects in the U.S. Although we have seen no lack of ideas competitions in this country during this period, real projects have been at a premium. This can be seen at all government levels, but especially in the municipalities.
So it can come as no surprise that the majority of competitions for real : projects in this volume reflect not only the institutional commitment of foreign nations to this process, but the dire economic straits our governing ; bodies find themselves in. To the delight of many American firms, the island of Taiwan is still staging open competitions for major projects. Neil Dinari Architects of Los Angeles won the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, with Asymptote of New York a close runnerup; and U.S.-based firms Stoss, Inc. of Boston and Studio Gang of Chicago both placed high in other Taiwan competitions.
Of the successes on the North American scene, Michael Maltzan won competitions for both the Inuit Art and Learning Centre for Winnipeg Art Gallery, as well as the St. Petersburg Pier event-the realization of the latter in question because of the municipality's financial constraints. Situated in a more robust economy, the Canadian project will undoubtedly go ahead .
All of this leaves us to wonder what the immediate future will bring. The American economy is slowly recovering, but probably not at a pace to yet plant the notion that a competition is the best vehicle to arrive at a design for a major project. So architects who still have time on their hands should still be looking abroad for opportunities-at least for the moment.
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