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This book offers a sophisticated overview of post-war and contem porary brutalist buildings and of the relationship in appearance and design, in the grand concepts and the smallest details between brutalism today and its ancestors.

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Nordic design is an exhilarating timeless source of inspiration, initiating many trends that have created enthusiasm around the world.

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Product packaging is much more than just a kind of container made of glass, wood oder plastic protecting its contents: it is also the face of the product. Like the facade of a building, the package gives an impression of what lies behind it.

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Buildings and spaces bearing traces of the past that are integrated into new functional and artistic concepts are galvanizing the architecture and design scene. This volume explores the question of the functional and creative possibilities emerging from revitalization that respects existing structures.

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Neither mass accomodation nor fancy villa, but an extraordinary variety of well designed detached houses for a middle-class budget.

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Neither mass accomodation nor luxury villa, but an extraordinary variety of well designed middle-class family dwellings in Germany.

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The challenging task to develop enthralling room concepts and convincing spatial solutions for the efficient use of small houses and living spaces.

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Converting existing buildings into hotels provides amazing opportunities for hoteliers and designers alike to prove their ingenuity.

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Street furniture is the secret star of urban outdoor design. Benches, fountains, street lamps, rubbish bins, post boxes, tourist information signs, bus stops and public toilets are items that reoccur in various urban spaces. This book features 100 examples of contemporary street furniture.

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The Art of Simplyfying

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After the success of Architectural Visions, with its focus on the German speaking countries, this volume is devoted to the individual handwriting of architects and designers from around the world. It shows more clearly which aesthetic impression the planned building finally leaves behind than any number of computer aided visualisation techniques.

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It is a global challenge to develop, produce and deploy technologies, systems and products for sustainable water consumption. The model for this approach is the world leader GROHE. This title presents buildings of different typologies with GROHE water technology solutions.

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This volume shows the exciting variety of architectural reuse possibilities with the creative appropriation careful handling of the existing substance.

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Exciting and surprising approaches of how timber is being used in architecture and interior design today.

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Different types of fabrics are frequently used in the fields of temporary architecture and interior design. This title presents 60 international architecture and design projects that show by means of texts, photos as well as plans and drawings the wide variety of how fabric is used and what can be expected.

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As well as approximately 500 individual buildings, the most prominent architects of Paris and every era are introduced.

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The architectural history of Prague reached its first peak during the Gothic period. After the end of the cold war the city made the connection to contemporary architecture in the form of extraordinary buildings. In this title, the chronologically sequence and the high-quality photos graphically display the typical characteristic of each era.

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Serving as gateways to the cities, train stations were the important urban building developments at the turn of the 20th century. One century later this building mission is experiencing a fascinating renaissance. On a world-wide basis, facilities are emerging that need to fulfill various functions very often they have to serve as shopping malls.

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To create enough living space on the typically rather small pieces of land, the rooms in townhouses have to be layered and connected. These prerequisites are main characteristic features of townhouses. This volume presents projects in very different contexts, showing the great diversity of their functional and design possibilities.

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The metropolis in southern Germany is one of the Federal Republic's most prominent hotbeds of architecture. This book takes readers on a journey of discovery across all architectural eras. It presents around 90 architectural masterpieces in Bavaria, one of Germany's most popular tourist destinations.