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Published by Monacelli Press December 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1580934684 ISBN 13: 9781580934688
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Hardcover. Condition: New. How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and policymakers learn in order to engage in more successful citymaking? In recent years, media and critical attention has been lavished on famous architects, and the contributions of their designs to the branding of cities. The post-'Bilbao effect' global landscape is one where cities compete for the highest-profile skyscrapers, cultural projects, and high-profile developments designed by star architects whom even casual readers know by first name: Frank Gehry, Bjarke Ingels, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas. Far less is known about the decision-making processes behind these projects and their subsequent urban effects. A unique combination of urban studies and photography, Starchitecture investigates projects designed by star architects in cities including Paris, New York, Abu Dhabi, Bilbao, and the architectural microcosm of the Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Author Davide Ponzini and photographer Michele Nastasi seek to explain and critique a growing global condition by revealing how starchitecture has been and continues to be deployed in cities around the world. The arguments they raise are vital to understanding the urban landscapes of today, and tomorrow. Heavily researched and impressively photographed, Starchitecture explores one of the most important, alluring, and controversial conditions in global architecture and planning today. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!!
Language: English
Published by New York University Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Published by New York University Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Published by New York University Press, US, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Paperback. Condition: New. Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha-where the dynamics of extreme urbanization are so strongly evident-the authors of The New Arab Urban trace what happens when money is plentiful, regulation weak, and labor conditions severe. Just how do authorities in such settings reconcile goals of oft-claimed civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radical inequality? How do they align cosmopolitan sensibilities with authoritarian rule? How do these elite custodians arrange tactical alliances to protect particular forms of social stratification and political control? What sense can be made of their massive investment for environmental breakthrough in the midst of world-class ecological mayhem? To address such questions, this book's contributors place the new Arab urban in wider contexts of trade, technology, and design. Drawn from across disciplines and diverse home countries, they investigate how these cities import projects, plans and structures from the outside, but also how, increasingly, Gulf-originated initiatives disseminate to cities far afield. Brought together by noted scholars, sociologist Harvey Molotch and urban analyst Davide Ponzini, this timely volume adds to our understanding of the modern Arab metropolis-as well as of cities more generally. Gulf cities display development patterns that, however unanticipated in the standard paradigms of urban scholarship, now impact the world.
Language: English
Published by New York University Press 2/5/2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Language: English
Published by Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2024
ISBN 10: 8891838756 ISBN 13: 9788891838759
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The story of Permasteelisa, an Italian company behind the facades of some of the most famous buildings in the world.The great global cities of the Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian world tend to resemble each other more and more. The new buildings of cities such as London, Hong Kong, New York, or Frankfurt are similar, and even the skylines increasingly seem to resemble one another. The fact that there are just a few great architects behind these constructions partly explains this phenomenon.This book reveals how the work of these architectural talents is also made possible by companies such as Permasteelisa, which offer technological solutions for constructing the most futuristic buildings. Permasteelisa produces continuous external cladding: the skin of skyscrapers, large airports, and current business centers. Drawing on its constant research into technology and materials, it collaborates with large architectural firms to transform an architects project into a building. This was the case for the Sydney Opera House, with its futuristic sails; for the Guggenheim in Bilbao and its curved facades conceived by Frank Gehry; and for the scintillating blades of Renzo Pianos Shard in London.The book tells the story of Permasteelisa. With the texts by international urban planning scholars and data analysis and georeferencing methodologies developed at the Transnational Architecture and Urbanism Lab (TAU-Lab) of the Politecnico di Milano, it shows how this Italian companys know-how has allowed it to shape the faces of many contemporary cities such as New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, and Sydney. The story of Permasteelisa, an Italian company behind the facades of some of the most famous buildings in the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Language: English
Published by New York University Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Published by List - Laboratorio Internazionale Editoriale, 2023
ISBN 10: 8832080729 ISBN 13: 9788832080728
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Brossura. Condition: new. Illustrazioni di Nastasi M.Trento, 2023; br., pp. 180, ill. col., cm 16x23.(Babel Urbanization). Città come Abu Dhabi, Doha e Dubai si distinguono per affermazioni superlative, ad esempio l'edificio più alto del mondo, il museo più spettacolare e il centro commerciale più grande. Ad ogni modo, tali realizzazioni, nel bene e nel male, hanno dietro di sé storie urbane complesse, storie che di norma rimangono invisibili e inspiegabili. Unendo fotografia, grafica e testo in un modo innovativo, questa pubblicazione mira a riempire tale vuoto ed ampliare la conoscenza dell'urbanistica oggi con particolare attenzione per aspetti visuali e socioculturali, così come di design. Libro.
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Published by Mondadori Electa, IT, 2024
ISBN 10: 8891838756 ISBN 13: 9788891838759
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Hardback. Condition: New. The story of Permasteelisa, an Italian company behind the facades of some of the most famous buildings in the world.The great global cities of the Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian world tend to resemble each other more and more. The new buildings of cities such as London, Hong Kong, New York, or Frankfurt are similar, and even the skylines increasingly seem to resemble one another. The fact that there are just a few great architects behind these constructions partly explains this phenomenon.This book reveals how the work of these architectural talents is also made possible by companies such as Permasteelisa, which offer technological solutions for constructing the most futuristic buildings. Permasteelisa produces continuous external cladding: the skin of skyscrapers, large airports, and current business centers. Drawing on its constant research into technology and materials, it collaborates with large architectural firms to transform an architect's project into a building. This was the case for the Sydney Opera House, with its futuristic sails; for the Guggenheim in Bilbao and its curved facades conceived by Frank Gehry; and for the scintillating blades of Renzo Piano's Shard in London.The book tells the story of Permasteelisa. With the texts by international urban planning scholars and data analysis and georeferencing methodologies developed at the Transnational Architecture and Urbanism Lab (TAU-Lab) of the Politecnico di Milano, it shows how this Italian company's know-how has allowed it to shape the faces of many contemporary cities such as New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
Language: English
Published by New York University Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1479897256 ISBN 13: 9781479897254
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Summary:This text is a way to learn from the Persian Gulf - to use its cities, cultures, and politics to broaden our understanding of how wealth and power operate in the world today.
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