Grimshaw Sir Nicholas (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 320pp with many colour reproductions with chronicle of events and artist biographies.English text editors Irina Tokareva and Gailina Maximenko. Heavy book extra overseas post.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on reverse of front cover. No inscriptions. 158pp. plus two page list of RA benefactors. 52 colour plates plus many other colour and b/w illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) held at the Royal Academy, London from 8 July to 15 October 2006. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Book 'published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Capturing the Concept: The Sketchbooks of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA from 1982 to 2007', held at Wimbledon College of Art, the Royal Academy of Arts and Edinburgh College of Art, 2009-10.' First Edn., 2009; charcoal boards; titling/illus. blocked in white to front board; titling blocked in white to spine; illus. endpapers; 118pp.; illus. drawings/photos. in col./monochrome. Spine/boards/pages very clean/crisp/bright. No inscriptions. Fine. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Large 4to. Published to accompany the RA exhibition of 2008-2009. Lavishly illustrated with colour and b/w plates throughout. With biographical pieces. Includes a chapter featuring Ann Dumas in (an extensive) conversation with Isabelle and Yoyo Maeght. No inscription or creases. As-new. FINE.

42 x 32cm. Eleven large oblong volumes in red silver-gilt-illustrated paper-covered boards, fully illustrated. Very rare. Not institutionally recorded in COPAC or OCLC. Various pagination. A fascinating voluminous glimpse of one of the possible futures for this important London site. For the latter part of the 20th century Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Battersea Power Station was not being actively maintained, and many property developers have been thwarted in their attempts to redevelop the iconic building by the sheer cost and complexity of the undertaking; the site has been described as "a graveyard of architectural visions". These volumes comprise Arup Associates' highly ambitious proposal to Victor Hwang's Hong Kong-based Parkview International for the complete redevelopment of the site, subsequently rejected. Arup's plan - fully detailed in these volumes - included a large residential area of apartments, hotels, a retail centre and entertainment zones. Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was involved in the redesign proposal, which would have seen shops and designer outlets situated inside the two turbine halls, a cinema multiplex and base for the Cirque du Soleil, the addition of a riverside walkway running from Battersea Park to Vauxhall featuring a viewing platform, and the top of one chimney housing a high-class restaurant. The project was deemed unattractive by the Battersea Power Station Community Group and campaigned against it, citing its unaffordable housing, promoting a more community-focussed plan instead.

NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW & PARTNERS HALLE 3, MESSE FRANKFURT AM MAIN. (Riesen-Architekturbildband, Text Volker Fischer, Photographien/Photographs Waltraud Krase Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart/London 1. Auflage 2002, ERSTAUSGABE, 60 SS. gebunden (Hardcover gr. 4°, 30,5 x 28,5 cm ) mit vielen Fotos und Plänen, mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Nicholas Grimshaw mit Datum 2-9-13 eigenhändig signiert ( Text in English and German. The internationally known British architect Nicholas Grimshaw is better than almost anyone else at making structural and architectural requirements cohere in his High-Tech buildings. And his most recent building, Hall 3 of the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre, one of Europe's largest exhibition halls , covering 220 X 120 m, is particularly striking because it combines architecture and engineering so ingeniously. Six gigantic steel girders looking like the skeleton of a dinosaur span the 160 m length of the two-storey exhibition area 45 m above the ground, making a total of 40000 m2 available. The roof structure makes luxurious daylight illumination possible for the upper storey, and this is also continued on the ground floor, as the light is handled so skilfully. The architects have confronted this roof structure, which is delicate despite its size, with two solid four-storey foyer and access blocks at the ends. Thus Grimshaw blends high-tech lightness with traditional mass. The mezzanine level between the two exhibition levels contains technical equipment and also a large number of work-stations with computer facilities. And of course the building, which concludes the large central 'Agora' of the Centre on its south side, is connected to the internal access system of the site, the 'Via Mobile'. The hall does not simply function as a logistical architectural key for the firms exhibiting there, but can also be used for political, cultural and other events. It enhances the architectural landscape of the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre, which includes Helmut Jahn's Messeturm, the Torhaus, the Galleria and the Halle 9 designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers as well as Friedrich von Thiersch's Festhalle from the beginning of this century, by adding another significant landmark building. The Messe Frankfurt itself sees this building as the first step towards a new infrastructural dimension, as it has for some time now had the chance to expand further south on disused railway land. The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was vice director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt for over 10 years. Since 1995 he has been building up a new design department in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Waltraud Krase studied at the Fachakademie fur Fotodesign in Munich and lives in Frankfurt am Main. She has photographed buildings by many prominent architects, among them Max Dudler, Frank O. Gehry, James Stirling and Oswald mathias Ungers. (Verlagsanzeige) ).