{"title":"Architecture \u0026 Art","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"artful-spaces-diy-wall-art-for-the-home","title":"Artful Spaces: DIY Wall Art for the Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCreate Wall Art that Reflects Your Style \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLooking for quick, creative ways to add art to the spaces in your home? You'll find them here. Artful Spaces gives you just what you want - art projects that actually look good and take hardly any time at all. And the best part: There's no experience needed. Artful Spaces demonstrates basic techniques in a humorous, unpretentious way that lacks jargon but is full of practical advice - from selecting the best paints, brushes and surfaces (while staying on a budget) to choosing the right colors for a painting and even hanging the finished canvas. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's no end to the creative ideas in the book's 24 projects. Learn how to create designs with stencils, CDs, bottles, coffee cups, potatoes and even the side of a cereal box. Add texture to your canvas with collages of decorative paper, tissue paper or posters. Use spray paint and markers to create paintings inspired by street art. The possibilities are endless. Complete materials lists, step-by-step photos, tips and templates make the projects easy to complete. There's also information on where to find inspiration and how to create a visual journal to help you create designs of your own. Grab some paint and a canvas, and start transforming your walls!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47668974223572,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/ArtfulSpaces.jpg?v=1773834984"},{"product_id":"organizing-your-life","title":"Organizing Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn today's fast-paced, complex society, it's crucial to find ways to simplify, get organized, and increase productivity. Using dozens of beautiful, full-color photos, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiot's Guides: Organizing Your Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents a variety of ideas and steps for organizing every closet, drawer, room, and garage. In addition, ideas for organizing an office and electronic data, \"green\" aspects of organizing, and resources for people with clutter disorders are also included.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Organizing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47668994146516,"sku":null,"price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/OrganizingYourLife.jpg?v=1773835556"},{"product_id":"touch-graphics-the-power-of-tactile-design","title":"Touch Graphics: The Power of Tactile Design","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTouch Graphics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e celebrates innovative graphic design that uses materials to send a message. Fur, cloth, vellum, metal, and more—here are designs whose tactile allure is fascinating and memorable. In this electronic age, when much of what reaches us is flashed across a soreen, items that beg to be held strike a chord—feeding our most neglected sense: touch. Discover the fresh, innovative work collected in these pages, from designers using materials and shapes to do what advertising is meant to do: grab our attention—in a way that we can really get our hands on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669007155412,"sku":null,"price":78.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/TouchGraphics.jpg?v=1773836522"},{"product_id":"science-spaces-architecture-design","title":"Science Spaces Architecture \u0026 Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience Spaces like research institutes, libraries, laboratories and university facilities are nowadays not just functional buildings, they are contemporary architecture of high standards. The departments and institutes open theirselves more and more to the public and have a higher need for design and architecture. This poses a great challenge for architects and designers as high technology has to be combined with design. Aesthetic and creative solutions have been found: library buildings are decorated with ornamental patterns of writing symbols, color schemes resemble a genetic pattern, and buildings are shaped in an organic way. This books presents outstanding projects of the latest architecture for science, research and education all over the world. An index with contact information is enclosed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669016363220,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/ScienceSpacesArchitectureDesign.jpg?v=1773836721"},{"product_id":"101-hotel-baths-spas","title":"101 Hotel Baths \u0026 Spas","description":"\u003cp\u003eDue to the significant growth of the global holistic health movement during the past years, the wellness factor plays an increasingly crucial role in the hospitality industry. Today, high value is always attached to beautiful bathrooms and spa areas – whether for newly constructed hotels, extensions or transformations. Oases of peace, relaxation and retreat from a hectic daily life are gaining in prominence globally. This volume illustrates the wide range of design possibilities with 101 projects by Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk and Peter Joehnk. The highly sought-after hospitality industry design specialists always manage to find the perfectly suited design concept for the most varied hotels from around the world. Their work comprises elegant bathroom sceneries, luxurious spa resorts, as well as small but distinguished wellness areas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669351710932,"sku":null,"price":76.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/101HotelBaths_Spas.jpg?v=1773836969"},{"product_id":"modern-american-housing","title":"Modern American Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern American Housing: Tower, Reuse, Infill provides a unique look at some of the best practices and latest developments in the design and construction of contemporary housing, focusing exclusively on examples in the American city. The book is divided into three sections, analysing cutting-edge housing designs, each of which fall into three categories based on the project's context: housing towers, reuse of historical structures, and urban infill housing. Each section is curated by a leading practitioner of that type of work: Andrew Bernheimer (towers), Julie Eizenberg (reuse), and Stanley Saitowitz (infill). The projects are been documented with rich photography and drawings, and include a contextual maps which illustrate their urban settings. An essay by historian Jonathan Massey (Syracuse University) and a conversation led by Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP Architects) with various urban planners, architects and policy makers place these case studies in an interpretive framework of speculation about the past and future of the American house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669850341588,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/ModernAmericanHousing-High-Rise_Reuse_Infill_9cf72c52-7a94-47b2-9255-3edabe89d743.jpg?v=1773837273"},{"product_id":"new-architecture-in-china","title":"New Architecture in China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book engagingly describes and illustrates more than 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from shops and hotels to sports arenas and exhibition halls. Such internationally acclaimed architects as Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Paul Andreu, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Riken Yamamoto, I.M. Pei, Steven Holl and many others are featured alongside smaller, emerging and more local practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669860434132,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/NewArchitectureinChina.jpg?v=1773837452"},{"product_id":"leven-betts-pattern-recognition","title":"Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePowers of observation may be an architect's most underrated skill. For New York City-based Leven Betts Studio, thedesign of meaningful spaces that bring people into an active relationship with architecture requires finding and inscribingin space the physical marks and temporal patterns of our daily lives. Above all, their work is focused on an individual's experience of a space with particular attention to how we navigate our surroundings. Their intense scrutiny of site and programa process related to author William Gibson's notion of \"pattern recognition\"allows them to take advantage of certain site-specific cues. It inspired, for example, their decision to allow the direction of crop lines in the landscape to guide the design of a 2,000-square-foot upstate New York weekend home. It is visible in the Mixed Greens art gallery in Chelsea, New York, where five irregularly placed beam-and-column structures inspired their design of a zigzagging suspended ceiling that glows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeven Betts: Pattern Recognition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e features 18 projects from the firm's critically acclaimed first decade. The diverse portfolio of projects run the gamut in scale from furniture and exhibition design to townhouse and city plans. Well grounded in the realities of constructionLeven's resume includes a stint in a metal fabrication shop, while Betts spent two years as a project manager at a construction firmthe spare but elegant work of Leven Betts Studio is characterized by a distinctive blend of materials, light, and texture. Featuring numerous photos, drawings, and diagrams, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeven Betts: Pattern Recognition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites architecture professionals and students to explore a unique design process and discover their own powers of observation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669866922196,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/PatternRecognition.jpg?v=1773837623"},{"product_id":"plans-and-details-for-contemporary-architects","title":"Plans and Details for Contemporary Architects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn indispensable resource for professionals seeking to understand how colorful buildings can animate their environs and engage their users.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most appealing trends to emerge in contemporary design is the use of bold colors and patterns inside and outside buildings. Nineteen of the most exciting examples from around the world are presented in detail in this book, which focuses on the dramatic effect of color when used in facades, interior surfaces, and elements. Projects from leading architects include Alsop Architects’ The Public in West Bromwich, Jean Nouvel’s Agbar Tower in Barcelona, and Richard Rogers’s Terminal 4 in Madrid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVital reading for architects and architecture students, this is a key resource for understanding how the world’s most innovative buildings are designed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669874065620,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/PlansandDetailsforContemporaryArchitects.jpg?v=1773837737"},{"product_id":"paris-arc-de-triomphe-deluxe-model-and-book-set","title":"Paris: Arc de Triomphe Deluxe Model and Book Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eLearn all about the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, with this informative and educational deluxe book and model set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis incredible new book and model set features a replica of the Arc de Triomphe to build, perfect for anyone interested in design, architecture, and—of course—Paris. A fresh take on this one-of-a-kind French landmark, this collectible book also comes packed with breathtaking photography along with information on Parisian food, history, and culture. It’s a not-to-be missed journey through the magical City of Light! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669880914132,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/IncrediBuilds.jpg?v=1773837905"},{"product_id":"the-earth-from-the-air-365-new-days","title":"The Earth from the Air 365 New Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis daybook presents 365 entirely new, utterly dazzling images from master aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The pictures cover every corner of ever continent, from icy arctic floes to tropical forests, from the deserts of north Africa to the vertiginous peaks of Nepal. Arthus-Bertrand's breathtaking, full-colour photographs are accompanied by informative captions that illuminate what we see, and describe the environmental concerns related to each location. At once inspiring and transcendentally beautiful, The Earth from the Air 365 New Days is a volume to treasure for years on end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669892382932,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/theearthfromtheair365newdays.jpg?v=1773838111"},{"product_id":"natural-architecture-now","title":"Natural Architecture Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur 2007 hitNatural Architecture introduced artists and architects who transform the act of building into a fascinating new art form. Built from humble elements—branches, twigs, straw, bamboo—and fulfilling a wide variety of intentions—sometimes structural, sometimes sculptural, sometimes sacred—their fantastical creations resonate with an innate natural beauty.Natural Architecture Now features all-new site-specific installations by an international list of contributors. From an engineered oasis and climbing structure in Joshua Tree National Park to an intricate bamboo installation on top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to a residential mud structure prototype created by Architecture for Humanity Tehran, each project points a way forward for architects to engineer a new organic simplicity of structure and form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669898641620,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/NaturalArchitectureNow.jpg?v=1773838338"},{"product_id":"designing-here-now","title":"Designing Here Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn ambitious global compendium of the most thoughtful and innovative design objects invented or produced in the past five years, compiled by experts at Core 77.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult to keep pace with the most relevant design innovations, but Core 77 has been presenting the design world’s best work since 1995. Considered by some to be one of the very first online magazines, Core 77 works with many of the leading design agencies and design-led companies, such as Apple, Nike, Philips, DuPont, Braun, and many others. For the past several years, it has hosted a unique set of design awards, juried by the world’s design experts, which has attracted a dazzling spectrum of international practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom consumer products to speculative ventures, from transportation to visual communication, from design writing to food design, the entrants and winners of the Core77 Design Awards capture the spirit and preoccupations of the design industry, and the best work chosen by panels of jury members that include design luminaries from the U.S., Europe, India, and China. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDesigning Here\/Now\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes over 500 objects at the leading edge of all fields of design, presented in topical categories and selected by the world’s most influential critics, curators, and educators\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669912404180,"sku":null,"price":86.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/DesigningHereNow.jpg?v=1773838532"},{"product_id":"inspired-inspiring","title":"Inspired \u0026 Inspiring","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreativity and workmanship under a single roof, yet neither a university nor a factory – labs, studios and workshops are hubs of creative innovation and practical implementation. These two premises are the constants that define them as a place in which new things are developed. This volume examines the question of how the spaces for this process are actually created. It presents contemporary examples from areas as diverse as fashion, graphic design, architecture, and photography, as well as an exclusive patisserie and noble furniture workshops. These projects reflect already achieved accomplishments while promising future innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47669922005204,"sku":null,"price":92.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/INSPIREDANDINSPIRING.jpg?v=1773838662"}],"url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/collections\/architecture-art.oembed","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}