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Vienna's once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire is reflected in the elegance and monumentality of its architecture. But behind and beyond the stately façades, design innovations are transforming interiors and resulting in exciting new residential and commercial buildings being constructed at the city's edges. This user-friendly little guide profiles some of the most notable projects built during the last few years and includes color photographs and a site map. Another in teNeues' authoritative series of pocket guides to recent architecture in cities around the world Includes color ...

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...

Proyectar y construir junto al mar es un gran desafío. Más allá del programa específico, juegan las condiciones climáticas: los fuertes vientos o la erosión producida por la arena y la sal; y, por otro lado, el entorno: respetar la naturaleza y el suelo, ya sea de arena o rocoso, influirá en nuestra obra. Hoy la responsabilidad del arquitecto, además del compromiso con su cliente, es con el uso racional de los materiales y la optimización de los recursos naturales y energéticos, durante su construcción y, también, en toda su vida útil como vivienda. La idea que prevalece ante la...

Contenido: Al antigedad y el paleocristianismo El islam El romnico El gtico El renacimiento El barroco y el rococ El neoclasicismo El historicismo y la arquitectura de ingeniera Primera mitad del siglo XX Segunda mitad del siglo XX