Why would a world-class architect like Meinhard von Gerkan of GMP (von Gerkan, Marg + Partners) design furniture? To appoint his own buildings, of course. This album catalogues von Gerkan's simple, enduring sensuous objects and gives a tantalizing glimpses of his clear, geometrical shapes in high-quality materials.

The Grand Theater in Chongqing is often likened to a large, moving ship, as it appears to glide over the great Yangtze River on which it is situated. This book allows a glimpse into its multiple performance halls, event spaces and intricate glass facade.

As part of the thousand-year celebrations of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, the Hanoi Museum was inaugurated. The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners had won the international competition for the building in 2005 and realized it within two years. The 30,000-square-meter museum is integrated into a specially designed park with large water surfaces, in which visitors can view exhibits from Hanoi's history and replicated traditional Vietnamese villages as soon as they enter the museum landscape. From this park, there are accesses to the museum at all four points of the compass. In the...

When the 14th FINA World Championships in swimming were held in Shanghai in 2011, a new sports center, comprising a sports stadium, a swimming stadium, an outdoor swimming pool for platform diving competitions, and a media center, were built on a surface area of over 347,000 square meters. An artificial lake is the connecting element between the various stadia. The buildings stand on plateaux that protrude into the lake. This forms a gently curved bank around the round stadia, and a straight edge in the south for the outdoor swimming pool.