Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments

In just four years a modern campus has come into being for the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The master plan by BUSarchitektur provides an urban "oasis with pavilions in the garden." The buildings by Zaha Hadid Architects, BUSarchitektur, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, CRAB studio, Estudio Carme Pinos and NO.MAD Arquitectos interact like an orchestra, harmonized and dynamized by a "walk along park" which lends the campus a lounge character.

Blending social history with pioneering architecture and business analysis, Dolphin Square provides a detailed history of the London landmark and its antecedents.
Dolphin Square was and is no ordinary block of flats. Built on a massive scale to a high density in the mid-1930s, it was a pioneering example of concrete design, and when completed was the largest single residential building in Europe.
The book begins with the antecedents of the seven-acre site, which was first occupied by the workshops of Thomas Cubitt, when he developed Pimlico and Belgravia. Conceived as a...

Osterreichs Hauptstadt erhalt eine neue Verkehrsdrehscheibe: den Hauptbahnhof Wien. Das Buch macht die Entstehung des Durchgangsbahnhofs im transeuropaischen Schienennetz erlebbar. Das Bauprojekt initiierte die Transformation der gesamten Stadtischen Umgebung. Die Fotoarbeit von Roman Bonsch wird mit Bildern von Sigi Herzog und historischen Abbildungen erganzt. Fachtexte, Essays und Plangrafiken unterstutzen diesen reprasentativen Bildband.

Evolving from a patrician domus, the emperor's residence on the Palatine became the centre of the state administration. Elaborate ceremonial regulated access to the imperial family, creating a system of privilege which strengthened the centralised power. Constantine followed the same model in his new capital, under a Christian veneer. The divine attributes of the imperial office were refashioned, with the emperor as God's representative. The palace was an imitation of heaven.
Following the loss of the empire in the West and the Near East, the Palace in Constantinople was...

Olympische Sportstatten sind Orte, die fur eine kurze Dauer viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Der zunehmende mediale Fokus hat den Effekt der temporaren Nutzung noch verstarkt. Doch was passiert in der Zeit nach den Spielen? Der Fotograf Bruno Helbling hat mit seiner Kamera dieEntwicklung von sechs Spielstatten verfolgt: Athen (1896, 2004), Berlin (1936), Sarajevo (1998), Turin (2006), Peking (2008) und Sotschi (2014).