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A Coffee a Day - Contemporary Cafe Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Design
Exchange and interaction, an escape from everyday life, letting the imagination flow, writing, reading, or simply doing nothing: Drinking a coffee in a nice café, spontaneously or on a date, alone or with friends, is undoubtedly one of the things we miss the most during the 2020/21 pandemic - even if we ...Show more
Bamboo Architecture & Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Design | Series: Architecture & Materials
Bamboo, one of the fastest-growing plants on earth, is best known to many people as the food of giant pandas more significant, however, is its long tradition as a construction material, especially in Asia and South America. Recently, it has also become increasingly popular among Western architects, desi ...Show more
Bend & Build: Architecture with Bamboo by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo has developed into one of the most fascinating areas of global building culture. A material with many faces, more flexible than wood and stronger than steel: in addition to its individual and natural appearance, above all, the unique material properties su ...Show more
Bricks Now and Then - The Oldest Man-Made Building Material by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. And as Mies van der Rhohe stated: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins". Buildings made of this fabric from very different epochs and cultures all over t ...Show more
Bungalow Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
Communicative living on a single level thanks to a wide variety of layouts, ingenious spatial solutions by playing with building structures, and the symbiosis of architecture and environment: The bungalow is the epitome of a self-determined life - and inspires builders and architects alike. The one or o ...Show more
Contemporary Architecture - Masterpieces Around the World by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Design
Nearly exactly ten years after the publication of the Atlas of World Architecture, this new follow-up publication reviews the last architectural decade by means of current exemplary buildings from all continents. Not only have building tasks, techniques and styles changed greatly in the last decade, but ...Show more
Contemporary Homes in Germany by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
For many people home ownership is one of the most important goals in life and the biggest private investment. In Germany about two thirds of the residential building stock consists of single-family homes. With 80.000 to 90.000 new residences built every year it is by far the most important construction ...Show more
Design Affairs : Shoes, Chandeliers, Chairs Etc. by Architects by Chris Van Uffelen
Category: Design
Why should architects restrict their abilities and creative faculties to buildings and rooms? A closer look reveals that many of them are also active as creators of objects - often of furniture in the context of their own buildings but also of products of all types, independent of their archi - tectural ...Show more
Eco Living by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture in Focus
Combining sustainability with trendsetting design is one of the great challenges of contemporary architecture. Resource sparing living space is one of the most important themes. In addition to the increased consciousness of the interactions between the human being, his built environment and ecosystem, t ...Show more
Hortus Conclusus: Gardens for Private Homes by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Gardening | Series: Hortus Conclusus Ser.
The desire for beautiful gardens is as strong as ever. An own garden as a private oasis of well-being, but also as a place of prestige can be much more than lawn and flowerbed, path, and hedge. The projects by professional landscape and garden architects presented in this volume show which elements, com ...Show more
Lifestyles Today: Interior Design Around the World by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Art
Who wants to live how? The most diverse life patterns and lifestyles are reflected in the way a person designs his or her home. Architects and interior designers have to get involved with the individual character of their clients, they have to understand how their clients want to live and implement this ...Show more