High-Rise Living

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High-Rise Living

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High-rise architecture has provided some of the most technically innovative and aesthetically interesting buildings of recent years, despite its checkered-and often controversial-history. It has also become some of the most desirable property available in cities throughout the world. Andrew Weaving hands you the entrance keys to twenty-five different apartments-with-a-view in this rich collection of fabulous, spare photographs that capture unique views of these buildings and their highly livable interiors. High-rise Living features architecture and interior living spaces for high-rise condominiums and apartments in Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia, and the United States, divided in three categories: Classic, Now, and Future. An engaging introduction recounts the highlights of high-rise architecture from its genesis in "ideal socialist cities" to its contemporary ideal as a solution to environmental and world population housing issues, and covers the work of such architectural greats as Louis Sullivan, Auguste Perret, Frank Lloyd Wright (yes, he did towers!), Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Erno Goldfinger, Bertrand Goldberg, I. M. Pei, the Archigram Group, Kisho Kurokawa, and others. High-rise Living is a fresh look at modern, architecturally designed spaces in which to live, right in the heart of the city. Andrew Weaving is a true high-rise aficionado who lives in one himself in London's Canary Wharf.

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Contents Foreword Introduction Classical High-Rise The Barbican, London Blues Point Tower, Sydney Unite d'Habitation, Marseille Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota, Florida Highpoint II, London Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo Marina City, Chicago Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago Commonwealth Plaza, Chicago High-Rise Now Arcand Residence, Vancouver Waterfront / Bond Suite, Hong Kong Hoffman Residence, Vancouver Mulling Residence, New York Ross Residence, New York DeFouw Residence, New York Hastreiter Residence, New York Arando Redesign, Chicago The Montevetro, London Pettigrew / Wohl Residence, Chicago Andrews Residence, London Brennan / Schedler Residence, Chicago High-Rise Future Bluebase.MAS, London Eco Tower, London Skyhouse, London

High-Rise Living

High-Rise Living,Andrew Weaving,Gibbs Smith, Publisher,1586854100,Apartments,Architecture,Domestic,High-rise apartment buildings,History - Specific Styles,Interior Design - General,Interior decoration,Remodeling,Architecture / Domestic

Book Contents:

  1. Historic Homes of Minnesota
  2. Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley
  3. Homing Instinct: Using Your Lifestyle to Design & Build Your Home
  4. House Design
  5. House Design : Art and Practice
  6. House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese
  7. HOUSES AND COTTAGES OF BRITAIN
  8. Housing for the Millions: John Habraken and the SAR 1960-2000
  9. Ideas: Weekend Homes
  10. Inside the white house

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