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What does it mean to be green? This book, a follow-up to the cult hit XS,...

175 meters long, the museum bores like a triangular beam through the Har Hazikaron, or Mount of Remembrance. It juts out from the hillside at either end, allowing visitors to enter and look out. This spectacular architecture is the setting for a lavish and impressive exhibition commemorating the Holocaust. The structure is the culmination of Moshe Safdie?s work in Israel.

Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex - the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion.

Die Finanz-, Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftsmetropole Z?rich findet mit ihrer wegweisenden Stadtplanung international Anerkennung. Anhand von Beispielen der vergangenen zehn Jahre zeigt das Buch ?Z?rich baut? wie konzeptioneller St?dtebau in Z?rich funktioniert und nennt die Erfolgsfaktoren. Im Zentrum stehen die Verfahren, die die unterschiedlichen Interessen von Politik und Verwaltung...