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It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on Earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here, people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental stone architecture, roads, and a puzzling ideographic script. And then they went about sculpting amazing, giant human figures in stone.

Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was designed to be a "palace" for a "queen." Commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men, it was an estate almost without equal in the entire country. This is the saga of that magnificent mansion, an extravagant product of the owners' hubris and desire for social acceptance, and of the ultimate failure of that driving ambition.

The Language of Clothes came to be highly regarded in the literature of couture and design. Lurie has returned with The Language of Houses, a provocative and entertaining journey through the architecture of houses and buildings and the divided spaces within come to reflect the attitudes and purposes of the organizations and people who inhabit them.

Parmi les meilleurs souvenirs des premières leçons d'initiation à l'histoire, ceux qui se rapportent au château féodal tiennent une place privilégiée.

Tutti pensano di capire a che cosa ci si riferisce con il termine "castello" ma ad una più approfondita analisi molti scoprono di conoscere lo "stereotipo" di castello. Questo audiolibro "fotografa" i castelli da più punti di vista, normalmente trascurati o ignorati e arriva a dare una spiegazione a quelle che spesso appaiono ovvietà.

La prima guida in audio ai grandi temi e alle opere dei protagonisti dell'architettura e del design. Da Maurizio Corrado, architetto, saggista e docente di Storia del Design all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ed Ecodesign a quella di Verona. Da anni si occupa di design e architettura ecologici, è curatore del blog "L'architetto nella foresta" per "La Repubblica". La serie "Audioarchitettura" ti fa scoprire il mondo dell’architettura e del design; la storia, gli stili e i protagonisti.

The tiny house movement is an emerging and growing trend in architecture and home design. It has been present in the real estate market for years but has only now grown to become the latest craze in the architectural world. Many people have decided that less is actually more, and even more are beginning to downsize their living to create a more suitable and much more affordable lifestyle.

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On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract fear: it’s happening now and it’s threatening their way of life. In The Rising Sea, Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young warn that many other coastal areas may be close behind.

Drawing on 25 years experience as a carpenter, Frank Freeley's tales entertain and illuminate. The characters and situations bring to light what goes on behind the scenes of residential construction projects.

Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in 17th-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an invitation to seduction. With the sofa came many other changes in interior space we now take for granted: private bedrooms, bathrooms, and the original living rooms.

The audioguide tells the story, describes the architecture and reports interesting facts about the basilica of St. Nicholas, widely known especially because it preserves the remains of the Saint Nicholas. Bari has been known since Roman times. Although the Normans conquered the city in 1071, it retained its Byzantine cultural heritage and the local clergy remained Byzantine.

Audiolibro tratto dalla versione cartacea illustrata omonima sulle fontane di Roma. Questo "A passeggio per le 100 Fontane dei 22 Rioni" versione audio, è stato immaginato per essere gestito da un telefonino o da un qualsiasi altro supporto portatile, per delle belle e particolari passeggiate piene di tutte le curiosità e dati, di collezionismo storico culturale, su tutte le architetture d'acqua pubbliche, sia piccolissime che piccole e grandi.

Da Notre-Dame brændte, blev Ken Follett så berørt, at hans straks rejste til Paris. Han blev af sin franske forlægger opfordret til at skrive denne lille bog om Notre-Dames historie og betydning, både faktuelt og kulturhistorisk. Ken Folletts kæmpe bestseller "Jordens søjler" handler om bygningen af en fiktiv katedral i England, og arbejdet med denne bog gjorde forfatteren til en slags ekspert i bygning af katedraler i Middelalderen.

En este breve pero fascinante libro, Ken Follett describe las emociones que sintió cuando conoció la tragedia que amenazaba con destruir Notre-Dame de París y recorre, desde los días de su construcción, los momentos históricos determinantes de un edificio que a través de los siglos ha ejercido una fascinación universal.

Tiny Houses sind nicht nur sprichwörtlich übersetzt winzige Häuser, sondern auch ein eingeschränkter Lebensstil. Dies bedeutet aber nicht, dass Sie auf jene Utensilien verzichten müssen, die Sie für sich persönlich benötigen. Tiny Houses gibt es in den unterschiedlichsten Größen. Die Häuser gibt es ab einer Größe von rund 5 qm bis hin zu 93 qm. Hier ist definitiv der passende Wohnraum für jeden dabei. Um diesen Lebensstil natürlich so gut es geht ausleben zu können, benötigen Sie gerade am Anfang sehr viele Informationen.

Dieses Hörbuch hilft dabei, voneinander zu lernen, gemeinsam zu wachsen und zu einem noch besseren Gelingen von Infrastrukturprojekten beizutragen. "Die Wahrheit liegt vor der Baggerschaufel" ist in zehn werthaltige Kapitel unterteilt, in denen sich Infrastrukturexperte und geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Berthold Becker GmbH, Markus Becker, den wichtigsten Faktoren für eine erfolgsversprechende Umsetzung von Infrastrukturprojekten widmet.

Wir arbeiten in ihnen, spazieren über sie und fahren durch sie hindurch: Dass Hochhäuser dem Sturm trotzen, Brücken und Tunnel dem Verkehr und der Schwerkraft standhalten, ist jedoch nicht selbstverständlich, sondern fast ein Wunder - und der Kunst der Ingenieure zu verdanken. Roma Agrawal, die Westeuropas zweithöchsten Wolkenkratzer plante, weiht uns ein in die Geheimnisse der Statik. Auf ihrer Reise durch die Geschichte der Gebäude erzählt Agrawal, wie Materialien Bauweisen revolutionierten und warum die wichtigste Errungenschaft des Römischen Reichs der Ziegelstein war.

Incontriamo, nella storia d'Italia, una lunga serie di sovrani di ogni genere - papi, re, duchi - grazie ai quali la penisola è stata costellata di regge e residenze prestigiose. Grandi architetti come Juvarra, Vanvitelli e Piermarini, affiancati da letterati e da artisti, hanno contribuito a trasporre sul piano della progettazione, dell'estetica, della decorazione le esigenze politiche e di autocelebrazione dei loro committenti.

Esplorare la geografia degli insediamenti ebraici in Italia significa percorrere quasi duemila anni di storia, imbattendosi in presenze ora sradicate per sempre, ora interrotte ma ripristinate dopo secoli, ora rimaste quasi immutate. Si comincia con le giudecche, i quartieri aperti dove gli ebrei si mescolavano ai cristiani, senza limitazioni, per arrivare ai ghetti, ovvero i quartieri chiusi da mura e portoni in cui gli ebrei vissero la loro separatezza fino ai tempi moderni.