Public Buildings

An architect's illustrated guide to the latest developments and designs for state-of-the-art swimming pools, garden pools and other flat surface water features.

Todays swimming pools and spas are fully integrated into the landscape as the focal point for social and family recreation, entertainment, and relaxation. They come in myriad shapes and sizes and are enhanced with features like infinity edges and boulder waterfalls. Whether you own a pool or spa or just dream of it, you will benefit from the ideas in this book.

A practical and inspirational design guide, this book draws on Naomi Cleaver's own experience as a designer. Featuring detailed and highly illustrated case studies across co-living and co-working typologies, it takes in new builds and conversions of various sizes that have been implemented internationally.

An insight into university accommodation, featuring projects in the USA and Europe.

A sumptuous celebration of London's internationally famous Barbican Arts Centre for the 40th anniversary of its opening in 1982.

The first substantial building monograph on Sigurd Lewerentz's masterpiece of modern religious architecture, St. Mark's church in Bjorkhagen, Stockholm, lavishly illustrated with new photographs and newly drawn plans.

A stunning array of rustic and charming treehouses from around the world for inspiration and for those who fantasize about getting away from it all.

How the various, often contradictory, images of the Tokaido Shinkansen prompted a reimagination of identity on the levels of individual, metropolis, and nation in a changing Japan.