A Multidisciplinary building is generally used by the general public, and one that includes large multi-purpose spaces. Each activity area leads into a hall, which acts as a common link between them, thus creating a dynamic area where information, relations, leisure and culture are intermingled and mutually enhanced. Some multidisciplinary buildings are cultural centres which include an auditorium, a theatre, rehearsal area, events room...others are sports facilities which contain different pitches and courts, for basketball, indoor football, etc. combined with educational areas such as libraries, and areas set aside for workshops.

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Pages: 144

Dimensions: 180 x 230 mm

Publication Date: 23-12-2015

Designing a small home requires optimizing the space we have at our disposition as well as the creation of the most comfortable possible distribution. In this book we put together a selection of apartments and houses ranging from 150 ft2 to 538 ft2.

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Pages: 144

Dimensions: 180 x 230 mm

Publication Date: 21-09-2015

The construction with pallets has extended. It's a popular material, applied in furniture, interior design, temporary installations and emergency housing solutions. It's an easy element to obtain anywhere, easy to handle and transform, expressive and aesthetic. Looking for examples to support us for its construction, we have contacted a lot of architects and designers from over the world that have made projects and constructions with pallets. All that information and our own experience has been compiled in this book. The collected material has been analyzed and completed with renders and construction details, with the purpose that any person can be able to understand and execute them.

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Pages: 192

Dimensions: 18 x 23 mm

Publication Date: 12-10-2015

Needle Work: Stitched Illustrations is a lavishly illustrated volume that explores the growing trend in textile-based art and illustration. The works of each featured artist are showcased with full-page illustrations, alongside a brief biography that examines their work, inspiration, and artistic vision.

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Pages: 192

Dimensions: 180 x 230 x 19 mm

Publication Date: 21-05-2015

This lavishly illustrated volume showcases lettering and typographic work from some of the world's most exciting, innovative and talented designers. As well as featuring full-page examples of their best work, Lettering also includes a brief introduction to each artist/designer which explores their techniques and inspirations.

Pages: 192

Dimensions: 184 x 236 mm

Logos form an essential part of brand identity - the allow people to quickly and easily identify and connect with a brand, its products and service. But logos need to be more than just eye-catching, they also need to complement the values and ideals of the company/brand they represent. This volume brings together designers and design firms from around the world, and showcases how they have overcome the challenges of logo design to create truly outstanding works that speak to both consumers and business.

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Pages: 144

Dimensions: 180 x 230 x 20 mm

Publication Date: 21-05-2015

This book explores basic building materials can be used in exciting and creating ways. This richly illustrated volume provides architects and designer with a superb source of inspiration and ideas. Exploring a wide variety of projects from around the world - from the Isle of Skye to Tokyo, it showcases how the five basic building materials - wood, stone, concrete, metal, glass - can be used in novel and exciting ways to create buildings that are not only stylish, but practical, and environmentally friendly.

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Pages: 112

Dimensions: 220 x 240 x 12 mm

The spaces children occupy in the home are not only play areas, but rather something much more complex, they are their kingdoms. It is where the major part of their leisure, rest and study time is spent. From there, is the importance of instilling in them at a very young age to appreciate the value of sustainable products. Our objective that we propose in this book, Eco Kids Design, is to claim the childhood as a life stage, games and lots of happiness, because it's important to make he design arousing their creative side enjoyable. All of the products shown in the book are geared and manufactured with ecological friendly materials that do not harm the environment and perfectly adapt to the needs of the little ones at home.

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Pages: 189

Dimensions: 198 x 198 mm

Over six to seven hundred years, Maori burned about one third of New Zealand’s ground cover. In the following 70 years, and at a devastating rate, European settlers burned about another third as they cleared and ‘improved’ the land. All too frequently, burn-offs became uncontrollable conflagrations that swept through thousands of hectares, destroying cattle, fences, homes and livelihoods, and burning mills and much-needed timber. Townsfolk, blanketed in dense, acrid smoke needed lights at midday; ships, unable to pick up landmarks, sat marooned in harbour – yet the burning, as in other frontier societies, remained unabated and largely unquestioned. It is against that background that Helen Beaglehole sets the fascinating and previously unexplored history of how settlers’ random and careless burning led, in 1921, to legislation that still underpins New Zealand’s official policy on wildfire. She explores the huge public education campaign that sought to convince all sectors of the public that mindless burning had to be restrained, and traces how increasingly sophisticated fire-fighting technologies, coupled with developing knowledge of weather and fire behaviour, were used to prevent, contain and extinguish fire. Finally she looks at the early Forest Service employees who in effect became the nation’s first rural firefighters, their skills honed in the vast controlled burns of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, and describes the regime established after the Service’s demise and the issues faced today. As with Helen Beaglehole’s two books on New Zealand’s lighthouses and lighthouse keeping, Fire in the Hills is grounded in detailed and extensive research. Information from historical records is incorporated with material from interviews with past and present rural firefighters and administrators, bringing vividly to light the times, the people and the problems they faced. Some 200 photographs further broaden our historical understanding.

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Pages: 324

Publication Date: 01-07-2012

Barry Cleavin has played a significant role within the New Zealand arts scene since the 1960s. In his prints he maintains a consistently individual approach, with a style that is immediately recognisable yet ranges from lightly humorous parody through to caustic social comment. In Cleavin's world nothing is what it seems: Lateral Inversions invites viewers to explore other ways of seeing and understanding, prompting a wider consideration of our fragile and often absurd existence.
Lavishly illustrated with over 120 colour plates, Lateral Inversions draws from Cleavin's vast output to present a major representative survey of his prints and drawings from 1966 through until 2012. Over more than five decades Cleavin has developed thematic groupings, created visual echoes and provided contemporary twists on age-old traditions. Selected works are presented within the context of Cleavin's wider oeuvre, but they are also placed within their social and historical background, demonstrating the range of Cleavin's talent and providing significant new insights into his work and thematic concerns.

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Pages: 288

Dimensions: 170 x 230 mm

Publication Date: 18-11-2013