LIVRO USADO - New Frontiers in Architecture - The United Arab Emirates Between Vision and Reality

- Idioma: INGLÊS

- Tipo de Capa: CAPA DURA

- Número de Páginas: 304

- Ano de Edição: 2010

- Número de Edição: 1º

- Dimensões: 36.5 x 26.5 x 2.8cm;

- ISBN: 9788854405509

ATENÇÃO: Foto meramente ilustrativa

An unbridled construction boom is transforming the desert landscape of the major oil-producing countries of the Persian Gulf into a vast metropolitan area at exponential speed. The rush for luxury and superlatives fuels a vibrant real estate market where developers and large commercial corporations build the most visionary and futuristic architecture. The record-breaking heights of buildings are accompanied by the spectacularity of rotating skyscrapers, the almost dreamlike imagination of new forms, and plans for the construction of enormous artificial islands that alter entire stretches of coastline, in a general challenge to the climate and the environment. In an economic context where anything is possible and can become real, this book offers an inevitably snapshot of growth astonishing in its speed of implementation. The designers involved belong to some of the largest international firms, which have opened new offices here, and the entire architectural star system is called upon to lend a cultural imprint and express a new idea of the city.