New "Design" has undeveloped masterpieces of the 21st century (Hardcover)

Offers a fascinating insight into an architectural firm ambitions and design process and a treasure trove of design ideas.

What happens to the projects that are created for international competitions if they don't win? The grand plans for the hundreds of thousands of dollars or euros in research and development, but the never built will be issued? Or the proposals for speculative builders, to find that at the end of the money? Or the buildings, which are on behalf of Governments also visionary be built? A single image in journals might appear, but most of the plans will disappear, never to be seen.

This book undeveloped projects has over one hundred of the best Diller Scofidio proposed, since the turn of the Millennium by some of the world's greatest contemporary architects, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Foreign Office architects, + Renfro and Zaha Hadid, as well as the rising like Jürgen Mayer h. architects and Asymptote star.

Organized in sections by function - entertainment spaces, museums, urban plans, education, live - the projects are in detail through texts, look at the importance of design and assess why they weren't built with illustrations and plans presented. Many of the more than 600 illustrations were not seen outside of the practices themselves. 747 Color, 153 b & w illustrations

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