One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the London aNd Guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of notable architecture and interior design created in this most vibrant city during the last fifteen years. Sixty buildings, including City Hall, the Tate Modern, and the Millenium Bridge, as well as the interiors of the newest hotels, restaurants and showrooms are profiled and Illustrated with color photographs.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has once more taken its place on the world stage. Visitors flock there from around the world. With this influx has come an infusion of creativity and international influences. This new vibrance exists side-by-side with Prague’s many-layered architectural and culinary history. Feast your eyes on photographs of Prague’s hippest restaurants, and also enjoy a great selection of unique recipes.
Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its also technically unique facade is just one example of these buildings. Palm Project or Hydropolis, both visionary, artificially created islands belong to the same category. As does the construction of the world's highest apartment tower. Dubai presents a kind of preview of the ultramodern - a trend that is also reflected in the design of various restaurants, hotels and label stores. Representing the most important gate to the Middle East, this city is primarily one thoroghly international and with incredible power on its way to a new future. This is the theme of this book, with chosen objects and crucial information concerning them.
