Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition
by Walter A. Rutes
from W. W. Norton & Company
A new edition of the "bible" for design, planning, and development in the hospitality industry. As its predecessor has done for the last fifteen years, this book will serve as the "go-to" guide for architects, planners, and developers involved in hotel projects. It offers an overview of the industry; in-depth analysis of emerging trends; the latest how-to; and essential design, planning, and development criteria. 250 illustrations. The previous edition was published under the title Hotel Planning and Design.
Restaurants That Work: Case Studies of the Best in the Industry
by Martin E. Dorf
from Watson-Guptill
A complete rundown on how successful restaurateurs, teaming up with architects and designers, ply their craft. Martin E. Dorf presents 18 in-depth case studies of such successful restaurants as Scoozi, Union Square Cafe, and Chinois, along with personal interviews with their owners, chefs, architects, designers, kitchen planners, and consultants. 168 illustrations.
Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister, The
by Chris Nichols
from Gibbs Smith, Publisher
The work of late commercial architect Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California today. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of the Rat Pack; the mythology of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. owes a great deal to the swank glamour of the Copa Room and the Sands Hotel, one of McAllister's finest.
Hotels and Resorts: Planning and Design (Butterworth Architecture Design and Development Guides)
by Fred Lawson
from Architectural Press
This book provides a complete guide to the development of hotels and resorts, covering all aspects of planning, market analysis, interior design and the installation of technical services.
Fred Lawson's text is concise and the information easy to access. He examines the distinctive characteristics of different hotel types, identified by market and location, and specifies the special requirements of each type. Recognising the need for continuous maintenance and life-cycle refurbishment, a full chapter is devoted to these subjects and the business aspects of the hotel operation are considered. Throughout the book are numerous illustrations of projects showing outstanding examples of hotels and village resorts as well as current trends in design and development. Fred Lawson is well known as an hotel consultant and is now Visiting Professor at the University of Bournemouth. He has a number of successful books to his credit. As a leading international consultant he has been involved in major hotel and tourism projects in 35 countries including assignments for the World Bank, EC, UNDP and the World Tourism Organisation. The hotels featured include: Bali Hilton International, Oberoi Hotel - Bombay, Hotel Nikko - Australia, Guildford YMCA - UK, Meridien Hotel - Cairo, Turtel Sorgun Resort Village - Turkey.
* Covers all aspects of planning and design, including marketing and investment appraisal
* Logical framework and comprehensive coverage promotes handy reference use
* Numerous examples provide practical help in application of principles
Designing the World's Best Bars
by Martin M. Pegler
from Visual Reference Publications
Designing the World's Best Bars The saloon and the pub have evolved from very humble beginnings into drinking establishments catering to customers from all walks of life. The younger generation with disposable income frequent bars not only to drink; they come to be entertained, to converse, to see and be seen. In Designing the WorldÂ’s Best Bars you will visit over 100 bars: some freestanding, others in nightclubs, hotels and restaurants. The featured architects/designers showcase some of their finest accomplishments. You will marvel at their creative inspiration and design skill, and their ability to turn spaces into venues that each reflect their own individual identities. This title is lavishly illustrated with over 250 full-color photos illustrating the designerÂ’s creative use of lighting, atmospheric decor, fixturing, high-tech visual effects and unique floor treatments. Martin M. Pegler provides expert commentary on each project. Designing the WorldÂ’s Best Bars is an invaluable sourcebook for interior designers and architects working in the burgeoning bar industry. 176 pages - 8 1/2" x 11" - 250 color photos / hardbound
Design Hotels Yearbook 2007
by Design Hotels
from Dgv
The much anticipated 2007 edition of the design hotels Yearbook will be released in early December 2006. It showcases all 146 design hotels, including 14 new hotels. For the first time it also provides an insight into the design process through interviews with such notable architects and designers as Marcel Wanders, Ron Arad and David Rockwell.
This elegant and substantial hardcover gives an indepth overview of each of the 146 member hotels through striking photography, architectural and design information as well as practical guest information. With individual entries up to 10 pages long the book weighs in with almost 600 pages and is bound with a premium faux leather to hint at the luxury contained within.
The publication, with a limited print run, is both a yearbook of members hotels as well as a design hotels' platform for communicating their vision and philosophy. This third annual edition is devoted to further exploring the role of authenticity in hotel design and establishes the yearbook as a collector's item on contemporary design and inspired travel.
Asian Style Hotels: Bali, Java, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
by Kim Inglis
from Periplus Editions
Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed-Use Facilities (Building Type Basics)
by The Jerde Partnership
from Wiley
Provides the nuts-and-bolts material to begin designing a retail or mixed-use facility.
* Features project photographs, diagrams and floor plans, and sections and details.
* Provides need-to-know information on such essential topics as consensus-based decision making, site selection, renovation, code compliance, and more.
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American Diner Then and Now
by Richard J. S. Gutman
from The Johns Hopkins University Press
From the first diner in 1872 to the "rediscovery" of diners in the 1990s, Richard J. S. Gutman's American Diner Then and Now covers the history, architecture, menus, and the appeal of this uniquely American creation. With 275 photographs in color and black and white, this book is the landmark work on its subject, a revised and expanded edition of Gutman's classic American Diner -- the book, published in 1979, that inspired people to buy, restore, and reopen diners across the country. This edition includes a state-by-state directory, "Where the Diners Are," listing locations for currently operating diners.
Best Designed Wellness Hotels: North And South America, Carribean, Mexico / Nord - Und sudamerika, Karibik, Mexiko (Best Designed)
by Martin Nicholas Kunz
from Avedition
This updated volume of the successful "best designed wellness hotels" series seduces the reader into a world of looking at beautiful details, and the harmony between colours and shapes, whether it be in the centre of pulsating large cities, on the Caribbean Islands, in the winelands of California, the Moyave Coast, in the forests of North America, in the jungle, the Mexican outbacks or at the end of the world in Patagonia. The author has selected new fascinating addresses which, not only offer an attractive spectrum of wellness activities, but also the finest architecture and design.
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