Stunning flower gardens that bloom through the seasons depend on the artful combination of annuals, perennials, and bulbs. This book shows you how to grow these plants and gives foolproof design techniques for any garden.
Practical techniques are emphasized too. Learn how to care for the soil, start plants from seeds, grow and care for plants in containers, and maintain your plants and gardens.

IAC International Architecture Competition is issued to provide more substantial information to people by means of a database of various designs made public recently in prestigious contests held in and out of Korea. The IAC will be followed by collections of design works segmented into various thems such as apartments, dormitories, museums, arts exhibition facilities, office buildings, hospitals and public facility buildings.

To commemorate the APEC Year 2006 in Vietnam, the Ministry of Culture & Information in collaboration with the Sub-Committee for Communication & Culture & the Secretariat of the Vietnam National Committee on APEC 2006 has launched a poster contest nation-wide.

It is not that we pursue technology itself as our aim. Basically, technology is a mean to express the concept of a project. In addition, it is a vehicle showing the capabilities of human beings who lived in a certain age. Therefore, it is safe to say that technology within architecture is an element that represents artistic background of the times.

Together, vectors, envelopes, programs, and contexts are the basic terms of the architectural equation - a simple proposition that centuries of art and architectural history somehow have obscured. Materials, of course, are another important factor: architecture is the materialization of ideas or concepts.

I focus on, that is, the process. To rephrase it, it signifies transforming one place into another with a number of elements and whether one has reached the level of intending to create a place that brings up emotions through specific means. This kind of work is conceptual and is an act to transform and create a place as well as to search for the operation of transformation.

Finding suitable and acceptable answers and solutions to the problems of designing the environment requires being ready for dialogue and adapting ones standpoint to changing conditions. The decision as to what will be built and how, affects society with its complex political and economic mechanisms.

It is Seok Chul Kim's vocation to look at the world from above and invent the shapes of his cities from above.
His vision is as big as that of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, with the same desire to structure the territory with large urban signs that are extremely recognizable.

Published on the occasion of TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition. Abridged version for new low price, this book introduces the most influential architects and architectural firms and the definitive reference guide to contemporary architectural design.

The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. With the aid of sophisticated computer programs, today's most innovative architects are working on designs so conceptual they could not be realized in the physical world. Nevertheless, these sorts of forward-thinking projects are an important influence on the architectural climate.

The ultimate architectural reference work (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here.

From one of the youngest authors to join the ranks of bestselling authors, comes his fourth novel. It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, and airforce installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a special visitor: the President of the United States.

The sixth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland -- a top-secret USAF weapons research centre -- from the acclaimed author of Flight of the Old Dog and Air Battle Force. Whilst relaxing on the beach in Brunei as guests of the Sultan, Dreamland's Breanna and Zen are shot at, and forced to take cover in the water by unknown assailants.

From the 1960s to the millennium, Art and Feminism traces the changing art practices, art historical debates, manifestos, challenges, rediscoveries and reawakenings that characterize the dynamic, continuing dialogue between feminism and contemporary art. Feminism has had a crucial impact on late twentieth-century art, inspiring some of the most pioneering developments in sculpture, painting, performance, photography, film and installation.

The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum and their dedication to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage.

We are overwhelmed with the response received by our book “Art of Effective English Writing for ICSE”, since its first edition in 2002. However there was need to thoroughly revise it, so as to  conform to the lastest syllabus of ICSE in and after 2008.

This book is the definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present. Although the modern movement - unchallenged for the last six decades - has lost its dominance, it has been replaced by no single new orthodoxy.

The book is composed of a total of 12 preliminary researches of ASEAN & China's scholars covering the initiative titled " One Axis Two Wings ", or in other words " 3-M Strategy " (Marine - Mainland - Mekong sub-region economic cooperation) that proposed by China. 

“The book is composed of 11 research papers contributed by Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore & China's scholars to bring some thoughts to strengthen the ASEAN - China cooperation as well as to make the ASEAN - China relations stable, sustainable & essential.” (From Preface of the book)
Contents: 1 - A summary of economic & trade cooperation for 15 years between China & ASEAN. By Xu Ningning.

Asia's Legendary Hotels features some of Asia's most significant hotels, renowned for their rich histories and superb levels of service and luxury. From the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, to the Ananda in Himalayas, these grand dames capture the romance of travel of days gone by,