The book is a selection of outstanding hotel proposals around the world in recent years. It introduces the modern hotel design ideas that would be trends in the future. Also, many new and advanced solutions and strategies of hotel design are involved. Generally, this is a collection of the designers’ vision for best future hotels. The book will bring new ideas and inspirations to designers to create more relaxing and comfortable hotel spaces.

Museums are the mental park of cities. In the long period of social development they have been assembled with multi-functions and become an indispensable part of a city. Then as the complex of culture，how do they perfectly combine the architectural design and cultural contents together? In this book are selected 45 excellent projects of museum display all over the world. The book comprehensively introduces every key point of museum display design to the readers, including space division, internal structure, the use of materials, decorative elements and etc. We believe it would serve as a practical reference for the readers and provide them some brand new design inspirations.

Museums are the mark of civilisation on a city. Whether repositories of the past or tools for communicating about the world around us, they play a vital part in cultural life, reaching out both to the local inhabitants and to visitors from around the world. Both showing and on show, presenting and representing, museums leave a lasting impression of a major city and can forge the reputation of lesser-known localities, literally putting them on the tourist map. As such, they are also architectural and urban symbols whose influence extends far beyond that of the collections they house, making the architect’s role a primary one.

France’s rich and varied museum offering ranges from establishments dating back to the late 17th century to ground-breaking structures still under construction. Some have transformed a prestigious historic edifice, while others have risen up as a brand new architectural creation on land reclaimed from the city. Designing a museum involves not only conceiving the best way to reveal their collections, but also how to welcome and serve visitors, and how to incorporate the spaces needed for the behind-the-scenes work of curating, restoring, cataloguing and storing. The architects embarking on such a project must carry out in-depth studies and find innovative solutions, whether their mission is to inject new life into a historic museum, to integrate a modern museography, to combine and harmonise an old building with a contemporary space, or to create from scratch a museum that will be acclaimed by critics and the public alike.

French Museum Architecture explores these different problematics through forty museum projects, ranging from the Orsay and Quai Branly museums in Paris, to the Lille Museum of Modern Art (LaM) and the Confluences Museum in Lyon, to name but a few. Each project is presented with the emphasis on the thought process behind the creation, exposing the main questions the architects had to address in order to come up with spaces that are efficient, intelligent, welcoming and dynamic, able to fulfil the expectations of a public ranging from academic researchers to the merely curious, and everyone in between.

In the book, the AIA recognizes three years worth of award recipients across four categories: architecture, interior architecture, regional and urban design, and its esteemed Twenty-five Year Award. On one hand, these projects from 2010, 2011, and 2012 constitute a snapshot of architectural production – a moment in time and a record of “excellence” in that moment. On the other hand, it is a snapshot that speaks more broadly about evolving design trends – what has come before, in the first decade of the 21st century, and what we might expect more of in the following decade.

With the process of the society’s modernisation, the modern design of banks has become an important method to promote the overall image of banks and has played a significant role in the improvement of banks’ professional skills and economic efficiency.Taking typical bank architecture and interior design cases as standpoint, this book inspire the readers with bank architectural forms and interior space creations.

This book is divided into three parts: Building shape, Public space, and VIP space. Architecture projects have magnificent presentations in form shaping, façade management, and detailing, etc. Interior projects get rid of obsolete design, and replace it fresh modern styles. Various design elements are flexibly unified, highlighting individualities of modern banks.