This book presents innovative examples of hidden architecture: buildings that are designed to disappear into their surroundings or hide in plain sight. In the city, hidden buildings are often designed to provide the occupants with privacy and protection from the busy world outside or they can be incorporated into the streetscape to free up space for public use. In the countryside, buildings should not spoil a scenic landscape, so they can be designed to become a part of it. Buildings can be buried underground, hidden amongst trees, covered with greenery or even sunk into the sea. They can be clad in mirrors to reflect their surroundings, disappear beneath an urban plaza or be hidden from view on top of another building. Each of these imaginative solutions offers a way for architecture to blend in rather than stand out. Hidden Architecture tells the stories of projects from around the world that are cleverly disguised but still beautifully detailed and outstanding in their execution
Pendant longtemps, les métallurgistes, forgerons et fondeurs africains n'ont pas été considérés comme de véritables artistes.
À tort. Ce catalogue est le fruit d'une collaboration de la collectionneuse Christine Waelbroeck-van Gaver avec l'auteur Peter de Groote, qui veut remettre en valeur la métallurgie de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
Il présente en photo 264 objets en cuivre, en fer ou en étain, dont plusieurs sont parmi les plus hautement artistiques ou extrêmement rares.
Jurist Flip de Mey analyseerde jarenlang het dossier van de moord op de Amerikaanse president John F. Kennedy. In zijn bestseller Cold Case Kennedy kwam hij op basis van alle originele documenten tot een verrassende en baanbrekende theorie. In de langverwachte opvolger De Lee Harvey Oswald Files gaat De Mey na welke rol Oswald precies speelde. Hij doet dat met dezelfde nauwgezetheid waarmee hij eerder aantoonde dat Kennedy het slachtoffer werd van een complot. Hij dook opnieuw in de dossiers, sprak met twee goede vrienden van Oswald en wist de hand te leggen op uniek fotomateriaal van Oswalds geweer. De conclusie is voor De Mey ondubbelzinnig: Oswald was niet de dader van de moord op Kennedy. Wie is dan wel verantwoordelijk? En vooral, waarom moest JFK vermoord worden? Flip de Mey geeft een even haarscherp als stevig onderbouwd antwoord. Flip de Mey levert opnieuw een waardevolle bijdrage tot de literatuur over de beroemdste moord van de 20ste eeuw.
Alone every Tuesday with his newborn daughter, Kenny Deuss fielded frequent requests from his partner, Tineke, for photos of the baby when she was away from home. His series of hilariously Photoshopped images of the baby in mock perilous situations began with teasing photographs that showed just how "safe" the baby was. Currently, people from all over the world follow Kenny's adventures with his (now 2) daughters Alix and Aster through his Instagram account "On Adventure with Dad." In this book he bundles his best photos, supplemented with a large number of never-before-seen images. He also includes 'tips' for dads and dads-to-be with a large dose of his typical dry humour.
Whisky is a story. Whisky is many stories. This book brings together the most surprising anecdotes from the world of whisky and is therefore the perfect addition to other books on distilling, tasting and travelling. Enjoy heart-warming tales about secret recipes, haunted castles, hidden distilleries, generous drunks and the first whisky tourist, and discover aspects about whisky that you'll never find in any other book. For almost 40 years, whisky enthusiast Fernand Dacquin has been travelling through this wonderful world of whisky, in search of the most striking stories and images. Now he turns those experiences into 111 stories, in his own tongue-in-cheek style. The result is a wonderfully unusual book, published in a practical format that leaves one hand free for a good glass of whisky.