描述
More and more excellent public construction meet the demand of our ever-changing society, at the same time, they reflects the progress of our cities. Comfort, pleasure, convenience, cultural connotation, recognition and curiosity are essential for architectural design. To some excellent, ‘Public Construction’ exactly show us some amazing building. In this book, those projects have been carefully chosen with a rigorous selection process. In spite of differences in type, location, culture, style and historical connotation, each project has achieved its own purpose of showing meaning and practical applicability. I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. I. M. Pei, from his acceptance speech for the 1983 Pritzker Architecture Award. This book exactly expresses architecture’s practical applicability. Moreover, this book presents both the exterior and the interior of those building. Besides, we also expect that people could make a discovery of connections among architecture, city, culture and life among these diversified projects.With stunning full-color interior and exterior images, detailed plans and description, this book is going to appeal to general readers and the would-be architects
