Jennifer Hudson

Otto Riewoldt

Presenting 50 of the best examples of recent hotel architecture and interiors, this work incorporates a diversity of style and form in designer hotels, luxury hotels, resorts, themed hotels and the stylish mainstream of international business hotels.

Hotel Design

E-commerce has thrust the retail world into a tailspin. With more and more products being purchased online, retail spaces are being forced to reevaluate their raison d'etre, especially to the young, affluent consumers who are searching worldwide for products they can't get locally. Retail Design offers an intriguing look at number of outstanding retail spaces that not only face these challenges with ingenuity and imagination, but provide customers with a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. Highlighted here are forty-five different solutions offered by some of today's most sought-after architects and designers from all over the world. Names well-known to the marketplace -- Nike, Tower Records, Swatch, Jil Sander, Armani, Hermes, Comme de Garcons, Sony, Daimler/Chrysler, and Bloomingdales -- are attached to wondrously conceived boutiques and stores in cities ranging from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to London, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Bangkok. Each full-color spread illustrates how the use of space, interior design, color, lighting, and materials all serve to create environments that engage and attract the buyer. The accompanying text explains how the various types of retail environments -- from corporate flagship stores and elite boutiques to mega-malls and department stores -- have been reinvented to bring consumer and product together in a multi-faceted, supremely physical shopping experience that no computer could ever match.

Retail Design

Intelligent Spaces looks at how the information age will affect architecture and interior design. The author looks at over fifty projects by leading architects, including designs for television studios, publishing houses, media libraries and cyber cafés.

Architecture for the Information Age

Intelligent Spaces

In recent years there has been a remarkable evolution in the design of hotels, with mainstream hotel chains rejecting characterless functionalism in favour of style-led individualism. This book gathers together over 40 of the best examples of hotel architecture and interiors from around the world, illustrating the impressive diversity of styles and forms. Identifying the latest industry trends, Riewoldt makes plain how both chains and independents have adopted individual design strategies to enhance their brand image in an increasingly global marketplace. It featuers the work of Michael Graves, Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck amongst other big names.

Otto Riewoldt

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