Urban Apartment Blocks

Various prestigious architects present their most recent creations for apartments buildings, from th emost innovative and avant-garde proposals, to those that attempt to create spaces whose personalities adapt to their contents. Convential vertical dwellings, building s for specific groups and residential complexes share a common spirit: rigour, imagination and respect for both person who will occupy them and the environment in which they are located. The works of Christian de Portzamparc, Herzon and de Meuron, Ten Arquitectos, Philippe Gazeau to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, ingenious solutions, enexpected points of view and proposals taht will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture.