150 Best Apartment Ideas: Innovative Design Solutions and Current Trends in Contemporary Residential Architecture Worldwide

by Ana G. Cañizares

New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in apartment design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.

Genres: Design

608 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

Ana Cristina G. Canizares.

Reviews

[Sassy Katt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Almost every picture was ultra modern and sparsely furnished. Not my flavor at all.

[Amy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, first of all, these are not apartments -- these are condos. I've never had a landlord who would let me take out a wall or install a bed into the floor that raises at a flick of a switch. And who has a 6,000 square foot apartment? I sure don't. And every single picture is so sterile -- where are the coffee makers? The yarn stashes? The library books? The pile of receipts? WHO HAS A FULL-WALL BOOKCASE WITH ONLY FIVE BOOKS ON IT? I mean, I appreciate the tenants of minimalism, but this is ridiculous!

Only inspiration I got from this book was to throw out everything I own except for a vase and a chair. Sorry -- I can't live that way.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book does have amazing apartments, but it's for those who own or have thousands of dollars. Almost every apartment dweller had walls taken down, etc. Some of the apartments were pretty and some just too white or gray.