Detached Commercial Architecture

The book focuses on the planning and design of commercial architecture
that belongs to one brand. Nowadays companies tend to build single
buildings for their own brands to highlight their brand value and
characters. The book includes more than 20 amazing projects from different
countries with various styles. These projects interpret basic architectural
vocabulary of detached commercial buildings and demonstrate design
principles comprehensively. Each project has its unique characteristics:
some use unique forms and skillful colour combination to give unique
features to the buildings, some emphasise integration with environment,
some place the buildings in historical and cultural inheritance, some use
new materials and reasonable texture to reinforce the expression, some
focus on the use functions, some conform to contemporary requirements of
low carbon and energy saving...The content is divided into four parts:
architecture with shopping environment, architectural forms and materials,
color, and eco-architecture. The projects are presented in combination with
design guidelines, depicting the international status of detached
commercial architecture now.