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• Austria, Switzerland host Euro 2008 soccer games
With Vienna's lavish architecture and elegant tree-lined boulevards, sometimes it seems like the Austro-Hungarian Empire never ended. Cruise the Danube on a tour boat, or trot around the city in a horse-drawn carriage.
• Disney aims for new heights with Everest attraction
The village includes a tourism booking office, Tashi's General Store and Bar, and an old warehouse refashioned as a yeti museum - all built with taut attention to the architecture and feel of a real east Asian mountain town. "Every detail is intended ...
• South Beach: Life imitates art, quite vicely
Those "little buildings" comprised the world's largest collection of Art Deco architecture, and in 1979, the area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The recognition ensured that the buildings -- with their curved edges and ...
• GM buying Chrysler? Don’t count on it
A more plausible scenario for is the prospect of Chrysler and GM building deeper ties by sharing vehicle technologies and architecture, including common components, to reduce costs, analysts say. “I don’t doubt that these two companies are talking ...
• Fabulous far-flung cruises
There’s Dubai, where almost anything goes, as long as it makes money and impresses, while next door, in the Sultanate of Oman, traditional Arab customs, dress and architecture reign, yet with none of the rigidity of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain, Abu Dhabi ...

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» AIA Bookstore - Bookstore is owned and operated by the American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter.
» Architectural Building Manuals - Online ordering for "Building Geodesic Domes" and "Building A-Frame Homes" by David C. Martin III
» Architecture of the Indian Sub-Continent - This book by Takeo Kamiya deals with the monuments of the Indian subcontinent. A large sample of the book is available online; the printed book can be ordered online.
» Architext - The online bookshop of The Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Searchable catalogue and details of stores in Melbourne and Sydney.
» Boulder House Publishers - Sunnie Empie's book 'Minding A Sacred Place' about Boulder House, designed by Charles F. Johnson.
» Communication and Design with the Internet - Jonathan Cohen explains the concepts and describes the vision and skills architects and designers need to implement an Internet strategy.
» NAi Booksellers - Dutch bookstore specialising in architecture, landscape architecture and town planning.
» The Not So Big House - Site for everything about architect Sarah Susanka, author and leading proponent of better residential design.
» Pevsner Architectural Guides - Series describing historic buildings of all types for each county in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales; order online.
» Prairie Avenue Bookshop - Chicago bookshop features books on architecture, design, technology and related fields. Online catalog and ordering.
» The Science and Technology of Traditional and Modern Roofing Systems - Dr. Heshmat O. Laaly's two volume book set (also e-book and CD-ROM) on roofing from basic materials to the finished roof.
» Tuns Press - Books on Canadian architecture and planning.
» Victorian House - Reprints of houseplan books from the 1830s to the 1930s, plus free samples of vintage house designs and floor plans.
» William Stout Architectural Books - San Francisco store specializing in new and antiquarian books on architecture, design, landscaping, and urban planning.
» The World Art Group - Archaeology, architecture and art books from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Iran and Turkey.