Extreme architecture / Ruth Slavid.

Includes index.

Hot : Cape Schanck House, Victoria, Australia / Paul Morgan Architects ; House RR, Itamambuca, São Paulo, Brazil / Andrade Morettin Arquitetos ; Casa Segura, Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Robert Ransick ; Magma Arts and Congress Centre, Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain / Artengo Menis Pastrana ; Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada / Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects + Urbanistes ; Engbarth Residence, Scottsdale, Arizona / Jeffrey H. Page RA ; Sacred Sands Strawbale B & B, Joshua Trees, California / Janet Armstrong Johnston ; Walmajarri Community Centre, Djugerari, Western Australia / iredale pedersen hook ; School buildings, Gando and Dano, Burkina Faso / Diébédo Francis Kéré ; Central market, Koudougou, Burkina Faso / Laurent Séchaud --
Cold : Delta shelter, Mazama, Washington / Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects ; Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science, Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan / Takaharu + Yui Tezuka ; Remota Hotel, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile / Germán del Sol ; Svalbard Science Centre, Longyearbyen, Norway / Jamund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL ; Svalbard global seed vault, Spitsbergen, Norway / Peter W. Sødermann/Barlindhaug Consult AS ; Ice hotels and bars: Jukkasjävi, Sweden; Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Canada; London, UK; Stockholm, Sweden / various architects ; Snow show, Sestriere, Italy / curator: Lance Fung, various artists and architects ; Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, Antarctica / Hugh Broughton Architects ; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole, Antarctica / Ferraro Choi and Associates. High : Aurland lookout, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway / Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen ; Prekestolhytta, Stavanger, Norway / Arkitektfirma Helen & Hard ; Mountain lodge, Hemsedal, Norway / div. A arkitekter AS ; SnowCrystals / Architecture and Vision ; Nordpark Cable Railway, Innsbruck, Austria / Zaha Hadid Architects ; Carmenna Chairlift Stations, Arosa, Switzerland / Bearth & Deplazes Architekten ; Galzigbahn, St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria / driendl*architects ; Ski jump and judges' tower, Vogtland Arena, Klingenthal, Germany / m2r-architecture ; SkiBox and Chalet C7, Portillo, Chile / dRN Arquitetos ; Tschuggen Bergoase Spa, Arosa, Switzerland / Mario Botta Architetto ; Olympic ski jump, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany / terrain: loenhart & mayr BDA architects and landscape architects ; Manned cloud / Jean-Marie Massaud, Studio Massaud --
Wet : La maison flottante, Paris, France / Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, designers ; Floating sauna, Stockholm, Sweden / Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor, Ari Leinonen ; Yacumama lodge, Yarapa River, Peru / Travis Price ; Floating housing, Maasbommel, The Netherlands / Factor Architecten bv ; Floating cruise terminal, Dubai, United Arab Emirates / Waterstudio, NL ; Digital water pavilion, Zaragoza, Spain / carlorattiassociates ; Poseidon Underwater Hotel, Fiji / Poseidon Undersea Resorts ; SeaOrbiter / Jacques Rougerie Architecte --
Space : Concordia Station, Antarctica / SERVEX ; Spaceport America, New Mexico / Foster + Partners ; Galactic Suite, Caribbean/Space / Equip. Xavier Claramunt ; MoonBaseTwo, Architecture and Vision ; Lunar hotel, Hans-Jurgen Rombaut-Lunar Architecture, Wonka ; MarsCruiserOne / Architecture and Vision.

Extreme Architecture showcases 45 recent buildings designed for challenging environments, giving valuable insights into the extremes of architectural thinking. Futhermore, in an increasingly unstable world, some of the lessons they teach about self-sufficiency may yet become more generally applicable." "Projects range from a desert refuge in southern Arizona to a floating marine research centre, an underground seed vault in northern Norway and a research station at the South Pole." "Each case study begins with a clearly presented table listing the altitude, annual rainfall and average temperatures of the site. Photographs show the project in its environment, as well as drawings, site plans and computer renderings where appropriate."--Jacket.