The public architectures included in this book are mainly government funded public constructions, including municipal buildings, public recreational facilities, urban transportation facilities, educational, scientific and cultural institutions. Along with the deepening development of society and the economy there is an increasing demand for quality in peoples living environments. There?s been unprecedented prosperity in the field of public architectural design in recent years. The quantity, scale and construction speed of the projects is astonishing. Rationalization of the public building design is the common goal of the designers, while offering quality services to the designers is our goal. The materials were culled from the newest and most outstanding works of the United States, Spain, South Korea, Canada, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Japan, Slovakia, Turkey, Austria and many other countries.

As demand for housing has increased at a rapid pace in China, it has happened that architects, builders and developers simply imitate designs from the West in order to put up new housing developments as quickly as possible. The result is housing that works but lacks originality and gives little scope for rising Chinese architects and developers to flex their creative muscles.