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Author: Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub ISBN: 9781579125875 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 576
Book Description
The stately and historic buildings, monuments, and structures of London come alive in this photographic, neighborhood-by-neighborhood tour of one of the world’s most picturesque and popular cities. London’s many diverse neighborhoods feature a wide range of buildings old and new, from theatres, cathedrals, and palaces to townhouses, hotels, and clubs. Both the writer and the photographer are London natives who know every fascinating corner of this rambling city, and their insight and vision inform every page. Each featured building is accompanied by informative text discussing its history and significance, along with addresses, dates, and architectural information. Neighborhood maps place the buildings within the context of the city as a whole, providing a unique and up-to-date overview of a world-class locale—and enough potential walking tours to keep visitors busy for weeks or months!
Author: Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub ISBN: 9781579125875 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 576
Book Description
The stately and historic buildings, monuments, and structures of London come alive in this photographic, neighborhood-by-neighborhood tour of one of the world’s most picturesque and popular cities. London’s many diverse neighborhoods feature a wide range of buildings old and new, from theatres, cathedrals, and palaces to townhouses, hotels, and clubs. Both the writer and the photographer are London natives who know every fascinating corner of this rambling city, and their insight and vision inform every page. Each featured building is accompanied by informative text discussing its history and significance, along with addresses, dates, and architectural information. Neighborhood maps place the buildings within the context of the city as a whole, providing a unique and up-to-date overview of a world-class locale—and enough potential walking tours to keep visitors busy for weeks or months!
Author: David Long Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408883643 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Take an incredible journey through the streets of London and see beautiful buildings as you've never seen them before! An elegant horizon of historic masterpieces mixed with sleek modern skyscrapers, the familiar London skyline seems to change every year. Using original architectural drawings from The National Archives brought to life by stunning artwork by Josie Shenoy, discover the rich heritage of some of London's most iconic buildings. Watch Buckingham Palace transform from a large country house into an opulent palace, spot Henry VII playing tennis on the lawn of Hampton Court Palace and get lost in the Palm House at Kew, London's very own tropical rainforest. This beautiful book from Blue Peter Award-winning author David Long and exceptionally talented artist Josie Shenoy is a historical kaleidoscope celebrating the magnificent buildings that made London.
Author: Roger FitzGerald Publisher: Artifice Press ISBN: 9781908967732 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 71
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Roger FitzGerald has practiced as an architect in London since he qualified over thirty years ago. He brings an architect's keen eye for detail and construction, and combines this with a fascination for discovering and expressing through paintings what makes well-known places such as Borough Market, Brick Lane or Parliament Square, so special to the city. He has a passion for exploring unspoilt and hidden parts of London.His painting style combines colour, texture and collage to capture the essence of places. Frequently, he portrays buildings as an architectural "stage-set": a permanent, calm and static backdrop to the vibrancy of everyday life. This contrast is exploited, with cool architectural colours offset by vivid warm tones and elements of collage which represent the life and bustle generated by moving people and vehicles. Tickets, menus, maps, books, newspapers and a host of other paraphernalia are incorporated into the images, adding additional meaning and complexity.Buildings of London relies primarily on its images, but these are combined with short and personal comments that make this an intriguing and inspiring guide to the architectural delights of the capital city.Roger Fitzgerald was born in Cambridge, trained in Manchester, and moved to London in 1983 to start his career as an architect. He joined ADP from university and now chairs the practice, which is one of the top twenty firms in the country. Throughout his career as an architect he has enjoyed drawing - whether as a design concept for a new building, or to explore, understand, and capture the essence of existing architecture.
Author: Gill Davies Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 160376268X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 608
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Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of London come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.
Author: Marianne Butler Publisher: Metro Pub Limited ISBN: 9781902910383 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 383
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A revised and expanded, authoritative guide taking the reader through almost 2,000 years of architectural achievement From the remains of the Roman amphitheater to the soaring glass structures of the 21st-century city, London offers a unique architectural experience. Each chapter in this guide contains readily accessible examples of buildings of every period and sets them in their historical contexts. It includes nine fully described walks and easy-to-follow maps to accompany a saunter through the fascinating story of the city's architecture. Also featured are some of the many shops, bars, and restaurants of architectural interest, making this an essential resource for both Londoners and visitors alike.
Author: Rowan Moore Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447270193 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 543
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With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.
Author: Ken Powell Publisher: ISBN: 9781858945378 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book presents a selection of the most exciting building projects in London since the year 2000. The first decade of the twenty-first century has marked out London as arguably the pre-eminent international city for innovative and ambitious architecture, with the design and construction of imaginative buildings of all types. Projects range in size and budget from such landmark structures as the 'Gherkin’ (30 St Mary Axe) and the forthcoming 'Shard’ (London Bridge Tower) to such cultural projects as the Young Vic theatre and the new Tate Modern extension; from offices, schools and hospitals to shops and private houses. With more than 650 stunning photographs, drawings and renderings, and critical texts by well-known architecture writer Kenneth Powell, this is a detailed and authoritative portrait - indispensable to professionals and the public alike - of a world city avid to embrace the best of the new.
Author: Dorian Gerhold Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1789257549 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the houses and the people who lived and worked in them. This book uses plentiful newly-discovered evidence, including detailed descriptions of nearly every house, to tell the story of the bridge and its houses and inhabitants. With the new information it is possible to reconstruct the plan of the bridge and houses in the seventeenth century, to trace the history of each house back through rentals and a survey to 1358, revealing the original layout, to date most of the houses which appear in later views, and to show how the houses and their occupants changed during five and half centuries. The book describes what stopped the houses falling into the river, how the houses were gradually enlarged, what their layout was inside, what goods were sold on the bridge and how these changed over time, the extensive rebuilding in 1477-1548 and 1683-96, and the removal of the houses around 1760. There are many new discoveries - about the structure of the bridge, the width of the roadway, the original layout of the houses, how the houses were supported, the size and internal planning of the houses, the quality of their architecture, and the trades practised on the bridge. The book includes five newly-commissioned reconstruction drawings showing what we now know about the bridge and its houses.
Author: Leo Hollis Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 9781474622882 Category : Historic buildings Languages : en Pages : 464
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The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one of the most written-about cities in the world' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Hollis has a fine eye for architecture, and engagingly describes neo-classical marvels as well as the Labour government's dockside folly of the Millennium Dome... Hollis is good company' SPECTATOR In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history of one of the world's most enigmatic cities. From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Regent Street to the East End, the Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Palace, London's buildings are testament to the richness of its past. Behind the facades of these buildings lie the stories of the people, ideas and events that took place within them and that caused their creation. They all have very human stories, of the men and women who dreamed and lived their lives in London, leaving their imprint upon the fabric of the capital.
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Author: David Long
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