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The selection of interiors is about the wow factor--New York residential spaces that elicit gasps of pleasure and surprise when first seen. Some are very grand, others sparingly modern or eclectic. All are exceptional and, Moonan promises, unforgettable...

The history of the West Country has left a rich legacy of castles and other fortifications throughout its landscape, built wherever power and wealth needed to be displayed, strategic points controlled or territory and local populations defended. In this...

Long before its rise as a celebrated seat of learning, Cambridge was a small market town on the banks of a river formerly known as the Granta. From its occupation by the Romans in the first century AD, through its growth and development as a world-class...

A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons can we learn from today's urbanites to make better...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048781Author Richard AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the castles of Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh border. Areas characterised by their rural beauty and agricultural charm, it is no surprise that they are home...

How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture?This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed, built, used, and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances including...

Straddling the Derwent River, the cathedral city of Derby, its foundations in the Roman occupation of Britain, can directly attribute its contemporary status to the Industrial Revolution. Spinning mills proliferated from the eighteenth century,...

Since the early days as rolling hills crisscrossed with streams, London has come a long way to be one of the most exciting and innovative cities in the world. From the first Roman settlement 2000 years ago to the high tech and high rise buildings of...

From its status as a major coal mining centre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and today the home of the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery that retains England's last deep coal mine, to its current role as the capital of...

Guest-edited by Owen Hopkins Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948789243Author David BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Carnegie Publishing LtdPublisher Carnegie Publishing Ltd

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three...

The Lincolnshire market town and small port of Boston is nearly a thousand years old, having been founded soon after the Norman Conquest. Located close to The Wash, it flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and exported much of the wool...

The city of Cork is a place of tradition, continuity, change and legacy. It is a place of direction and experiment by people of ambition and determination, experiences and learning, of ingenuity and innovation, and of nostalgia and memory. Its...

From its nineteenth-century industrial heyday when it was a key centre of the copper industry, earning the nickname 'Copperopolis', to its current role as a major service sector employer and university city, Swansea has a proud and distinctive identity...

This book is devoted to the seafront, the space between the seaward ends of seaside piers and the first line of buildings. The seafront is a place that is familiar yet unfamiliar, predictable but exciting, natural but artificial. It is a place to live,...

Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social and technological change. Today, we live at another pivotal moment for architecture and for the wider...

SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION DISCOVER THE LATEST EDITION OF THE LEADING TEXTBOOK ON SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION AND GREEN BUILDING In the newly revised Fifth Edition of Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, the late Dr. Charles J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394501010Author Gautam BhatiaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 28g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522517443Author Gul?ah KocFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI GlobalWeight(grams) 912g

Edinburgh Castle is one of Scotland's great historic landmarks. The city's most prominent feature, it stands on a volcanic crag that has been occupied since the Bronze Age. This was a medieval royal castle, a major residence for Scottish kings and...

Buildings & Landscapes examines the built world that most people experience every day-houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival research that views...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314896Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Steel fibre reinforced concrete for structures dates back to 1925, but it is still widely unknown to engineers and contractors. Information is buried in codes, reports and standards; and this book presents the essential information to enable engineers to...

The busy town of Ilkley nestles between the cities of Leeds and Bradford in the breathtakingly beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Ilkley is known far and wide for the eponymous tune ‘On Ilkla Moor Baht’ at,’ but besides this anthem and its stunning moor it...

Catalogue of the exhibition to be held at the MAXXI in Rome from October 2024 to March 2025, curated by the world-famous studio DS+R. The exhibition and thus the catalogue intends to address the theme of movement not so much as a possibility for a...

A subjective, candid, multi-vocal story about the creation of the building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Warsaw's Parade Square, where the MSN building designed by Thomas Phifer stands, is a unique place and a meaningful context for the Museum...

The only city in West Sussex, Chichester's history dates back to the Roman era when Noviomagus Reginorum was founded as a military garrison shortly after the Roman invasion of AD 43. The military usage was short-lived, and it was quickly adopted as a...

From its status as a producer of the world-famous Nottingham lace to its current role as a vibrant university city and major centre of sport and culture in the East Midlands of England, Nottingham has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary...

Chelsea has always been a district beloved by the influential and wealthy. Initially a small riverside village that centred around Chelsea Old Church, from the late seventeenth century Chelsea mushroomed inland and the King's Road, originally the private...

The story of Scotland's castles is woven into the history of the country. These formidable structures have guarded the landscape since mediaeval times, and many of these structures are famous emblems of Scotland today. The royal castles in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794418263Author Rene KuralFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg PublishingWeight(grams) 1560g

Explore the rich history of Guernsey in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.About the AuthorSoo Wellfair was born in Berkshire, England. She first visited and fell in love with Guernsey in 2000. She quickly adopted...

Unmarked on maps and largely unnoticed by urban design, architecture, and planning communities, Combat Cities have quietly spread throughout the western hemisphere. The Complete Guide to Combat City is an architectural and cultural guide of these...

The Bedfordshire town of Dunstable can trace its origins back to Roman times and the building of Watling Street, which crossed the ancient Icknield Way at the point where Dunstable stands today. The Romans also constructed a posting station where...

This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie's centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie's psychological support programme, this special...

The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing. This...

In 1980, photographer Geoff Winningham and architect Cyrus Sutherland travelled extensively throughout Arkansas to locate and photograph examples of southern American vernacular architecture. They were working on a commission from the First Federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876290163Author John H. ChiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams)...