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Lost Futures

Author : Owen Hopkins
Publisher : Royal Academy Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781910350621
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Lost Futures written by Owen Hopkins and published by Royal Academy Editions. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lost Futures' casts a detailed look at the wide range of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979. Although their bold architectural aspirations reflected the forward-looking social ethos of the postwar era, many of these structures have since been either demolished or altered beyond recognition. In this volume, photographs taken at the time of the buildings' completion are accompanied by expert research examining their design and creation, the ideals they embodied and the reasons for their eventual destruction. 'Lost Futures' covers many buildings, from housing to factories, commercial spaces to power stations, and presents the work of both iconic and lesser-known architects. The author charts the complex reasons that led to the loss of these postwar projects' ambitious futures, and assesses whether some might one day be restored. AUTHOR: British architecture historian and curator Owen Hopkins is the author of several popular architecture books, including 'Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon', 'Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide' and 'Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture'. His scholarly interests have ranged from Nicholas Hawksmoor's Baroque grandeur to Alison and Peter Smithson's Brutalism, taking in everything in between.

Lost Buildings of Britain

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Buildings of Britain written by Simon Thurley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying a six-part series on Channel Four, this volume features six buildings, including Glastonbury monastery and the Theatre Royal.

Lost Buildings

Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Lost Buildings written by Jonathan Glancey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys buildings that have been lost to antiquity, war, demolition, natural catastrophes, and other circumstances, as well as designs which were never built.--

Britain's Lost Cities

Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845135232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Lost Cities written by Gavin Stamp and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred high-quality images of beautiful streets and buildings, destroyed by bombing or planned demolition, bring to life the stories behind Britain's lost urban heritage The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theaters vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of city photographs, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.

The Memory Palace

Author : Edward Hollis
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619025620
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Edward Hollis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.

Lost Victorian Britain

Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781310182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Lost Victorian Britain written by Gavin Stamp and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days it seems obvious that stupendous constructions like St Pancras Station should be preserved and restored. But as recently as the 1970s Glasgow’s superb St Enoch’s Hotel made way for a shopping centre, and in the 1960s St Pancras itself was also earmarked for demolition. “Victorian” was a term of abuse. Add in wartime bombing by the Luftwaffe, and town planners eager for ring roads and multi-storeys, and the destruction is shocking. This poignant, angry book, full of stunning images, chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through Britain’s architectural heritage by the twentieth century’s sustained antipathy to the nineteenth, entirely through buildings that have disappeared. Of the 200 notable examples of Victorian architecture illustrated in this book, from the magnificent Imperial Institute in Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall, not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes célèbres like the Euston Arch and London’s Coal Exchange, Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings, like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London, or Chatsworth’s soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising, chastening, but also uplifting, Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world that should never have been lost.

Lost Treasures of Britain

Author : Roy Strong
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Treasures of Britain written by Roy Strong and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of some of Britain's lost buildings, gardens, paintings, jewels and manuscript.

Britain's Lost Railways

Author : John Minnis
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781317739
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Lost Railways written by John Minnis and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enoch's, it stands proud as testament to Britain's architectural heritage. In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britain's finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line and the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah and Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage. The selection of images and the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables and maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity and ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.

Felling the Ancient Oaks

Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845136703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Felling the Ancient Oaks written by John Martin Robinson and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning visual record of England's most spectacular and scenic country estates that were broken up for sale and lost for ever. A sweeping country estate, with grand house and spectacular gardens and park, would not be the first impression of a visitor to modern suburban Watford. But well into the twentieth century that was exactly what was there – the magnificence of the Cassiobury estate, of which only a modest municipal park survives. Underneath the expanse of Rutland Water lies the once splendid Normanton estate, while Deepdene in Surrey is now memorialised only by an ugly office block. Fortunately, at least photographs live on to remind us of how the landscape looked before death duties, mining subsidence and sometimes the plain impecuniousness of the black sheep in the family took their toll and forced the break-up of all too many historic landed estates. In this elegiac book, a successor to Aurum’s Lost Victorian Britain, John Robinson surveys 20 of the most egregious losses, from Costessy in East Anglia to Lathom in Lancashire, and shows how the deer park, the home farm, the parterre and the cottage garden gave way to the power station, the motorway and the caravan park.

Fallen Glory

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250118301
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Glory written by James Crawford and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A narrative that spans seven millennia, five continents and even reaches into cyberspace. . . . I savored each page.” —Henry Petroski, Wall Street Journal In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue, featuring war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen. The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future. “Witty and memorable . . . moving as well as myth-busting.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK) “[An] elegant, charged book . . . A well-written prize for students of history, archaeology, and urban planning.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Astute, entertaining, and affecting.” —Booklist “A lovely, wise book.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman (UK) “A cabinet of curiosities, a book of wonders with unexpected excursions and jubilant and haunting marginalia.” —Spectator (UK)

England's Lost Houses

Author : Giles Worsley
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book England's Lost Houses written by Giles Worsley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.

Lost England

Author : Philip H. Davies
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green
ISBN 13 : 9781909242791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Lost England written by Philip H. Davies and published by Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1500 photographs reveal what it was like to live in Victorian and Edwardian England. The long awaited sequel to Lost London

Lost Mansions

Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520779
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.

Lost Buildings of Nottingham

Author : Douglas Whitworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752454870
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Lost Buildings of Nottingham written by Douglas Whitworth and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nottingham, in common with many other English cities, experienced great changes during the twentieth century. This book illustrates the major buildings and many of the minor structures which were lost during that period.

Sixpence House

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sixpence House written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixpence House is an engaging meditation on what books mean to us, and how their meaning can resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public."--BOOK JACKET.

Lost Houses of Britain

Author : Anna Sproule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Houses of Britain written by Anna Sproule and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Panoramas of Lost London

Author : Philip Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909242920
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Panoramas of Lost London written by Philip Davies and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945