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The Transformation of St Pancras Station (mini edition)
Alastair Lansley
Laurence King
ISBN: 1856698823
RRP Price: £12.95
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At the end of 2007, St Pancras became the new London terminus for the high-speed channel tunnel rail link to continental Europe, taking over from Waterloo International. Central to this change, the entire structure and area around St Pancras have been renovated and transformed as one of the largest ....MORE
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The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism
Jonathan Bell , Ellie Stathaki
Laurence King
ISBN: 1780670257
RRP Price: £19.95
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Modern architecture is a story of movements, styles and genres. But what of the work that remains defiantly unique, refusing to submit to a label? The New Modern House is a comprehensive look at the emerging trend of architecture that favours substance over style, combining functional design and sus....MORE
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Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture
Virginia McLeod
Laurence King
ISBN: 1780670249
RRP Price: £19.95
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Architectural detailing makes a building unique, and an architect outstanding. Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture. Featuring many of the world's mo....MORE
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture
Anat Geva
Routledge
ISBN: 0415775086
RRP Price: £44.99
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A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs. These projects represent different periods of Wright’s career (from 1886 to 1958), new building technologies, and application of his....MORE
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England's Thousand Best Churches
Simon Jenkins
Allen Lane
ISBN: 184614664X
RRP Price: £30.00
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Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavi....MORE
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100 Contemporary Houses
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836523302
RRP Price: £34.99
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Innovations at home
Exceptional contemporary houses from Chile to Croatia to China
Designing private homes offers architects more freedom than corporate projects to express their ideas and try out new concepts. Conceiving living spaces is not without its own set of challenges, for which architec....MORE
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Architecture Now! Houses, Vol. 2
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836519739
RRP Price: £24.99
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Make yourself at home
Cutting edge private dwellings
Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the grou....MORE
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Architecture Now! Eat Shop Drink
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836534401
RRP Price: £24.99
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Stepping out
Hot Spots
Some of the most spectacular architectural designs of the moment have to do with our most basic needs: eating, drinking, and shopping. Restaurants, bars, and boutiques are the substance of this new book that puts an emphasis—like all volumes of the Architecture Now!-series....MORE
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Coop Himmelb(l)au
Silvia Lavin
Prestel
ISBN: 3791344331
RRP Price: £29.99
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A School for Visual and Performing Arts
Designed by the architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, Central Los Angeles High School #9 for the Visual and Performing Arts has generated as much controversy as excitement, but there is no debate about its visual impact on the LA skyline and the possibility....MORE
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Beijing International Airport
Norman Foster, Chris Abel
Prestel
ISBN: 3791343130
RRP Price: £14.99
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Imagine an airport that welcomes you as visitor or neighbor; that takes you efficiently from terminal to plane; that is sustainably designed and filled with light and air; that you’ll be happy to linger, shop, and eat in. Not only does this airport exist—it was built by Foster + Partners. In copious....MORE
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House
Philippa Lewis
Prestel
ISBN: 3791345567
RRP Price: £24.99
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This richly illustrated and valuable resource reaches back five centuries to document the evolution and ingenuity of house design in the British Isles.
The architecture of Britain’s houses displays a dizzying variety of styles and details. Brimming with 600 full-color photographs, House annotates....MORE
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Temporary Architecture Now!
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
ISBN: 3836523280
RRP Price: £24.99
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Here today, gone tomorrow
Architecture on the move
As economic problems make some shy away from grandiose, long-lasting buildings, a wave of new temporary buildings and architectural is sweeping over the planet. These can have uses from emergency relief to concert or performance venues. Another ....MORE
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Nature Framed
Eva Hagberg
Monacelli Press
ISBN: 158093319X
RRP Price: £32.00
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Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are
designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as ....MORE
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Latin American Houses
Mercedes Daguerre
Phaidon
ISBN: 1780750005
RRP Price: £19.95
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Since the early twentieth century, Latin America has been home to some of the most compelling architecture--from the large-scale and otherworldly civic structures of the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer to the more intimate work of Mexico's Luis Barragan. In her new book Latin American Houses, historian Mer....MORE
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Katsura Imperial Villa
Arata Isozaki
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714862541
RRP Price: £29.95
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A detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan, a pivotal work of Japanese architecture, often described as the 'quintessence of Japanese taste'. First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth....MORE
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