This guidebook covers some of the best and most interesting buildings completed in London during the period 1984-1992. It covers some 100 buildings and is supported by photographs, line diagrams and maps. The buildings are arranged in geographical sequence.
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'Highly recommended is London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitors Guide, by Victoria Thornton and Ken Allinson. Making the most of their experience running architecture tours the book is crammed with maps and colour pictures with clear explanations about the design of the buildings.'
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'A joy to read.'
Urban Design Quarterly --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'Highly recommended is London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitors Guide, by Victoria Thornton and Ken Allinson. Making the most of their experience running architecture tours the book is crammed with maps and colour pictures with clear explanations about the design of the buildings.'
Evening Standard
Review of the first edition:
'A joy to read.'
Urban Design Quarterly --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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London's Contemporary Architecture is a practical and highly illustrated guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. Now in its third edition, this location-based book has been fully updated to cover the very latest additions to the London skyline.
Clustering buildings by geographical area, for ease of use, this book guides the visitor on a physical and intellectual tour of the sites that are most worth visiting. Packed with fascinating informative commentary and useful location maps, it also includes examples of London's finer older buildings that are found near to the key contemporary sites. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Clustering buildings by geographical area, for ease of use, this book guides the visitor on a physical and intellectual tour of the sites that are most worth visiting. Packed with fascinating informative commentary and useful location maps, it also includes examples of London's finer older buildings that are found near to the key contemporary sites. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Charles Birch's griffin, poised upon a pillar designed by Horace Jones, sits in the Strand opposite George Street's Royal Courts of Justice (1872-84) and marks the western-most boundary of a part of London rich in architectural interest, perhaps more so than any similarly sized area in the metropolis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
architectural gamesmanship, inbetween spaces, urban block, entry lobby, piano nobile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wood Street, Jubilee Line, Canary Wharf, Terry Farrell, Outer Ring, Burlington House, Covent Garden, Palace of Westminster, Tower Bridge, Butlers Wharf, Fleet Street, Inigo Jones, London Bridge, London Wall, Michael Hopkins, City Hall, Lloyd's Register, Mound Stand, Nicholas Grimshaw, Sainsbury Wing, Tate Modern, Trafalgar Square, Arup Associates, British Museum, Edwin Lutyens New!
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Charles Birch's griffin, poised upon a pillar designed by Horace Jones, sits in the Strand opposite George Street's Royal Courts of Justice (1872-84) and marks the western-most boundary of a part of London rich in architectural interest, perhaps more so than any similarly sized area in the metropolis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
architectural gamesmanship, inbetween spaces, urban block, entry lobby, piano nobile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wood Street, Jubilee Line, Canary Wharf, Terry Farrell, Outer Ring, Burlington House, Covent Garden, Palace of Westminster, Tower Bridge, Butlers Wharf, Fleet Street, Inigo Jones, London Bridge, London Wall, Michael Hopkins, City Hall, Lloyd's Register, Mound Stand, Nicholas Grimshaw, Sainsbury Wing, Tate Modern, Trafalgar Square, Arup Associates, British Museum, Edwin Lutyens New!
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