Download or read book The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre written by John B. Hilling and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiff’s civic centre in Cathays Park, described as the finest civic centre in the British Isles, is an impressive planned group of public buildings, begun largely with wealth created by the coal industry in the south Wales coalfield. This book covers the Cardiff site’s earlier evolution as a private park in the nineteenth century by the fabulously rich Bute family, and the borough’s battles to obtain land for public buildings and the park’s development in the twentieth century, to become Britain’s finest civic centre. All the buildings, memorials and statues in the park are fully described and illustrated in this book which includes maps, plans and photographs. The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre is the first in the series Architecture of Wales, published in partnership with the Royal Society of Architects in Wales.
Download or read book Cardiff s Civic Centre written by Edgar Leyshon Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cardiff in 50 Buildings written by John B. Hilling and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of Cardiff through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Cardiff a History of the Civic Centre written by Norman Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Our Urban Landscape written by Geoffrey Tyack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.
Download or read book Edwin Rickards written by Timothy Brittain-Catlin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Rickards was the most flamboyant of Edwardian architects: his buildings were said by John Summerson to fizz like champagne. During a short working life, launched at the age of 25 by winning the competition to design Cardiff City Hall with his partners H.V. Lanchester and James Stewart, he completed four spectacular baroque buildings. Rickards’ work was unique in Edwardian architecture for his personal combination of French and especially Austrian sources. Working closely with H.C. Fehr and Henry Poole, leading practitioners of the New Sculpture, he designed two of the major monuments of the period. As well as being one of the best freehand draughtsmen in London, he was also a prodigious caricaturist. With a foot in the demi-monde and an endless appetite for architectural and personal adventure, Rickards was an unforgettable figure to everyone who met him. Illustrated throughout with stunning new photography by Robin Forster and by Rickards’ own sketches and drawings, this book portrays his close friendship with the novelist Arnold Bennett who described him, along with H.G Wells, as one of ‘the two most interesting, provocative, and stimulating men I have yet encountered’, and his meteoric career that ended with his early death.
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Great Britain written by Michael Leapman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. DK's insider tips and essential local information showcases the best of Great Britain. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover Great Britain region by region--whether you are most interested in local festivals and markets or day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, and detailed, practical information helps travelers get around by train, bus, or car. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain shows you what others only tell you.
Download or read book Cathays Park written by Jonathan Vining and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Wales written by John B. Hilling and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised publication meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation’s life from Roman times to the present century – less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is illustrated with 268 colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans and maps.
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Great Britain written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With superb photography, illustrations, and maps, this comprehensive travel guide will show you everything from the best places to visit in London-such as Buckingham Palace and the British Museum-to the spectacular castles of Wales and Scotland, the rugged coastline of Southeast England and the West Country, and the stunning natural landscape of Northern England. Explore Great Britain's beautiful national parks, including the Lake District and the Peak District, and discover the country's rich architectural heritage in its charming towns and villages, and grand stately homes and gardens. There are also practical tips, transportation information, and hotel and restaurant recommendations to help you plan the perfect trip. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain truly shows you this city as no one else can.
Download or read book A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method written by Sir Banister Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebirth of a Nation written by Kenneth O. Morgan and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of modern Welsh history by the acclaimed historian Kenneth O. Morgan. Taking as its starting-point 1880, the book covers all aspects of the nation's history from political, social, economic and religious development to literary, intellectual, and sporting achievement.
Download or read book Claiming the Streets written by Paul O'Leary and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town, and this book examines how those events created new civic identities in the growing towns of nineteenth-century south Wales.
Download or read book Edwardian Architecture written by Richard A. Fellows and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new perspective on a fascinating and varied period in British architectural history
Download or read book A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students Craftsmen Amateurs written by Sir Banister Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
