Public Buildings: Civic, Commercial, Industrial, Etc
BIC code: AMG
See also: Architecture
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£14.99Anatomy Of The Lighthouse - - Hardback
Examining lighthouses inside and out, from the primitive beacons and the fabled Pharos of the ancient world to the Texas Towers of modern times, this book describes the development of the lights and their fuel and lenses. -
£29.95Borders - - Hardback
The history of the Borders is expressed in the buildings described in this book, from castle strongholds and tower houses, the great abbeys, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian public buildings and country houses to the remains of the textile industry ranging from weavers cottages to 19th century mills. -
£14.99Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer - - Paperback
Stadium expert Simon Inglis recalls the life and work of Archibald Leitch, the Scottish engineer who built structures for many famous football clubs. In this study of Leitch's major works, Inglis gives a fascinating account of the man who defined the look of British football grounds during the first half of the 20th century. -
£9.95Glasgow School Of Art: Charles Rennie Mackintosh - - Paperback
One of the great works of Arts and Crafts architecture, the school is a creative synthesis of opposites, austere and delicate, dark and light, derivative yet innovative. -
£5.99Glasgow's Hidden Treasure: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Ingram Street Tearooms - Paperback
Glasgow City Council owns one of the city's hidden treasures - the last surviving suite of tearoom interiors designed by the great architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms. -
£7.99The Last Lighthouse - - Paperback
Illustrated throughout, this book depicts the nine year quest of an American couple living on a farm in Michigan USA, to own and live in a remote Scottish lighthouse keepers home. -
£13.50A Light Walk - - Paperback
Cassells, the author of No More Paraffin Oilers, relates the story of his 1986 sponsored walk to raise money for the RNLI. In 58 days, he covered at least 1100 miles on foot and called at all the then manned lighthouses on the Scottish mainland. -
£5.95The Scottish Parliament - - Paperback
Written by Anglo-American architect and historian, Charles Jencks, designer of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and winner of the Gulbenkian prize for Museum of the year 2004, this is an account of a fascinating building with superb photography and a stylish format. -
£9.99'Spitting Tacks': Lord Fraser's Report Into The Building Of The Scottish Parliament - Paperback
From an initial estimate of some £10 million, the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh, eventually opened four years later than planned and £430 million over-budget. This book presents Lord Fraser's findings into how the project came to cost so much. -
£20.00Terry Farrell In Scotland - Paperback
Terry Farrell & Partners have designed and constructed three major buildings and two public squares in Edinburgh. This illustrated work explores the philosophy and implementation of responding to context in creating sensitive, yet innovative, interventions to the design culture of a capital.