Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings The middle of an architect's

The middle of an architect's career can provide a turning point for a bright future or be a directionless hinterland

Fifty-five fictional cities

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In this beautifully illustrated book

Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings The middle of an architect'sAn ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of