epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jon Cannon

Positioned beneath steep, crocketed gables, these nodding ogees on the outer north porch at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (probably c. 1320), give the surface of the structure a swaying, rippling, ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Berens, Carol

The issue of environmental remediation and reuse of industrial properties, like that of financing in the next chapter, is complex and is best addressed on a project-by-project basis. Broad-based generalities ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-20 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

III The direction of movement for populations is not always downwards, it must be said. Sometimes populations boom, occasionally in ways that shape history. Never has that been more true ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Bill Bryson

III The direction of movement for populations is not always downwards, it must be said. Sometimes populations boom, occasionally in ways that shape history. Never has that been more true ...

mobi | | 2004-06-10 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Paul McGillick [McGillick, Paul]

The staircase spirals down into the basement car park and entertainment room. On the ground floor, a breakfast bar faces the footbridge to the floating living/dining pavilion. The journey actually ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Hugh Ferriss

CROWDING TOWERS TO THE SKYSCRAPING HEIGHTS of the Future City, the popular fancy usually adds something remarkable in the way of overhead traffic avenues. Scores of drawings have been produced, ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Gaston Bachelard

II A phenomenologist who wants to experience the images of the function of inhabiting must not be subject to the charms of external beauty. For generally, beauty exteriorizes and disturbs ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Koolhaas, Rem [Koolhaas, Rem]

A machine for metropolitan bachelors … Madelon Vriesendorp, Flagrant délit. How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center I get so sentimental when I see How perfect perfection ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rybczynski, Witold

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rybczynski, Witold [Rybczynski, Witold]

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly

Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-25 | Author:Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard [Hopkins, Keith & Beard, Mary]

THE PEOPLE ON PARADE It is the first rule of any spectacle that the audience is as important an element as the display itself: we go not only to watch, ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Nikil Saval [Saval, Nikil]

“Today,” Harrington concludes, ruefully, “you see such formerly robust individuals, now mild of mien, poking along our corridors in groups and committees with administrative papers in their hands. They have ...