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Author : Stephen Butt
Release : 2018-08-15
Genre : Photography
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Book Synopsis Historic England: Leicester by : Stephen Butt
Download or read book Historic England: Leicester written by Stephen Butt. This book was released on 2018-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history portrays one of England’s finest cities - Leicester. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.
Author : John McKean
Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Leicester Engineering Building by : John McKean
Download or read book Leicester Engineering Building written by John McKean. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late twentieth century. He established his world-wide reputation in the 1960s while still in partnership with James Gowan, and his strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester University Engineering Building, the last project to be completed by the partnership. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble is juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops whose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry.
Author : Susannah Watts
Release : 1804
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Book Synopsis A walk through Leicester [By S. Watts]. by : Susannah Watts
Download or read book A walk through Leicester [By S. Watts]. written by Susannah Watts. This book was released on 1804. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Nichols
Release : 1815
Genre : Leicestershire (England)
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Book Synopsis The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester by : John Nichols
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester written by John Nichols. This book was released on 1815. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Release : 1985-03-01
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Leicestershire and Rutland by : Nikolaus Pevsner
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland written by Nikolaus Pevsner. This book was released on 1985-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.
