Stories
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Hints for dwellings: consisting of original designs for cottages, farm-houses, villas &c. plain and ornamental; with plans to each: in which Strict Attention is Paid to Unite Convenience and Elegance with Economy. Including some designs for town-houses. By D. Laing, Architect and Surveyor. Elegantly engraved, in aqua-tinta, on thirty-four plates, with Appropriate Scenery.
Laing, David, 1774-1856.Date: 1800- Books
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Familiar architecture; or, original designs of houses, for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages, summer retreats, Banqueting-Rooms, And Churches; With Plans, Sections, &c. To which is added, the masonry of semicircular and elliptical arches; with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, architect. On fifty-one copper-plates.
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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Rural architecture; or designs, from the simple cottage to the decorated villa; including some which have been executed. By John Plaw, Architect and Surveyor. Etched and shaded in aqua-tinta, on sixty-two plates.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning with the farm-house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa; calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life. Engraved on seventy copper-plates. With reference and explanation in letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurements. By John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]