Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings Publisher: JCT

Publisher: JCT

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

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Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings Publisher: JCTAn 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