Britain's Best Buildings by Dan Cruickshank

Britain's Best Buildings by Dan Cruickshank

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This volume celebrates the best-loved and best-known bricks-and-mortar icons of Britain's history, from the 12th century to the present day. Cruikshank reveals the strong personal stories behind these buildings and revisits the stuff of legends.

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Britain's Best Buildings by Dan Cruickshank

Britain is covered with an extraordinary array of fantastic and brilliant buildings. There are more historic buildings of more styles in Britain than even in Italy. And, our favourites occupy a similar place in the national psyche as Robin Hood and Nell Gwynne. Britain's Best Buildings celebrates the bricks-and-mortar icons of our history that are well known and loved beyond all the others: Dan Cruickshank re-visits the stuff of legend but also reveals the stories behind the buildings. Like the life of any human being, there are highs and lows to the story of every building and as even the best-known celebrity has dark corners and secret closets to explore, so do Britain's best-loved buildings. To know a great building is to make it more our own - to know it even more will make us feel we have a stake in its past, present, and future. Each of the buildings is outstanding architecturally, yet each has strong personal stories behind their construction and as a whole they offer a journey through the nation's architecture and psyche from the 12th century to the present day.
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ISBN 13 9780563488231
ISBN 10 0563488239
Title Britain's Best Buildings
Author Dan Cruickshank
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Year published 2002-10-10
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.