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A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain. Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free.

This book features Nicholas Grimshaw's work from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, which includes some of Europe's most prestigious in Berlin he was planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he built on the success of his Financial Times printing plant with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which was completed to wide acclaim.

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

A behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life, methods and work of contemporary painter Jock McFadyen RA by architecture critic Rowan Moore, accompanied by 130 beautiful reproductions of the painter's work.

London remains one of the world's greatest cities; a thriving centre of international politics and commerce, with a unique heritage and fascinating history. Using a panoramic camera, Sampson Lloyd captures both the essence and variety of this most vibrant of cities. Only the sweep of the broadest view can do justice to the capital, whether seen from one of the spectacular bridges spanning the River Thames, or from the vantage point of its tallest buildings, or from the hills and parks that surround it. Together with the famous sights and landmarks the book reveals some of London's best-kept secrets - the wealth of beautiful, curious and historic buildings hidden in its fabric. Rowan Moore gives an insight into the places, their history and their associations in a lively and informative commentary. London emerges as a living city, a city still making its history and one that continues to surprise and inspire.

They're the famous sights that have stirred the imagination for centuries--the River Thames, bordered by palaces and pubs, and bounded by bridges; St. Paul's Cathedral; the towers of Parliament and Westminster Abbey; and Trafalgar Square. Never before have London's architectural treasures, verdant parks, skyline, and streets been so beautifully and panoramically displayed. Gaze at spectacular vistas of the city's different neighborhoods, including some quite rustic areas, as well as its best-known streets and some hidden wonders. 160 pages (all in color), 11 3/4 x 7 1/2.

Herzog & De Meuron transforming Giles Gilbert Scott. Fotografie a colori e in bianco e nero. Testi di Raymund Ryan, Adrian Hardwicke, Gavin Stamp et al. Cronologia . 8vo (cm 25x28) pp. 200 Brossura (wrappers) Perfetto (Mint) This work follows the transformation of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's brick power station, on Bankside, into the Tate Modern art gallery, by Swiss Architects Herzog & de Meuron. It presents a photographic account of every stage of the development and includes an interview with Jacques Herzog. Quest'opera segue la trasformazione della centrale elettrica in mattoni di Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, sulla Bankside, nella galleria d'arte Tate Modern, ad opera degli architetti svizzeri Herzog & de Meuron. Presenta un resoconto fotografico di ogni fase dello sviluppo e include un'intervista a Jacques Herzog.