St Pancras Station

ISBN-13: 9781846684609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Simon Bradley

Opis

St Pancras is an iconic London landmark of Gothic dream palace & futuristic train shed - built in the 1860s for the new Midland Railway line into London. Over the years, the station has flourished, but has also come close to being demolished. This book examines this story of changes in taste & of the understanding of the past.

Recenzje

A sprightly social, technological and architectural history ... most entertaining Evening Standard

O autorze

Simon Bradley is editor of the World Famous Buildings of England series, founded by Nikolaus Pevsner, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He lives in London.