A lively, authoritative and practical guide to the buildings of Nottingham, from its medieval beginnings to the innovative architecture of the 21st century. Outstanding buildings range from the famous Castle, a Baroque palace on an unforgettable cliff-top site, to the internationally important 1930s complex for Boots at Beeston. A rich legacy also remains from Nottingham's Georgian and Victorian prosperity, explored here in a series of walks around the regenerated city centre and its distinctive and varied inner suburbs.

Illustrated throughout in colour with specially commissioned...

Huge, stylish, and comprehensive, England's Post-War Listed Buildings covers over 500 of the country's most striking, and historically relevant, architectural gems. The classic examples range from traditional works by Raymond Erith and Donald McMorran, to the "pop icons" of the 1960s, to internationally outstanding modern works like Stirling and Gowan's Leicester Engineering Building and Foster Associates' offices for Willis Faber Dumas in Ipswich.
This fully updated and expanded edition from Elain Harwood, one of the foremost names in modern-architecture writing, contains...

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style--and its finest examples.
Postmodern architecture, which emerged in the 1980s, has been much maligned--but in this book historians Elain Harwood and Geraint Franklin celebrate the genre with a fascinating discussion of its background and key concepts. Each lavishly illustrated entry focuses on what characteristics make the structure unique and provides information on the architect who created it. Eye-opening examples include No 1 Poultry, a London office building by James Stirling; the Sainsbury Wing of the National...

The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain, written by leading architectural historian Elain Harwood.