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Best Buildings Britain' is the third title in the 'Best Buildings' series, following 'Best Buildings Belgium' (2018) and 'Best Buildings Holland' (spring 2019). In this guide, Matthew Freedman presents 75 buildings completed after 1918 in Great Britain, each accompanied by a photo and a short text. The selection is based on the top ten lists of renowned British architects and architecture critics, including great names like Norman Foster, Piers Gough, Charles Holland, Jonathan Meades, Alice Rawsthorn and Richard Rogers. From their lists comes a surprising mix of 'best' buildings, from applauded contemporary projects such as the London Aquatics Centre, to impressive must-sees such as Highpoint in Highgate (London) or Marine Court in St Leonards-on-Sea, up to brutalist gems such as Preston bus station and the National Theatre. The book also features the full lists with all of each contributor's ten favourite buildings.

Architecture --- Buildings --- 72.03(410) --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture, British --- 721 --- gebouwen --- Groot-Brittannië --- Built environment

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Brussel (gewest) --- Brussel --- 008 --- 72.03 --- 711.61 --- Erfgoed --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Openbare ruimte --- Environmental planning --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- streets --- Brussels --- Architecture in art. --- Art in the environment

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Beton is niet alleen een technisch materiaal dat dankzij zijn structurele kenmerken innoverende constructies en bouwwijzen mogelijk maakt. Ook wanneer het zichtbaar blijft, valt het uitzicht van dit materiaal in de smaak. Dit themanummer besteedt aandacht aan de meest uiteenlopende toepassingen van beton, zoals Franki-heipalen, dakgebinten van kerken of glasramen met betonvoegen. Het dossier is opgebouwd vanuit drie invalshoeken: de geschiedenis van de betontechnieken, enkele merkwaardige realisaties uit beton en, tot slot, de ingrepen met het oog op betonconservatie.

Brussel (gewest) --- Brussel --- 008 --- 747 --- 72.025 --- 691.3 --- 72.03 --- Erfgoed --- Interieurarchitectuur / Interieurinrichting / Interieruvormgeving --- Monumentenzorg --- Beton --- Betonconstructies --- Gewapend beton --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Building materials. Building technology --- Architecture --- architecture [object genre] --- concrete --- Brussels --- Concrete construction --- History

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For centuries, architecture has been one of the most publicly discussed subjects, by architects and users or inhabitants, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an overview of these discussions in the Western world, by means of four thematic trajectories, focused on housing, society, history, and art. Each of these four chronological paths starts in the 19th century, traverses the 20th century, and ends as closely as possible to the contemporary moment. The stepping stones are historical documents - texts, books, essays, and articles - that are analyzed, interpreted, criticized, and compared. The aim of this book is to show that architecture remains a vital subject matter for anyone interested in our contemporary world and its recent history. Reading, inquiring, and thinking are essential for making substantiated choices, with architecture as a starting point. The writings discussed in this book, both canonical and virtually unknown, are condensed into little pearls of knowledge, attached unto a string, and put together to form a kind of necklace - a talisman that can help us understand and face the present condition.

Architecture --- Criticism and interpretation --- History --- Theory --- 72.01 --- Architectuurtheorie ; 19de en 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architecture, Modern --- Modern architecture --- History and criticism --- 72.03 --- Architectuur (kritiek) --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurkritiek --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Histoire de l'architecture

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For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical. Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models. Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.

Architectural models --- 741:72 --- Architectuur ; maquettes ; schaalmodellen --- Architectuurmodellen --- Buildings --- Models, Architectural --- Architectural casts --- Artists' preparatory studies --- Communication in architectural design --- Miniature objects --- Models and modelmaking --- History --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen --- Models --- 72.02 --- 72.01 --- 72.03 --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen ; maquettes ; bouwkundige schaalmodellen --- Maquettes (architectuur) --- Architectuurtekenen --- Architectuurmaquettes --- Modellen (architectuur) --- Architectuurtekeningen --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Architectural models. --- History. --- Modèle en architecture --- Maquette --- Prototype --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Architectural models - History