The Meriam House
by U S Department O National Park Service and Barbara A Yocum
For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics. Kensington Palace has been the scene of countless bizarre events - here, for example, the young Queen Victoria was held a virtual prisoner for eighteen years; and it was from Kensington Palace that Queen Caroline ran the country while her husband George II moved his pictures...
The Umayyads (Islamic Art in the Mediterranean)
by Ghazi Bisheh, Fawzi Zayadine, and Mohammad Al-Assad
Rude Stone Monuments In All Countries, Their Age And Uses
by James Fergusson
Highclere Castle, known as 'the real Downton Abbey' bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas. Christmas at Highclere is a look behind the scenes at the routines and rituals that make the castle the most magical place to be throughout the festive season. Lady Carnarvon will guide you through Advent, Christmas preparations and Christmas Eve all the way through to the day itself, and beyond. Learn how the castle and grounds are transformed by deco...
Maintaining the Exterior of Small and Medium Size Historic Buildings (Preservation Briefs and Preservation Tech. Notes)
10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries like Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this book examines the most prominent buildings designed by the most noteworthy architects of our time. Also profiled are Americans less not...
Paisajes urbanos de ciudades europeas libro para colorear para adultos (Paisajes Urbanos de Ciudades Europeas, #1)
by Nick Snels
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody an...
Chester Cathedral was a monastic church of the Benedictine order for over 450 years before it was closed during Henry VIII's reformation of the Church in England, and immediately re-opened as the cathedral of the new diocese of Chester. As a result it retains much of the flavour of a monastic institution, with a fine Norman refectory, a superb Early English Gothic chapter-house and a cloister garth which forms a tranquil oasis in the heart of the busy modern city. Originally dedicated to a loca...
Balboa Park Architecture (Pacific Coast Architecture)
by Marques Vickers
TRAVEL MOSAIC Color by Number (Black Backgrounds)
by Mosaic Color Number and Sunlife Drawing
Festung Ehrenbreitstein
by Matthias Brand, Oliver Feinauer, and Andrea Petry
La Ricerca Di Morfologia Urbana in Italia - Urban Morphology Research in Italy. 2
by L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Rockitecture, Southern California's indigenous architecture of river rocks
Monuments and Memorials (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, #24)
by Ralph Pinder-Wilson