Murray, Peter ,

New Urban Environments : British Architecture and its European Context / Peter Murray, MaryAnne Stevens. - Germany : Prestal Verlag , 1998 - 189 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

New Urban Environments features spectacular examples of key urban building types designed by some fifty leading architects and engineers working in Britain and Europe, such as Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Zaha Hadid, to mention just three. The book includes some 85 buildings in the fields of culture, commerce, transport, education and environment.
Each section illustrates key projects with drawings, photographs, images of models or computer renderings and provides an overview of each site's development history. A number of comparative projects by non-British architects is described in brief, putting British architecture in a European context.

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Architecture--British