British Architecture
British House Designs
British House Design, UK Properties, Photos, Property Britain, Homes Current Residential Architecture in Britain New British House Designs We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of British Property Designs. Residences are mostly located in the south east of the country. We aim to include British Property / projects that are of top quality. We cover completed houses in Britain and new property designs. We also post residential architecture competitions across the British Isles. We have 3 pages of British House selections. British House…
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Sr. UX Designer, Amazon FashionJob ID 378257 Location US-WA-Seattle Posted Date 7/26/2016 10:39:52 AM Company Amazon Corporate LLC Position Category Design Recruiting Team North American Teams - Consumer - Retail Plus Job DescriptionDesign new, highly personalized ways for millions of people to shop for fashion online. If you are a shopper-obsessed UX Designer who seeks to craft engag Sr. UX Designer, Amazon FashionJob ID 436238 Location US-WA-Seattle Posted Date 8/22/2016 Company Amazon Corporate LLC Position Category Design Recruiting Team…
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These places have a sublime beauty all to themselves. Over the holiday, I passed Sleaford Maltings, the incredible industrial complex that the Bass Brewery built in Lincolnshire. It is a heart-stopping sight but it is also derelict and in urgent need of a new use. The heritage crisis of the 21st century is the fate of our industrial past. The 20th century saved the country houses, and we can celebrate that, but the effects of our long obsession with the countryside have been a neglect of our unique industrial heritage. Ditherington Flax Mill, one…
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Go on a journey through 400 years of architectural British history, in an installation that takes a colourful look at twelve mavericks architects who helped to shape its course: Smythson, Vanbrugh, Wyatt, Soane, Cockerell, Mackintosh, Holden, Goodhart-Rendel, Stirling, Price, FAT and Hadid. What makes an architect a maverick? The first and most obvious answer is when they refuse to conform to the norms of mainstream architectural culture, whether by designing in a particularly idiosyncratic way or through working on the leading edge of architectural…
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Historians regard the year 1757 as the starting point of the British Empire in India, even though large parts of the country remained under the rule of Indian princes. It took nearly another hundred years for the East India Company and the British government to extend British rule to northern and western India. The British ruled over the Indians for nearly two centuries, when finally in 1947, India gained independence and became a sovereign state. During these years, the British introduced innumerous reforms in India. They developed roads, introduced…
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I ve been living in London for nearly a decade now, having moved here from Canada as a bright-eyed university graduate, in search of tea and adventure. Through my friendships and work as an interior designer (not to mention my work for Apartment Therapy— I love a good House Tour snoop), I ve been lucky enough to have been invited into countless English homes over the years, from Cornwall to Yorkshire and nearly every county in between. While every one is different, and I do hate to generalize, there are a few broad-reaching themes that I ve come…
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Salisbury Cathedral Gothic architecture in Britain has been neatly divided into 4 periods, or styles. The person who did the dividing that has been obediently followed by subsequent generations of writers and historians was Thomas Rickman (1776-1841). In his 1817 work An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation (whew! what a mouthful!) Rickman labeled the styles Norman, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular. Like any classification system in the arts these styles cannot be dogmatically…
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Image copyright RIBA Image caption The hospital, motorway services and abbey were among 46 projects honoured A grass-roofed children s hospital, an abbey, and a tranquil motorway services have been honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects. The eclectic list includes a London museum and an Essex housing estate. A shimmering stainless steel library in Oxford, designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid s firm, also made the list. Image copyright RIBA Image caption Cultural winners included the Portland Collection, HOME, York Art Gallery…
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The Reading Room stands at the heart of the Museum, in the centre of the Great Court. Completed in 1857, it was hailed as one of the great sights of London and became a world famous centre of learning. The Reading Room is currently closed. Design and construction By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a larger reading room. Antonio Panizzi, the Keeper of Printed Books (1837–56), had the idea of constructing a round room in the empty central courtyard of the Museum building. With a design by Sydney Smirke (1798–1877), work on…
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Meeting with NBTA and CRT re: London Mooring Strategy On Thursday 26 May 2016, representatives of NBTAL (Marcus Trower, Helen Brice and Dave Mendes da Costa) met with Sorwar Ahmed (SA) and Matthew Symonds (MS) from CRT to discuss the London Mooring Strategy. The meeting was at CRT’s Little Venice offices in London. The meeting was open and had a positive tone with both sides wanting to work together on certain issues. Representation on working groups We said that we were happy to be in discussion with CRT and that future meetings like this would…
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