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Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities

Book by Robert Home; Spon Press, 1997

Subjects:

Architecture, British--Developing Countries, City Planning--Great Britain--Colonies--History, Great Britain--Colonies--Administration, Vernacular Architecture--Developing Countries

Collections: Entire Library

This examination of the history of town planning in the British Empire from 1600 considers the transfer of British planning legislation to the colonies and the influence of this transfer on world urbanisation.
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British Art and the Mediterranean

Book by F. Saxl, R. Wittkower; Oxford Univ. Press, 1948

Subjects:

Art, British, Art--Mediterranean Region

Collections: Entire Library

...Institute of British Architects; the President...reflected in the British megalithic tombs...found that the architecture of the tomb...or not the new British Church would...Native heathen architecture was mainly executed...
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A Century of British Painters

Book by Samuel Redgrave, Richard Redgrave; Phaidon Press, 1947

Subjects:

Painters--Great Britain, Painting, British

Collections: Entire Library

...art of the painter, the sculptor, the architect, and the ornamental designer, as practised...name, either as painter, sculptor, or architect, appears, but the majority so employed...very many books on the first periods of British Art, including G. Baldwin Brown...
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The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer

Book by Irene Howard; University of British Columbia Press, 1992

Subjects:

Feminists--British Columbia--Biography, Gutteridge, Helena--1879-1960, Labor Unions--British Columbia--History, Women In Politics--British Columbia--Biography, Women Socialists--British Columbia--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...decades of the eighteenth century when architect Henry Holland leased eighty-nine acres...unknowingly, she was to carry on in British Columbia the work of the three women...accommodated some 400,000 to 450,000 British shop- workers, both men and women. Three...
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A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia

Book by Frank Leonard; University of British Columbia Press, 1996

Subjects:

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company--History--20th Century, Railroads--British Columbia--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...province in 1904. Even before architects had laid out the city of Prince...G. Russell, the companys British Columbia agent, advised the...Affairs, who had resisted British Columbias claims of reversionary...review GTP activities in British Columbia, the only informed...

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The New British Museum Library

Journal article; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 47, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...4421 The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras...near the present British Museum which would...appointed as the architects. However, the plans...Wilson, the principal architect, the design of the British Library is based...
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British Columbia's Coastal Forests, Hemlock Timber and the Japanese Housing Market */<< Les Forets Cetieres De la Colombie-Britannique, Les Produits De Bois De Cigue et le Marche Immobilier Japonais >>

Journal article by David W. Edgington; Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 27, 2004

Subjects:

British Columbia--International trade, Forest products industry--International trade, Japan--International trade, Timber--Supply and demand, Timber--Usage

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...institute (Science Council of British Columbia 1999). By the end...by hiring a local Japanese architect and engineer who could evaluate...work with local builders and architects to promote the Canadian graded...For instance, while Japanese architects and engineers appreciated...
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The Sainsbury African Galleries at the British Museum

Journal article by Christopher Spring, Nigel Barley, Julie Hudson; African Arts, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

African art--Exhibitions, Art museums--Collections and collecting, Art, African--Exhibitions, British Museum--Planning, Museums--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...separately on its own terms. Moreover, every department of the British Museum, apart from Japanese Antiquities, already contains material...work, is the spirit of his mentor, the pioneering Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. FIGURE 4 OMITTED Like the other artists represented...
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Stronger Than the Maxim Gun: Law, Human Rights and British Colonial Hegemony in Nigeria

Journal article by Bonny Ibhawoh; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002

Subjects:

British in Africa--History, Human rights--History, Imperialism--Nigeria, Nigeria--History, Rule of law--Nigeria

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...the provincial courts were British administrative officers who...most far-reaching. The main architect of the 1933 reforms was Governor...objectives. CONCLUSION British colonial administration in...than an objective to which the British were seriously committed. For...
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Who the Heck Is Don Bradman? Sport Culture and Social Class in British Columbia, Canada *

Journal article by Gerry Veenstra; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 44, 2007

Subjects:

Bradman, Donald, Sir--Public opinion, British Columbia--Social aspects, Cricket players--Public opinion, Social class--Analysis, Social classes--Analysis, Sports--Canada, Sports--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...struggle for distinction. Wright is the architect of a popular theory of "contradictory...from a questionnaire survey conducted in British Columbia, assembled in 2002 to investigate...Canadian classes. The "Toward a Healthy British Columbia" Questionnaire Survey The THBC...

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Don't Turn Bradford into Barcelona

Magazine article by Tristram Hunt; New Statesman, Vol. 129, October 16, 2000

Subjects:

Capitals (Cities)--Civic improvement and public works, Central-local government relations--Appreciation, England--Urban areas, Rogers, Richard(British architect and politician)--Evaluation, Urban beautification--Planning

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...our most influential architect of urban regeneration...Harvey Nichols to Leeds, British cities remain in crisis...the Labour peer and architect Richard Rogers, whose...quest is to turn every British city into an Amsterdam...Venetian palazzo style. The architect Thomas Worthington modelled...
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Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance

Magazine article by Ludmilla Jordanova; History Today, Vol. 54, March 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Inigo: the Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...considerable interest and importance in British history. Most readers will know that...1573-1652) has two main claims to fame: as an architect and as the designer of court masques...expertise in the visual arts. Historians of architecture, while they have fully recognised Jones...
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The British Museum at 250

Magazine article by Scarlet Cheng; World and I, Vol. 18, December 2003

Subjects:

British Museum--History

Collections: Entire Library

...from the public for 150 years. In 1998, the now independent British Library and its vast collections (including the manuscripts...Room, courtyard, and other gallery spaces for the museum. Architect Sir Norman Foster took on the job of making the courtyard area...
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The British Museum: 250 Years On

Magazine article by David M. Wilson; History Today, Vol. 52, October 2002

Subjects:

British Museum--History, Museums

Collections: History, Entire Library

...but many MPs had their own agenda, so that, by the time the British Museum Act received Royal Assent on June 7th, 1753, a newly...more space and in 1814 Sir Robert Smirke was first employed as architect by the Museum: over the next thirty years he designed and supervised...
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Was It British?

Magazine article by Gavin Weightman; History Today, Vol. 47, November 1997

Subjects:

Diana, Princess of Wales--Rites and ceremonies, National characteristics, British--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...government approved a structure of wood and plaster designed by the architect Sir Edward Lutyens. It was to be there for a few weeks. But...the Cenotaph should be as it is now. So, even in 1919, the British demonstrated that they were capable of emotion which officialdom...

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The Lost Vision in Our Plans for 2012; BRITISH ARCHITECT BEHIND THE BARCELONA EFFECT FEARS THE OLYMPICS WON'T REVIVE EAST LONDON

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Our Plans for 2012; BRITISH ARCHITECT BEHIND THE BARCELONA...GILLIGAN DAVID MACKAY, a British-born architect based in Spain, is...tradition of landscape architecture and putting buildings...wounding because he is British, and lived for years...
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The Fatal Flaw in Our Plans for 2012; THE BRITISH ARCHITECT BEHIND THE ACCLAIMED BARCELONA EFFECT FEARS THE OLYMPICS WON'T REVIVE EAST LONDON

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Plans for 2012; THE BRITISH ARCHITECT BEHIND THE ACCLAIMED...GILLIGAN DAVID MACKAY, a British-born architect based in Spain, is...tradition of landscape architecture and putting buildings...wounding because he is British, and lived for years...
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A Seductive Designer; (1)Alvar Aalto, the Finnish Architect Who Made the British Fall for Restrained Scandinavian Design, Is Celebrated at the Barbican(2)HOMES & PROPERTY

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 21, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Aalto, the Finnish Architect Who Made the British Fall for Restrained...Royal Institute of British Architects prestigious Gold...forest. He and his architect wife, Aino, designed...furniture captured British imaginations so completely...
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What's under Way ... and Still to Start; Shapely: British Land's "Cheesegrater" Building Go Ahead: New York Architect Rafael Vinoly Designed Walkie Talkie Tower

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 13, 2007

Subjects:

Architects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Still to Start; Shapely: British Lands "Cheesegrater" Building Go Ahead: New York Architect Rafael Vinoly Designed...Green R.A., Son and Lloyd architects andcompleted in 1956...office building, owned by British Land, built in 1969. It...
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Biggest Building Boom in the City for 60 Years; British Lands Cheesegrater Building New York Architect Rafael Vinoly Designed Walkie Talkie Tower

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 13, 2007

Subjects:

Architects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Building Boom in the City for 60 Years; British Lands Cheesegrater Building New York Architect Rafael Vinoly Designed Walkie Talkie Tower...FenchurchStreet. Rowan Moore, director of the Architecture Foundation, said cutting-edgebuildings such...

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British Library

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...authors, and other luminaries. In 1997 the library was moved to vast new quarters at Londons Kings Cross. Designed by British architect Colin St. John Wilson, the new library is spacious and multileveled, with four large reading rooms and several exhibition...
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Abercrombie, Sir Patrick

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ABERCROMBIE, SIR PATRICK 1879 1957, British architect and town planner. Professor of civil design at the Univ...rebuilding and planning of London, Edinburgh, Bath, and other British cities. He was knighted in 1945. His voluminous writing...
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Hadid, Zaha

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HADID, ZAHA 1950 , British architect, b. Baghdad, studied American...Koolhaas s Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1977 79), she established her...the boundaries of contemporary architecture with their spatial audacity, dynamic...
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Stirling, Sir James Frazer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

STIRLING, SIR JAMES FRAZER 1926 92, British architect, b. Glasgow, grad. Univ. of Liverpool school of architecture (1950). Settling in London, Stirling worked in partnership (1956 63) with James Gowan, and became known for straightforward and...
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Foster, Norman Robert, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FOSTER, NORMAN ROBERT, BARON FOSTER OF THAMES BANK 1935 , British architect, b. Manchester, grad. Manchester Univ. school of architecture (1961), Yale school of architecture (M.A., 1962). Foster and three other architects formed the influential...

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