Category Archives: Travel Guides
Delhi Architectural Guide
The prolific architectural legacy of Delhi is remarkable not only for its antiquity but also its diversity. While the period of antiquity encompass various types of Hindu, Islamic and Colonial architecture, it is modern architecture that laid the foundation of post-independent development of the city. Today, the city has been engulfed by an explosion of
Pyongyang: Architectural and Cultural Guide
“Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang – a city of three million inhabitants rising from rubble after the Korean War of the 1950s. This guide offers unprecedented insights into the capital of what is probably the most isolated country in the world, ruled
Tel Aviv: Architectural Guide
Home to over 4,000 constructions built in a modernist style influenced by the Bauhaus, Tel Aviv`s White City is a world-renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site. This guide, written by the renowned conservation architect Sharon Golan Yaronm the co-founder and program director of the White City Center, offers the key to exploring the most important architectural
South Africa: Architectural Guide
This guide is a celebration of the works of professional architects in three South African metropolitan centres, namely Cape Town, Durban and the Johannesburg/Pretoria Axis. The content ranges from the early years of European settlement, where architects were trained by the military schools of engineering, through the period of apprenticeship either to a recognised practicing
Riga: Architectural Guide
This guide book is a must-have for all who are interested in European architecture and its rich history of diversified culture. Undoubtedly Riga is famous for its unique mixture of styles and traces of war and politics: German roots, Art Nouveau at its highest quality, Soviet Modernism, and a young European`s nation on its way
Yerevan: Architectural Guide
Yerevan and Mount Ararat – which is within clear view – occupy significant places within Armenian culture, even allowing that today`s capital once lay elsewhere prior to the devastating earthquake of 1679 and also that Mount Ararat now falls within Turkish territory. Natural catastrophes together with the genocide of 1915 are etched deeply into the
Venice: Architectural Guide
Venice is undoubtedly one of the most written upon cities and certainly the most photographed one. And yet another guide on Venice? Five walking tours take you to discover the modern Venice, the less known side of the city, hidden and far away from the well known places. These proposed itinerates take you to the
Mexico City: Architectural Guide
From the capital of the Aztec Empire to one of the largest megalopolises today, Mexico City has withstood enormous changes throughout its history. An overarching mosaic of Aztec, Hispanic and contemporary Western cultures has determined the exuberant metropolis we know today, with both local and world-renowned artists and architects having invested their talents in this
Chile: Architectural Guide
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Atacama Desert and the Pacific Coast: even today the apperception of Chile remains remote and indistinct. There is no doubt that its geographical location – confined between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountain range – has had a role to play in the relative nescience, although it was the former
Milan: Architectural Guide
From the 1920s onwards, Milan has become a laboratory of architecture due to architects such as Giuseppe Terragni, Gio Ponti and Giuseppe Pagano. Magazines such as Domus and Casabella were founded in the 1920s which influenced international debate throughout the 20th century. A new trend arose following the reconstruction of the city due to damages
The Peacock
Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands; add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a teambuilding trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook; get Lord and Lady McIntosh to try and keep it all together; and top it off with all sorts of animals
Astana: Architectural Guide
Amid the endless plains of Kazakhstan, an extraordinary architectural experiment has arisen: Astana. Formerly an outpost of the Tsarist Empire in the barren steppe, the location had developed into a typical Soviet provincial town. However, both internationally renowned and local architects are now designing spectacular and unique buildings in this dynamic city.The Astana Architectural Guide
Madgermanes
Translated by Katy Derbyshire’Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them
Indonesia: Architectural Guide
The fifth largest population in the world is rapidly expanding. For the past seven decades, both Indonesian and international architects have developed new ideas in order to fulfil the demands of the country`s 250million inhabitants, in line with economic progress. Imelda Akmal`s `Architectural Guide Indonesia` presents over one hundred must-visit buildings which date from the
The Bureau of Past Management
Each of us has something that feels essential to who we are. For Hans Frambach, it`s the crimes of the Nazi era, which have hurt him for as long as he can remember. That`s why he became an archivist at the Bureau of Past Management; now, though, he`s wondering if he should make a change.
Hawaii – Kauai Nelles
Hawaiian islands of Kauai with Niihau at 1:150,000 from Nelles, plus seven additional panels proving street plans of main towns with their indexes also listing places of interest, selected accommodation, etc. The two islands, presented on separate panels, have bold relief shading to show their topography, plus spot heights and names of peaks, ridges, etc.
Norway:: Architectural Guide: Buildings and Projects from 2000 to 2020
Today, many loudly proclaim the need to conserve resources. Norway puts this into practice, consistently implementing the principle of environmental protection – not only through the use of innovative technologies, but also by making buildings and developed areas as friendly as possible to both humans and the natural world. Although Norwegian architects face a variety
