Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings parks and gardens

parks and gardens

newly qualified professionals and conservation architects and will enhance readers’ ambitions

building owners and occupiers

Publisher: RIBA PublishingFormat: PaperbackPages: 280ISBN: 9781914124471Publication Date: April 2023

Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings Public & Commercial Buildings parks and gardensAn ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of