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The Castles of Scotland

The Castles of Scotland


ISBN: 9781841584492
Category: Architecture, Scottish History, History
Author: Martin Coventry
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis:

The Castles of Scotland is the most complete and comprehensive guide available to the nation’s wealth of castles. This new edition is the culmination of ten years’ research, and covers more than 2700 castles as well as mansions and historic houses.


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Rebuilding Scotland

Rebuilding Scotland


ISBN: 9781898410331
Category: Architecture
Author: Miles Glendinning
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

This book, drawing on a recent pioneering series of national symposia and exhibitions presents an introductory reassessment of thirty years of vigorous, but until recently misunderstood transformations of Scotland’s built environment.


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Terry Farrell in Scotland

Terry Farrell in Scotland


ISBN: 9781862322752
Category: Architecture
Author: Terry Farrell
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

In the decade since Terry Farrell and Partners founded their office in Scotland, three major buildings and two public squares have been designed and constructed in the capital. This book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, explores the philosop
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Lost Ayrshire

Lost Ayrshire


ISBN: 9781841584362
Category: Local History, Architecture
Author: Dane Love
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

Over the centuries, countless buildings have been built and demolished throughout the county of Ayrshire. This informative and beautifully illustrated book looks at a wide selection of these, from castles and country houses to mines and mills from Ayrshire's rich industrial past.


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The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh

The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh


ISBN: 9781841586137
Category: Local History, History, Architecture
Author: Roger Miket and David Roberts
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

This readable yet informative book explores the castles of Hebridean myth.


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Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's Buildings

Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's Buildings


ISBN: 9781862321236
Category: Ethnology Series, Architecture
Author: (Editors) Geoffrey Stell, John Shaw, Susan Storrier
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: HB
Price: £40.00
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Synopsis:

This third volume in the Scottish Life and Society series investigates the history of Scotland's buildings and other functional structures, including gardens and canals.


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Lost Aberdeen: Aberdeen's Lost Architectural Heritage

Lost Aberdeen: Aberdeen's Lost Architectural Heritage


ISBN: 9781841583907
Category: Local History, History, Architecture
Author: Diane Morgan
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

In Lost Aberdeen, handsomely illustrated and rich in fact and lore, Diane Morgan investigates the history and fate of numerous city buildings which had considerable historic and architectural importance.

        
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Unbuilt Edinburgh

Unbuilt Edinburgh


ISBN: 9781841589053
Category: Architecture, History
Author: Alexander Mullay
Publication Date: November 2010
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published   

Synopsis:

With Edinburgh holding Word Heritage Site status, the preservation of the city’s classic buildings has been paramount to the city fathers – despite myriad plans to level large swathes of the existing architecture and totally redesign the cityscape. So what might have been? Alexander Mullay takes us on a guided tour of Edinburgh as it would have looked had any of the disregarded plans gone ahead.


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Lost Dundee

Lost Dundee


ISBN: 9781841588155
Category: Architecture, History
Author: Charles McKean and Patricia Whatley
Publication Date: April 2010
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:
Presents the second city of renaissance Scotland showing, through photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. This title illustrates Dundee's transformation into a major Georgian town at the centre of the flax trade between St Petersburg and the USA.
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