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This rare book invited homeowners of the Victorian era to eschew "white houses with green blinds" and join in the revolutionary trend towards colorful houses. They explain clearly how to mix primary and secondary colors to achieve such popular, mellow tones of the period as olive, russet, citrine, buff, plum, and sage. 20 color plates.
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Martello Towers Worldwide follows the history of the Martello tower from the construction of the early towers built to protect the Mediterranean shores of Spain and Italy right up to the final towers built in the United Kingdom during the First World War.
The book is illustrated with a large number of contemporary and historic photographs, drawings and plans, a very large number of which were not included in the earlier Towers of Strength. These...
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FYI. Income volume 1
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Colorado Department of Revenue, Taxpayer Service Division
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2011
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1 online resource (2 p.)
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Perhaps your museum's archives have run out of space, or its public programs have outgrown their facility. Perhaps a generous donor or an energetic campaign has provided the funding for a renovation, a new wing, or a new building. Whatever the circumstances, small and midsized museums can find themselves taking on a construction project. But those responsible for seeing that it's done right-board members, museum professionals, and skilled museum volunteers-are...
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Considering the constant transformation and destruction of cultural heritage buildings in our cities and the effort to preserve what has survived, this book, proposes a methodology that helps the professional integrate contemporary architecture in cultural heritage contexts.
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A broad-based approach to preservation. After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is going, anticipating that historic preservation must encourage collaborative projects among planning, design, and development professionals. This text focuses on...
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A celebration of the great American lighthouses, their keepers, their histories, and their ongoing stories
For more than two centuries, lighthouses have helped sailors find their way through treacherous waters, guiding them home or taking them safely through passages on their way to adventure. These historic towers and houses form a sparkling chain of lights along our coasts, a reminder of the past echoing with adventure and mystery, a lure for travelers...
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Galveston Architecture: A Visual Journey is a photographic journey of the architecture and history of select 100 buildings in Galveston, Texas with photographs by World Heritage Photographer, Pino Shah, and narratives by Galveston Historical Foundation (GHF).
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Originally published in 1905, this work contains a wealth of information on various aspects of the history of London and its buildings. Beautifully illustrated, the author takes the reader on a tour of the buildings that began to vanish from the city at the turn of the 19th century. The following passage is taken from the preface:
'The writer, for many years, has employed his spare time in examining those older portions of London which have now been...
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Partez à la découverte de la grotte de Lascaux avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
La découverte de Lascaux fit soudainement entrer l'art dans la préhistoire de l’humanité; c'était en 1940, alors que les recherches préhistoriques nées en France et particulièrement développées dans le Périgord n'étaient pas encore centenaires...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur la grotte de Lascaux
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Partez à la découverte de la grotte de Bruniquel avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
La grotte de Bruniquel est localisée dans le sud-ouest de la France, dans le département du Tarn-et-Garonne. Exploré à partir de 1990, ce vaste site souterrain recèle notamment des indices d'occupation humaine...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur la grotte de Bruniquel.
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Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators, volunteers, and policy makers involved in preservation efforts.
An introduction traces the evolution of historic preservation in America, highlighting the principal ideas and events...
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Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.
Despite their value as urban property, Toronto's workers' cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But, for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been, driven off their...
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The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40-years, Titus Burckhardt worked, to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez, in particular, and Morocco, in general. These newly translated lectures, delivered while Burckhardt was living and working in Fez, explore how the historic city can be, preserved without turning it from a...
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In 1937, three young men, Tony Smith, Ted van Fossen and Laurence Cuneo met at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, a school headed by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. When the school closed after a year, Smith and Cuneo joined Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, a total learning environment that combined fine arts with architecture, with an emphasis on learning-by-doing and designing to be in harmony with nature. In 1939, Ted van Fossen received a commission to design...
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