100 20th-Century Sports and Leisure Buildings

Typ okładki:twarda okładka

EAN: 9781849949408

Opis

A showcase of Britain’s most architecturally significant sports and leisure buildings from the twentieth century and beyond.

100 20th Century Sports and Leisure Buildings gives a fascinating insight into the spaces where we play: from swimming pools and skate parks to ice rinks and cricket pavilions. These structures are not only an intensely evocative part of our shared social heritage but some of the most architecturally innovative constructions of the past century.

The twentieth century saw a rapid expansion in the public provision for sports and leisure as workers won the right to paid holiday, prompting a boom in the construction of municipal lidos, pools and sports grounds. Later in the century leisure centres brought together facilities for a whole range of sports with an emphasis on family fun, combining environmentally controlled environments with soaring engineering and playful pop imagery. Space-age geodesic domes, diamond-glazed pyramids, castellated forts, brutalist elephants and Moorish postmodern palaces are just a few of the highlights of this idiosyncratic genre.

Also included are expert essays on particular building types and an introduction with a strong campaigning element – with the decimation of local authority budgets forcing the closure of many centres and pools, this is a timely exploration that provides a crucial record of this key part of our cultural heritage.

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Szczegóły

Liczba stron: 256

Wymiary: 22.0x22.0

Typ okładki:twarda okładka

Wydawca: Batsford

Tytuł:100 20th-Century Sports and Leisure Buildings

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Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Art and Photography

EAN: 9781849949408

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