Public Buildings

An architect's illustrated guide to the latest developments and designs for state-of-the-art swimming pools, garden pools and other flat surface water features.

Explores the Ka'ba as it has been conceptualised, represented and used by Muslims from the earliest period of Islam onwards.

Who manages our data? A look behind the scenes of state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. Data centers are high-tech functional buildings, strictly protected treasuries and covert centers of power. The first comprehensive analysis of the history and present of IT infrastructures using the example of Switzerland.

The first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s, Modern Playhouses draws on a vast range of archival material to present the history of post-war theatre buildings as a history of ideas relating not only to performance but also to culture, citizenship, and the modern city.