When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family & his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home & tries to start again, but when the new rainy season arrives, so do his daughter's nightmares about the torrents, & life there becomes unbearable. So father & daughter
- & their dog
- embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey will take them far from their Caribbean island home, into other unknown harbours & eventually across a massive ocean. They will sail through archipelagos, encounter the grandeur of the sea, meet with the challenges & surprises of the natural world. A miraculous future lies ahead of them, unknown territories await to be discovered. But it will take more than an ocean to put the memory of the flood behind them...

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Stretching from the tip of Florida to the mouth of the Orinoco & west to Panama, this is an interesting map dating from 1700. Towns are marked & named, mountain ranges are drawn in as are major rivers. The sea is embellished with drawings of ships & whales, & latitude & longitude lines are drawn. In the top right hand corner of the map is a picture of settlers disembarking from their ships. Reproduced on heavyweight, parchment effect paper, with a generous border area. Paper size; 40 x 28.5 cm (15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches) Map

Size: 34.2 x 22.7 (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches)

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A collection of six pop-up notecards & envelopes, featuring: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Tower Bridge, the Rialto, the Chengyang Wind & Rain Bridge, & Millau Viaduct This inventive collection of notecards combines the magic of pop-ups with the beauty of contemporary bridges. Inside each box, architecture & design lovers will find the majesty of Sydney Harbour Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Tower Bridge, the Rialto, the Chengyang Wind & Rain Bridge, & Millau Viaduct. Featuring six unique architectural designs, crafted out of white cardstock & backlit by fluorescent paper on the underside, the cards are perfect to send to friends or to keep as a lasting reminder of some of the world’s best-loved examples of modern design. ...

Here is a beautifully presented set of notecards with a coolly modern twist. Presented in an attractive, souvenir box with paper-&-string closure, each notecard features a different pop-up design. They are ideal to send to friends or family, or to keep as a lasting reminder of some of the world`s best-loved buildings, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Pompidou Centre, Paris; Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany; Sydney Opera House; Villa Savoye, Poissy, France; & the Royal Festival Hall, London. ...

Discover the essential skills required on the way to becoming an architect in this innovative activity book. Architect Academy gives kids the know-how to plan & draw all sorts of structures, from bridges & schools, to parks & pyramids. Activities range from designing a residential street, & your perfect play park to learning some of the maths skills used by architects, how to read floor plans, & the basics of interior design. The Architect Toolbag section contains all sorts of goodies, such as Architect Task stickers to use when a challenge is completed, a pull-out poster, & press-out game cards to share with friends. Encourages imaginative play & problem solving Fresh, contemporary artwork helps to make basic design & space-planning concepts accessible

Includes:: loads of great extras: stickers, a pull-out poster, a game, & cards to play with

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Brazil, the big B of the BRIC countries, is in high spirits. The current upswing involving booming economic growth & cultural development is accompanied by good architecture: a great number of outstanding buildings have emerged, reviving international interest in Brazilian architecture. This publication provides an exciting selection of 220 modern buildings from the canonical works of Brazilian modern architecture to barely-known buildings; from works of the six best-known Brazilian masters namely, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Joao Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, & Joao Filgueiras Lima (Lele) to those of young aspiring architectural offices. Coming from different cultural contexts & professional backgrounds, the three authors favoured an open-minded approach to Brazilian production. Considering the vastness of the country & the enormous number of projects, the selection presented here is far from exhaustive but presents a panoramic overview that helps the traveller to see good architecture. ...

This guide book is a must-have for all who are interested in European architecture & its rich history of diversified culture. Undoubtedly Riga is famous for its unique mixture of styles & traces of war & politics: German roots, Art Nouveau at its highest quality, Soviet Modernism, & a young European`s nation on its way to architectural profile. In 1997 the central part of Riga was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Daugava embankment & numerous streets with medieval roots encircle this special area. The author`s selection provides descriptions of nearly 800 buildings & various places in Riga & its vicinity. Buildings of all historical periods & architectural styles are described, ranging from centuries old monuments to buildings currently under construction. ...

This guide is a celebration of the works of professional architects in three South African metropolitan centres, namely Cape Town, Durban & the Johannesburg/ Pretoria Axis. The content ranges from the early years of European settlement, where architects were trained by the military schools of engineering, through the period of apprenticeship either to a recognised practicing architect or in public works, to the twentieth century & beyond, where architects were regulated as professionals by legislation, as was their education. The projects selected are all secular, being either in the public domain or eye, & therefore readily accessible. This guide is structured along main themes, each historically located. Each episode or project type featured is highlighted by a representative from each metropolitan centre, each being discussed in broader detail alongside similar contemporaneous local examples. In total the guide features over a hundred-&-fifty projects with all salient information as to their dates of construction, designers & locality (by way of QR codes). ...

Venice is undoubtedly one of the most written upon cities & certainly the most photographed one. & yet another guide on Venice? Five walking tours take you to discover the modern Venice, the less known side of the city, hidden & far away from the well known places. These proposed itinerates take you to the new residential areas & restored warehouse docks, to the works of Carlo Scarpa & Tadao Ando, to modern restructurations & the controversial & much discussed MOSE project (Experimental Electromechanical Module) against the high water. Venice`s unrealized but as famous projects are also included, where you can let your imagination take you to Loius Kahn`s Congress Centre or Le Corbusier`s hospital. Current aerial photographs showcase Venice from unknown perspectives. ...

The exotic architecture of Japan`s capital city fascinates architecture aficionados around the world. This new Tokyo architectural guide is an indispensable companion for anyone seeking to explore the architecture of one of the world`s largest & most complex cities. Two hundred of Tokyo`s most interesting buildings from the post-1945 era are introduced in pictures & informative texts. Photographs, plans, & several indices complete this practical & user-friendly guide, with maps making the buildings easy to locate. Included is a foreword by one of the most knowledgeable authorities on Japanese architecture, Professor Botond Bognar who discusses many of the buildings in the book in the context of East Asian architecture. ...