Architectural drawings and sketchbooks on display

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The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England is to put some of its large collection of architectural drawings and sketchbooks on permanent display in a new architecture gallery. The Museum holds some 35,000 drawings covering Western architecture from the late middle ages onwards and including works by Robert Adam, Guilio Romana, Richard Norman Shaw and Denys Lasdum. The drawings will be complimented by a room dedicated to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright including the interior of an office he designed for Edgar Kaufmann.

Architecture, Collections and collecting, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Victoria and Albert Museum

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Buried beneath the street

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An exhibition depicting the extent of underground structures in London, England provides a fascinating and informative display. The first subterranean pipes were built in 1609 to bring water from Hertfordshire to the capital. Gas mains followed in 1812 and Brunel pioneered modern tunneling techniques with the first underwater tunnel in the world in 1818. The underground railways and reservoirs followed during the 19th Century. Current projects are also detailed including the water ring main and railway developments.

Underground construction

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The Bermondsey irregular

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An area of Bermondsey, south-east London, is being redeveloped with the conversion of existing buildings and the addition of some new buildings. The Little London scheme is considered the prototype of a small urban village. There are a mixture of uses and old buildings have been repaired and new buildings of an appropriate scale inserted. The developer is Andrew Wadsworth and the architects Brown Ibbotson Charnley. The cost of the part of the scheme so far completed is about 5.5 million pounds sterling.

City planning, Urban planning, England

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