When Christopher Somerville, author of the 'The January Man', set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals - Britain possesses over 100 - as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who...

In the Islamic tradition, a garden is a shaded place for rest and reflection and gardens play a central role in everyday life in the Islamic world. Monty Don and acclaimed photographer, Derry Moore, set off on a journey to find out how a very different culture and climate has influenced garden design. Their journey starts in the historical and stunning gardens of Andalucia before heading east to the beating heart of Islam: Turkey, Iran and India....

The garden designer George Carter, a Gold Medallist at the Chelsea Flower Show is noted for his subtle and witty approach to garden design. Presently engaged in restoring the gardens at the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, he has designed and made gardens for Burleigh, Penshurst and other stately homes, together with many smaller gardens, all using ingenious ideas for their embellishment and decoration. He also designs the annual, sold-out exhibition at...

Harry and David Rich (Chelsea Flower Show Gold winners and co-presenters of BBC's 'Garden Rescue', with Charlie Dimmock) are all about making the most of the garden that you have, working with nature to transform your outdoor space into a green haven. Using the building blocks of conceptual architectural design and landscaping, Harry and David are setting out to help you decide what works best for you, fusing different outdoor elements, such as coastal...

Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end. It is a story that can never be completed - not as long as mankind continues to build, to invent, to discover; it is the story told in this book.

From airports to Ziggurats, this title explores the world's greatest buildings with illustrations that take you to the heart of the world's landmark buildings. It explores 5,000 years of architectural design, style, and construction.

This work brings together the work of Antoni Gaudi and Salvador Dali in order to present a rich comparative study. A section on each artist provides a brief biography and an examination of some major works while a third section compares the images and ideas of the two artists.

The productive garden at Lord Rothschild's private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. Under the leadership of the renowned head gardener, Sue Dickinson, this garden works on a scale that is now rare, producing, year-round, all the fruit, vegetables and flowers for a country house where entertaining still happens...

If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks. As horizons shrank, we took stock. At first, a sense of panic set in. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Then we all went to the park, and we realized something. We need greenery, we crave it. Whether we're in Colombia or Korea, America or Australia, urban parks are places where we can find calm amid the chaos. They can also (more often than we may realize) conceal intriguing hidden...

Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, 14 storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of 20th-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism. Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Louis Sullivan,...