Britain's Imperial Architecture

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Queen Victoria became Empress of India in 1877. This symbolic event was followed by the transformation of Britain into the seat of self-consciously imperial power. Britain's industrial and imperial might financed an architectural golden age, which saw the Dickensian rookeries replaced with model housing; civic life improved through new town halls, bath houses and libraries; God glorified in new churches and cathedrals; Mammon pursued in banks, Exchanges and commercial buildings; and the Empire celebrated in numerous sculptural projects. It was as a result of Britain's global reach that Greenwich was chosen as the world's Meridian in 1884.

An illustrated celebration of the architectural legacy of the British Empire and the national confidence and prosperity that led to a new-found grandeur and scale in the architecture commissioned from this time until the inter-war years, and a deliberate tendency towards the memorial and the monumental â?? to create buildings that, as intended, are not just still standing today but remain as unignorable and awe-inspiring as when they were first built.

Divided into groups of buildings by function:

Royal and Government

Education

Transport

Military and Naval

Restaurants, Places of Entertainment

City, Commerce and Industry

Monuments

Museums

Religion

Private Houses

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 05, 2015

ISBN 13: 9781781312254

Britain's Imperial Architecture

Clive Aslet

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Pages: 192

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