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Dostępność: na zamówienie Architecture showcase featuring lavishly illustrated plans and photography. Following the success of "IMAGES' first 100 of the World's Best Houses" book, we searched the globe for another collection of amazing houses. The result of this search is "Another 100 of the World's Best Houses".
When John Ruskin attempted to disparage the Crystal Palace by referring to it as ‘a great cucumber frame’, he hit upon a truism. The Crystal Palace outdid its Victorian glasshouse contemporaries in public gardens around the world and represented the zenith of a building type that had developed spectacularly from humble horticultural roots. The Glasshouse traces the evolution of glass enclosures from the mid-seventeenth century when the desire to nurture exotic plants in a foreign and often hostile climate led to the development of the glasshouse and ingenious mechanical servicing systems, capable of creating its own artificial microclimate.
