With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods.The use of CAD technologies in the production of physical models, prototypes and individual elements is increasingly wi...

The physical model is an important communication tool for architects. Although the proliferation of CAD programs has enabled the creation of increasingly complex computer models and virtual environments, there is also a growing need to address the three-dimensional qualities of architecture that may be lost when using such media.This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for modelling the built environment with all the different media and techniques available. In describing t...

The Via Francigena is the ancient route from Canterbury to Rome – 1900 kms through the heart of Europe. For centuries pilgrims have been drawn to the many religious shrines along its way and now, in northern France, they come to pay their respects at the cemeteries and battlefields of the First and Second World Wars.In this personal account, Nick Dunne makes a walking pilgrimage along the Via Francigena and the Western Front from London through Belgium and France to the medieval ci...

The Via Francigena is the ancient pilgrim route from Canterbury to Rome - 1900 kms through some of the most beautiful and dramatic scenery in England, France, Switzerland and Italy. Nick Dunne resumes his walking pilgrimage at The Crowned Mountain, the medieval hilltop city of Laon in Picardy, for a journey which takes him through the battlefields of the Chemin des Dames to Besancon and Lausanne and along the route of Napoleon's daring military expedition across the Alps to Aosta. The pilg...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideol...

Not your typical Sherlock Holmes adventures…Nick Dunn-Meynell’s new collection, A Proof Reader’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, contains twelve sequels - of sorts - to each of the original stories in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, which first appeared in The Strand from 1891 to 1892. Within this book, you’ll find a series of conversations between Holmes and Watson, each immediately taking place at the conclusion of one of the Adventures.These aren’t typical Sherlockian pastiches - the r...

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of arts practices as well as commercial branding are used to explore narratives that reveal latent characteristics of u...

From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself the greatest war in the history of mankind rages on. While the traitor Legions continue their campaign of terror across the galaxy, preparations are made for the defence of the Imperial Palace and the final, inevitable reckoning that must yet come between Horus and the Emperor... This anthology spans the entire Horus Heresy, with short stories from Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Gav Thorpe, as well as two br...

While loyalist and traitor forces clash on a thousand battlefields across the galaxy, a very different kind of war is being fought in the shadows - a war of subtlety and subterfuge, unknown to many, but one that surely holds the key to victory for either side. Rogal Dorn and his Legion prepare to defend the Solar System against the armies of the Warmaster Horus, even as Malcador the Sigillite charges his many agents and spies with missions of the utmost secrecy. The future of the Imperium ...

After the betrayal at Isstvan, Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor, a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father and son is a long one seven years filled with secrecy and silence, plans and foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus Heresy, and revelations will surface that will shake the Imperium to its very foundation... Age ...

Created in the Emperor’s own image, the primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the universe and masters of their own destiny they led the Space Marine Legions in glorious conquest of the galaxy, and no enemy of the Imperium could stand against them. However, even amongst this legendary brotherhood, the seeds of dissent had been sown long before the treacherous Warmaster Horus declared his grand heresy. ABOUT THE BOOK Gathered within this anthology are four novellas focusing...

They appear from nowhere, spectral warriors of living shadow, wreathed in sorcerous flames and adorned with sigils of death. They come at times of great need, when servants of the Emperor face their mightiest challenges, with the fate of worlds at stake. None know who they truly are, where they come from or where they go at battle's end. They never speak, simply bringing the Emperor's fury to all who would stand against them. They are known only as the Legion of the Damned....