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Park Hill Estate, Sheffield
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NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.
Waterloo Bridge seen from the South Bank with Somerset House across the river, London
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NOTES: Sir G. G. Scott designed Waterloo Bridge, completed in 1945, while Sir William Chambers was responsible for the Palladian style Somerset House, Strand, completed in 1796.
View of trees and fields in the grounds of Langley Park, Beckenham, London, following proposed alterations: perspective showing an ornamental lake, bridge and garden temple
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NOTES: This sketch is one of a number from Humphrey Repton's 'Red Book' for Langley Park, Beckenham, London, one of the seats of Sir Peter Burrell (1790). Repton would produce a Red Book for each of his proposed landscape schemes. These bound volumes of essays and watercolours served as persuasive marketing tools for his work and included both 'before' and 'after' views of the development sites utilising overlaid paper flaps to indicate Repton's suggested improvements.
Roman aqueduct, Old Town, Segovia
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NOTES: The construction of the aqueduct follows the principles laid out by Vitruvius as he describes in his De Architectura published in the mid-first century
