Terracotta

Church of Sant' Agostino (near the Broletto), Brescia: detail of archivolts from a window above the main rose window

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NOTES: In addition to being a landscape and architectural painter, lithographer and archaeologist, Bouet was also appointed Inspecteur de la Societe Francaise d'Archeologie. This drawing is one of a number of topographical studies and details of French, German, Italian and Swiss medieval architecture executed by him between around 1850 and 1865.

The Broletto, Brescia: detail of archivolts

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NOTES: In addition to being a landscape and architectural painter, lithographer and archaeologist, Bouet was also appointed Inspecteur de la Societe Francaise d'Archeologie. This drawing is one of a number of topographical studies and details of French, German, Italian and Swiss medieval architecture executed by him between around 1850 and 1865.

Odeon cinema, 6-8 Cherrydown Avenue, Chingford Mount, London

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Mather, Andrew (1891-1938)

NOTES: Taken over by Classic in 1967, this cinema closed in 1972. It was demolished to make way for offices and a retail development.

Doulton House, headquarters for the Royal Doulton Potteries, Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London: the Embankment facade

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T. P. Bennett & Son

NOTES: These offices and showrooms were built on the site of the old Doulton Dock and were demolished in 1978.

Picture of Doulton House, headquarters for the Royal Doulton Potteries, Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London: close-up of the panel above the Embankment entrance depicting 'Pottery Through the Ages' by Gilbert Bayes

Doulton House, headquarters for the Royal Doulton Potteries, Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London: close-up of the panel above the Embankment entrance depicting 'Pottery Through the Ages' by Gilbert Bayes

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Bayes, Gilbert (1872-1953)

NOTES: These offices and showrooms were built on the site of the old Doulton Dock and were demolished in 1978.

Sprinkenhof, Kontorhaus quarter, Hamburg: the brick and terracotta facade of the middle-tract

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Gerson, Hans (1881-1931)

NOTES: This building is the largest of its kind in the Kontorhaus quarter, and takes up two complete blocks. It was built in three stages from 1927-1943.

Chiesetta del Santo Spirito, via Val d'Aposa, Bologna

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The Certosa di Pavia: the great cloister

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Rinaldo di Stauris (fl. 1463-1478)

NOTES: The Certosa (Charterhouse) di Pavia is a Carthusian monastery built between 1396 and 1452. A passage connects the great cloister of 122 arches to the small cloister, completed in 1465. The terracotta decoration of the small pilasters was executed by Rinaldo de Stauris in 1478.

Study of the head of a glazed terracotta angel from a church altarpiece by Andrea Della Robbia, Milan

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Della Robbia, Andrea (1435-1525)

NOTES: This image is from a volume of drawings (entitled Vol I) by various designers produced for or presented to the Quarto Imperial Club, London, between 1889 and 1891.

Picture of RCA Victor Building (General Electric Building), 570 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street, New York: close-up of the tower with diagonal and zigzag designs depicting the electricity of radio transmission

RCA Victor Building (General Electric Building), 570 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street, New York: close-up of the tower with diagonal and zigzag designs depicting the electricity of radio transmission

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RCA Victor Building (General Electric Building), 570 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street, New York: the main entrance

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Cross & Cross

Picture of Design for the Central Technical College for the City and Guilds of London Institute, Exhibition Road, Kensington, London: perspective from the south-east

Design for the Central Technical College for the City and Guilds of London Institute, Exhibition Road, Kensington, London: perspective from the south-east

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Waterhouse, Alfred (1830-1905)

NOTES: The Central Technical College was incorporated into Imperial College in 1910.