Only occasionally do refurbishments of historic structures achieve a quality and character greater than that of the existing building. Ron Herron's Imagination Headquarters, like Richard Rogers' new Billingsgate or Carlo Scarpa's reworking of the Castelvecchio, is just such a project. Herron brings together old and new technologies and complements them with a spatial panache that renders this as one of London's most exciting new buildings.
'Architecture In Detail' is a superbly photographed and technically informative series of monographs which embraces a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings, drawn predominantly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each sixty-page volume contains a lucid text by a respected author; a sequence of large-format, high-quality colour and black and white photographs; a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details; and a complete bibliography and chronology, thus making these books the definitive work on the subject. They are essential purchases for enthusiasts, practitioners and students alike.
