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Building Beautiful: Classical Houses by John Simpson
New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world's leading practitioners of New...
Building an Affordable House: Second Edition
While building trends may change, one thing does not: the need to build quality homes at affordable prices. And in today's building market, sustainability is an important part of building...
The Australian House Building Manual
A step-by-step guide to house building, for builders, apprentice training, owner builders, designers, and teaching institutions. Contents cover brick veneer, timber frames, cavity brick, and concrete blocks.
The Classic Hewn-Log House: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and
A classic of early American architecture, the hewn-log house has a unique rustic charm and character. In this engaging and informative guide, Charles McRaven provides illustrated step-by-step instructions that cover...
The Sustainable House Handbook: How to plan and build an affordable, energy-efficient and waterwise home for the future
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Reclaimed: New homes from old materials
Bricks can be cleaned, timber hardens with age and metal develops a pleasing patina without deteriorating, making them all perfect for reuse. Yet every day more building materials are being...
Stonebuilder's Primer
Writer Charles Long has a well-earned reputation as one of North America's self-sufficiency experts. More than 20 years ago, he and his wife, Elizabeth, fled city life and conventional employment...
The Home Book
The Home Book is an essential guide to anyone about to embark on building or refurbishing a house. The book takes is through the multitude of factors involved in making...
LEGO How to Build Everything!
A guide to building 150 different LEGO ideas, with tips and techniques from expert LEGO builders. Discover how to build everything with LEGO bricks! Be inspired by 200 awesome LEGO...
Minecraft Magical Bite-Size Builds
Learn how to build 20 enchanting mini-builds in Minecraft, with step-by-step instructions. Add some magic to your Overworld with these 20 new mini-projects, from mermaid lagoons and genie lamps to...
Grand Designs Handbook: The blueprint for building your dream home
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Fine Houses Of Sydney
$60.00 AUD
Author: Robert Irving, John Kinstler, Max DupainBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen Australia, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis architectural volume, Fine Houses Of Sydney, documents the exquisite residential structures that...
Messana O'Rorke: Building Blocks
Author: Mayer Rus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Drawing on examples of their own instantly recognisable Minimalist-inflected designs, often evoking the work of Donald Judd, celebrated architects Messana O'Rorke...
Barndominiums: Your Guide to a Perfect, Inexpensive Dream Home
Author: Chris Peterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Plan your barn-conversion dream home guided by inspiring real-life examples and practical, cost-effective solutions. Move over she sheds, the next innovation...
Your Home: Buying, Selling, Renovating, Building
Why are renovations booming? What is gazumping and is it legal? How long does it take to build a house? What is a reverse mortgage? All the answers are here,...
The House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice
In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal. Contarini demolished the old palace...
Heavy Timber Structures: Creating Comfort in Public Spaces
In the triumvirate of dominant structural building materials-wood, metal, and masonry-each has its advantages, but none are as intertwined with the human spirit as wood. Thirty-five public buildings illustrate how...
Live Natural: A Relaxed Approach to Creating Healthy Homes
A beautiful, inspiring guide to building, designing, and decorating a natural living space that is healthier for your family and for the planet."In Live Natural, Ali Davin puts functionality before...
Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living
An elevated yet accessible follow-up to Lauren Liess's Habitat, showcasing her signature easy-living lifestyleDown to Earth picks up right where Lauren Liess's critically acclaimed Habitat left off. While Habitat walked...
Restoring Old Australian Houses & Buildings: An Architectural Guide
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFor anyone passionate about preserving Australia's built heritage, Restoring Old Australian Houses & Buildings: an architectural guide is an indispensable resource that...
Robert Konieczny: KWK Promes: buildings + ideas
Robert Konieczny, founder and principal of KWK Promes, in Poland, specialises in projects renowned for inventive concepts and unique design. His works examine closely the nature and interpretations of spatial...
Inspecting a House
$12.00 AUD
This pro-level guide to inspecting a house is a tool for evaluating property inside and out. It includes a discussion of current building materials, heating, electrical and plumbing systems, foundations,...
The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
$60.00 AUD
This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that...
Principles Of Modern Building: Volume One
$30.00 AUD
Author: F.M. LeaBinding: HardbackPublished: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner details to FEP, slight tear to back of DJ,...
Good Guys, Wise Guys, and Putting Up Buildings: A Life in Construction
$15.00 AUD
Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development,...
The Buildings Of England: Suffolk
$30.00 AUD
Author: Nikolaus PevsnerBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Penguin Books, 1961Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative architectural guide, The Buildings Of England:...
Adjaye: Works 2007-2015: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings
The second volume in Thames & Hudson's monographic series on global architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 RIBA royal gold medal. Following on from Adjaye - Works: Houses,...
BuildHer: Empowering women to build & renovate their Australian dream
Renovating or building your own home is one of the biggest investments (financially and emotionally) you can ever make. For years, the BuildHer Collective have helped women around the world...
The End Was To Build Well: A Half-Century Of Australian Government Building Research
$20.00 AUD
Author: Geoff BockBinding: PaperbackPublished: CSIRO, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe academic work The End Was To Build Well: A Half-Century Of...
London: The Art Of Georgian Building
$70.00 AUD
Author: Dan Cruickshank And Peter WyldBinding: HardbackPublished: Architectural Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Gifter's inscriptions on half-title page. London: The Art Of Georgian...
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that
On a sacred site on the land of the Gadigal people, Tubowgule, a place of gathering and storytelling for over 60,000 years, now sits the Sydney Opera House. It is...
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great
When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...
My First Construction Site: Grab Your Toolbox and Get Building!
Author: Applesauce Press Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Introduce your little one to the joys of construction in this interactive activity book full of building fun! Use the...
Skyscraper: The Making of a Building
The complete story of the designing and building of a skyscraper in New York which ties in with a Channel 4 series. It covers plumbing, glazing, the aggravation, the meetings,...
Building Additions
Expanding a house requires both inspiration and expertise, and that is just what the seasoned professionals from Fine Homebuilding magazine have provided in Building Additions. Through an eye-catching combination of...
A Guide To The Georgian Buildings Of Britain & Ireland
$20.00 AUD
Author: Dan CruickshankBinding: HardbackPublished: The National Trust and The Irish Georgian Society, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: General wear on external coverThis comprehensive architectural guide, A...
The Buildings Of England: Wiltshire
$20.00 AUD
Author: Nikolaus PevsnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative architectural guide, The Buildings Of England: Wiltshire, meticulously chronicles the diverse structures found across the...
Skyscraper: 2the Making of a Building
$15.00 AUD
The book titled Skyscraper: 2the Making of a Building by the author Karl Sabbagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Count Down - At the Building Site
Head out for a building site adventure in this fun-filled, interactive counting book! Find cute and colourful counters to move and simple prompts to follow along all the way through...
