Helsinki in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Helsinki in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Helsinki is an architectural hub between East & West. The influence of nearby St Petersburg is just as palpable as that of European neo-classicism of the early nineteenth century. Creativity is a pervasive feature of this Nordic magnet for friends of good design & appreciation of Finnish architecture has reached an unprecedented international scale. This guide introduces more than 170 buildings & illustrates that there is far more to Finnish architecture than the works of well-known heroes such as Alvar Aalto, Heikki Siren or Viljo Revell. ...

Helston in 1906 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided to give maximum coverage. The main map covers the centre of Helston, extending to the south & east. The town centre is in the top left corner & features here include St Michael`s church, Coinagehall Street, Cross Street, Castle Green, Wendron Street, Meneage Street, Market House, Workhouse. Coverage continues south along Meneage Road to Whitehill, with All Saints church, cemetery, & to Nansloe & Nansloe Farm; & eastward to Culdrose, Tresprison, Tregarrick. On the reverse is a strip of the adjacent sheet 76.06 continuing coverage north to show the GWR Helston Branch with station, & this

Includes:: Lower Town, with corn mill & Treworlis tin works. A list of private residents in 1910 is also included. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Tough, light, & waterproof summit map of Helvellyn from Harveys at 1:12, 500, ideal for mountaineering under poor weather conditions. The cartography is clear & easy to read, with topography shown through spot heights, contour lines at 15m intervals, & index contours at 75m intervals. The map is GPS compatible, with the National Grid overprinted on the cartography.A variety of symbols are used to show terrain detail, such as caves/mines, major & climbing crags, shafts, sinkholes, cairns, & large boulders. Rights of way including tracks & footpaths are prominently highlighted. The map comes in a clear plastic wallet & is printed on Polyethylene, making it tear-resistant, waterproof & lighter than other laminated maps. ...

Clear. Concise. & Cool. Pretty much everyone will have come into contact with Helvetica at some point along their travels. Designers use it as a statement of class. Typographers use it for clarity & precision. You`ll have seen it in advertising, spied it in use by many of today`s top brands & possibly even watched it as the central character in an art-house movie. ...

Clear. Concise. & Cool. Pretty much everyone will have come into contact with Helvetica at some point along their travels. Designers use it as a statement of class. Typographers use it for clarity & precision. You`ll have seen it in advertising, spied it in use by many of today`s top brands & possibly even watched it as the central character in an art-house movie. ...

Clear. Concise. & Cool. Pretty much everyone will have come into contact with Helvetica at some point along their travels. Designers use it as a statement of class. Typographers use it for clarity & precision. You`ll have seen it in advertising, spied it in use by many of today`s top brands & possibly even watched it as the central character in an art-house movie. ...

Clear. Concise. & Cool. Pretty much everyone will have come into contact with Helvetica at some point along their travels. Designers use it as a statement of class. Typographers use it for clarity & precision. You`ll have seen it in advertising, spied it in use by many of today`s top brands & possibly even watched it as the central character in an art-house movie. ...

Clear. Concise. & Cool. Pretty much everyone will have come into contact with Helvetica at some point along their travels. Designers use it as a statement of class. Typographers use it for clarity & precision. You`ll have seen it in advertising, spied it in use by many of today`s top brands & possibly even watched it as the central character in an art-house movie. ...