Designing for Heritage
Subtitle: Contemporary Visitor Centres
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848222144
Subjects: Historic sites; Historic buildings, conservation and restoration; Historic buildings, great britain; Monuments, great britain; Heritage tourism
Description: "With tourists expecting higher levels of service, information and retail opportunities, visitor centres have become a vital component in providing access to heritage sites, historic buildings, landscapes of natural beauty and monuments. As a consequence, numerous architecturally renowned centres have been designed and built in recent years. It is perhaps no surprise that so many of these centres have been featured in architectural awards, as they not only offer a 'jewel' of a project to architects, being small in scale but high in profile, but the buildings must also respond sympathetically to a rich physical and cultural context. This book examines the global phenomenon of this relatively new, but increasingly popular, building type"--