Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain. One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North and Tadao Ando's new square and pavilion project, both in Manchester, or of Frank Gehry's Cancer Care Centre in Dundee. Well-known British practices such as Future Systems, Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners also inevitably feature prominently in the exciting international story of Britain's recent architectural renaissance, but so too do newer, smaller practices, including many based outside the capital, for example Ian Simpson Architects in Manchester, Glenn Howells Architects in Birmingham or Bauman Lyons Architects in Leeds. This book engagingly describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding projects, both large and small, from around Britain - none...

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