LOST BUILDINGS Featured in Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News takes a look at Lost Buildings: Demolished, Destroyed, Imagined, Reborn, by Jonathan Glancey: "Glancey, a British architectural writer, here looks at what was, as well as what might have been, in a history of buildings that have vanished for unknown reasons, been demolished, been lost to war or acts of God, or dreamed of but never built. He plumbs the heights, and depths, of architectural fashion – a fickle concept that, for instance, allowed the 1964 demolition of New York City's original Pennsylvania Station, a superb example of classical revival architecture whose destruction was seen by many as city-sponsored vandalism. With lively prose, Glancey metaphorically trots from the crumbling of ancient Troy to the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall. On page 151, you'll see an image that looks eerily familiar, an 1855 view of the Crystal Palace on London's Sydenham Hill. That building was destroyed in 1836, but pretty much recreated for Dallas' Infomart, built in 1985 by Trammell Crow."

LOST BUILDINGS Named One of 2009's Best Architechture Books by NY Times and SF Chronicle

Jonathan Glancy's Lost Buildings has been selected by Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times as one of this year's Best Archtecture Books: "For gloom and doom types, Lost Buildings looks at a painful aspect of architectural history: the seemingly endless list of great monuments that have been callously demolished. Written by Jonathan Glancey, the architecture editor of The Guardian of London, the book bounces around the world, from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk (in present-day Iraq) to Moscow to Venice, London and Las Vegas. There are familiar stories here, like the demolition of Les Halles in Paris, Pennsylvania Station in New York and John Soane's Bank of England building. But the most compelling chapter may be the final one, "Left on the Drawing Board." It includes unbuilt monstrosities like Albert Speer's domed Volkshalle, influential fantasies like Etienne-Louis Boulee's 1784 proposed cenotaph for Isaac Newton and Vladimir Tatlin's 1919 Monument to the Third International."

The San Francisco Chronicle also selected Lost Buildings for their 2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Lost Buildings: Demolished Destroyed Imagined Reborn, by Jonathan Glancey (Overlook Press; 256 pages; $60). Books of this nature tend to be earnest tut-tuts, checklists of supposed treasures razed by boors. That's just the starting point for Glancey, one of England's best architecture critics. He also ponders the cultural potency of the Tower of Babel and the architectural repercussions of politics. Among the buildings he toasts is San Francisco's Montgomery Block, which "floated on a raft of layered redwood logs laid on marshland by an army of Chinese laborers" and, after its "summary execution in 1959," was replaced eventually by the Transamerica Pyramid."

LOST BUILDINGS Reviewed in Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly previews Lost Buildings: Demolished Destroyed Imagined Reborn, by Jonathan Glancey, coming in November: "Glancey invites readers to “dream about” buildings lost to antiquity, war, acts of God and modernization. Architecture and design editor at the Guardian, Glancey doesn’t dismiss everything new. What he bemoans is the loss of fine old buildings to generic, cheap new construction or even a parking lot, and overall he offers an entertaining if saddening survey of the long-lost and recently disappeared built landscape." Lost Buildings features more than 300 color and b&w illustrations.