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This text features a survey of the best new developments on and around the Thames as well as a detailed contemporary account of the construction of the Royal Festival Hall. Other articles include a reassessment of the iron structure of the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve in Paris as the basis of a civic decor in the 19th century, and an analysis of Alberti's De pictura which offers an understanding of his work on painting through the category of writing and its role in understanding space.