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Article: Shipshape and Bristol fashion.(view)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Brunel's SS Great Britain was the world's first iron-hulled passenger liner and forerunner to virtually all modern shipping. Through recent improvements led by Alec French Architects, this pioneering structure can now be preserved for generations to come.
You shouldn't need to show off in the presence of greatness. And fortunately Alec French Architects have avoided the temptation to do so in the company of the SS Great Britain; the iron-hulled, steam-powered, screw-propeller-driven liner, designed and built in Bristol in the mid-1800s by legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Affectionately know as IKB to his fans, Brunel was recently voted second only to ...
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