The Great Buildings Collection

The Great Buildings Collection, a digital multimedia encyclopedia of architecture,is available on CD-ROM for Windows 95/98/NT and Power Macintosh. The GBC CD-ROM documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects from around the world and across history, with thousands of photographic images and thousands of architectural drawings, plus commentaries, bibliographies, digital video clips, and hundreds of live 3D walkthrough models of famous structures of all kinds.

"Well on the way to becoming the Oxford English Dictionary of design..."

Chock full with 650MB of highly compressed content, the Great Buildings Collection CD-ROM provides a whole library of architecture on compact disc, with interactive features no collection of books can match, including 2300 photos, thousands of drawings, and over 100MB of live 3D walkthrough computer models of famous buildings.

• 750 buildings from around the world and across history.
• 400 leading architects.
• 2200 photographic images.
• 2500 architectural drawings.
• 300 live 3D models (3D walkthrough software included).
• Dozens of digital video clips.
• 120 maps of building locations.
• historical time line from Stonehenge to 1990's.
• plus topical thumbnail palette, commentaries, and bibliographies.

The Great Buildings Collection should please demanding aficionados unsatisfied with traditional architectural references."

The multimedia CD-ROM interface supports both easy browsing and directed searches, with more than 100 interactive location maps, an interactive time line of architectural history, topical thumbnail image palette, and free text searches using a wide range of building criteria.