Around the Web with Cutaway Drawings

I love cutaway drawings, especially of buildings. This post is a gallery of public domain cutaway drawings, mostly from Wikimedia Commons, followed by a short list of cutaway books to check out.

Cutaway Sketch of 200″ Telescope and Dome. 1938. https://jstor.org/stable/community.30991769.

Cutaway drawings

Cologne Cathedral Tower

Electric Sweeper

New Charing Cross

Pocket Watch

Kantoorgebouw (fire alarm illustration)

South stoa, Assos

Salisbury Cathedral

Snoqualmie Power Plant

Haunted Swing

Icing Research Tunnel

American Radiator Company exhibit at the St Louis World's Fair 1905

Teppichhaus Schein

Cutaway books to Explore

I haven’t had the pleasure of poring over each page of all of these books, but I’m feeling acquisitive about all of them. I do have a copy of Houses with a Story, though, and it’s amazing.

• Blackall, Sophie. 2018. Hello Lighthouse. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company. (Bookshop)

• Dubuc, Marianne. 2020. Your House, My House. Translated by Yvette Ghione. English edition. Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press. (Bookshop)

• Kirkwood, Jon. 1997. The Fantastic Cutaway Book of Giant Buildings. Brookfield, CT: Copper Beech Books.

• Kucharska, Nikola. 2024. A Year in the Castle : A Look and Find Fantasy Story Book. Translated by Anna Wladyka-Leittretter. English edition. Munich, Germany: Prestel. (Bookshop)

• Muller, Gerda. 2016. A Year in Our New Garden. Second edition. Edinburgh: Floris Books. (Bookshop)

• Platt, Richard. 2020. Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections of Everything. 25 years anniversary edition. Second edition. New York, NY: DK Publishing. (Bookshop)

• Yoshida, Seiji, and Takae Yagi. 2023. Houses with a Story : A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore. Edited by Keiko Kinebuchi. Translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash. New York: Amulet Books. (Bookshop)