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This year Sarah Mullally will formally take up the office of Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming not only the first woman to hold it but also the first occupant of the palace since its recent reconstruction

Lambeth Palace in London, for eight centuries the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, has been restored for the first time in 70 years. The £40 million reconstruction was devoted to the restoration and conservation of the building's historic elements. The palace serves as the archbishop's

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The Ryugyong Hotel Is Right Here at Home

The Piramida residential complex by Akademicheskaya metro station

Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg

UNESCO mission arrives in Saint Petersburg to inspect the historic centre

A UNESCO World Heritage Centre mission has arrived in Saint Petersburg to inspect one of the largest sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the “Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg”. The previous visit of this kind took place in 2018. In Saint Petersburg a single site is under UNESCO protection:

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The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, begun in 1987, has never received guests

The tallest unoccupied building in the world is the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is also known as the "Hotel of Doom". Construction of the hotel began in 1987, but was suspended in 1992 owing to the economic difficulties that beset the country after the collapse

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Museums

Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum Library on Display in Hall 7 of the Main Building

The "Moscow" Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum library can be seen in Gallery 7 of the main building. The pages will be turned from time to time; I was promised that this would happen every day. So the original of the book, published in a facsimile copy, can

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Daniele Barbaro's marginalia found in the 1511 Vitruvius edition at the Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin Museum has summed up the results of the "Moscow Vitruvius" project. At the centre of attention of art historians, bibliographers, historians, palaeographers and even graphologists was a rare folio: an edition of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's treatise Ten Books on Architecture, printed in Venice in

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Five Moscow exhibitions with closing dates from 1 February to 24 May

Where to go: a selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal" at the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseika, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition "New Gothic" at the HSE ART GALLERY in the

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The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in

Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage

Wooden tower of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery survives at Kolomenskoye in Moscow

The tower of the monastery at which the first English expedition, led by Richard Chancellor, landed in the sixteenth century. The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the

Fresco of a yellow camel on a white ground, with two medallions containing red animals on a golden field above.

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Fresco with a camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga in the Metropolitan Museum

Spanish fresco of the first half of the twelfth century from the monastery church of San Baudelio de Berlanga. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Saviour-Transfiguration Church in Polotsk to be considered as a nominee for the UNESCO World Heritage List

The celebrated church, revered throughout Belarus, stands within one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries of Eastern Europe, the Convent of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (the Saviour-Euphrosyne Monastery) in Polotsk. The stone church was built at the behest of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the site of a wooden church, according

Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · The East

Ruins of a Byzantine monastery with a church found in Egypt's Sohag province

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-period monastic complex in Sohag Governorate in Egypt. The find has been described as the most comprehensive of its kind in the region. The monastery comprises residential and communal buildings, small cell-like annexes for the monks, as well as service rooms