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Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov

Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. A decade-long history of neglect, which had brought this monument of Constructivism to a dilapidated state, ended with restoration

NB! · Architecture · Cinema · Heritage

The hunting galleries of the French château of Raray, built in the early seventeenth century, were immortalised in world culture by Jean Cocteau, who chose them as the setting for his 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast", with Josette Day and Jean Marais, who

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Restoration of the Single-Storey Wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane

Restoration of the single-storey wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane. The house dates from the 1820s and has fine stucco decoration characteristic of the period, together with a wrought-iron fence. The building stood empty for many years but, thank God, has survived. I hope the restoration work

Painting in a gilded frame showing the interior of the Pantheon, with a coffered dome, a round oculus and figures of visitors.

Architecture · Art · Museums · Rome

Painting of the Pantheon interior at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of the Pantheon. Washington, National Gallery of Art

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The plot of land on which Florence's first mosque will be built was bought from the Catholic Church

NB! · Architecture · The East · Society

Embassy of the Ottoman Empire Discovered in North Korea

Infographic of the tallest buildings on every continent, with a world map and a ranking of five skyscrapers for each region.

NB! · Architecture · Geography · Moscow · Saint Petersburg

All five tallest skyscrapers in Europe stand in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

The tallest buildings in the world. Russia has all five of the highest skyscrapers in Europe: the Lakhta Centre in Saint Petersburg, and the Federation Tower, the Oko, the Neva Towers and the Mercury City Tower in Moscow

Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage

Hurricane Beryl damaged the Rothko Chapel in Texas and three of its paintings

Hurricane Beryl, which struck Texas last month, has badly damaged the chapel decorated by Mark Rothko. The ceiling and walls of the chapel were flooded, and three of the artist's paintings were damaged. Commissioned by Dominique and John de Menil, philanthropists and art collectors from France, Rothko painted

Flowers on the bridge railing, with a Moscow Kremlin tower and palace, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and a cloudy sky behind.

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations

Flowers decorate the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge in Moscow with the Kremlin in view

What a beauty! Well done, the city services! They have decked the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge with flowers, and it looks magnificent, never mind Paris

NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage

Alexander the Great Spared Mount Athos from the Plan of His Architect Dinocrates, Who Wished to Turn It into a Colossal Statue of Alexander Holding a City and a Bowl Pouring Water into the Sea

Alexander the Great spared Mount Athos from the plan of his architect Dinocrates, who wished to turn it into a colossal statue of Alexander holding a city and a bowl pouring water into the sea. By Alexander's will, Dinocrates left Athos untouched and designed Alexandria instead

Architecture · Art · Monarchies

Jean Daret's trompe-l'œil at the Hôtel de Châteaurenard and the visit of Louis XIV

Louis XIV was delighted with the decor of the Hôtel de Châteaurenard in Aix-en-Provence. The decoration of the central staircase is executed in the genre of trompe-l'œil, or "fool the eye", popular since antiquity. Trompe-l'œil is when you see something

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Silver items stolen from an English abbey, damage estimated at one hundred thousand pounds

A few days ago in the English county of Dorset, the 1,300-year-old doors of Sherborne Abbey were broken open and church silver stolen. The damage done to one of the most significant and beautiful churches in England is estimated at a hundred thousand pounds. Among the stolen