Architecture · Museums · Mores
A model of Bologna in the 12th and 13th centuries, with its many towers, resembles the high-rise development of modern cities. At the height of its prosperity the city counted as many as 180 tall structures, of which some 20 survive to this day. The tallest of them is
NB! · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Education
This is the entrance to the Jesuit College and the adjoining church of Sant'Ignazio, of which only the façade survives. The historic complex of buildings in Piazza Plebiscito is one of the principal sights of the city of Mazara del Vallo.
NB! · Architecture · Art · People
In 1912 Alphonse Mucha was asked to decorate the Municipal House in Prague, with its concert hall, gallery, restaurants and several drawing rooms. The artist produced murals, decoration, textiles and sketches for furniture for one of the rooms, the Lord Mayor's Hall.
Architecture · Rome · Humour
And so must you.
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo is one of the most beautiful in the country and is recognised as one of the chief masterpieces of the Yaroslavl school of architecture. Richly adorned with glazed tiles and moulded brick, the Church of St John the Baptist was built
Architecture · Moscow · Society
The bridge has already been moored close to the place where it is to be installed. The span is 54 metres long and weighs 235 tonnes. The structure took 4 months to assemble in Lytkarino, Moscow Region. It will be put in place on 14 September. It will be raised
Architecture · Mores · Rome
Piazza Navona, one of the central squares of Rome, was turned into a lake for the hottest months of the year from the seventeenth century onwards. For two hundred years the Roman authorities used Piazza Navona to cool the city, flooding it in July and August. This greatly hindered traffic
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · New York · Humour
The Statue of Liberty in 1886 and now. Live with that.
Archive · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage
Schinkel was far ahead of his time in proposing that the palace be built literally on the site of the ancient temples, folding the ruins of the age of Pericles into a residential and administrative royal quarter. In effect, this would have meant the destruction of the Acropolis with all
Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Observations · Humour
The 12-metre ceramic pavilion "Wedding Cake" by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. The present day. Waddesdon Manor in the English county of Buckinghamshire, property of the Rothschild Foundation. The author calls her work a building, an immersive sculpture. At first glance it appears a rather striking structure,
Archaeology · Architecture · Science
The illustrations of the building of the Aqua Claudia show Roman construction machinery made entirely of wood and driven by human muscle. Sophisticated hoisting machines existed in Ancient Egypt too, though they bore little resemblance to modern cranes, being systems of inclined planes and levers. A crane similar to those