The first house of Art Nouveau. The pioneering Hotel Tassel in Brussels
The designs of Belgian architect Victor Horta are among the first Art Nouveau buildings in the world. Built...
Szymon Biedronka
This is a deteriorating pearl of the Orient…. in Tuscany – Sammezzano Palace
Rather few would expect an Indo-Mauritian palace in the middle of Tuscany. Which makes it all the more...
The world’s most beautiful cinema is the work of a Pole – Theater Tuschinski
The Tuschinski Theater is the child of the turn of two beautiful eras of architecture. The tumultuous design...
Czech spacecraft. Pioneer tower and hotel on Mount Yeshted
Towering over Liberec, the Ještěd Tower and Hotel looks like an alien ship. However, the idea of the...
Like a silver leech. Renzo Piano’s bold project in Paris
From street level, this 19th-century building of the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation in Paris does not stand out from...
Giant head in a skyscraper. Skanderbeg Building in Tirana
If we consider the Skanderbeg Building in Tirana as one big sculpture, it will be the largest bust...
A pink Tower of Babel in the middle of the Yucatan jungle. The settlement in Tulum
Mexican architects from the V Taller studio have created a paradisiacal estate centred around the ‘Tower of Babel’....
A sky-high temple of lightning. The General Electric skyscraper in NYC
The General Electric skyscraper in New York is the best example of the synthesis of art déco and...
Concrete ‘temple of learning’ – Exeter library
The Exeter Library in New Hampshire is like two different buildings encased in one another. The simple brick...
Titanic on land – the dining room from the Titanic preserved at the Russell Hotel
London’s former Russell Hotel conceals a room lifelike extracted from the legendary RMS Titanic. In designing the main...
Pioneering house of the “father of Viennese Art Nouveau” – Otto Wagner’s Villa I
The private villa of architect Otto Wagner is probably one of the strangest examples of the famous Viennese...
An eclectic wonder near Chicago. The mysterious Bahai temple
In the suburbs of Chicago hides a peculiar temple of the Baháʼí religion. Completed in 1953, the building...
A rescued icon of London brutalism – The Standard hotel
Today’s The Standard hotel in London is a rescued treasure of Brutalist architecture. The building was constructed in...
An unusual tower in Japan. Looks like an AI creation
In the town of Tondabayashi, 39 km from Osaka, there is the world’s strangest tower. Behind the mysterious...
This facade is moving! Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai
In 2017, Shanghai’s representative promenade gained one of the world’s most unique facades. The Bund Finance Centre’s moving...
The most important US bank stands in the middle of nowhere. Artwork by Louis Sullivan
In an unassuming town somewhere on the Minnesota prairies stands one of the most important buildings of the...
Billionaire wants to build a utopia in the desert. Telos project from BIG
American billionaire Marc Lore wants to build a city of the future in the middle of nowhere. The...
Housing on trial. Success in the fight against depopulation in Eisenhüttenstadt
An innovative idea from the authorities of the depopulating Eisenhüttenstadt has turned out to be a foreign sensation....
A hidden gem near the Polish border. Brick school in Frankfurt
The Erich Kästner Brick School in Frankfurt (Oder) is a border gem of pre-war architecture. Despite the city’s...
A brick masterpiece in Utrecht. This former post office has become a library
In the 1920s, Brick Expressionism spread to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, leaving behind incredibly ornate buildings of...
They are like out of a fairy tale! Berlin’s three most beautiful courts
The rapid growth of Berlin in the German Empire involved the construction of many administrative buildings. The task...
Aztec temple of commerce in the heart of Detroit – Guardian Building
The first decades of the 20th century proved to be a time of colossal growth for Detroit. Michigan’s...
Art Nouveau as if from Gaudi’s dream. The hidden Casa Comalat in Barcelona
On Barcelona’s representative Passeig de Gràcia avenue, you can find architectural icons of Catalan modernism. For example, the...
Glass cube on a historic skyscraper – a Studio Libeskind idea
Europe’s first skyscraper will be redeveloped by Studio Libeskind. A glass cube is to be built on top...