Daniel Libeskind is one of the most culturally multifaceted contemporary architects. Though the general public knows him mostly for his Jewish Museum in Berlin and the (unfortunately unbuilt) design ...
Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929, the Sanatorium of Paimio, Finland, is widely regarded as the first example of modern architecture applied to healthcare. Sanatorium is a Latin word commonly ...
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles was established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate the history of cinema and the art of filmmaking. The museum is ...
These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...
The Bosco Verticale / Vertical Forest high-rise complex in Milan, view from the Porta Nuova Gardens looking west. Photo © Riccardo Bianchini / Inexhibit The Vertical ...
One of the most famous architectural projects by Le Corbusier and a UNESCO world heritage site, the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, also known as Cité Radieuse, is a 1952 residential building ...
A Commodore PET 2001-8; photo CC BY-SA 2.0 FR by Rama & Musée Bolo via Wikipedia Commons. Indeed, many elements of this famous late-70s PC were somewhat inspired by A Space Odyssey‘s infamous thinking ...
Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, is “the new kid in town” in the construction industry. Invented in Austria in the mid-1990s, this engineered timber is facing huge success and constantly growing ...
The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...
The HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art is an art center located in the city of Herning, in the Jutland peninsula, Central Denmark. The museum, founded in 1977, is housed since 2009 in an iconic ...
Once the seat of a working-class cooperative in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, just west of Placa d’Espagna, the Lleialtat Santsenca is a 19th-century building that has been restored and converted ...
The necropolis “Banditaccia” in Cerveteri, near Rome, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest Etruscan archaeological site. History and general description The necropolis is located ...