Names on the Door: Curating Local Historical Identities
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Grand Hotel Rimini – Virtual Tour 360°
Empire State Building – Virtual Tour 360°
Former Ford Factory – Memories at Old Ford Factory – Virtual Tour 360°
Party and Entertainment Pavilion – Virtual Tour 360°
Casa del Fascio – Virtual Tour 360°
Florin Court, London
Alger Theater (1935), Detroit, Michigan
Miami Beach Post Office (1937), Miami Beach, Florida
National Tobacco Company Building, Napier
Sassoon House (Fairmont Peace Hotel), Shanghai
Miller Theater (1940), Augusta, Georgia
Jugendstilsenteret (Swan Pharmacy), Ålesund
Trinkkuranlage, Bad Nauheim
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All events →Death Anniversary: Pietro Generali (compositore) — November 3, 1832
Death Anniversary: Carlo Guzzi — November 3, 1964
Foundation Anniversary: Braniff International Airways — November 3, 1930
Six 1930s shophouses become a gallery: Muara Arts opens in Kuala Lumpur on 1 November 2026
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View all →Zanussi – Antonio Zanussi and the Stoves of Pordenone (1916)
From an artisanal thirty-square-meter workshop to Europe's major home appliance conglomerate.
Petra Ancient Nabataean Capital: Complete Guide
Photo: Al_Khazneh_Petra.jpg: Graham Racher from London, UK derivative work: MrPanyGoff / CC BY-SA 2.0…
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal: Travel Guide
Photo: Nithin bolar k / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons. The Group of…
Scandalli – The Master Accordion Crafters of Camerano (1916)
Artisan reeds, ergonomic keyboard patents, and the global fame of Marche accordion manufacturing.
The plan is invisible from the ground: why landscape and urban students should publish the places they survey
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The museum is a decision: why museum studies students should publish what a visit cannot show
A museum is not a collection in a building. It is a series of…
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Delos has no power grid, no residents and nothing that may be drilled. The…
Zanussi – Antonio Zanussi and the Stoves of Pordenone (1916)
From an artisanal thirty-square-meter workshop to Europe's major home appliance conglomerate.
Petra Ancient Nabataean Capital: Complete Guide
Photo: Al_Khazneh_Petra.jpg: Graham Racher from London, UK derivative work: MrPanyGoff / CC BY-SA 2.0…
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal: Travel Guide
Photo: Nithin bolar k / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons. The Group of…
Scandalli – The Master Accordion Crafters of Camerano (1916)
Artisan reeds, ergonomic keyboard patents, and the global fame of Marche accordion manufacturing.
The plan is invisible from the ground: why landscape and urban students should publish the places they survey
You can draw the plan, the section and the density figures. The person standing…
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Zanussi – Antonio Zanussi and the Stoves of Pordenone (1916)
Petra Ancient Nabataean Capital: Complete Guide
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal: Travel Guide
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