The 1909 administration building of the Helsinki city electricity works, on the corner of Pieni Roobertinkatu and Kasarmikatu, where the municipal utility ran its offices, its appliance showroom and the Kasarmitori substation. It is now Hotel Lilla Roberts.
The Stoclet Palace in Brussels is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed for a building the public cannot enter. Built between 1905 and 1911 for Belgian banker Adolphe Stoclet to designs by Josef Hoffmann of the Vienna Secession, it contains Gustav Klimt’s most ambitious decorative work — a mosaic frieze in the dining room that has never been publicly exhibited and survives intact behind private walls.
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, is an 18th-century landscape park of 142 square kilometres in Saxony-Anhalt created by Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau from 1764 onward. It contains the first Neo-Classical building in Germany, the first English-style landscape park on the European continent, a volcano, a Rousseau Island, and a synagogue built as a Roman temple in 1790.
The Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 and relocated to Dessau in 1925 generated a cluster of buildings inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1996 — among them the Dessau Bauhaus building with its glass curtain wall workshop wing, the Masters’ Houses where Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were neighbours, and the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, the purest example of the school’s functional architecture.
Naumburg Cathedral in Saxony-Anhalt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018, holds the twelve Founders’ Statues carved by the anonymous Naumburg Master around 1250 — among them the statue of Uta von Ballenstedt, whose individuated face and distinctive gesture have made her the most reproduced image of a medieval German noblewoman and a putative model for Disney’s Snow White.
Stralsund and Wismar, two Hanseatic cities on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, form a single UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2002. Both cities were Swedish possessions from 1648 — Wismar until 1803, Stralsund until 1815 — and their Brick Gothic churches, market squares, and harbour fronts preserve the architecture and urban structure of the medieval Baltic trading world.
The Old Town of Regensburg in Bavaria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006, is the largest intact medieval city centre in Germany, with 1,500 listed buildings in 1.7 square kilometres. Its 12th-century Stone Bridge crossed the Danube as the sole bridge between Ulm and Vienna for 800 years, and its Cathedral choir, the Domspatzen, has been documented since 975 CE — the world’s oldest boys’ choir still in operation.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Los Angeles building, made between 1919 and 1921 for Aline Barnsdall on Olive Hill, with the hollyhock abstracted into ornament at every scale. Wright was in Tokyo during construction and left supervision to his son Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler. Given to the city in 1927 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019.
A flour factory on the Cárdenas at San Millán de la Cogolla, built over one of seven mills of the Benedictine monastery of Yuso and converted in 1902 by Santos Vázquez with French machinery. It works by the Robinson method, driven by a Francis turbine of 1925; placed on Hispania Nostra’s Red List in 2019, restored, and now a museum.
The Dordrecht water tower of 1882 by the municipal engineer J. A. van der Kloes, thirty-three metres high and the second oldest in the Netherlands, holding the oldest surviving iron flat-bottomed reservoir in the country. A national monument, converted in 2007 into the Villa Augustus hotel, restaurant and kitchen garden.
