Sixteenth-century Orthodox monastery in Colentina, Bucharest, rebuilt by Matei Basarab in 1647, where the first books printed in the city appeared in 1582. Historic monument of national importance (LMI B-II-a-A-19419).
A neoclassical apartment house of 1869 by Émile Janlet on the corner of the Rue de la Grosse Tour, extended by him in 1881; with no. 61 it now forms the Zoom Hotel.
Four neoclassical town houses of 1866-1870 in Saint-Gilles, one by Wynand Janssens, later given bay windows (Ernest Acker, 1900) and Beaux-Arts decoration; a hotel since 1987.
Three houses joined behind one classicising baroque front around 1700, with a Louis XVI oak staircase in no. 25. Listed since 2008, today the hotel Le Dixseptième.
Djenné in central Mali is home to the world’s largest mud-brick building — its Great Mosque, rebuilt in 1907 in a tradition reaching back to the 13th century — and to Djenné-Djenno, an archaeological site occupied from 250 BCE that proved West African urbanism predates Arab contact by a thousand years. UNESCO inscribed the Old Towns of Djenné in 1988.
Carved wooden shopfront at 7 rue du Helder, commissioned in 1881 from architect Claude David for the Lyon d’Or hotel-restaurant and cabaret; protected by the City of Paris heritage rules, it now fronts a hotel.
Grand hotel opened on 27 October 1897 by the industrialists Lippert and Federico Fioroni opposite Genova Piazza Principe station, once linked to it by an underground passage.
Listed late-historicist tenement house built after 1898 between Prešeren and Congress squares, left by the physician Ivan Oražen to the Faculty of Medicine; a students’ hall since 1925.
Ghent’s museum of fine arts, built 1898-1904 to designs by city architect Charles Van Rysselberghe in the Citadelpark and extended for the 1913 World Exhibition. Protected monument since 1996.
Shop-and-hotel block designed in 1893 by Ernest Dieltiëns on Antwerp’s new Nationalestraat, renovated by Marie-José Van Hee in 2000-2002 as ModeNatie, home of MoMu.
