St Michael’s Church, Turku
A landmark 1905 Finnish church in central Turku, designed by Lars Sonck when he was a 23-year-old architectural student and now a beloved wedding venue seating 1,800.
House of the Black Madonna
Prague’s pioneering cubist building (1912), designed by Josef Gočár, merges a baroque Madonna sculpture with radical geometric form. Home to a café and the Museum of Czech Cubism.
Kettenbrückengasse station
A Vienna transport station in the Margareten District, opened in 1899 on the Wiener Stadtbahn and integrated into the U4 U-Bahn line in 1980.
NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building
A 240-meter skyscraper in Shibuya’s Sendagaya district, the NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building ranks as Tokyo’s ninth tallest structure.
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Minneapolis’s 1881 grain exchange shaped global wheat trading for nearly 150 years, establishing the world’s principal market for Hard Red Spring Wheat and promoting fair agricultural commerce.
Maison du Peuple, Brussels
A masterwork of Art Nouveau by Victor Horta, the Maison du Peuple (1896–1899) was a labour movement symbol in Brussels demolished in 1965, now regarded as a lost architectural treasure.
Comedy Theatre of Budapest
The Vígszínház emerged in late 19th-century Budapest as a pioneering alternative to the conservative National Theatre, becoming one of the city’s oldest continuously operating stages.
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Frank Matcham’s 1895 theatre showcases the finest surviving example of oriental style applied to British theatre architecture, with a recently restored 1,058-seat auditorium.
Esslingen (Neckar) station
The primary railway station of Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, located 13.2 km from Stuttgart and situated on the Fils Valley Railway.
Choral Synagogue (Vilnius)
Vilnius’s sole active synagogue, completed in 1903 and blending Romanesque and Moorish Revival styles. It survived World War II and Soviet occupation—the only one of the city’s synagogues to endure.