Albanian iso-polyphony
A vocal music tradition in which singers perform simultaneous, independent melodic lines—rooted in ancient lamentation and central to southern Albanian identity.
Radif of Iranian music
Radif—a vast oral repertoire of Persian melodies organized into tonal spaces—forms the living foundation of Iranian classical music, preserved and evolved through generations of master-to-student transmission.
Khon masked dance drama
Khon is a Thai masked dance drama performed by male dancers in elaborate costumes, accompanied by narrators and the piphat ensemble.
Bessesen Building
A 1916 French Renaissance opera palace in Albert Lea, Minnesota, designed to showcase prima donna Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen, now undergoing restoration as a regional arts center.
Engelbrekt Church
Stockholm’s largest church, completed in 1914, showcases National Romantic design with Scandinavia’s highest nave rising 32 metres from exposed bedrock.
Fabra Observatory
Barcelona’s Fabra Observatory, founded in 1904, is one of the world’s oldest functioning astronomical stations. Perched above the city, it specializes in asteroid and comet discovery.
Theater Osnabrück
A German municipal theatre founded in 1771, now operating two venues in Osnabrück’s city centre with a repertoire spanning drama, opera, and concert performance.
Tower of Memories
A Gothic mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery completed over 22 years by three architects. Designed by Charles A. Smith in 1926, finished by John Monroe in 1948.
Villa Bloemenwerf
Henry van de Velde’s 1895 residence in Brussels, where the Belgian architect unified architecture, interiors, and furnishings into a unified Art Nouveau masterwork.
Palo Alto station
A Streamline Moderne transit hub designed in 1941 by John H. Christie, serving Stanford University and the Bay Area Peninsula Corridor as California’s second-busiest Caltrain station.