Frevo
A kinetic dance and musical tradition born in Recife’s Carnival, where performers and orchestras move with explosive energy in the fever of the street.
Kochari
Kochari is a circle dance originating in the Armenian Highlands, performed across regions with distinct choreography and music. Each generation transmits this practice of community and cultural identity.
Huntridge Theater
A Streamline Moderne cinema designed by S. Charles Lee and opened in 1944, the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas served as a cultural venue for film, live performance, and concerts before undergoing restoration from 2021.
Thorncrown Chapel
A luminous 1980 chapel in Arkansas designed by E. Fay Jones, inspired by Paris’s Sainte-Chapelle and named after the Crown of Thorns.
La Piscine Museum
A museum of art and industry in a former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix, France, where industrial heritage meets contemporary galleries within striking modernist architecture.
20 Exchange Place
A 741-foot limestone and granite skyscraper completed in 1931 for a major banking merger, briefly the world’s tallest stone-clad building before the Great Depression curtailed its original ambitions.
Royal Edward Arms
A striking eight-storey Art Deco building in downtown Thunder Bay, Ontario. Built as a hotel in 1928, it later became affordable housing and was designated to the Heritage Register in 1988.
Joensuu City Hall
A 1914 brick civic monument by Eliel Saarinen on the Pielinen River, combining Romantic Nationalism and Art Nouveau. Home to Finland’s easternmost professional theater and a vibrant cultural venue.
Master Apartments
A 27-story Art Deco skyscraper on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, completed in 1929. It pioneered corner windows and multicolored brick facades while housing a modernist arts museum and school.
Palacio Baburizza
An Italian-designed palace in Valparaíso built in 1916 for Croatian businessman Pascual Baburizza, later converted into a museum and declared a historic monument.