Stanley Park, Blackpool — Thomas Mawson’s Park for a Seaside Town
Grade II* registered public park designed in 1922 by Thomas Mawson & Sons and opened in 1926, with Italian Gardens, an Art Deco café of 1937 and the Cocker memorial clock tower.
Palace of the United Banat Banks, Timișoara — the 1930s Pension Central on the Opera Square
Interwar bank palace of 1931–1933 by Mathias Hubert for the Swabian banks of the Banat, with a gable borrowed from village houses; a hotel since 1931, today Hotel Timișoara.
Capitol Cinema, Radford — Reginald Cooper’s Art Deco Picture House in Nottingham
Grade II listed Art Deco cinema of 1936 by Reginald W. G. Cooper on Churchfield Lane, Radford; later a bingo club and, since 2004, the Mount Zion Millennium City Church.
Great Malvern Station — Elmslie’s Gothic Station and Lady Foley’s Tearoom
Grade II listed station of 1860–62 by E. W. Elmslie, with canopy capitals by William Forsyth; Lady Foley’s private waiting room on platform 1 became the tearoom named after her.
7–67 Sydney Street, Chelsea — the Listed Terrace of Sydney House
Grade II listed 19th-century terrace on the west side of Sydney Street, Chelsea, one half of a matched pair; Nos. 9–11 house the hotel Sydney House Chelsea.
13–23 Sumner Place, London — Freake’s Stucco Terrace and Number Sixteen
Grade II listed mid-19th-century stucco terrace in South Kensington, built on the Smith’s Charity estate by Charles James Freake; No. 16 is the Number Sixteen hotel.
Hotel D. Henrique, Porto — the Concrete Tower by Loureiro and Pádua Ramos
Free-standing modernist tower by José Carlos Loureiro and Luís Pádua Ramos, designed from 1965 as offices and opened as a hotel in 1973; listed by Porto as a building of heritage interest (PDM no. 458).
Palais Coburg, Vienna — the “Asparagus Castle” on the Last Stretch of the City Wall
The 1840s late-classicist palace of the Saxe-Coburg-Koháry family, built by Karl Schleps and Adolf Korompay on the Braunbastei, with its columned garden front of 1864 above the surviving bastion.
Grand Ferdinand, Vienna — the Magnesite Company’s Postwar House on Schubertring
A listed 1952–1954 office block on the Ringstraße by Percy A. Faber with Erich Boltenstern, built for the Veitscher Magnesitwerke on the site of the Palais Kinsky; a hotel since 2015.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Timbuktu: Mansa Musa’s Gold-Financed Mosque of 1327, the 300,000 Manuscripts Saved From Jihadists in 2012 and the University That Taught Astronomy and Medicine in the 15th Century
Timbuktu, at the southern edge of the Sahara in Mali, was a medieval centre of Islamic scholarship and trans-Saharan trade, home to three inscribed mosques and up to 300,000 manuscripts. In 2012, jihadists occupied the city, destroyed its Sufi mausolea, and threatened the manuscripts — most of which were covertly evacuated to safety in a remarkable rescue operation.