Balluta Buildings
An Art Nouveau apartment block overlooking Balluta Bay in St. Julian’s, Malta, built in 1928 for the Marquis John Scicluna to designs by Giuseppe Psaila.
Smíchov Synagogue
A 1863 Reform Jewish synagogue in Prague, remodelled in Functionalist style and now an archive of the Jewish Museum.
Hazard’s Pavilion
A wooden auditorium seating thousands at Fifth and Olive Streets, Hazard’s Pavilion embodied late-nineteenth-century Los Angeles’s theatrical ambitions when it opened in 1887.
Old Ålgård Church
A white timber parish church built in 1917 to an Art Nouveau design by Ole Stein, Old Ålgård Church serves Ålgård village in Norway’s Rogaland county.
St. Ermin’s Hotel
A Grade II-listed late Victorian mansion block in Westminster, St. Ermin’s Hotel served as the birthplace of the Special Operations Executive and a Cold War espionage hub.
Van Horne Mansion
A classical greystone mansion on Montreal’s Sherbrooke Street, home to Canadian Pacific Railway president Sir William Cornelius Van Horne from 1889 until its controversial demolition in 1973.
Stāmeriena Palace
A Historicist palace rebuilt in French Neo-Renaissance style after the 1905 Russian Revolution, Stāmeriena housed the author of *The Leopard* and remains one of Latvia’s finest architectural achievements.
Road Island Diner
A 1939 Art Deco streamline diner by Jerry O’Mahony, displayed at the 1939 World’s Fair and restored in Oakley, Utah. The only pre-war O’Mahony diner surviving west of the Mississippi River.
Kelaghayi silk headscarves
Kelaghayi is a silk headscarf bearing traditional prints, created and worn by Azerbaijani and Armenian women as an expression of cultural identity and regional heritage.
Songket
Hand-woven silk and cotton interlaced with gold or silver threads, songket is a shimmering brocade textile worn across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei for formal occasions and ceremony.