Strasbourg — The Neustadt and Rhineland Art Nouveau – Virtual Tour 360°
After 1871 the German Empire laid a vast new city beside medieval Strasbourg. Its boulevards carry monumental imperial palaces and, soon after, a generation…
After 1871 the German Empire laid a vast new city beside medieval Strasbourg. Its boulevards carry monumental imperial palaces and, soon after, a generation…
Tbilisi entered the twentieth century rich from trade and oil money, and that wealth left ornate facades across its hillside quarters. Its Art Nouveau…
The gold money of the 1930s rose into stepped towers across the Johannesburg city centre. Anstey’s Building and Astor Mansions still hold the line, echoing…
A single night in January 1904 erased almost the entire town. The Ålesund that rose from the ashes within three years is one of the most coherent Art Nouveau…
In the south-east of Antwerp, the Zurenborg district preserves one of Europe’s densest concentrations of turn-of-the-century townhouses. Its avenues turned…
East of the medina, French planners laid out a new town of wide boulevards. Along Avenue Habib Bourguiba, a white Art Nouveau theatre and 1930s apartment…
Two European-built quarters frame Cairo’s early-twentieth-century ambitions: a desert garden suburb crowned by a Hindu-temple palace, and a Paris-styled…
Built almost from scratch under the French Protectorate, Casablanca carries one of the world’s densest collections of interwar Art Déco. Its boulevards fuse…
On the site of Russia’s first railway line (1837) — born as a wooden shed beside the Tsar’s private line — the present 1904 building is Saint Petersburg’s…
One of St Petersburg’s defining addresses: a granite-clad Northern Art Nouveau building by Fyodor Lidval, opened in 1912 on St Isaac’s Square and still…