Antwerp — Zurenborg and the Art Nouveau Mansions
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…
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Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 63 articles · 1,250 heritage places · 12 events · 30 itineraries · 5 road-books · 334 photographs
101 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Tunis — The Ville Nouvelle and Avenue Bourguiba
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…
Cairo — Heliopolis, the Baron’s Palace and Belle Époque Downtown
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…
Casablanca — Art Déco and the Mauresque City
Built almost from scratch under the French Protectorate, Casablanca carries one of the world’s densest collections of interwar Art Déco. Its boulevards fuse…
Vitebsky Railway Station
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…
Hotel Astoria
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…
Yeliseyev Emporium
The most extravagant shop front on Nevsky Prospekt: a Style Moderne palace of glass, granite, and allegory built for the Yeliseyev merchant dynasty and still…
Singer House
Built for the Singer Manufacturing Company on Nevsky Prospekt, this six-storey Style Moderne building is crowned by a glass globe that has guided St…
Mexico City — Bellas Artes and the Déco of La Condesa
A theatre begun in marble under Porfirio Díaz and finished after a revolution, and a racetrack turned into a park ringed by Déco apartment houses. Mexico…
Timișoara — Secession Facades of the Banat
In the old Austro-Hungarian Banat, Timișoara built a dense early-twentieth-century city of Secession palaces. Its squares and outer districts still carry the…