Marine Building, Vancouver
Seahorses, ships and waves climb its terracotta skin; its lobby glows like a temple of the sea. The Marine Building opened in October 1930, a million dollars…
Seahorses, ships and waves climb its terracotta skin; its lobby glows like a temple of the sea. The Marine Building opened in October 1930, a million dollars…
Part water tower, part triumphal gate, part tram terminus: the tower that welcomes visitors to Lake Palić compresses the whole Hungarian Secession into one…
Drinking mineral water was never staged more beautifully: a horseshoe of Jugendstil colonnades, a basin, an orchestra shell and a little eight-sided temple…
The pharmacy built after the fire became the memory-keeper of the whole town: Norway’s National Art Nouveau Centre lives inside Ålesund’s finest Jugendstil…
Two golden angels raise their cups over a narrow doorway off the Graben — a pharmacy’s medieval shop sign reborn as one of the most beloved Jugendstil…
Once an hour, a figure from Vienna’s past drifts across a golden bridge above Hoher Markt; at noon all twelve parade in procession to the music of their own…
On Vienna’s most polished shopping street, Max Fabiani hung a facade of thin marble slabs over a modern frame in 1900 — Otto Wagner’s doctrine made stone…
A facade of plain glazed tiles, laid in a uniform grid with no ornament: in the Vienna of 1900 that was enough to cause a scandal — and to make the young Max…
A city under one roof, built by the president’s grandfather: the Lucerna Palace threads cinema, ballroom, café and shops along a marble passage — with Saint…
A crown of illuminated pearls closes the bottom of Wenceslas Square: the Koruna Palace of 1914, where Prague’s Art Nouveau turned geometric and started…