Al Alam Palace, Muscat
The flag palace of the Sultan – gold and turquoise columns between two Portuguese forts, the ceremonial face of Oman’s renaissance.
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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
St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre
A domed brick church of astonishing sophistication built by a missionary with no architectural training and workers who had never seen a two-storey building.
Grand Mosque of Agadez
The tallest mudbrick minaret in the world – 27 metres of earth and timber rising over the caravan city at the gate of the Sahara.
King Nikola’s Palace, Cetinje
The modest royal palace of the mountain kingdom whose daughters married into the courts of Europe – the house of the father-in-law of Europe.
Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain
The grandest of the Magnificent Seven – a German Renaissance school in blue limestone and cream where two Nobel laureates and the historian of cricket…
Royal Palace of Foumban
The palace of Sultan Njoya, inventor of a script and a religion – Bamum genius housed in a building that quotes German colonial architecture to outface it.
St Elizabeth Cathedral, Malabo
Twin neo-Gothic spires above a volcanic island harbour – the cathedral of Spain’s only sub-Saharan colony, the architectural landmark of Equatorial Guinea.
Adolphe Bridge, Luxembourg City
The largest stone arch in the world when built – the national bridge of Luxembourg, leaping the Petrusse valley in a single 84-metre span.
Blue Church (St Elisabeth), Bratislava
A church of cake-icing blue, from mosaic roof to pastel walls – Odon Lechner’s Hungarian Secession fantasy and the most photographed building in Slovakia.
National Theatre of Costa Rica, San Jose
The opera house the coffee farmers taxed themselves to build – a Paris jewel in Central America, opened with Faust in 1897.