Corregidor Island and the Malinta Tunnel
The east entrance to the Malinta Tunnel, Corregidor Island. Photo: RaywollesenFortes, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Corregidor Island, Cavite, Philippines
Architekturzentrum Wien — Austria’s Museum of Architecture
The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is Austria’s national museum of architecture.
The Ned — Former Midland Bank Headquarters, London
Lutyens’ grandest City building spent eight decades as a bank headquarters and a decade empty before reopening under the architect’s own nickname.
Museum Van Loon — Amsterdam
A Golden Age canal house designed by Adriaan Dortsman, first rented to the painter Ferdinand Bol, and held by one family long enough to become its own museum.
Palácio Ludovice Wine Experience Hotel — Lisbon
The Lisbon palace that the architect of Mafra built for himself — engineered so well it rode out the 1755 earthquake, and now open as a wine-themed hotel.
The Marmorosch Bucharest — Marmorosch Blank Bank Palace
Petre Antonescu’s bank palace for Marmorosch Blank, engineered by Anghel Saligny and painted by Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck, reopened in 2021 as a 217-room hotel…
Matild Palace — Budapest
The southern of Budapest’s twin Klotild Palaces, built for a Habsburg archduchess at the Pest gateway to the Elisabeth Bridge, returned to life in 2021 after…
Maison Kammerzell — Strasbourg
A Gothic stone ground floor of 1467 carrying three carved Renaissance timber storeys, standing opposite Strasbourg Cathedral since the sixteenth century.
The Silk Roads Corridor: Chang’an to Chuy Valley
No single ruin can hold the Silk Road. UNESCO’s answer, in 2014, was to inscribe not one site but thirty-three — a network of palace ruins, cave temples and…
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor – Virtual Tour 360°
A single UNESCO World Heritage Site made of 33 separate places — palace ruins, garrison towns, Buddhist grottoes and caravan waystations — strung across…