A listed 1952–1954 office block on the Ringstraße by Percy A. Faber with Erich Boltenstern, built for the Veitscher Magnesitwerke on the site of the Palais Kinsky; a hotel since 2015.
Timbuktu, at the southern edge of the Sahara in Mali, was a medieval centre of Islamic scholarship and trans-Saharan trade, home to three inscribed mosques and up to 300,000 manuscripts. In 2012, jihadists occupied the city, destroyed its Sufi mausolea, and threatened the manuscripts — most of which were covertly evacuated to safety in a remarkable rescue operation.
The Purfina station on the Apeldoornseweg. Photo: A. J. van der Wal, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, CC BY-SA 4.0,
The OZO Bellevue station. Photo: Legreenfly, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, France · 1955-1956 · Paul Lagneau OZO
The rounded entrance under the canopy, with the Garage Italia sign. Photo: Marcello migliavh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The former DAPG station at Volmerswerther Straße 71. Photo: Käthe and Bernd Limburg, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The petrol station at Skovshoved. Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gentofte, Denmark · 1939 ·
The service station on the Lungolario Piave, still in use. Photo: Davide Mauro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lecco,
Dunkle’s Gulf in 1977. Photo: John Margolies, Library of Congress, no known restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons. Bedford, Pennsylvania · 1933
Kilwa Kisiwani, off the southern Tanzanian coast, controlled the Indian Ocean gold trade for four centuries and was called one of the world’s most beautiful towns by Ibn Battuta in 1331. Its 14th-century coral mosque, the largest in East Africa, and the Husuni Kubwa palace stand as the visible remains of that medieval prosperity.
