Budapest’s Szecesszió: six buildings by Lechner and his circle
Zsolnay ceramic roofs, peacock-feather gates and a twelve-hundred-seat concert hall: six buildings between the Danube and the villa district, 8.6 kilometres on foot and by tram.
Architecture
Italian Liberty, the Grand Tour: seven buildings in seven cities
Trieste, the Lido, Milan, Turin, Florence, Rome and Palermo: 2,217 kilometres of road and seven buildings that show how one style changed from the Adriatic to Sicily.
Art Deco in Chicago, six buildings in the Loop
Riverside Plaza over the railway tracks, the Board of Trade closing LaSalle Street and the last tower before the Depression: four kilometres inside the Loop.
Viareggio, five Liberty buildings on the seafront
The Negozio Martini of 1899, the Magazzini Duilio 48, the Bagno Balena and its Chini majolica, Villa Argentina and the Grand Hotel Royal: five buildings, one kilometre, 2.3 kilometres on foot.
Art Nouveau in Oradea, six palaces on foot
Füchsl, Darvas–La Roche, Apollo, Ullmann, Stern and Moskovits Adolf and Sons: six Secession palaces within a kilometre, 3.1 kilometres on foot in the centre of Oradea.
Art Nouveau in Paris, from the Opéra to the rue de Rivoli
The Galeries Lafayette and Printemps domes, the Café de la Paix, Maxim’s and Angelina: five interiors within a kilometre of each other, 2.6 kilometres on foot.
Art Nouveau in Brussels, from the Hôtel Tassel to the Horta Museum
Six houses between 1893 and 1901 in Ixelles and Saint-Gilles: Horta, Hankar, Otlet, Winssinger, Ciamberlani, and the museum in Horta’s own house.
Art Deco in Shanghai, from the Bund to Nanjing Road
Sassoon House, the Bank of China with its green tiled roof, the Customs House clock, Broadway Mansions and the Park Hotel of 1934: five buildings, 3.9 kilometres.
Rationalism in Rome, five buildings in EUR
The district built for the 1942 world fair and finished after the war: Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi, the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and the Museum of Roman Civilization, 3.9 kilometres on foot.