- Arise and Build! - A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire
On October 27, 1895, fire destroyed the Rotunda, the centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson's 'academical village' and home of the University Library.
www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/rotunda/home.html
- San Francisco Modern Architecture
A personal visual catalog of cool modern buildings.
www.sanfranciscomodernarchitecture.com
- Cyclorama Building
In Buffalo, New York.
www.grasmick.com/ourhome.htm
- World Monuments Watch
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Features a clickable map of the 100 most endangered sites of cultural heritage from around the globe.
www.wmf.org/watch
- Bilbao Guggenheim Museum@
Explore the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Spain designed by Frank Gehry in the style of Deconstructivism. Sites offer history, exhibition schedule, collection, and map of the art museum, a cynosure with its titanium covered orthogonal limestone blocks.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Bilbao/Entertainment_and_Arts
- Fairbanks Coal Bunkers
Historical wooden structure in Alaska, 196 feet long, 54 feet tall. Preservationists want to save a section.
www.coalbunkers.com
- Segedunum
Roman fort built in about AD 125 as part of an early modification to Hadrian's Wall.
uknets.8m.com/history.htm
- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Free, publicly searchable database of architectural and historical information and images for over 35,000 stuctures in and around Philadelphia.
www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab
- Independence Hall@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Entertainment_and_Arts/Architecture
- Architecture of the Getty Center
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Provides comprehensive visual documentation of the museum. Offers over 600 images presenting a look at the Getty from all aspects.
web.reed.edu/academic/departments/art/getty
- Stafford Farms Mobil
Photo of Stafford Farms Shell, a roadside gas station inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
www.sidesways.com/fllw/stafford.php
- Barcelona Pavilion, The
German Pavilion for the 1929 World Exposition at Barcelona. It existed for 6 months and was then dismantled for shipping back to Germany, and disappeared in transit.
archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/barcelona
- Towerful
A gallery of Japanese towers and related memorabilia.
www2.odn.ne.jp/yoko-tower
- Architectural Challenge - What in the World?
Challenges the user to identify a structure by clues given. The answers feature unique architectural constructions peppered with history.
rogershepherd.com/WIW/what_world/what_world.html
- South Carolina State House Complex
Information and images of the historic capital building, including its history, art collection and monuments
www.lpitr.state.sc.us/studentpage/tour.htm
- Building Big
PBS television series exploring large structures and what it takes to build them. Subjects include bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig
- Notable High Buildings of the World
Circa 1896 illustration, with the Eiffel Tower as the highest notable building.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/tall_buildings_1896.jpg
- Agra Fort@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Buildings_and_Monuments/Agra_Fort
- Fatehpur Sikri@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Buildings_and_Monuments/Fatehpur_Sikri
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