Archive for July 1st, 2008
Castle Turret
Alhough the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family throughout through the succeeding centuries, it was not their favorite residence, and the various successors as Duke of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other estates, including Norfolk House in London and Kenninghall in Norfolk.
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk was known […]
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Naples (Italy), La Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo
The Church of Gesù Nuovo was originally a residence built in 1470 for Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno. Political intrigues of the day caused the property to be confiscated. It was eventually sold in the 1580s to the Jesuit order and was consecrated in 1601. The church passed to a Franciscan order when the Jesuits […]
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Architecture Future is now…
Located near of Georges Pompidou center in Paris, the Forum des Halles is a big commercial center. It was built in 1979 and an important project of reconstruction is planned.
Les Halles are named “the belly of Paris” since the middle age. It was a big market place. Between 1962 and 1969, the market moved to […]
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Enter At Own Risk, The William Livingstone House
The William Livingstone House in Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood, designed in 1893 in a French Renaissance style by Albert Kahn. It was moved to a new unstable foundation many years ago in a preservation attempt that ultimately failed, as the facade of the house has collapsed.
Now the house is little more than a cliché, as […]
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Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral, Czech Republic
The first church — also consecrated to St. Vitus — that stood at the location of the present-day cathedral was an early romanesque rotunda founded by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia in 925. This patron saint was chosen because Wenceslaus had acquired a holy relic — the arm of St. Vitus — from Emperor Henry […]
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A View of The World
The Masjid-i-Jahan Numa (Hindi: मस्जिद-ए-जहां नुमा, Urdu: مسجد جھان نمہ), commonly known as Jama Masjid जामिया/जामा मस्जिद of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India.
Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques in India.
It is also at […]
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