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Olivers Wharf by F. & H. Francis, 1870 Wapping High Street, Wapping London, September 2014 �Built for George Oliver �in the Tudor gothic style, this wharf handled general cargo but had special facilities for tea�. Bought for redevelopment in 1972, it was the first warehouse in Wapping, and one of the first of all the old warehouses, to be converted into housing, yielding twenty-three very expensive luxury flats. It has been described as �the most architecturally sophisticated warehouse� in its street � ( Olivers Wharf , The Victorian Web)

Oliver's Wharf by F. & H. Francis, 1870 Wapping High Street, Wapping London, September 2014 �Built for George Oliver �in the Tudor gothic style, this wharf handled general cargo but had special facilities for tea�. Bought for redevelopment in 1972, it was the first warehouse in Wapping, and one of the first of all the old warehouses, to be converted into housing, yielding twenty-three very expensive luxury flats. It has been described as �the most architecturally sophisticated warehouse� in its street � ( Oliver's Wharf , The Victorian Web)

The Sherry-Netherland and GM Building Fifth Avenue at 59th Street New York, September 2008 �The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-story apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. The building is 560.01 feet (170.69 m) high, and was noted as the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened. The building is located in the Upper East Side Historic District, created in 1981.� ( The Sherry-Netherland , Wikipedia) �The General Motors Building is a 50-story, 705 ft (215 m) office tower at 767 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The building, which is bound by Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue between 59th Street and 58th Street, is one of the few structures in Manhattan to occupy a full city block. With 1,774,000 net leasable square feet, the tower sits on the site of the former Savoy-Plaza Hotel and affords vie...

Former Farmacia di San Marco (St Mark Pharmacy) Via Cavour (Closed since 1995) Florence, April 2015

�Living-Space� by Fat Heat and Bea P�ntya, 2016 Arany Janos utca Budapest, September 2017 �While walking around in Budapest�s 5. district you might stumble upon a strange building between the usual gray ones. This 28 meter giant, standing on its wooden legs gives a curious look from it�s windows to the people walking by on the streets. The mural is the creation Fat Heat and Bea P�ntya, and it was executed within this years Colourful City Budapest festival. But it�s not just an other mural, it really can come alive. With the help of the recent technology of augmented reality, the artist dwelled into the depth of animation to make it move. So now all you have to do to reanimate it, is to walk there, have your smartphone with you, download and launch the LARA application and turn your phone against the wall.� ( Living-Space , Fat Heat)

Residential and commercial building by Poentsch & Bohnstedt, 1893 M�nzstra�e 21/23 Berlin, September 2011

DC Tower 1 by Dominique Perrault, 2013 Donau City, Donaustadt Vienna, September 2017 �DC Tower 1 is 220 metres high (250 metres including the antenna spire) which makes it the tallest skyscraper in Austria as it will be 18 metres higher than Millennium Tower, which was leading that ranking before. The DC Tower 1 was officially finished with an opening ceremony on Feb 26, 2014 by Buzz Aldrin. DC Tower 2 is expected to be 168 metres high which will make it Viennas fourth tallest building. Due to the global financial crisis 2007, ground breaking had to be delayed several times. Eventually construction was started on 17 June 2010. After slightly more than three years, DC Tower 1 is outwardly complete, while works inside the building are on-going. Work will start on DC Tower 2 after DC Tower 1 has been fully completed. Most of the available floor space will be used for offices. Baxter International has been confirmed as one of the largest tenants at DC Towers. The upper floors will be used ...

DC Tower 1 by Dominique Perrault, 2013 Donau City, Donaustadt Vienna, September 2017 �DC Tower 1 is 220 metres high (250 metres including the antenna spire) which makes it the tallest skyscraper in Austria as it will be 18 metres higher than Millennium Tower, which was leading that ranking before. The DC Tower 1 was officially finished with an opening ceremony on Feb 26, 2014 by Buzz Aldrin. DC Tower 2 is expected to be 168 metres high which will make it Vienna's fourth tallest building. Due to the global financial crisis 2007, ground breaking had to be delayed several times. Eventually construction was started on 17 June 2010. After slightly more than three years, DC Tower 1 is outwardly complete, while works inside the building are on-going. Work will start on DC Tower 2 after DC Tower 1 has been fully completed. Most of the available floor space will be used for offices. Baxter International has been confirmed as one of the largest tenants at DC Towers. The upper floors will be ...

World Trade Center Barcelona , 1999 Moll de Barcelona Barcelona, March 2017 �World Trade Center Barcelona is a business park located in Barcelona, opened on 22 July 1999. This business centre is located on the waterfront close to the city centre, and has 40,000 m2 of rented office and a conference centre, conventions and meeting spaces with 20 different rooms. WTCB building structure was inspired by the shape of a boat surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, and created by American architect Henry N. Cobb. The arrangement of the four buildings in a circle creates a central plaza of 2,500 m2, where shops and restaurants provide services to the users of the complex. The four towers house offices for rent, a congress centre and the Hotel Grand Marina. Complex design allows to rent offices from 40 to 3,000 m2 in a single plant. The flexibility of space is also a feature of the convention centre, offering the possibility of organising meetings of 8 to large events with up to 1,500 attendees.� ...

Palazzo della Mercanzia by Lorenzo da Bagnomarino and Antonio di Vincenzo , 1391 Piazza della Mercanzia Bologna, June 2015 �Seat of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts, Palazzo della Mercanzia has governed trading and business activities of Bologna since the late 14th century. In 1384 the building of Carrobbio open gallery (todays Mercanzia) was initiated under the direction of Antonio di Vincenzo and Lorenzo Bagnomarino in order to group together three buildings used as customs and toll house. For the gallery and the preparation of the hewn stone four stonecutters were called from Florence. The building was completed in 1391, but the elegant palace needed an extension in 1439 and restoration in 1484 following the fall of the de Bianchi tower. In 1888 - 90 it was reintroduced, also in its polychrome traits, under the direction of Rubbiani and Tartarini. It was rebuilt in 1949 after a live bomb blasted nearby had made half of the fa�ade collapse. Built in brick and...

Palazzo della Mercanzia by Lorenzo da Bagnomarino and Antonio di Vincenzo , 1391 Piazza della Mercanzia Bologna, June 2015 �Seat of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts, Palazzo della Mercanzia has governed trading and business activities of Bologna since the late 14th century. In 1384 the building of Carrobbio open gallery (today's Mercanzia) was initiated under the direction of Antonio di Vincenzo and Lorenzo Bagnomarino in order to group together three buildings used as customs and toll house. For the gallery and the preparation of the hewn stone four stonecutters were called from Florence. The building was completed in 1391, but the elegant palace needed an extension in 1439 and restoration in 1484 following the fall of the de' Bianchi tower. In 1888 - 90 it was reintroduced, also in its polychrome traits, under the direction of Rubbiani and Tartarini. It was rebuilt in 1949 after a live bomb blasted nearby had made half of the fa�ade collapse. Built in...

�Sign of the Times� by Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber, 2016 Hotel InterContinental Wien Johannesgasse (facade on Lothringerstrasse) Vienna, September 2017 �It is one of the iconic images of the silent film era: In the movie SAFETY LAST! (1923), the distinctive, stoic Harold Lloyd is dangling from the hand of a huge clock on the outside of a skyscraper in New York. He is turning to the viewer for help while the clock face is inevitably torn from its anchorage and slowly tilting forward. His double is currently dangling from a building in Vienna � not quite as high above the canyons of Manhattan as Harold Lloyd, but at least between the 7th and 8th floors of the Hotel InterContinental. His exact remake. As big as the movies. This creative and film-related intervention was conceived by the Viennese artist group Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber, who, in the past, have repeatedly attracted a great deal of attention with their actions in public spaces.� ( Sign of the Times , Viennale)

Colourful Zsolnay tiling from P�cs Great Market Hall (Nagyv�s�rcsarnok) by Samu Pecz, 1897 Fov�m t�r Budapest, September 2017 �Pyrogranite refers to a type of ornamental ceramics that were developed by Zsolnay and placed in production by 1886. Fired at high temperature, this durable material remains acid and frost-resistant making it suitable for use as roof tiles, indoor and outdoor decorative ceramics, and fireplaces. Architects that used the material in their buildings include Mikl�s Ybl, �d�n Lechner, B�la Lajta, Samu Pecz, and Imre Steindl. It can be seen in buildings such as Matthias Church, the Hungarian Parliament Building, the Museum of Applied Art, the Geological Institute, the Kob�nya Church, the Gell�rt Baths (all these buildings are in Budapest), the Town Hall in Kecskem�t and many buildings, like the Post Office Palace, in P�cs.� ( Zsolnay , Wikipedia)

Middle hall of the Prumyslov� pal�c (Industrial Palace) by Bedrich M�nzberger, 1891 V�stavi�te Praha (Prague Exhibition Grounds) Are�l V�stavi�te, Hole�ovice Prague, September 2017 �The Industrial Palace (Czech: Prumyslov� pal�c) is an Art Nouveau (or Historicism) building, built by Bedrich M�nzberger in 1891, which is used for exhibition purposes, but also for various cultural events. It is a glass building with steel construction and is divided into 3 independent parts, left and right wing and a middle hall with 51 m high clock tower. In 2008 the Palace was engulfed in a fire and the left wing burned. The left wing is currently being rebuilt.� ( V�stavi�te Praha , Wikipedia)

Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid Architects , 2013 Wirtschaftsuniversit�t Wien ( Vienna University of Economics and Business ) Welthandelsplatz Vienna, September 2017 �The external appearance of the building is characterized by contrasting sections of light and dark. Colored fiber-reinforced concrete was used to construct the fa�ade. The two building segments are separated by a seam of glass. The main entrance of the building faces the campus central square, the WU Stage. The cantilevered roof extending towards the square makes the entrance instantly recognizable. The buildings massive exterior is furrowed with narrow, canyon-like divisions and made up of two sections. Once inside, the Forum and the entry area are made to feel like extensions of the square outside. The generously proportioned atrium also serves as WUs main reception area. Wide, spiral ramps and stairways lead from the entry area up through the OMV Central Library, which extends funnel-like through 6 stories ...

Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid Architects , 2013 Wirtschaftsuniversit�t Wien ( Vienna University of Economics and Business ) Welthandelsplatz Vienna, September 2017 �The external appearance of the building is characterized by contrasting sections of light and dark. Colored fiber-reinforced concrete was used to construct the fa�ade. The two building segments are separated by a seam of glass. The main entrance of the building faces the campus' central square, the WU Stage. The cantilevered roof extending towards the square makes the entrance instantly recognizable. The building's massive exterior is furrowed with narrow, canyon-like divisions and made up of two sections. Once inside, the Forum and the entry area are made to feel like extensions of the square outside. The generously proportioned atrium also serves as WU's main reception area. Wide, spiral ramps and stairways lead from the entry area up through the OMV Central Library, which extends funnel-like thr...

Torre di San Niccol� (St. Nicholas Tower) Piazza Giuseppe Poggi Florence, April 2015 �The Torre di San Niccol� used to be part of the old city walls that protected Florence. One of the entrance gates to the city as well as a watch station, San Niccolo is the tallest of the ancient city towers still standing today. From June to September this Medieval tower that goes back to 1324 is open for visits. Standing about 60 meters tall (about 200 feet) from the top of the crenellated terrace you get a 360� view of the city. From this unique vantage point along the river you can take in Piazzale Michelangelos bronze David, the Florence Cathedral, Palazzo Vecchio, the town of Fiesole as well as the Ponte Vecchio and all the other bridges that span the Arno.� ( An Ancient Tower and Old City Gate , Florence Web Guide)

Torre di San Niccol� (St. Nicholas Tower) Piazza Giuseppe Poggi Florence, April 2015 �The Torre di San Niccol� used to be part of the old city walls that protected Florence. One of the entrance gates to the city as well as a watch station, San Niccolo is the tallest of the ancient city towers still standing today. From June to September this Medieval tower that goes back to 1324 is open for visits. Standing about 60 meters tall (about 200 feet) from the top of the crenellated terrace you get a 360� view of the city. From this unique vantage point along the river you can take in Piazzale Michelangelo's bronze David, the Florence Cathedral, Palazzo Vecchio, the town of Fiesole as well as the Ponte Vecchio and all the other bridges that span the Arno.� ( An Ancient Tower and Old City Gate , Florence Web Guide)

Slovak Radio Building, 1983 M�tna ulica Bratislava, September 2017 �It is shaped like an inverted pyramid. Architects of this project were �tefan Svetko, �tefan Durkovic and Barnab� Kissling and it was completed in 1983. The project began in 1967. The building is 80 metres high and has a concert hall with a large concert organ. The first test broadcast was made in 1984 and regular broadcasting began on 27 March 1985. The building was included in a list of the 30 ugliest buildings in the world, but has been defended by Slovak architects.� ( Slovak Radio Building , Wikipedia)

Detail of a chimney, Palau G�ell by Antoni Gaud� , 1888 Carrer Nou de la Rambla, El Raval Barcelona, March 2017 �The Palau G�ell (G�ell Palace) is a mansion designed by the architect Antoni Gaud� for the industrial tycoon Eusebi G�ell and built between 1886 and 1888. It is situated on the Carrer Nou de la Rambla, in the El Raval neighbourhood of the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site �Works of Antoni Gaud�. The home is centered around the main room for entertaining high society guests. Guests entered the home in horse-drawn carriages through the front iron gates, which featured a parabolic arch and intricate patterns of forged ironwork resembling seaweed and in some parts a horsewhip. Animals could be taken down a ramp and kept in the livery stable in the basement where the servants resided, while the guests went up the stairs to the receiving room. The ornate walls and ceilings of the receiving room disguised small viewing windows high...