... on the rim of a precipice and the already stunning architecture is enhanced by this extraordinary location. If you walk along the road you can catch a charming view of the monastery and the valley immediately ...
... is an open air museum of wooden architecture from the Karelian region, and it displays extraordinary examples of churches and rural buildings, but it is not endowed with real life. There are museum staff ...
... a visit to an open-air museum on the history of architecture.
As I took a rest after many hours of uninterrupted walking my eyes tried to analyse the scene. A rationalist block painted a pale yellow ...
... architecture. Apart from the white used in religious buildings, there are other colours that can hardly be found anywhere else, ranging from pastel hues to surprisingly bold colours. For instance, the ...
... power houses, gasometers, the list was long. That architecture worked an uncanny effect on me: it talked of economic history, social implications, lifestyle, human suffering, disease, exploitation, wealth ...
... although, to be true, I felt that its full appreciation would have required a better understanding of military defence architecture. However, I let the mighty stone walls and the vast courtyards talk for ...
... mountain architecture and Art Nouveau decorative patterns. Then, in the town centre, stood the most impressive buildings, i.e. the historic Fürstenstein sanatorium, now called Polonia, the Zameczek and ...
... most striking transformation being in the height of buildings. Now they have all but obliterated every trace of local architecture, if ever there had been anything worth preserving of the old towns.
You ...
... lined white beach on one side and Cape Three Points, the southernmost place in Ghana, on the other. The manor house, guarded by ramparts and cannons, smacks of northern European architecture, being in ...
... architecture and the beautiful display of various goods. I bought excellent Turpan raisins and grabbed some food for my long train journey to Beijing.
It was time I headed to the railway station to change ...
... were set up over the marshy land.
Tashkurgan looks very Chinese, sporting ridiculous architecture, disproportionately wide boulevards for no traffic at all, and the usual cold feel. However, its soul ...
... end of the avenue. The only reference to the past are the raised eavesdrops of the roof, but apart from this add-on, this structure is totally removed from the line of traditional art. Chinese architecture ...
... in the aura they emanate without rushing and took in the sights as well as the atmosphere, not just the architecture.
Very few tourists broke the spell, but one definitely did. I was watching the performance ...
Of course Gonder has much more to it than what I have described of its 20th century architecture, which, incidentally, must be of no interest to everybody but the occasional freak like myself.
In the ...
... anyway with the end of the colonial era. What there is to see today is a remarkable testimony to the architecture of the 1930’s, possibly a single-minded style, but aesthetically ambitious as well as functional. ...
... town in the rainy weather. I have to wait the next morning to see a town of mixed identity: there are concrete buildings several storeys high and the hideous bombastic style of Chinese architecture that ...
... has a peculiar architecture: two-storeyed, topped by a concave roof, now a little out of repair, it looks like a failed designer experiment. The most surreal space is the waiting room, completely deserted ...
... 14,000 in 1989 to 1,400 one year later, eloquent enough to appreciate the magnitude of the change.
If the Saxons have moved away, what remains now is at least a peculiar architecture in a city shaped ...
... town spreading on a hillside. Its houses are build in stone and remind me the austere Mediaeval architecture of central Italy. The mosque minarets are peculiar. I go up to Queen Arwa’s mosque and am introduced ...
... proud self, typical culture, special architecture.
We get everything ready for tomorrow’s start to Wadi Hadhramawt. I will be in the company of Geraldine and a friend of hers for a few days. Then they ...