Federation Square, Melbourne
A striking civic and cultural space in the heart of Melbourne. Officially opened in 2002, it was designed by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart Architects.
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A striking civic and cultural space in the heart of Melbourne. Officially opened in 2002, it was designed by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart Architects.
October 9, 2010
Jørn Utzon’s modern classic. Completed in 1973, it is located on the site of a former tram depot.
March 14, 2010
Also known as the Temple of the Golden Pavilion – for obvious reasons. The present pavilion is a modern one, dating from the 1950s, after the previous structure was burned down by a crazed monk. However, there has been a temple on the site since the 14th century AD.
March 14, 2010
At the height of the Japanese property bubble in the 1980s, it was said that the value of the land on which the Imperial Palace and Gardens stood was worth more than the whole of Australia.
October 19, 2009
Cows lounge in the shade of one of Jaisalmer’s beautiful havelis (private mansion), with their intricately carved sandstone walls and balconies. Rajasthan, India.
October 19, 2009
The Red Fort of Agra is an immense fortress-palace and was the seat of government of the Mughal Empire for much of its existence. It sits not far from the Taj Mahal, near the banks of the Yamuna river. Famously, it also served as the prison of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, imprisoned there by… [Read more…]
October 19, 2009
The Tomb of Humayun is an early example of the Mughal style that would culminate in masterpieces such as the Taj Mahal. Herein lies the second of the Great Mughals.
October 19, 2009
The Inca settlement of Ollantaymbo was a focal point of Inca resistance during the Spanish conquest of Peru. The adjacent town of the same name is one of the most intact Inca towns still in existence, with houses, streets and drainage systems almost entirely unchanged from the time of the Incas, some five hundred years… [Read more…]
October 18, 2009
The immense yet intricate masonry of the Inca sacred site Sacsayhuaman, on the outskirts of Cuzco, Peru. The unfinished look to the tops of the walls show where the Spaniards took stone to build their own religious structures in the newly conquered Inca capital of Cuzco.
October 18, 2009
The ornate facade illustrates the so-called Baroque Mestizo style of church architecture found in the Peruvian Andes.
October 17, 2009
Nuns still live and pray within its brightly coloured walls. Arequipa, Peru.
October 17, 2009
The pock-marked facade of the Pantheon. Its dome was the world’s largest for close to two thousand years.
October 17, 2009
The baldacchino and immense dome of the largest church in the world. St Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Palace remain the ultimate symbols of the incredible heights of opulence, wealth and waste that the Roman Catholic Church reached during the 16th century.
October 17, 2009
One of the last masterpieces of classical Ottoman architecture, it is popularly known as the Blue Mosque, for the blue tiles on its inside walls.
October 17, 2009
Off the coast of Normandy in northern France. Surrounded by some of the fastest tides in Europe, the thousand year old abbey and fortified island is famous for holding out against the English during the Hundred Years’War.
January 7, 2011
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