Albert Speer: The Architect of the 20th Century |
Features biography, images, sound clips, and a timeline of one of the most intriguing architects. |
American Experience: The Center of the World |
Companion to the eigth installment of PBS' New York documentary series. Tracks the conception, construction, and destruction of the World Trade Center. |
Architecture of the Getty Center |
Provides comprehensive visual documentation of the museum. Offers over 600 images presenting a look at the Getty from all aspects. |
Bus Stop Shelters in Ukraine |
Some are frescoed, some are etched, some are tiled mosaics all are beautiful. Most have fallen into a state of disrepair because the local governments can no longer afford to maintain them. |
Canberra House, The |
Provides history and overview of modern residential architecture in the Australian Capital Territory. |
City of London Churches |
Provides photos and a biographical history of each religious structure in Greater London. |
Coit Tower |
Includes floor plans, and photos of its many murals. |
Crystal Palace |
Examines the modeling and design of the structure. Includes VRML models. |
Did You Bring Bottles? |
Tribute to supermarkets and the history of mega grocers such as Safeway, Lucky, and many independent outlets. |
Glass Steel and Stone |
Devoted to the art of architecture. |
Great Castles of Wales |
Tribute to fortified medieval architecture with pictures, plans, and history. |
History of Sanitary Sewers |
Houses a dynamic collection of materials about the evolutionary development of sewers over the past 5,500 years. |
Houses of the Future |
Promotes new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable, prefabricated housing in Australia that are also futuristic and innovative in their design. |
Manhattan Timeformations |
Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts through time. |
New Jersey Churchscape |
Offers information and photographs of the remaining 18th and 19th century churches of New Jersey. |
Palaces of the King |
Features virtual tours of the palaces in Thailand including the Grand Palace, Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha, the Vimanmek Palace, and more. |
Powersof10.com |
Official site for Powers of Ten, a nine minute film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977, which promotes an understanding of scale in order to organize thinking and experience in a new perspective. |
Quonset Huts |
Documents the prefabricated buildings initially designed for use by the U.S. Navy. |
Smithsonian: New Hotels for Global Nomads |
A provocative exhibition that spotlights contemporary hotels as the crossroads of our connected yet nomadic society and underscores their role in cutting edge architecture and design. |
Sports Temples of Boston |
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Tall Buildings |
Online feature created in 2004 with profiles, scale models, and interesting information about contemporary skyscrapers. |
The Work of Charles & Ray Eames |
Companion site to the Library of Congress exhibition touring New York, Saint Louis, and Los Angeles through September 2000. |
Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School |
Tells the story of the Prairie School through the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which includes a large group of furniture and other objects from Prairie School structures in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. |
A Weekly Dose of Architecture |
Includes weekly reviews and information on contemporary architectural works. |
World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition |
Building a memorial to those who died in the September 11th terrorist attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Includes designs of the finalists, winner, and the other 5,201 submissions received. |
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home |
Explore this late Qing Dynasty merchant's home, originally located in southeastern China and recently re erected at the Peabody Essex Museum. |
