Architecture – Pagina 2

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature: The Marais Mansion Full of Taxidermy and Contemporary Art

Two joined Marais townhouses — the 17th-century Hôtel de Guénégaud by François Mansart and the 18th-century Hôtel de Mongelas — holding around…

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London

The Barbican Conservatory: London’s Hidden Jungle in a Concrete Maze

Hidden on the third floor of the Barbican's brutalist concrete estate is a steamy tropical glasshouse packed with more than 1,500 species…

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A dimly lit gallery of classical marble statues and busts on plinths

London

Sir John Soane’s Museum: London’s Strangest House, and It’s Free

Sir John Soane's Museum is the former home of a Georgian architect who crammed it, floor to ceiling, with antiquities, sculptures, paintings…

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Vienna

Fernwärme Spittelau: Vienna’s Rubbish Incinerator Turned Hundertwasser Fantasy

Fernwärme Spittelau is a working Vienna waste-to-energy plant that Friedensreich Hundertwasser reclad in mosaic tiles, wavy lines and a golden ball on…

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Vienna

Kirche am Steinhof: Otto Wagner’s Gilded Art Nouveau Church on a Hill Above Vienna

The Kirche am Steinhof is Otto Wagner's 1907 Art Nouveau church, a gold-domed total artwork crowning a former psychiatric hospital hill on…

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