On December 14, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation in collaboration with the Dutch Embassy is presenting a film on the death of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, on February 21, 2018. It was the first targeted killing of a journalist in Slovakia’s ...
New York’s City Hall is a great piece of historic architecture and has a beautiful little park that’s filled with office workers during lunch (as well as a circular tablet about the site’s history). To learn about the building’s history, art, and architecture, take one of the tours...
by Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard describes different levels and types of simulacra that exist, which I view as a sort of scale between simulation andhyperreality, where the real is something entirely separate. Authenticity falls within this model in the real. Winterthur exists in a state of hyper...
Today a large basilica with impressive catacombs, the church is named after the patron saint of the city. At that time, Thessaloniki was a very important city, second only to Istanbul. Many of the existing sites, such as the Rotunda, Galerius’ Arch and the Roman Agora, belong to that ...
the walls of the canyon fell away to reveal the Piazza della Rotunda and there sanding as strong and eternal as it had when the Visigoth Kings Alaric and Genseric both spared its destruction for its beauty stood The Pantheon. The temple to all the Gods built by Agrippa after the battle...
Interest in the lowland Maya collapse is stronger than ever, and there are now hundreds of studies that focus on the era from approximately A.D. 750 to A.D. 1050. In the past, scholars have tended to generalize explanations of the collapse from individual sites and regions to the lowlands...
There’s no doubt that my prescription for at least 3 days in Seoul is hardly enough. This is a teaser. It’s not enough time to get to know the capital of South Korea, perhaps not even long enough to start to like it. Seoul isn’t the easiest destination to swallow. Trudge on. ...
This impressive brick temple was constructed to honour one Valerius Romulus, the young son of the emperor Maxentius who died prematurely in 309 AD. The distraught emperor wasted little time in raising his son to the ranks of the divine, and the facade of the stunning rotunda would originally ...
Five teams of designers and architects presented their proposals for the new Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park in Toronto. The presentations took place in the City Hall rotunda, where media and the public gathered to hear from the five
Both modern and non-modern roundabouts, however, may bear street names or be identified colloquially by local names such as circle, road circle, traffic circle, rotary, rotunda or island. Square In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and ...