What these have in common is a building doing something it was not built for, and a business that decided the space was worth the inconvenience. Here are fifteen worth…
A pier is an odd piece of architecture: a road to nowhere, built at considerable expense, whose purpose is the walking rather than the arriving. Here are fifteen worth doing.…
These are working buildings rather than museums, which means the way in is usually a tour or the cheapest seat available. Here are fifteen worth getting inside.
1. Palais Garnier,…
A complete circuit of walls is rare, because walls are expensive to maintain and inconvenient to keep once nobody is attacking. These fifteen survived, and most can be walked.
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A grand hotel lobby is a piece of architecture the public was always meant to walk into. These twelve have histories worth knowing and interiors worth seeing, and in most…
The great railway stations were built to impress, at a moment when rail travel was new and cities were competing to announce their arrival. Most airports have never attempted anything…