Architecture

Horace Jones was the City Architect and Surveyor of London, where he was responsible for urban planning and bridges across the Thames. John Wolfe Barry assisted him in the engineering of Tower Bridge.

Sixty-two thousand people attended a solemn Mass led by the pope.

The sanctuary and the town were surrounded by a ring of defensive walls. A souvenir of the assaults are two siege machines left under the walls.

First time it was by a flood, second by arson and third after northern germanic tribes raided Ephesus.

A turning point for the city became the construction of the Guggenheim Museum. The success of this p ...

There was a deep moat in the Zwinger (an open area between two defensive walls), which is now filled in and only partially filled with water.

There was a marble bathtub, or rather a swimming pool, which was used not so much for hygiene purpos ...

He included in the design: The plant kingdom - massive upward branching columns resembling a dense ...