... end of the avenue. The only reference to the past are the raised eavesdrops of the roof, but apart from this add-on, this structure is totally removed from the line of traditional art. Chinese architecture ...
... for this station is shared by others. After all, I am a fan of railways architecture and I consider this a national monument. Nevertheless, I have recently taken a foreign friend here while on a visit ...
... a building bearing the marks of the ornate architecture rife at the turn of the 20th century, when even the setup of a productive site gave an opportunity for embellishment. As long as it is standing, ...
... a very nice perspective and infuses a Mediterranean warmth into this town of the industrial North.
Vast areas of semi-detached or detached houses are spread around the factory. Apart from the architecture, ...
On Saturday I was driven out of town by the desire to follow a certain route in the plain. I was not only aiming at taking some exercise on my bike, but I was also going in pursuit of a fancy. In fact ...
... in the aura they emanate without rushing and took in the sights as well as the atmosphere, not just the architecture.
Very few tourists broke the spell, but one definitely did. I was watching the performance ...
Of course Gonder has much more to it than what I have described of its 20th century architecture, which, incidentally, must be of no interest to everybody but the occasional freak like myself.
In the ...
... anyway with the end of the colonial era. What there is to see today is a remarkable testimony to the architecture of the 1930’s, possibly a single-minded style, but aesthetically ambitious as well as functional. ...
... town in the rainy weather. I have to wait the next morning to see a town of mixed identity: there are concrete buildings several storeys high and the hideous bombastic style of Chinese architecture that ...
... Another apartment block, maybe 5 storeys high, directly at the foot of the ski run has portions that stick out and play with the surface in an interesting way…
Appealing as the architecture may be, ...
... has a peculiar architecture: two-storeyed, topped by a concave roof, now a little out of repair, it looks like a failed designer experiment. The most surreal space is the waiting room, completely deserted ...
... 14,000 in 1989 to 1,400 one year later, eloquent enough to appreciate the magnitude of the change.
If the Saxons have moved away, what remains now is at least a peculiar architecture in a city shaped ...
... town spreading on a hillside. Its houses are build in stone and remind me the austere Mediaeval architecture of central Italy. The mosque minarets are peculiar. I go up to Queen Arwa’s mosque and am introduced ...
... proud self, typical culture, special architecture.
We get everything ready for tomorrow’s start to Wadi Hadhramawt. I will be in the company of Geraldine and a friend of hers for a few days. Then they ...
... fortress, now inhabited: it's a fascinating mix between mediaeval architecture and modern elements with farming purpose. The panorama on the al-Ghab plain, bordered by the mountains I crossed this morning, ...
... of nature and architecture sculpted in the stone of various buildings. It's a admirable place. Funnily enough I have got here with a lot of incertitude because I didn't know what accommodation I could ...