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Prora -
One of the biggest relics left behind by the Nazis is undergoing a radical transformation on a German island, harnessing a property boom to become a luxury tourist destination.
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Istanbul -
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated the third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul, a spectacular project at the heart of his drive to create a lasting historical legacy.
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Istanbul -
Turkey is seeking to "build the future of Istanbul" with a brace of ambitious projects including a third bridge spanning the Bosphorus Strait linking Europe and Asia, Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan told AFP.
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Istanbul -
For centuries, it has been the main commercial artery running through the heart of Istanbul, attracting thousands of people every day for shopping, entertainment or historic sightseeing.
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With a fine ceramic minaret, multicoloured walls and a great, carved wooden door, the Grand Mosque in Benin's capital is a marvel of Afro-Brazilian architecture, yet like much in Porto-Novo it faces collapse.
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Brighton -
The world's tallest moving observation tower, the i360, opens to the public on Thursday, a futuristic landmark that has transformed the historic seafront in the English tourist resort of Brighton.
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Deep in the heart of a medieval monastery in Nepal's remote Upper Mustang region, the battle to restore sacred murals and preserve traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture is in full swing.
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Rome -
Rome on Tuesday issued a 500-million-euro SOS to companies, wealthy philanthropists and its own citizens to help restore many of the Italian capital's iconic historic sites and avoid the risk of some falling into ruin.
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Rome -
One of the final works of Zaha Hadid, the acclaimed Iraqi-British architect who died suddenly last month, will be posthumously inaugurated in Italy on Monday.
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Gaza -
A surprise awaits beyond a black door adorned with a silver lotus flower at the end of a tangle of alleyways in Gaza's chaotic Old City.
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London -
The world's most famous female architect Zaha Hadid, whose works include the aquatics centre used in the 2012 London Olympics, died on Thursday from a heart attack aged 65, her company said.
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Intel is changing the way it releases new processors, an alteration that could end Moore's Law. It will extend the lifetime of each process it releases instead of following its traditional "tick tock" cycle. Three phases will now be involved.
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Paris -
A huge golden dome was hoisted into place Saturday atop a Russian Orthodox cathedral being built in Paris, as Russian and French dignitaries looked on.
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Istanbul -
Over 500 years old, surviving fire and earthquakes, it welcomes up to 400,000 people a day and takes pride in being the world's most visited destination -- more popular than the Eiffel Tower.
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London -
Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has built a global reputation not by designing prestige buildings but by creating social housing, distancing his craft from purely aesthetic concerns.
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Amsterdam -
Amsterdam is a beautiful city with impressive buildings, a concentric network of canals, and friendly people. Digital Journal presents the key things to see in a day.
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Mumbai -
Hidden behind a blanket of trees at the back of a university in Mumbai lies the dilapidated, but once grand, former home of writer Rudyard Kipling.
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New York -
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena won the prestigious 2016 Pritzker Prize Wednesday, earning praise for "powerful" designs that address key social and economic challenges of the 21st century.
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Mecca -
The deadly collapse of a construction crane in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca has highlighted the controversial pace of high-end urban development in the birthplace of Islam.
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Sanktpeterburg -
More than a thousand Russians rallied in Saint Petersburg on Sunday after a century-old bas relief of a mythical demon was destroyed amid fears of increasing religious intolerance under President Vladimir Putin.
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Next month, Intel will be unveiling a new range of processors for desktops and mobile devices. A leak has revealed we can expect 10-20 percent improvements in performance while saving 30 percent battery, creating an all-new generation of powerful devices.
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Varsovia -
Polish TV presenter Robert Bernatowicz used to hate Warsaw's colossal Palace of Culture, an unwanted gift from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that opened 60 years ago this week. But that was before he broke into the building.
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Istanbul -
Turkey's top administrative court has removed its block on the controversial redevelopment of an Istanbul park that in 2013 sparked the most serious anti-government protests in years, a pressure group said Thursday.
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Helsinki -
A design by a French studio, Moreau Kusunoki Architectes, has been selected for the future Helsinki Guggenheim museum, the foundation supporting the Finnish bid for the project announced Tuesday.
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Paris -
Paris, known worldwide as the city of romance, Monday began the heart-breaking process of removing tens of thousands of "love-locks", padlocks chained to the city's bridges by love-struck couples.
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New York -
New York, a city of exorbitant rents with more and more single residents, is about to get a brand new type of apartment: micro-units, for decades prohibited under zoning regulations.
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Montreal -
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada had announced this year’s awards for media in architecture and the winner is the Montreal daily newspaper La Presse and two of its journalists.
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The highlands around the Colombian capital are scattered with small buildings that look like out-of-place igloos but are in fact innovative houses made from the tires that litter the country's roads.
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Every secondary school in Northern Ireland is to receive free copies of the massively popular computer game Minecraft after the title was recognised for its unique educational potential and ability to teach children about the world.
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Rome -
The Italian government has moved to block new building regulations for Lombardy which would make it virtually impossible to build any new mosques in the northern region, officials said Friday.
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Bench designed by Edward Durell Stone. Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas. Feb. 15, 2011
Unique architecture of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Some big changes are happening in Vatican City right now. Andreas Tille via Wikimedia Commons
Historic walls with gates leading into intriguing streets, old and new
Upside down house at Szymbark, Poland with the 'roof' entrance on the 'ground'. Wikimedia Commons - Tomasz Sienicki
Edward Durell Stone's Fulbright Furniture. Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 15, 2011.
St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto has some advanced architecture with some equally advanced devices inside. paul bica
St. Peter Square, Vatican City wikipedia
Sweeping buildings, construction and industry all helped create an amazing city in architecture. Unfortunately it may also have contributed to high levels of metal in soil. Ben Grey
Arbitrators at the Supreme Court of Canada have made a powerful ruling in favor of local unions. Peregrine981
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years runs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through December 31st, 2012. Along with Warhol, the show features work by well-known artists including Jeff Koons, Ai Wei Wei, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Chuck Close, and many more.
With a shortage of land, the Dutch have learned to live with and on the water.
Pretty building in the park now used for wedding receptions and the like
The old town hall at Windsor, with carving adorning the facade.
The old clock at Central Station evokes memories of Venice.
Edward Durell Stone's Fulbright Furniture. Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 15, 2011.
Some of the city's canals have been set aside for so-called house-boats where people live throughout the year.
Mobius design concept Landscape House bu Universe Architecture Universe Architecture
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