Hundertwasser: the wild manifesto
An artist attacks modern architecture from an old abbey.
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How Emily Roebling saved the Brooklyn Bridge
The bridge that took a generation to build.
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Brunelleschi and Florence's dome
How do you put a dome on a cathedral?
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Gaudi: the man who built Barcelona
Upside-down models and a cathedral that is still growing.
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Gustave Eiffel: the tower all of Paris hated
All of Paris against one engineer.
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The letter against the Eiffel Tower.
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Gaudi's upside-down model
How strings and lead shot design a cathedral.
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Fallingwater
A house built over a waterfall.
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Michelangelo: He Never Wanted to Build St Peter's Dome
Rome, February 1564. The greatest artist of his age dies at almost 89 – and within days his body is wrapped like a bale of merchandise and smuggled out of the…
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Taken From His Village, He Built the Skyline of an Empire
Moldavia, 1538. A swollen river. The army of Süleyman the Magnificent – and no way across. The Sultan wants a bridge. Not next year. Now. A Janissary engineer…
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Why These 4 Famous Landmarks Almost Never Got Built
A fire beneath a river. A builder locked in a cell. A workshop in flames. And a city that wanted a tower gone. Four of the most famous buildings on Earth each…
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5 Buildings They Said Could Never Be Built
5 Buildings They Said Could Never Be Built
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Frank Lloyd Wright's House of Fire
Frank Lloyd Wright's House of Fire
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Jørn Utzon: Why He Never Saw His Sydney Opera House 🇦🇺
Jørn Utzon: Why He Never Saw His Sydney Opera House 🇦🇺
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Zaha Hadid: The 'Paper Architect' From Baghdad 🇮🇶
Zaha Hadid: The 'Paper Architect' From Baghdad 🇮🇶
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1933: The Nazis Closed His School
Berlin, 11 April 1933. Police trucks stop in front of an empty telephone factory. Inside: the Bauhaus, the most famous design school in the world. By the…
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Copied for 400 Years: The Stonemason's Boy Palladio
Venice, December 1577. The Doge's Palace is on fire. An old architect proposes to rebuild it like a temple of ancient Rome - and the Senate says no. Again. He…
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