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Guatemala City’s Torre del Reformador
Does being a so-called urban explorer have its rewards? Firstly, if you’re in a city such as Jakarta, Beijing or Cairo, then soap companies would say so. You might be wandering into potholes and out...
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Guatemala City’s Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias
Perhaps I wasn’t pushy enough. Perhaps my wallet was a devoid of its fun-producing partner, you know, money. Perhaps altitude sickness meant that I was mixing up Indonesian with Spanish, thoroughly...
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Tirana’s Piramida (Albania)
What’s your favorite thing about the word pyramid? Is it that visiting one offers you insight into the world of traffic violations? Or that ordering one for dessert will simultaneously make everyone...
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Neo-Tokyo Pays a Visit to New York
Manhattan has always possessed one of the most recognizable skylines in the world. But, when you think about which Manhattan neighborhoods best exemplify the tropospheric spirit, the Sutton Place...
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The 2014 New York State Pavilion, c/o the 1964-1965 World’s Fair
A thought of the thought of my existence wasn’t even… a thought in 1964, when the architect Philip Johnson completed the New York State Pavilion at the Queens, New York World’s Fair, but I have a thing...
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Inflated Views: Queens, New York’s Terrace on the Park
According to their website, Terrace on the Park in Corona, Queens has been New York City‘s most recognizable event venue for over thirty years. Yeah, nice try, but it’s a fascinating snippet of hubris...
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Throwback Thursday: The Sofitel in Ueno, Tokyo
The Sofitel Ueno, overlooking Ueno Park’s Shinobazu Pond, was one of my favorite (weird) buildings in Tokyo…until it was demolished in between late 2006 and mid-2008. Heck, the Sofitel wasn’t around...
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The Tianzi (Son of Heaven) Building in Yanjiao, Hebei, China
China is – or at least, until recently was- the world’s petri dish for what I like to call bizarrchitecture. You have malls with Venetian gondolas (and Somali video games), (empty) towns designed to...
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Fallen Star “House” at the University of California, San Diego (USA)
In honor of tomorrow’s trip to California, today’s post is about the Fallen Star “House” at the University of California, San Diego (USA): Since 1981, the Stuart Collection of UCSD has amassed and...
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Cinema Rossiya in Yerevan, Armenia
It’s quite obvious that I’m willing to travel out of my way – which amusingly puts things “in my way” – to observe (what I believe to be) unusual examples of architecture. Though, how does one define...
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