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Hotel des Arts. / 37.79055; -122.40494. Hotel des Arts is a boutique hotel in San Francisco, California. When it opened in 2005, [2] 16 of its 51 rooms were painted by local artists–today 38 rooms are. [3] [4] Materials used include wall-mounted vinyl records, plastic bags, graffiti, fabrics, three-dimensional art work, and even installations.
1910 School of arts and crafts, La Chaux-de-Fonds. 1914 Dom-ino House (no site agreed). 1914 Felix Klipstein house, Loubach. 1914 Bank, Neuenburg. 1915 Butin bridge, near Geneva (Competition). 1916 Watch factory, la Chaux-de-Fonds. 1926 League of Nations headquarters, Geneva. 1928 Wanner apartment block, Geneva.
The Maison de Verre ( French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of ...
UNESCO Headquarters. Coordinates: 48°50′58″N 2°18′22″E. The main UNESCO building as viewed from the Eiffel Tower. UNESCO Headquarters, or Maison de l'UNESCO, is a building inaugurated on 3 November 1958 at number 7 Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France, to serve as the headquarters for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...
Graphic design is a profession, [ 2 ] academic discipline [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. [ 6 ] Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design [ 1 ] and of the fine arts.
House of Photography of Marrakesh. The House of Photography of Marrakesh, also known by its French name Maison de la Photographie, is located in the historic medina of Marrakesh, Morocco. It opened in April 2009, with a collection of photographs spanning from the 1870s to the 1950s.
The Cour des Voraces ( [kuʁ de vɔʁas], "court of the voracious ones"), also called Maison de la République, is a courtyard building in the Pentes quarter, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, famous for its enormous six-floor stairway. It is an impressive traboule, a covered passage with entrances on Place Colbert, Montée Saint-Sébastien ...
The Maison de la paix (literally: House of Peace) is a building owned by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. [ 1] The building was designed by Eric Ott of Neuchâtel 's IPAS firm. [ 2] It serves as the headquarters for the Graduate Institute and houses the three Geneva Centres, which comprise ...