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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.
1962. The House of Slaves ( Maison des Esclaves) and its Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Its museum, which was opened in 1962 and curated until Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye's death in 2009, is said to memorialise the final exit ...
September 23, 1972. ( 1972-09-23) A thirty-year veteran beat cop and longtime friend of Stone's is shot during an attempted robbery. Stone sets off with a vendetta to get the gunman, blurring the line between professional and personal. With Edmond O'Brien, Tim O'Connor, David Opatoshu, and Eileen Heckart.
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.
One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses at 710–720 Steiner Street across from Alamo Square park. It is sometimes known as "Postcard Row"; they are also known as the Seven Sisters. The houses were built between 1892 and 1896 by developer Matthew Kavanaugh, who lived next door in the 1892 mansion at 722 ...
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 ...
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 ...