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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Place des Arts is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the largest cultural and artistic complex in Canada. [ 1 ] Home to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Opéra de Montréal, the complex is situated between Saint Catherine and de Maisonneuve streets ...