Architecture
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Wellspring Church
A nave like a folded tent: in Englewood near Denver, 22 prestressed concrete half-arches form the church, with stained-glass windows in between that were…
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Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
Art museum by Renzo Piano in the Berower Park in Riehen near Basel – with around 400 works of classical modernism and contemporary art…
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Church, mosque, museum and mosque again: the Byzantine domed building of 537 in Istanbul, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Historic Areas of…
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Leffe Abbey
Premonstratensian abbey on the Meuse in Dinant-Leffe, founded in 1152 – the namesake of the well-known abbey beer and still home to a community…
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Former Capuchin Convent, Dinant
Early 17th-century convent on the left bank of the Meuse in Dinant – a plain complex around a cloister, today home to municipal social…
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Church of Saint George, Leffe
13th-century church in the Leffe district of Dinant on the Meuse – with a Romanesque core and historic flood marks on its portal.
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Church of Saint Lambert, Bouvignes
Gothic church in the heart of Bouvignes-sur-Meuse – destroyed and rebuilt several times, with a Passion altarpiece from Antwerp.
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Notre-Dame de Foy Pilgrimage Church
17th-century pilgrimage church in Foy-Notre-Dame near Dinant – with a coffered ceiling of 145 painted oak panels.
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Church of Saint Anne, Anseremme
Neo-Gothic church of 1906–1907 at the confluence of the Lesse and the Meuse in Anseremme – with a 12th-century baptismal font.
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Steinburg Castle, Würzburg
Castle-like building of 1897/98 high above the famous Würzburger Stein vineyard – once the clubhouse of the artists’ society “Roßperger”, today a hotel.