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  • Albert Speer: The Architect of the 20th Century - Features biography, images, sound clips, and a timeline. (featured in Mar 2001)
  • American Experience: The Center of the World - Companion to the eigth installment of PBS' New York documentary series. Tracks the conception, construction, and destruction of the World Trade Center. (featured in Sep 2003)
  • An Anatomy of Megachurches - Annotated slide show examines the new look for places of worship. By Witold Rybczynski. (featured in Oct 2005)
  • Architectural Wonders 2006 - Slideshow and article from Business Week examining some of the year's best designed structures. (featured in Dec 2006)
  • Architecture of the Getty Center - Provides comprehensive visual documentation of the museum. Offers over 600 images presenting a look at the Getty from all aspects. (featured in Dec 2000)
  • Bird's Eye View of Famous Homes - Featuring aerial views of such legendary structures as the Osbournes home, the Playboy mansion, the "Happy Days" house, and the "Friends" apartment building. From Zillow.com. (featured in July 2006)
  • Bus Stop Shelters in Ukraine - Some are frescoed, some are etched, some are tiled mosaics -- all are beautiful. Most have fallen into a state of disrepair because the local governments can no longer afford to maintain them. (featured in Apr 2001)
  • Canberra House, The - Provides history and overview of modern residential architecture in the Australian Capital Territory. (featured in May 2001)
  • Coit Tower - Covering its history and art. Includes floor plans, and photos of its many murals. (featured in Mar 2005)
  • Crystal Palace, The - Examines the modeling and design of the structure. Includes VRML models. (featured in Jan 2002)
  • Glass Steel and Stone - Devoted to the art of architecture around the world, with facts and photos of famous buildings, towers, and monuments. Find architectural information about buildings near you, or read feature articles and columns. (featured in Apr 2002)
  • Great Castles of Wales - Tribute to fortified medieval architecture with pictures, plans, and history. (featured in Dec 2001)
  • Groceteria.com: Did You Bring Bottles? - Tribute to supermarkets and the history of mega-grocers such as Safeway, Lucky, and many independent outlets. (featured in Aug 2007)
  • History of Sanitary Sewers - Houses a dynamic collection of materials about the evolutionary development of sewers over the past 5,500 years. (featured in July 2004)
  • Houses of the Future - Promotes new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable, prefabricated housing in Australia that are also futuristic and innovative in their design. (featured in Dec 2004)
  • Manhattan Timeformations - Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts through time. (featured in Sep 2001)
  • New Jersey Churchscape, The - Offers information and photographs of the remaining 18th and 19th century churches of New Jersey. (featured in Apr 2001)
  • Now and Then - Flickr photo pool sharing images of buildings, street corners, and hillsides in one year -- and then again, decades later. (featured in Mar 2007)
  • Palaces of the King - Features virtual tours of the palaces in Thailand including the Grand Palace, Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha, the Vimanmek Palace, and more. (featured in Mar 2002)
  • Powersof10.com - Official site for Powers of Ten, a nine-minute film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977, which promotes an understanding of scale in order to organize thinking and experience in a new perspective. (featured in Oct 2001)
  • Smithsonian: New Hotels for Global Nomads - A provocative exhibition that spotlights contemporary hotels as the crossroads of our connected yet nomadic society and underscores their role in cutting-edge architecture and design. (featured in Dec 2002)
  • Sonic Memorial Project - NPR and WNYC collaboration collecting sound and stories that capture the life and history of the World Trade Center neighborhood and working environment before, during, and after September 11, 2001. (featured in Sep 2006)
  • Sports Temples of Boston (featured in Nov 2004)
  • Tall Buildings - Online feature created in 2004 with profiles, scale models, and interesting information about contemporary skyscrapers. (featured in July 2004)
  • The Work of Charles & Ray Eames - Companion site to the Library of Congress exhibition touring New York, Saint Louis, and Los Angeles through September 2000. (featured in Jan 2005)
  • Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School - Tells the story of the Prairie School through the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which includes a large group of furniture and other objects from Prairie School structures in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. (featured in Feb 2003)
  • Weekly Dose of Architecture, A - Includes weekly reviews and information on contemporary architectural works. (featured in Nov 2000)
  • World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition - Building a memorial to those who died in the September 11th terrorist attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Includes designs of the finalists, winner, and the other 5,201 submissions received. (featured in Feb 2004)
  • Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home - Explore this late Qing Dynasty merchant's home, originally located in southeastern China and recently re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum. (featured in Dec 2002)


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