On my last trip to LA (also my last pre-COVID trip), I was very excited that I would have a chance to finally cross The Getty off of my “museums to visit” list. I have wanted to get there for years — ever since reading Loot and learning about the more controversial side of the museum.
Read MoreIt's All in The Details — The Opulent Designs of The Chairs of Versailles
In the year 1668, Louis XIV began his expansion of a small chateau into what we now know as the opulent Palace of Versailles.
Every surface and object in the palace was painstakingly designed and created by thousands of artists in the Royal Academy, led by the three head designers — Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Andre Le Notre — in order to create a palace fit for the Sun King and his court of almost 20,000.
Read MoreSagrada Familia: The World's Most Visited Construction Site
Combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms, the Templo Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia aka the Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Family aka the Sagrada Familia is a Roman Catholic Church — and UNESCO World Heritage Site — in the heart of Barcelona, Spain.
Read MoreArt or Eyesore? The Victor Emmanuel II Monument AKA "The Wedding Cake" In Rome
The glaringly white Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II AKA Altare della Patria AKA Il Vittoriano AKA The Victor Emmanuel II Monument AKA The Wedding Cake was built to honour the first king of unified Italy, Victor Emmanuel.
Read MoreArchitect Frank Gehry's Warped and Wonderful Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
It's iconic, stunning, impressive, in a lot of movies, etc… but did you know that the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is an example of deconstructive architecture that shows the avant-garde tendency to disturb traditional architectural values of harmony, unity, and stability through the use of skewed, distorted and impure geometry?
Read MoreArt or Eyesore? The Eiffel Tower History You Probably Didn't Know
Nicknamed La dame de fer (the iron lady), the Eiffel Tower is one of the most well-recognized buildings in the world. This latticed iron structure, located in the Champ de Mais in Paris, was erected in 1889 for the World’s Fair of that same year.
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