Portal:Architecture/Did you know

...that the only remaining part of the Palais Strousberg after the Second World War were the gates complete with the British coats of arms and they were built into the modern British Embassy in Berlin, erected on the same site in the 1990s?
... that since 1994, the mural arts program of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network has created more than 2,500 murals (pictured) across Philadelphia?

…that the Lovell House by Richard Neutra was the first steel frame house (1929)?

…that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?

…that Beckomberga Hospital (pictured) in Stockholm was designed according to a strict symmetrical pattern and used to be one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Europe?

…that the Château de Rosny (pictured), the birthplace and seat of Henri IV's minister Duc de Sully, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984?

…that four years before her death, Madame de Pompadour paid almost one million livres to buy the Château de Menars (pictured), selling some pearl bracelets to meet the first payment?

…that the Shell Service Station (pictured) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
…that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?

…that Fort Randolph was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?