Portal:Architecture/Did you know
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- … that Bernard J.S. Cahill (pictured) designed the Columbarium of San Francisco and the "Butterfly Map" of the world?
- … that Giambattista Nolli completed an ichnographic plan of Rome in 1748, now universally known as the "Nolli Map"?
- … that Hakon Ahlberg was a spokesman for Swedish architecture and recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal?
- … that Ivan Zholtovsky was condemned in 1949 for the Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya building, then awarded the Stalin Prize for the same building in 1950?
- … that the Château Grimaldi in Antibes is home to the Picasso Museum with a collection of 245 works?
- … that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
- … that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
