Design

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

The vintage, artistic cage of the city’s first lift welcomes visitors to an old heritage building.

A beautifully rebuilt windmill from the 17th century, situated along the Amstel River.

An obsolete, long-forgotten advertising character lingers on this Sainsbury’s balcony railings.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

The last remains of a long-demolished estate.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

The best collection of Mudéjar building replicas gathered in a theme park in Olmedo.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

This piece of early engineering is rather unknown despite its location in the heart of Madrid.

Geothermal resources are cooled in this oddly-shaped structure before being used for irrigation

A Bauhaus co-founder designed this quirky, abandoned granary.

The site of one of the only two star-shaped forts in Japan was used as an elementary school for over a century, much longer than its life as a castle.