Entries tagged #architecture on Unique.https://unique.rzen.dev/en-ushttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/knize-vienna/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/knize-vienna/The Viennese tailoring house at Graben 13, founded 1858, with a shop Adolf Loos built between 1910 and 1913 and an owner who started behind the counter in 1956.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplacesviennatailoringmenswearadolf-loosarchitecturehttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/galerie-dapollon/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/galerie-dapollon/The Louvre's Galerie d'Apollon reopened in July 2026, nine months after a jewel heist — and the Louvre chose to empty it further, vaulting even the crown jewels the thieves never touched.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplaceslouvreparismuseumheistarchitecturecrown-jewelshttps://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-14-it-worked-for-a-hundred-years/https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-14-it-worked-for-a-hundred-years/Mail fired through tubes beneath American cities, a walled quarantine island in Menorca, and a Sicilian cathedral rebuilt ten kilometres from where it stood.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbundlesdaily-findshistoryarchitecturehttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/how-buildings-learn/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/how-buildings-learn/Stewart Brand's 1997 BBC series on buildings as things that get altered rather than finished, with a Brian Eno score — all six parts free, posted by Brand himself.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignarchitecturedocumentarybrian-enostewart-brandfreehttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/lazareto-de-menorca/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/lazareto-de-menorca/Europe's best-preserved maritime quarantine station, on its own island in Mahón Harbour — a whole complex designed backwards from the rule that nobody may touch anyone.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTplacesspainmenorcaquarantinearchitecturepublic-healthhttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/house-of-david-bowie-berlin/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/house-of-david-bowie-berlin/The Schöneberg tenement where David Bowie lived from 1976 to 1978, above an auto-parts shop, with Iggy Pop in the back courtyard — an ordinary Berlin address kept in flowers by strangers every January.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTplacesberlindavid-bowiemusic-historyarchitecturehttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library/Snøhetta's living-roofed library in the North Dakota Badlands pairs an archive of Roosevelt's own letters and speeches with a life-size AI avatar, Talk with TR, that visitors question face to face.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTplacesnorth-dakotaarchitecturearchiveaisnohettamuseumhttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/huset-longyearbyen/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/huset-longyearbyen/Snøhetta's redesign of Longyearbyen's Huset — a 1951 mining-town hall turned fine-dining room at 78 degrees north — in stained oak, Öland stone, and red linoleum, tuned for a light cycle that swings between total polar night and the midnight sun.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTplacessvalbardrestaurantdesignarcticarchitecturehttps://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-16-places-on-a-longer-clock/https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-16-places-on-a-longer-clock/Four places measured in centuries and continents — a 500-year drip sculpture, a wooden bridge open to cars since 1829, a 2,171-mile trail, and a garden that bridges two cultures.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbundlesdaily-findstravelarchitecturehttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/john-margolies-americana-archive/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/john-margolies-americana-archive/11,710 free, downloadable color photos from John Margolies' four-decade drive across vanishing American roadside architecture — donut shops, teapot gas stations, leaning towers of pizza — now at the Library of Congress with no known restrictions on use.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistoryphotographyamericanaarchitecturepublic-domainarchivesroad-triphttps://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/lai-tak-tsuen-estate/https://unique.rzen.dev/reviews/lai-tak-tsuen-estate/Lai Tak Tsuen in Tai Hang is the only cylindrical public rental housing ever built in Hong Kong — two twin-drum blocks from 1976, each cylinder wrapped around an open-air atrium that runs the full 27 storeys to the sky. It is also a working estate of 2,675 flats that now posts notices asking photographers to stay out.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTplaceshong-kongpublic-housingarchitecturefilm-locationmodernismtai-hanghttps://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-14-not-built-to-be-visited/https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-14-not-built-to-be-visited/Three places that were never meant to be destinations — an industrial ruin, a neighborhood hill, and a housing estate that has had to ask photographers to stay out.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbundlesdaily-findstravelarchitecture