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Modern Architecture


Modern Architecture, including Jugendstil (Art Noveau)



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Prague subway station. The ten stations of line A are lined with aluminum in different colours, related to their locations. "Mustek", at the bottom of Wenceslas- Square and at the borderline between new and old city, is golden to symbolize "Slata Praha",the golden Prague.
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Prague subway station. The ten stations of line A are lined with aluminum in d...

Prague subway: Malostranska station at the bottom of Hradshani (castle) -hill, has a wrought-iron gate with a modern version of the old house signs in Nerudova- Street,just behind the station.
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Prague subway: Malostranska station at the bottom of Hradshani (castle) -hill...

Roissy-Airport, Paris
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Roissy-Airport, Paris

Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, with an exhibit of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, with an exhibit of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt as the center of an artists' colony with exhibition hall and artist's studios. 1900-1901. Architect Olbrich set it on the top of the hill as a "temple of the artist's work".
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Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig...

Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt as the center of an artists' colony with exhibition hall and artists' studios. 1900-1901. Architect Olbrich set it on the top of the hill as a "temple of the artist's work".
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Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig...

Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt as the center of an artists' colony with exhibition hall and artists' studios. 1900-1901. Architect Olbrich set it on the top of the hill as a "temple of the artist's work".
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Ernst-Ludwig Haus,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Sponsored by Grandduke Ernst Ludwig...

Haus Behrens,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.The only villa on Mathildenhoehe not designed by architect Olbrich. 1900-1901.
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Haus Behrens,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.The only villa on Mathildenhoehe not de...

Haus Behrens,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.The only villa on Mathildenhoehe not designed by architect Olbrich. 1900-1901.The monumental door.
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Haus Behrens,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.The only villa on Mathildenhoehe not de...

Haus Olbrich,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Olbrich built the house for his family in 1900-1901.It was sold in 1940,much damaged by bombs in 1944 and greatly altered during restoration in 1978.Of the original house only the tiles,the garden gate and a few windows remain.
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Haus Olbrich,Mathildenhoehe,Darmstadt.Olbrich built the house for his family...

Haus Deiters,built for Wilhelm Deiters,secretary of the exhibits in the Ernst-Ludwig mansion,1900-1901.
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Haus Deiters,built for Wilhelm Deiters,secretary of the exhibits in the Erns...

Grosses Haus Glueckert,built 1900-1901 for Julius Glueckert,owner of a large furniture factory.The "grosses Haus Glueckert",the "large house" was used as a showplace for Glueckert furniture,while the family lived in the "small Haus Glueckert". Street front.
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Grosses Haus Glueckert,built 1900-1901 for Julius Glueckert,owner of a large fu...