Architecture And Art Collection (page 3)

Blitz Skyline
circa 1940: London skyline in the blitz silhouetted by the light of fires. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

Autosilo
4th June 1955: An Autosilo - a multi-storey ramp garage, invented in Switzerland - at Karlsruhe. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7789 - A Plan To End The Traffic Jam - pub

Gargoyle
circa 1930: A Gargoyle on the cathedral of Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris. (Photo by Edward Charles Le Grice/Le Grice/Getty Images)

British Library Reading Room
A section of the newly-painted dome of the Reading Room of the British Library, 6th May 1952. The dome has been finished in cream, grey and gold. (Photo by L)

Financial District Cityscape
Aerial view from the East River looking northwest of the financial district and east side skyline of lower Manhattan, New York, New York, mid 1960s

Times Square, Early 1930s
Aeriel view looking down on Times Square, New York, New York, early 1930s. Visible advertisements include those for Chevrolet, Wrigleys chewing gun, Coca-Cola, and Camel cigarettes

The Inspection
The third in the series Marriage A La Mode by William Hogarth, satirising the mercenary marriage practices of the British upper classes, circa 1743

The Marriage Settlement
The first in the series Marriage A La Mode by William Hogarth, satirising the mercenary marriage practices of the British upper classes, circa 1743

Brandenburg Gate closed during period of Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany

Pottery Vase From Mayan Burial Tomb
View of a pottery vase from a Mayan burial tomb, circa 600-700 A.D. excavated from the Tikal site in northern Guatemala, 1966. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Engraving Of Brown University Campus Buildings
Engraving of buildings on the Brown University campus, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880s. Clockwise from top left: the presidents house, the laboratory, the colleges, the Old Well, and the library

Cast Of Mayan Relief Sculpture
Plaster cast of a Mayan relief sculpture with hieroglyphic inscriptions, discovered near Copan, Honduras, circa 731 A.D. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Scene From Poes Ligeia
Engraving shows a scene from The Purloined Letter, a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, late 1800s. The illustration is credited to Wogel. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

First Bank Of The United States
Engraving by Fenner Sears & Co. shows pedestrians on the street outside the First Bank of the United States which was Alexander Hamiltons brainchild

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Engraving by William Henry Bartlett shows pedestrian and horsecart traffic on the street in front of the Merchants Exchange Building, home of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange

View Of The Acropolis
View of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, around 420 BC. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

The College Of William & Mary
Engraving shows the Wren Building and quadrangle of the campus of the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1845

Martinez Hotel
May 1955: A night view of the Martinez Hotel in Cannes. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Gordon Castle
August 1946: Gordon Castle at Fochabers, Scotland. The castle, seat of the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon, is set in 1, 300 acres of deer park between Banff and Elgin

The close up of stone carving of Stegosaurus dinosaur inside Prasat Ta Prohm, Cambodia

Skyline of Queretaro, Mexico at dawn
In 1996, the Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro was declared a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site. The City of Queretaro - in the state of Queretaro

Streets of downtown Queretaro, Mexico at dawn
In 1996, the Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro was declared a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site. The City of Queretaro - in the state of Queretaro

Pedestrian walkways of downtown Queretaro, Mexico
In 1996, the Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro was declared a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site. The City of Queretaro - in the state of Queretaro

Newcastle Slums
circa 1910: A woman attends to domestic chores in a slum housing area of Newcastles by-ways. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

Absinthe House
Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, Louisianna, The famous pirate Jean Lafitte used it as his headquarters in 1807 and the painter Edgar Degas drank here

Fijian House
circa 1930: Constructing a timber framed house in Fiji. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Boudoir
circa 1900: Interior of a turn of the century bedroom. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Organ Grinder
circa 1893: Children dancing to the Pas de Quatre, a famous Gaiety piece, played by an organ grinder in a London street. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Blakes Last Judgement
A depiction by William Blake, circa 1800, of the last judgement, as described in the book of Revelations. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

V&A
circa 1909: The Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. Popularly known as the V&A, it houses one of the worlds finest collections of art and design exhibits

Watkins Folly
1895: Wembley Park Tower known as Watkins Folly under construction. Built by the Metropolitan Tower Co under the directorship of Sir Edward Watkin to rival the Eiffel Tower

Backyards
December 1923: Slum housing in Crossland Square, Bethnal Green, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back To Backs
21st March 1919: Back to back terraces in the east end of London (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Carving details of Trivikrama the Vamana avatar of Vishnu with one leg on the earth and the other on the skie at Varaha Cave Temple, Mahabalipuram, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India

Detail of of a carved wall of a palace, Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

The Obelisk of Axum

Tuscany landscape around Siena
Siena and outskirts, seen from above

Enigma Code
7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German Enigma and Lorenz codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered

Nat West Tower
circa 1977: The exterior of the National Westminster Bank in Bishopsgate, London, under construction. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Dunstans Bus
24th October 1938: A bus outside the entrance to St Dunstans, a new rest and holiday home for blinded soldiers, sailors and airmen, at Ovingdean, East Sussex. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Iona Abbey
6th August 1955: The Abbey on the tiny island of Iona, begun in 1203 and neglected after the Reformation, which is being rebuilt by members of the Iona Community

Housing Jungle
29th October 1955: Houses are becoming slums, the back to back houses in Salford, Lancashire, where due to rent restrictions proper maintainance becomes impossible

Irish Castle
8th April 1950: A woman walks through the grounds of an Irish castle. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5004 - Irelands Castles: Grandeur In Decline - pub

Flooded Homes
6th July 1946: Flooded homes in the village of Norton Canes in the Cannock Chase coalfield. The buildings are being undermined by the mine subsidence

1937 Paris Worlds Fair
View of the one of the main gates into the Worlds Fair ground, Paris, Framce, 1937. Visible in the distance is the Eiffel Tower (center)

Crystal Palace
1851: Crowds outside the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Original Artwork: Drawing and lithograph by Augustus Butler

View of row house apartment buildings from 203-19 West 63rd Street in New York City
circa 1930: View of row house apartment buildings from 203-19 West 63rd Street in New York City. An oyster bar occupies a storefront. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1935: Exterior view of tenement buildings along Ridge Street on the Lower East Side, New York City, 1930s. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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