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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the city’s streets like the backs of their hands, but if like me, you just love that sketch-booky/ void of perfectly straight lines/ children’s book nostalgia-kind of art, then I suspect you’ll fall head over heels for [...]
(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you might think you’ve seen all Italy has to offer already, but have you heard about the town built with a style of architecture so old, it predates written Italian history? (c) Paolo Campioni (c) LorisZec Welcome to Alberobello, a small town with [...]
1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it was built once upon a time but the Hundertwasser Tower was actually completed in 2010. At thirty-five meters high and six meters in diameter, the observation tower in South Germany was originally intended to be three times its size but the [...]
I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you know what I enjoy more? Beautiful historic places that haven’t been given a McArchitecture make-over. 1. An Art Deco building in Victoria, Australia, formerly the ‘United Kingdom Hotel’ dating back to 1937. Photo credit here 2. Believe [...]
Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through ambitious architectural projects, but none have been quite as astounding as this one. The Water Tower, an 1870s Venetian Gothic building in South East London in its own league. The 99 ft-high Grade II listed building was once as part of [...]
There was the woman who lived in a shoe, the man that lived in an airplane and then there was the guy who had a restaurant in a giant coffee pot. Ernie Landerman converted an abandoned oil grain storage structure into the Coffee Pot Restaurant in 1939 which was situated on the side of highway U.S. [...]
There are a few things about me that could be perceived by some as a little off. For example, I highly enjoy doing a little dance in front my bathroom mirror occasionally, watching zombie films or snacking on salted crisps dipped in cold milk (trust me, try it). I also enjoy looking at derelict buildings. [...]
Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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