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Building Stuttgart | Neville Walker | Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart

The design principles of the Bauhaus were adopted more enthusiastically here than anywhere else, and enough survives to make Stuttgart an open air museum of the modern movement

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Castles in the Sky | Roger Starkey | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

A towering mass of humanity stretched towards to the sky. The cherry on the human ice cream cone scampered up the tower with rapidity and precision

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Chicago’s Cultural Crosswinds | Jonathan Begg | United States, Illinois, Chicago

For you are now heading West into that small region that has shaped its life around a million fantastic Gothic chimneys of rock thrown up by angry Gods of fire and flood, all in another world

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St. Petersburg | Steve Knipp | Russia, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg

It is said that Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, is not really a Russian city at all, but an elegant European upstart implanted on the breast of Mother Russia. It is a very simple, very Russian, case of jealousy

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Thailand’s Teak Palace | Jonathan Begg | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

Certainly it is impossible to exaggerate the cool dignity of this shaded mansion in the heart of Thailand’s huge sweltering capital. Every line of the architecture tends to charm and soothe

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The New Amsterdam | Norman Miller | Netherlands, Amsterdam, Amsterdam

......the rush comes not just from the caffeine but from feeling like you’re the master of some new Amsterdam universe

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The Whispering Dagoba | James Henderson | Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Hills, Kalutara

In the books about Sri Lanka you read that there are enough bricks inside some of the island's dagobas (those rounded temples that stand like vast white water-droplets impacting in the jungle) to construct a wall

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Walled In: Pingyao | Philip Sen

Pingyao's wall has stood firm since the Ming Dynasty. It escaped the worst of the Cultural Revolution and even today not one skyscraper blocks the view

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