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History marks Nagasaki as one of only two places to have been devastated by an atom bomb. But four centuries before that epochal event, Nagasaki was known for something much sunnier than a dark mushroom cloud. Over a 200-year period during which Japan quarantined itself from the outside world...
Chicago neighborhoods are known for being delineated and segregated by physical structures (i.e. highways, bridges). The separation not only affords Chicagoans the opportunity to demonstrate their pride but also makes a tour of the city reminiscent of a mosaic. Chinese characters spell out street signs against a backdrop of Chinese...
Richard Leese is a rare man in local government. He not only thinks good architecture and design matter, he also makes fine buildings happen. As the leader of Manchester City Council, he runs a municipality that was once rich in 19th century commercial architecture - buildings with Victorian arches and polychrome...
Our first glimpse of her roots had come two days earlier. Our passenger plane from Thailand dropped through a thick layer of cloud to reveal steep, wrinkled peaks flanking a jade patchwork of paddies. As we whizzed over the treetops to land outside the main town of Jinghong?or in...
Architecture competes with culture as the most diverse aspect of the South End. No prosaic government buildings here—the Fire Department Headquarters was inspired by Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, and the site now houses the Pine Street Inn, which provides invaluable services to the homeless.