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© fotoember-iStock Editorial/Getty Images From the Yellow House to the Kirchner Museum, these buildings offer a vision of what Swiss architectural style means. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Yellow House Valerio Olgiati’s redesign of a 19th-century building in Flims constitutes a radical transformation of its character. Placed directly by the curving roadside, the Yellow House enjoys maximum impact on the cultural landscape of a tow...

Walter Hochauer In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all worth seeing when you’re next there. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Schloss Belvedere The two parts of the 18th-century ...

© Zechal/Fotolia Vienna has been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire and the empire known as Austria-Hungary. After World War II, it was occupied by multiple countries’ forces. History courses through its streets, as evidenced by these 12 buildings, but revolution does too. Each of these buildings performs its own type of rebellion. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Church of St. Charles Borromeo Also known as the Karlskirche, this ch...

Advance historic page from July 24, 2003: Politicians survey storm damage Updated Jan 12, 2021; STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today’s archive page is from July 24, 2003. Members of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management tour Staten Island with Borough President James P. Molinaro to assess damage from a thunderstorm that caused flooding and power outages across the borough. It is reported that the hardest-hit communities were Great Kills, Eltingville, Oakwood and Bay Terrace. A total of 16,432 Island Con Edison customers lost power during the storm, according to utility spokesman Mark Irving...

© Ekaterina Kondratova/Shutterstock.com California has been a hotbed of architectural changes and innovation. From the wacky to the sublime, this list shows the wide range of architectural experimentation and aesthetics in the Golden State. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. First Church of Christ Scientist Bernard Maybeck viewed the architectural canon as a style smorgasbord. Gothic, Romanesque, Asian, Arts and Crafts, Classicism—all w...