Listen to Thom Mayne talking about his San Francisco Federal Building design
Architect Thom Mayne discussing his design of the San Francisco Federal Building, from the documentary Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco (2008).
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the Statue of Zeus.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzListen to researchers discuss the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)A discussion concerning the significance of art, and women artists in particular, from the documentary A Woman's Touch: National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Written and photographed by Victoria S. Lautman; Produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Stepwells are spectacular subterranean edifices “like skyscrapers sunk into the earth,” explains Victoria Lautman in the video Subterranean Ghosts: India's Disappearing Stepwells (2013), produced and edited by Matthew Cunningham.
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© Chicago Architecture Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the Chicago fire of 1871 and the rebuilding of the city, including construction of the Rookery building (1886), designed by Daniel H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.An overview of Renaissance architecture.
