WAGNER MUSEUM
WAGNER MUSEUM Not many composers have the opportunity to establish their own museum: but Richard Wagner was exceptional in many ways. The grandest of the memorials to the great …
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TINEL MUSEUM
TINEL MUSEUM Edgar Tinel was a leading figure in the establishment of the musical traditions of the Flemish-speaking people of Belgium. He was born on 25 March 1854 in …
BRIDGES ILLUMINATED
BRIDGES ILLUMINATED Domingo Gonzalez Associates developed the lighting for the Hudson River crossing that will replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, shown here in a rendering. Lighting for the 3.1-mile …
VLADIGEROV MUSEUM
VLADIGEROV MUSEUM Bulgaria’s musical patriarch, Pancho Vladigerov, is commemorated in the north-eastern city of Shumen, some 100 km from Varna, where he and his identical twin Luben spent their …
SCHOENBERG MUSEUM
SCHOENBERG MUSEUM There is a house in Modling, a southern suburb of Vienna where Beethoven liked to stay and to walk in the fields. It bears a plaque which …
DANJIANG BRIDGE MAP
DANJIANG BRIDGE MAP Crossing Tamsui River, Tamsui-Bali, Taiwan Designers/Engineers Zaha Hadid Architects Expected completion c. 2020 Span 1,476 feet (450 meters) Materials Steel, concrete Type Cable-stayed Relieving traffic was …
KHAJU BRIDGE MAP BRIDGE MAP
KHAJU BRIDGE MAP BRIDGE MAP Crossing Zayandeh River, Isfahan, Iran Designer/Engineer Shah Abbas II Completed c. 1650 Span 433 feet (132 meters) Materials Masonry Type Arch An ancient Persian …
SINGER MUSEUM
SINGER MUSEUM Mozartians and others wandering through Salzburg may have noticed, on the arch linking the Franciscan monastery to the Franciscan Church -just behind the Cathedral, close to St …
LAKE MARACAIBO BRIDGE MAP
LAKE MARACAIBO BRIDGE MAP For the first time, concrete was used for both pylons and deck in a cable-stayed bridge. In the fifteenth century, when the Spanish conquistador Alonso …
CORNISH-WINDSOR COVERED BRIDGE MAP LONGEST COVERED BRIDGE MAP IN THE UNITED STATES
CORNISH-WINDSOR COVERED BRIDGE MAP LONGEST COVERED BRIDGE MAP IN THE UNITED STATES Builders soon learned that, without a roof, a wooden bridge won’t last long. December 8, 1989, was …
SCHMIDT MUSEUM
SCHMIDT MUSEUM Franz Schmidt was a revered figure among Austrian composers in the interwar years. Born in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1874, he had been a cellist in the …
CHENAB BRIDGE MAP
CHENAB BRIDGE MAP Crossing Chenab River, Jammu and Kashmir, India Designer/Engineer WSP Expected completion 2020 Span 1,532 feet (467 meters) Material Steel Type Arch Structural history is being made …
BRITANNIA BRIDGE MAP
BRITANNIA BRIDGE MAP Crossing Menai Strait, Anglesey, Wales Designer/Engineer Robert Stephenson Completed 1850 Length Center spans 459 feet (140 meters); end spans 230 feet (70 meters) Materials Wrought iron, …
TURK MUSEUM
TURK MUSEUM Daniel Gottlob Turk (1750-1813) is commemorated by his adopted city of Halle because of the nurturing role he played in the musical life of the city, as …
LUDENDORFF BRIDGE MAP
LUDENDORFF BRIDGE MAP Everyone knew the bridge would be destroyedthe only question was when. The physical structure of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen no longer survives, but the bridge …