WOLF MUSEUM
WOLF MUSEUM Everyone knows Hugo Wolf as an Austrian composer, but Windischgraz, where he was born in 1860, is now Slovenj Gradec, just on the Slovenian side of the …
LAGUNA GARZON BRIDGE MAP
LAGUNA GARZON BRIDGE MAP A bridge’s unusual shape increases vehicular safety and protects local flora and fauna. A novel circular bridge, “a lagoon within a lagoon,” circumnavigates Laguna Garzon, …
STARRUCCA VIADUCT BRIDGE MAP
STARRUCCA VIADUCT BRIDGE MAP The viaduct represents a milestone in North American stone vault engineering. The most precious commodity in eighteenth-century Americaa new nation impatient to expand its frontierswas …
TANSMAN MUSEUM
TANSMAN MUSEUM Alexandre Tansman is chiefly remembered as a Parisian composer; he lived in the French capital from 1920 until his death in 1986, apart from an enforced stay …
Brother-Killing & the Voyage Home
Alerted, Aeetes ran to the shore, ordering his men to launch his fleet in pursuit of the pirates who had stolen his daughter and the fleece. At last, near …
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE MAP
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE MAP The world’s most heavily traveled bridge, the George Washington is crossed by 108 million vehicles annually. Two years after Henry Ford introduced the first mass-produced …
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 …
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 …