In this series of articles on our Alameda architectural treasures, we most often explore Victorian-era homes ... examples are concentrated there. Like vernacular examples of the contemporaneous ...

There are a number of venues that could rightfully earn the title of 'cathedral of music,' but only one of them actually ...

Stepping into the gilded, block-long lobby with its soaring ceilings and 1867-era Eugène Farcot clock ... Ask any local what that turquoise-and-white Victorian building in the Garden District ...

Victorian restoration usually imposed order on muddle ... Each layer of the past contains a trace of conquest. Even vernacular architecture is not free of the will to power. Hardy grasped this so ...

The art deco style of the manga is well presented, and fits well given that it is not technically Victorian era architecture. As for the characters and events, they all take place in early 1900s ...

It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex. … CID head Edward Henry develops a system for sorting them based on ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...

While these strategies create recognizably local references, they also highlight a broader shift away from vernacular architecture toward monumental, globally recognizable forms. With the ...

While European modernists like Le Corbusier preached "less is more," vernacular ... The impact of this architectural colonization extended far beyond the colonial period. Post-independence Indian ...