Strawberry Hill seamlessly blended landscape design, architecture, and decorative arts to forge a new direction in eighteenth-century design and culture.
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a complex of ruined stone structures built and modified over a 200-year period, historically one of northern Scotland's most powerful families.
Although Selby Abbey is now a parish church, it was one of England's great monastic churches, built on a grand scale and to a high level of architectural and artistic mastery.
Saint Vincent Street Church is the sole survivor of three churches designed for the city of Glasgow by the influential and renowned Scottish architect Alexander Thomson.
The oasis of Merv is strategically sited in the Karakum desert and formed an essential military headquarters and staging post on major east-west trade routes.
Justinian I, one of the earliest Byzantine rulers, ordered the architects Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus to design Hagia Sophia in the heart of what was then Constantinople.