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World Heritage 
- Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options.
- http://whc.unesco.org/
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Great Buildings Online - Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.
- http://www.greatbuildings.com
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Worldheritage Forum - Weblog by Matthias Ripp and information about UNESCO World Heritage. - http://worldheritage-forum.net    CyArk - A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites. - http://www.cyark.org Cities and Buildings Image Database - A searchable photographic database of buildings from around the world and across the ages, designed by the University of Washington's Architecture, History and Art History Departments. - http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html UCLA Cultural VR Lab - The University of California develops Virtual Reality models of ancient and historic buildings around the world. Mission, staff profiles, computer-generated reconstructions. - http://www.cvrlab.org/ Glass Steel and Stone - Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern. - http://www.glasssteelandstone.com Thais 4000 Years of Architecture - A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods. - http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm Architecture Through the Ages - An introduction to world architecture produced by American teenagers through Think Quest. Images, discussion and bibliography for Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Greek Roman and Gothic buildings. - http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/ ArtServe - A huge collection of images of architecture across the world, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean region, Australia and Japan, collated by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University. - http://rubens.anu.edu.au/ Digital Archive of Architecture - Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA. - http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/ SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library - Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type. - http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html Digital Images of Historic Architecture - Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US. - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ World Art Treasures - Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland. - http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/ Cupola - A picture gallery of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Also US state capitol building histories, wordplay, FAQ and Autocad links. - http://www.cupola.com/ |
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