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5 days ago

Naples Architecture City Guide: 15 Projects of History, Density, and Continuity

Set on the edge of the Mediterranean and shaped by centuries of continuous occupation, Naples is a city where architecture is inseparable from time. Layers of Greek foundations, Roman infrastructures, medieval churches, Baroque palaces, and Modern interventions coexist within a dense and compact urban fabric. Naples reveals itself as an accumulation of structures, adaptations, and reuse, where buildings are rarely isolated objects and more often part of a larger spatial, social, and historical system.
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5 months ago

A gilded temple to the new world order': inside the former US embassy that is now a super-luxe hotel

The former US embassy on Grosvenor Square is now the Chancery Rosewood hotel, featuring a 20m-deep subterranean mega-basement with a ballroom, spa, and grand antechamber.
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