Obligatory iconic photos coming up, but first, a short story about the history of this famed wonder of the world. The Taj is THE monument…
Continue reading Taj Mahal, Agra
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These are living spaces turned not-quite-upside-down. They’re cubes tilted 45 degrees so a corner of each one sits on a hexagonal pole. From the circle…
Continue reading The Cube House Concept: it’s worth seeing the inside!
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The Rockefellers are the richest family in the world. EVER. J.D. Rockefeller, oil tycoon, became the world’s very first billionaire in 1916. Today with inflation, this amounts…
Continue reading The city within a city that is Rockefeller Center
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My first thought was Why is there a theater named after Columbus? Surprisingly, our tour guide addressed this question almost immediately, as if she read my…
Continue reading Teatro Colón: an homage to European sensibilities in Latin America
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