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Ben’s Chili Bowl occupies a once-modest early-20th-century theater building whose architecture has evolved into one of Washington, D.C.’s most recognizable cultural symbols. Built in 1910 as the Minnehaha Theater, the structure’s brick commercial…

The Bazaar of Tabriz is a historic trading site in Iran and is considered one of the oldest markets still in use and in addition to being the largest covered bazaar in the world. Although no one knows who made the space, the structure dates back to…

The Bayt al-Subyami is a 17th-century Ottoman house located in Cairo, Egypt. The house is rather rectangular, with a courtyard at the center of its three-story foundation. Primarily made from stone, the upper levels are made of timber and brickwork.…

Monumental baths about 88 meters long and 40 meters wide were built in Flavian times in the north end of the city. Immediately after the entry came a large peristyle courtyard. Perhaps it was a garden but could also have been primarily a palestra. At…

The structure is unique in its form! It is very vertical in its footprint when viewed from above, though it is not necessarily quadratic. In fact, it appears like there is a rectangle-like shape that is followed by a circle near the bottom of the…

The National Aquarium in Baltimore is made up of a series of square, rectangular, oval and pyramidal shapes. The building's exterior is mainly stone grey and navy blue. There are also decolored rectangles above the aquarium's entrance that bear…

The Railroad station’s façade is richly framed: it faces Main Street at a lower elevation, to what looks like it shows two stories there, but on the trackside (where the land slopes) it rises to three stories. The front is arranged around a central…