Plate 035 · Africa
Hassan Tower
1199
035 · Rabat, Morocco
frustrationHassan Tower
A minaret that was meant to be the largest, stopped when the caliph died.
Al-âla — Nuba ramal al-maya
Corridor 01 · Frustration
You have been living in a building that will not complete.
What have you been building that will not finish?
45 monuments in this corridor, ordered as the world is.
Rebuild a monument as frustrationAfrica
Morocco1
South Africa1
Plate 045 · Africa
Voortrekker Monument
1949
045 · Pretoria, South Africa
frustrationVoortrekker Monument
A granite laager of a settler myth, now a contested memory.
Township traditional — Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate
Asia
Bangladesh1
Cambodia1
India1
Plate 111 · Asia
Fatehpur Sikri
1571
111 · Fatehpur Sikri, India
frustrationFatehpur Sikri
A capital built and abandoned, because a city can lose its water and its luck.
Narsinh Mehta / Gandhi's hymn — Vaishnava Jana To
Indonesia1
Japan1
Nepal1
Taiwan1
Thailand1
Uzbekistan1
Europe
Czechia1
Estonia1
Plate 276 · Europe
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Tallinn
1900
276 · Tallinn, Estonia
frustrationAlexander Nevsky Cathedral Tallinn
A Russian dome on a Lutheran hill, still arguing about who the skyline belongs to.
Gustav Ernesaks / Lydia Koidula — Mu isamaa on minu arm
France1
Germany3
Plate 316 · Europe
Pergamon Museum
1930
316 · Berlin, Germany
frustrationPergamon Museum
Whole gates were shipped here. The argument about them never left.
Ludwig van Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata, I
Plate 321 · Europe
Cologne Cathedral
1880
321 · Cologne, Germany
frustrationCologne Cathedral
Six centuries of scaffolding, and the spires still ask for care.
Johann Sebastian Bach — Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Plate 330 · Europe
Heidelberg Castle
17th c.
330 · Heidelberg, Germany
frustrationHeidelberg Castle
A palace ruined on purpose by time and war, and more beautiful for it.
Johann Sebastian Bach — Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Greece3
Plate 350 · Europe
Acropolis Museum
2009
350 · Athens, Greece
frustrationAcropolis Museum
A glass floor over ruins, and empty niches waiting for sculptures that live elsewhere.
Athenaios — First Delphic Hymn
352 · Athens, Greece
frustrationParthenon
They took your face and left you the idea of perfection.
Athenaios, son of Athenaios — First Delphic Hymn to Apollo
Plate 354 · Europe
Temple of Olympian Zeus
131
354 · Athens, Greece
frustrationTemple of Olympian Zeus
A temple so ambitious it took six centuries and still came down.
Athenaios — First Delphic Hymn
Italy3
Plate 376 · Europe
Milan Cathedral
1965 (facade complete)
376 · Milan, Italy
frustrationMilan Cathedral
Five centuries of spires, and still the details keep arriving.
Antonio Vivaldi — Spring, from The Four Seasons
Plate 377 · Europe
Leaning Tower of Pisa
1372
377 · Pisa, Italy
frustrationLeaning Tower of Pisa
The ground said no. You kept building anyway.
Alfredo Catalani — La Wally, 'Ebben? Ne andrò lontana'
Plate 383 · Europe
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
1646
383 · Rome, Italy
frustrationSan Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
A tiny church that would not sit still.
Ottorino Respighi — L'usignuolo