Axidava

Hadrian’s Villa

Clipski

The most spectacular and complex Roman villa known so far. It was built around 120 AD for the Roman emperor Hadrian, and much of the site is still unexcavated.

A Study In Still Life — The Country Hotel

Stephen Leacock

The country hotel stands on the sunny side of Main Street. It has three entrances.

There is one in front which leads into the Bar. There is one at the side called the Ladies’ Entrance which leads into the Bar from the side. There is also the Main Entrance which leads into the Bar through the Rotunda.

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A Plea For Women Architects

Mrs. John Lane

Now that it is the fashion, as well as the necessity, for women to earn their own living, and when they are crowding into all the employments hitherto sacred to men (and in some of which they are exceedingly out of place) one wonders that they so rarely take to a profession—or, rather, to one branch of it—which seems so distinctly adapted to their characteristic talents; and that is domestic architecture.

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The Tower

G. K. Chesterton

I have been standing where everybody has stood, opposite the great Belfry Tower of Bruges, and thinking, as every one has thought (though not, perhaps, said), that it is built in defiance of all decencies of architecture.

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