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» Great Buildings Online   - Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.




» World Heritage   - Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options.




» Architecture Through the Ages - An introduction to world architecture produced by American teenagers through Think Quest. Images, discussion and bibliography for Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Greek Roman and Gothic buildings.




» ArtServe - A huge collection of images of architecture across the world, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean region, Australia and Japan, collated by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University.




» Cities and Buildings Image Database - A searchable photographic database of buildings from around the world and across the ages, designed by the University of Washington's Architecture, History and Art History Departments.




» Cupola - A picture gallery of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Also US state capitol building histories, wordplay, FAQ and Autocad links.




» CyArk - A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites.




» Digital Archive of Architecture - Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA.




» Digital Images of Historic Architecture - Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US.




» Glass Steel and Stone - Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern.




» SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library - Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type.




» Thais 4000 Years of Architecture - A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods.




» UCLA Cultural VR Lab - The University of California develops Virtual Reality models of ancient and historic buildings around the world. Mission, staff profiles, computer-generated reconstructions.




» World Art Treasures - Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.




» Worldheritage Forum - Weblog by Matthias Ripp and information about UNESCO World Heritage.