List of demolished buildings and structures in Melbourne
Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia has been through many booms and busts, and like many Western cities, especially in the English speaking world, lost notable buildings from earlier eras in the great redevelopment boom of the post WW2 decades. Melbourne is notable in particular for the land-boom of the…
Ses'Top La
Ses'Top La is a South African television comedy series created and directed by Mandla N and produced by BlackBrain Pictures for SABC 1, serving as a spin-off to City Ses'La. Mandla N and Busisiwe Lurayi both reprised their roles from the previous series, starring alongside Trevor Gumbi, Jason Goliath, Brenda Ngxoli,…
New York Public Library Main Branch
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library…
Newtown, New South Wales
Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia. King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of…
The Wilbraham
The Wilbraham is an apartment building at 282–284 Fifth Avenue and 1 West 30th Street in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The nine-story structure was designed by David and John Jardine in the Romanesque Revival style, with elements of the Renaissance Revival style, and occupies the…
Hotel Seville NoMad
The Hotel Seville NoMad (formerly the Seville Hotel, Carlton Hotel, and James New York NoMad) is a hotel at 22 East 29th Street, at the southwest corner with Madison Avenue in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The original 12-story hotel on Madison Avenue was completed in 1904 to designs by Harry…
History of Butte, Montana
Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the advent of electricity in the late-nineteenth century due to the…
Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris on 18 March 1871 and controlled parts of the city until 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working class…
Mitsubishi i-MiEV
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV (MiEV is an acronym for Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) is a five-door electric city car produced in the 2010s by Mitsubishi Motors, and is the electric version of the Mitsubishi i. Rebadged variants of the i-MiEV are also sold by PSA as the Peugeot iOn and Citroën C-Zero, mainly in…
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград), and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest…
