St Basil's the Blessed, Moscow

St Basil's the Blessed, Moscow

Founded by Ivan the Terrible in 1554, the building is actually a collection of nine separate chapels. The interior is a stunning example of medieval painted walls, beautiful icons and fine woodwork.
St Basil's true name is the Cathedral of Intercesssion of the Virgin on the Moat, but I personally like it common name better.
The remarkable exterior is dominated by the onion domes with their individual designs and colours.

Marin County Civic Center - San Rafael, CA

Marin County Civic Center - San Rafael, CA

"Marin County Civic Center, the last commission by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death, and was completed in 1962. The Hall of Justice was begun in 1966 and completed in 1969. Veterans Memorial Theater (Auditorium) opened in 1971, and the Exhibit Hall opened in 1976. The Marin County Civic Center is a state and National Historic Landmark. The nearby fairgrounds house the Marin County Fair each July."

National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Lab—Boulder, Colorado

National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Lab—Boulder, Colorado

This building is on a mesa just outside Boulder; in fact the grounds are a nature preserve. Due to this height, it is one of the first parts of Boulder that you can see if you drive in on highway 93. There is a small science museum (free admission) with guided tours at noon, open to the public 8-5 on weekdays, 9-4 on weekends and holidays. It was used as a location in the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper" because of the unusual shape
"You just cannot compete with the scale of the Rockies. So we tried to make a building that was without the conventional scale you get from recognizable floor heights—as in those monolithic structures that still survive from the cliff-dwelling Indians."
— I.M. Pei

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes was

A 30-m (100-ft) bronze statue of the Greek sungod Helios, erected about 280 BC to guard the entrance to the harbor at Rhodes; itwas destroyed about 55 years later. The Colossus of Rhodes was a great bronzestatue, erected in about 280 BC by the citizens of Rhodes, capital of the Greek islandof the same name. It represented their sun-god Helios and was said to be 105 feethigh. According to legend, it straddled the harbor entrance, but it is more likelythat it stood to one side. The statue was overthrown by an earthquake in 224 BC butits huge fragments long were regarded with wonder. Nearly a thousand years later,in AD 656, a Muslim dealer bought the fragments as old metal and carried them awayto be melted down.The old engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes is purely imaginaryand is based on the legend that the statue stood astride the harbor entrance.