When you have a favorite toy that breaks, you fix it and make it almost as good as new. Buildings and castles and cities don't break. But sometimes they wear out and need fixing, too. When we make...
THE TREASURES OF HORYU-JI
In a beautiful setting of pine trees in a courtyard, stands a group of the oldest wooden buildings in the world. The sun adds a touch of gold to the gray tile roofs. Atop a five-story pagoda, or...
BUILDINGS JUST FOR ART
Most buildings are built for people to live in, work in, or go to school in. But in all parts of the world, there are buildings that were built for displaying works of art, such as paintings and...
GOVERNMENT IN A MUSEUM
You might expect to find barracks for soldiers behind the walls of a fortress. But would you also expect to find palaces, and cathedrals, and even some government buildings there? Such buildings...