Can You Match The Famous Building To Its City? Quiz

Question: Hôtel Tassel

Answer: Hôtel Tassel in Brussels is the elegant work of Belgian Art Nouveau architect and artist Victor Horta. Ghent-born Horta’s work represents a landmark in world architectural history, introducing the decorative style and developing the use of free forms in architecture.

Question: Usera Library

Answer: Usera Library is a public library in Usera, a southern suburb of Madrid, in the shape of a tower. The tower—a form picked for its associations with learning—is a work of striking economy as well as deception. It is actually only four stories high, but the way the slender windows are ranked disguises this.

Question: Bacardi Building

Answer: The Bacardi Building is one of Havana’s principal landmarks, standing on the western edge of the city’s historical center. Its architect, Esteban Rodríguez Castells, originally won the international competition for its construction with a Neo-Renaissance proposal, but after visiting the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris he completely reworked his design into an extravaganza of Art Deco style.

Question: Castel Sant’Angelo

Answer: Castel Sant’Angelo is a tomb and papal fortress in Rome that has been pivotal to the growth and development of Rome as a focal point for Western civilization, dutifully guarding both its living and dead in times of war and peace. 

Question: Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue

Answer: Rising 164 feet (50 m) above the Oranienburgerstrasse street facades in Berlin, the restored golden dome of the Neue Synagogue is a flashy presence above the dour apartment blocks. The synagogue was designed by Eduard Knoblauch and opened in 1866. 

Question: Robie House

Answer: Robie House in Chicago was commissioned by Frederick C. Robie and is one of the last and more mature works in Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Prairie House” series, a supreme example of its revolutionary form.

Question: Spiral Building

Answer: The facade of the Spiral Building in Tokyo that something worth a second look may be going on beyond. There is the logic of a grid, but none of its uniformity. The planes are slightly askew, with a cone appearing in a false window. Architecture’s rules are outlined, and then broken, something entirely appropriate for a center for the arts.

Question: House of Tiles

Answer: The House of Tiles in Mexico City is distinctive for the Spanish and Moorish blue-and-white tiles that cover its outside walls and that gave it its name. 

Question: Melnikov House

Answer: Melnikov House in Moscow is an avant-garde design that was created as a private home by architect Konstantin Melnikov. Melnikov lived there until his death, and his son Viktor began restoring it in the 1980s, determined to respect the original integrity of his father’s creation.

Question: Silodam

Answer: Silodam is a building of innovative design created by Dutch architects MVRDV to help solve the housing shortage in Amsterdam. It appears to be a large colorful container ship floating on the water but is actually an immense housing complex.