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• Disney aims for new heights with Everest attraction
The village includes a tourism booking office, Tashi's General Store and Bar, and an old warehouse refashioned as a yeti museum - all built with taut attention to the architecture and feel of a real east Asian mountain town. "Every detail is intended ...
• South Beach: Life imitates art, quite vicely
Those "little buildings" comprised the world's largest collection of Art Deco architecture, and in 1979, the area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The recognition ensured that the buildings -- with their curved edges and ...
• GM buying Chrysler? Don’t count on it
A more plausible scenario for is the prospect of Chrysler and GM building deeper ties by sharing vehicle technologies and architecture, including common components, to reduce costs, analysts say. “I don’t doubt that these two companies are talking ...
• Fabulous far-flung cruises
There’s Dubai, where almost anything goes, as long as it makes money and impresses, while next door, in the Sultanate of Oman, traditional Arab customs, dress and architecture reign, yet with none of the rigidity of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain, Abu Dhabi ...
• Driving Europe at $8 a gallon — a bargain?
The construction of the cathedral is considered a wonder of architecture and according to several historians inspired the founding of the Masonic Order and its various lodges and symbols. Inside the cathedral, a jeweled and gilded mechanical clock ...

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» ArchEX - Guided tours and study trips by architects in the Netherlands and in Germany. From architectural city walks to complete arrangements for several days [English/Dutch/German]
» Architectour - Specialized tours featuring the history of Rome as seen through its architectural and cultural heritage. Tour highlights, accommodation details, and booking request.
» Architectural Dialogue - Information about contemporary and historical architecture tours around London.
» Architecture in Berlin - Berlin-based architect and architectural journalist Ulf Meyer offers individual, tailor-made guided tours on architecture in Berlin, Germany. Includes profile and articles on new buildings in Germany's capital city. [English/German]
» Architour - Tours in the Netherlands with Anneke Bokern, covering contemporary and classical modern architecture and urbanism. Ranging from half days to several days, on foot, by bike or bus. [English/German]
» Archtours - Offers guided tours on architecture and urbanism in Finland, Scandinavia and Russia, with a focus on current architectural developments. [English/Finnish/Swedish]
» Art and Architectural Tours and Seminars - Architectural and art tours of Europe for lovers of art, architecture, art history and food. Continuing education tours and seminars for architects and interior designers.
» Church Tours - Coach tours of English country churches on behalf of several charitable organisations. Tour diary, book list and related links.
» Cultevero - Company offering specially made guided tours and lectures in English and Swedish of Swedish cultural heritage, covering architecture, art and history. Focus on Stockholm.
» Doctor Thomson's Tours - Personally guided city tours, day trips to France and Belgium. Various tours in medieval Canterbury, England. World War I and II battlefields.
» Guide A - Norwegian architect Henning Nielsen, based in Oslo, aims to provide an architect's view of modern Norwegian architecture, in the context of Norwegian culture and history. Offers tours in Oslo and elsewhere in the country.
» John Hall Pre-University Course - Designed for gap year students, offering an introduction to Italian and European civilisation in London, Venice, Florence, and Rome. Art, architecture, sculpture, music, cinema, photography, painting.
» The Landmark Trust - A charity which rescues buildings of historic or architectural importance, and makes them available as tourist accommodations.
» Scaledenmark - Offers customised cultural and architectural tours in Denmark and the Øresund Region.
» Sights.se - Offer tailor-made study visits, guided tours and professional meetings for architecture, building and planning in Stockholm and Sweden.
» Zities - Urban tours in Europe with a focus on architecture, design and gastronomy. Tour calendar and destination guides.