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... that the Visigoth church of Santa Maria de Lara contains the earliest representation of Christ in Spain?
... that Bernard J.S. Cahill (pictured) designed the Columbarium of San Francisco and the "Butterfly Map" of the world?
... that Giambattista Nolli completed an ichnographic plan of Rome in 1748, now universally known as the "Nolli Map"?
... that Hakon Ahlberg was a spokesman for Swedish architecture and recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal?
... that Ivan Zholtovsky was condemned in 1949 for the Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya building, then awarded the Stalin Prize for the same building in 1950?
... that the Château Grimaldi in Antibes is home to the Picasso Museum with a collection of 245 works?
... that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
... that Østre Porsgrunn Church (pictured), a church in the Rococo style built in 1760, was destroyed entirely in a 2011 fire?
... that Gimnazija Mostar was built in Moorish Revival style due to Austro-Hungarian wish to create an "Islamic architecture of European fantasy"?

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