Architect William Van Alen’s plans for the building’s formidable steel helmet grew taller and more ambitious over time. NYPL On a mild October day in 1929, the architect William Van Alen watched from ...
Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders. These islets harbour the remains of stone palaces, ...