Personally, I was more taken with plainer things such as the mid-16th-century town hall, with its twin staircases climbing across the façade to meet at the first-floor front door, the amazing pre-Brutalist Hotel Bern, built in 1914, and two tram-stop shelters: one a classic 1940s design in reinforced concrete, the other a huge mirror-glass sheet slung right across the road.
Records have been found showing that, in the 1860s, Berns built a sawmill opposite Machu Picchu and raised money to plunder the site, all with the approval of the government in Lima.
MR: What was it like to perform in the Bern Salonger, which was built back in 1862?
The tram cars were built by Gangloff Switzerland in Bern and were shaped and painted to look like the architectural firm's vision of "bubbles floating through the sky".
BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Klaus J. Jacobs, the German-born billionaire who built the world's leading chocolate and temporary staffing companies, died Thursday at his home in Küsnacht, near Zurich.
The Glan-y-wern Canal was built to connect Richard Jenkins' colliery at Glan-y-wern with the River Neath at Trowman's Hole, an inlet across the mud flats from the main channel of the river Neath, which was later known as Red Jacket Pill.
For instance, Work No 100: On a tiled floor, in an awkward place, a cubic stack of tiles built on top of one of the existing tiles looks different in the Bern Kunsthalle than in a toilet cubicle in a disused office space.
Most notably, they recently spent what Dr. Berns described succinctly as "a bundle" to recruit a high-profile team of four heart surgeons from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and build them new operating rooms.
Should the Sanderistas seek to build one once Bernie's campaign is over, it would be self-defeating to confine it just to those individuals and institutions that felt the Bern.
If you start now and work fast, not only can you build the base you've been desperate to build: also, it will be extremely good practice for when a large swathe of disaffected Democrats get burned - or should that be Berned.
