With its kooky "77 Sunset Strip" design, the Surf is one of a dozen or so small family-owned motels built on Treasure Island in the 1940's and 50's in the architectural space age style known as midcentury modern or Googie, after a trendsetting Los Angeles coffee shop.
China is clearly the new hegemonic power, with its vast military power and treasures built on the backs of the voiceless poor.
The protests initially targeted plans to build on a treasured Istanbul park.
The protests initially targeted plans to build on a treasured Istanbul park but have spread into nationwide unrest.
This cottage was one of the first built on the beach in the resort community of Treasure Cay on Great Abaco Island.
The casas and restaurants are housed in grand mansions built on a sugar-fortune amassed in the early 19th-century, except unlike Havana, Trinidad treasured its good looks and staved off the march of time; only a few corners are crumbling.
That scheme would remodel one of Edinburgh's most treasured neoclassical buildings, the Greek revival old Royal high school, built on Calton Hill in 1829, causing consternation among conservationists.
Everything built on that.
In a city built on the slave trade, in the state where the Civil War started, these white men and women were the curators of an African-American religious and musical treasure.
By The New Yorker September 30, 2010 The legend of Humphrey Bogart was built on a small batch of films, many of which are found in "Humphrey Bogart: The Essential Collection," a twelve-disc, twenty-four-film treasure trove from Warner Home Video.
The legend of Humphrey Bogart was built on a small batch of films, many of which are found in "Humphrey Bogart: The Essential Collection," a twelve-disc, twenty-four-film treasure trove from Warner Home Video.
