For architects of a certain age and artistic temperament, the Nolli plan is architecture's holy grail.
For centuries one of the world's great patrons when it comes to public architecture, the Holy See had never, until now, strutted its stuff as part of this global architecture exhibition.
We can't even get to the sidewalk before all of recorded history — all of the empires, the holy books, agriculture, the architecture, all of it — is behind us.
I have heard the most conservative of clients wax eloquent about the terminal while denigrating almost every other example of modern architecture (including our holy grail, the Seagram Building).
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued publishers Random House claiming that Mr Brown's book "appropriated the architecture" of their book, The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail, which was published in 1982 by the same publishing house.
He received a bachelor's degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross and another in landscape architecture from the City College of New York.
And it just so happens that the Holy Grail of the home decor and architecture game has been, for years, being able to place decor and furniture inside a customer's actual space.
There was no "architecture" or "structure" to be found in The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail as contended by Mr Baigent and Mr Leigh.
The complex programs of later religions made the place of worship the focus for varied activities demanding architectural solutions for example, the baptistery, bell towers, and chapter houses of Christian architecture, the minarets of Islamic architecture, and the holy gates of Buddhist architecture.
A thousand years ago this was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, and amid the drab post-war architecture some spectacular remnants of that golden age remain.
