It's the Calhoun School, at 81st Street and West End Avenue, a travertine and glass building that is one of the most unusual structures in New York.
A -- The Seaman-Drake Arch is one of the most unusual structures in the city, a 35-foot-high marble arch built in 1855 as the gateway to what became known as the Seaman-Drake estate.
The most unusual industrial structure in Northern Liberties has a kind of zigzagging façade of brick and a series of open loggias, like brick-enclosed balconies, set into the façade, with solid brick walls behind them.
Among these histone variants, the macroH2A variants display the most unusual protein structure: an N-terminal H2A domain is fused to a large C-terminal non-histone domain.
But the flower business there doesn't generate enough cash to do anything more than witness the slow collapse of one of the most unusual retail structures in New York.
Professor Kleiner also highlights two of Rome's most unusual funerary structures: the pyramidal Tomb of Gaius Cestius, an aristocrat related to Marcus Agrippa, and the trapezoidal Tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, probably a former slave who made his fortune overseeing the baking and public distribution of bread for the Roman army.
The most unusual thought is that the structure was none of these, but rather acted as a giant heat-control apparatus, with its entire upper surface covered in a vast network of blood vessels pulsing with overheated blood or absorbing solar heat.
An elegant street lamp in Sheffield which was originally designed to burn off sewer gas, a hairdresser's in Scarborough now a quaint tea-room, and the gravestone of the band leader who died on the Titanic, are among the most unusual listed buildings and other structures of the last year.
It's one of Lima's most unusual spaces: a set of structures that were going to be the railways of an electric train.
And there is a music installation of compositions inspired by Hebrew letters, organized by the composer John Zorn, and mounted in the building's most unusual space — a white, angular, asymmetrical structure in which glints of sunlight from 36 diamond-shaped windows turn the room's dimensions fluid.
