The website GreatBuildings.com offers a special and just as interesting opportunity to search and find great buildings. Just fill in the form of the search engine – name of building, name of architect, or name of place and you will find your great building. A resourceful database, containing a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects supports you, in case you don’t know all details. The website then provides you with pictures taken from the outside and inside, as well as a short discussion of the building. The website is an overall inspiring and valuable resource, especially for beginners.
However, the real deal is the opportunity to view detailed 3D-models of some great buildings, and, of course, the Google Maps mashup ! Here, the great buildings are displayed on a map and you can choose whether you want to see the map as a satellite photograph or as an artificial map or as a combination of both! Just check Rome for example! You can see where the great buildings are located on a hybrid map, click on them, view a photograph of each great building and prepare yourself for the next photo-safari in Rome. Nonetheless, to get a vivid impression of the great buildings, we still have to be on location. But now, I will plan my route more efficiently in advance and only select the first-class spots. Thanks to GreatBuildings.com.

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