Stadtschloss, Potsdam (Potsdam City Palace).Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace).Royal Palace, today housing the National Art Gallery.Private Residence of former king Albert II Istana Besar Seri Menanti, Seri Menanti.Istana Negara, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur.

Istana Negara, Jalan Istana, Kuala Lumpur.Namhansan Hanggung Palace, Namhansanseong.Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, Gyeongju.

Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Yogyakarta.

Balla Lompoa Palace (Tamalate Palace), South Sulawesi.

Datu Luwu Palace (Polopo Palace), South Sulawesi.

Kadriyah Sultan's Palace, West Kalimantan.

Padmanabhapuram Palace, Kanyakumari District.

“If you peel away the skin,” he says of many of the city’s structures, “you’ll see they’re actually quite traditional.” 18.

Between the local basalt used to construct much of Asmara and the Eritrean labor and craftsmanship required, the city’s modernist architecture is uniquely African. Though on the surface it resembles any Italian fascist design, associate professor of architecture Edward Denison, whose work with the Asmara Heritage Project earned the city its World Heritage status, argues that such a structure could not exist in Europe or anywhere else. Built in 1938 by Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazi, who modeled it after an airplane, the station is also a rare example of futurist architecture realized outside of a theoretical context. Arguably the most iconic structure is the Fiat Tagliero service station, which embodies the modernist tenets of function over flash and a veneration of technology. In 2017, it earned the entire city earned a UNESCO inscription. Modernist architecture is a defining feature of Eritrea’s capital, Asmara. Photo: Edward Denison/Asmara Heritage Project

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