Buildings in Black and White

A balconet (or balconette) is an architectural term to describe a false balcony, often referred to as "Juliet balconies"

Ivy acts as a thermal blanket, warming up walls by an average of 15 per cent in cold weather and cooling the surface temperature of the wall in hot weather by an average of 36 per cent.

In the eleventh century the mouthblown cylinder technique of making sheet glass for windows was first developed in Germany.

One form of tagging known as "pissing" is the act of taking a refillable fire extinguisher and replacing the contents inside with paint, allowing for tags as high as approximately 20 feet (6.1 m)

Most glazing glass today is made using the float process in which molten glass is allowed to float on a bed of molten tin while the upper surface is polished using pressurised nitrogen.

The first single released by Cat Stevens was called "I Love My Dog"

In 1949, canned spray paint was invented by Edward Seymour, the first paint colour was aluminium.

On 1st January 1891,  Schleußig had a population of 1437.
On December 31st 2011 the population had grown to 12,257

Some Romans also believed envy was thought to bring bad luck to the person being envied. So to avoid being envied by those who visited them, they would incite laughter in their guests by placing a funny face above their doorway.

A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.