Insignia, emblems

NOTES: The Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in Midtown Manhattan. The original complex of 14 Art Deco style buildings, commissioned by the Rockefeller family and named after John D. Rockefeller Jr., was designed by an association of architects under the leadership of Raymond Hood and was built in 1931-1940. The 70-storey GE Building (known as the RCA building until 1988) forms the centrepiece of the complex and opened in 1933.

NOTES: A number of architects worked on the theme park, notably Robert Stern, Michael Graves and Frank Gehry, whose main projects were building the various hotels. The Magic Kingdom, seen here, is probably by Disney's Imagineers and implemented by Wimberley Allison Tong & Goo of Honolulu.

NOTES: The Almadaina Palace dates back to 1281, but was reconstructed in the 15th century and restored in the 19th century. The walls shown here probably date to the 15th century reconstruction.

NOTES: The factory was built around several existing buildings.

NOTES: The triskelion symbol is the emblem of Sicily and is part of the Sicilian flag.

NOTES: The Jesuit College was also known as Gesu Vecchio.

NOTES: These drawings are part of a vellum sketchbook containing studies by Burges of Italian architecture, decoration, birds, flowers and heads.

NOTES: It does not appear that this design was executed.