The World's Most Beautiful Anatomical Theaters

From Atlas Obscura:

Hospital architecture

The New York Times recently came out with an article on rethinking hospital room design.

Modern healthcare architecture has always sought to be clean-looking, streamlined, and bright, but with new practices, machinery, and patient input, the patient experience is becoming a primary concern.

Much better than the plague houses.

The Architecture of Game of Thrones

Architizer looks at the basic places where Game of Thrones filmed in order to figure out what places were inspirations for King's Landing, Astapor, "The North", etc.

Le Mag thinks various cities or courts stand for specific places in Europe.

If you can't remember what the places look like, see the various title sequence videos where the cities emerge like automated toys.

Qarth

The armillary sphere that acts as the sun over this sequence is itself taken from Renaissance designs, such as the amazing one in the Museo Galileo.

Intro scene armillary sphere

Museo Galileo armillary sphere