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Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Designed by architect Victor Horta, one of the early founders of the Art Nouveau movement, four major buildings in Brussels – the Hotel Tassel, the Hotel Solvay, the Hotel Van Eetveld and the Horta House and Studio – are among the most striking avant-garde works of architecture at the end of the 19th century. Representing a stylistic revolution, these buildings are characterized by open plans, diffused light and a clever integration of decorative curves into the building structure.
Sewell Mining Town
Located 2,000 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains, 60 kilometers east of Rancagua, in an extreme environment, the mining town of Sevier was built in 1905 by the Braden Copper Company to house workers for what would become the world's largest underground copper mine, El Teniente. It is an outstanding example of company towns that emerged in many remote parts of the world by fusing local labor with the resources of industrialized countries to mine and process high-value natural resources. The town was built on terrain too steep for wheeled vehicles and is organized around a large central staircase that rises from the train station. Irregularly shaped formal plazas along the way, complete with ornamental trees and plants, form the town's main public space or plaza. The buildings that line the streets are of wood, often painted in bright green, yellow, red and blue. In its heyday, Sevier had 15,000 residents, but was mostly abandoned in the 1970s.