Explore locations
Browse places by name, city, country or category.
All locations
1624 locations
Dolby Theatre
Dolby Theatre sits within the Hollywood & Highland complex, designed as a permanent home for the Academy Awards ceremony. Its auditorium combines theatrical staging with broadcast technology, placing the mechanics of a global film event inside a working Hollywood venue.
Dolmabahçe Palace
The Bosphorus edge here was once a natural harbor, then an imperial garden, and finally the setting for a palace built to meet new ceremonial needs. Dolmabahçe’s long waterfront façade pairs European decorative styles with Ottoman court spaces.
Dome Square
Dome Square is a broad public space in Riga’s Old Town, shaped by deliberate clearance around the cathedral. It became a gathering place during Latvia’s 1991 barricades, when people defended nearby institutions and warmed themselves at fires.
Dom Pedro V Theatre
Dom Pedro V Theatre’s green neoclassical façade marks a major civic and cultural ambition in nineteenth-century Macao. Opened in 1860, it was the first Western-style theatre in China and later served as more than a stage, hosting social and cultural gatherings.
Domus Aurea
The Domus Aurea was Nero’s palace complex built after the fire of 64 CE, with structures, gardens, and an artificial lake across central Rome. Later emperors buried much of it beneath new construction, and Renaissance artists rediscovered its decorated rooms.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Dongdaemun Design Plaza’s sweeping silver curves make a civic building feel more like a continuous landscape than a stack of rooms. Its form marks a deliberate redesign of the former stadium site, linking contemporary architecture with the district’s long association with making and trade.
Dotonbori
Dotonbori’s bright signs and busy canal edge grew from an older entertainment district. The neighborhood’s name recalls the man who financed the canal excavation, while theaters and teahouses helped establish the food-and-performance culture that still shapes its streets.
Dragon's Back
Dragon’s Back follows an undulating ridge through Shek O Country Park on southeastern Hong Kong Island. The trail’s profile gives it its name, while its high points open views over bays, beaches, and outlying islands.
Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts gathers several venues in downtown Orlando, from a large theater to a transformable concert hall. Its different room shapes show how architecture can adapt to sound, performance, and audience scale.
Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo
The aquarium’s immense viewing window turns a crowded mall interior into an underwater panorama. The tunnel then changes the visitor’s perspective, placing sharks and rays overhead as well as beside you in a carefully managed aquatic display.
Dubai Autodrome
The Dubai Autodrome turns motorsport into a visible piece of urban infrastructure: a long circuit, grandstands, karting, and training facilities occupy the MotorCity development. The track’s multiple configurations show how one course can serve different kinds of racing and driver practice.
Dubai Butterfly Garden
A cluster of enclosed domes creates a humid, green refuge within Dubai’s dry landscape. Dubai Butterfly Garden builds its visitor experience around butterflies moving through planted indoor habitats, placing close observation at the center of the visit.
Dubai Coffee Museum
In Al Fahidi, the Coffee Museum gives everyday brewing tools a place in Dubai’s heritage landscape. Grinders, pots, and serving objects show how coffee moved across regions and became a ritual of hospitality, linking domestic practice with trade and social life.
Dubai Creek
Dubai Creek is a natural seawater inlet that divided the historic settlements of Bur Dubai and Deira. Its sheltered harbor supported fishing, pearling, and trade, making the waterway a foundation for the city’s growth and an enduring route through its older districts.
Dubai Creek Harbour
Dubai Creek Harbour is a waterfront development beside the Creek and the Ras Al Khor wetland landscape. Its setting brings a planned urban district into close view of an internationally important habitat, revealing the tension and coexistence between construction and ecology.
Dubai Creek Park
Dubai Creek Park follows the city’s historic creek, offering planted paths and open lawns beside a waterway that shaped Dubai’s growth. The park’s greenery creates a contrast with the surrounding urban landscape and offers room for recreation.
Dubai Design District
Dubai Design District, or d3, is an urban ecosystem for design, art, fashion, and creative businesses. Its streets and workspaces are part of the idea: the district aims to bring makers, companies, students, and visitors into contact rather than confining design to galleries.
Dubai Dolphinarium
Dubai Dolphinarium sits inside Creek Park, combining a marine-animal attraction with a broader public green space. Its history begins in 2008; today its programming includes dolphin and seal presentations as well as an exotic-bird show, raising questions about entertainment, education, and animals i
Dubai Fountain
The Dubai Fountain occupies the lake between Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa, where water, light, and music are choreographed as a public spectacle. Its five circles and two arcs give the fountain a designed geometry beneath the district’s high-rise skyline.
Dubai Frame
Dubai Frame is a 150-metre landmark designed to frame contrasting views across older and newer parts of the city. Its bridge-like top joins two vertical towers, turning an observation point into a symbol of Dubai’s changing urban identity.
Dubai Garden Glow
Dubai Garden Glow combines illuminated installations with themed outdoor displays, turning light and colour into the main material of an evening attraction. Its exhibits are designed spectacle rather than natural history, inviting visitors to notice how darkness changes scale and perception.
Dubai Gold Souk
Dubai’s Gold Souk in Deira grew beside the creek’s harbor, where arriving cargo connected local merchants to wider trade routes. Its closely packed storefronts display gold in many forms, while the market’s narrow lanes retain the scale of a traditional commercial district.
Dubai Mall
Dubai Mall anchors a large mixed-use district beside Burj Khalifa and the fountain lake. Opened in 2008, it combines retail with cultural and leisure attractions, showing how the contemporary mall became a major piece of Dubai’s public urban life.
Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a planned waterfront district organized around a 3.5-kilometre canal with access to the sea. Its high-rise residences, promenades, and marina facilities show how contemporary Dubai has developed new urban neighborhoods around engineered water landscapes.