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| x Casa Batlló |
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Antoni Gaudí | 1907 |
Casa Batlló (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə bəʎˈʎo, bədˈʎo]), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for...
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| x Park Güell |
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Antoni Gaudí | 1914 |
Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part...
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| x Casa Milà |
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Antoni Gaudí | 1907 |
Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1906–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de...
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| x Abbotsford House |
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Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott. It is a Category A listed...
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| x Buckingham Palace |
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William Winde | 1703 |
Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a rallying point for the British people at times of...
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| x Bletchley Park |
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Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes.
During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main...
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| x British Library |
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The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is located in London and is one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; books, journals, newspapers,...
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| x Bank of China Tower |
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I. M. Pei | High-Tech Architecture | May 17, 1990 |
The Bank of China Tower (abbreviated BOC Tower) is one of the most recognisable skyscrapers in Central, Hong Kong. It houses the headquarters for the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western...
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| x British Museum |
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Robert Smirke | 1852 |
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents,...
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| x Burwash Hall |
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Burwash Hall is the second oldest of the residence buildings at Toronto's Victoria College. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913. It was named after Nathanael Burwash, a former president of Victoria. The building is an extravagant...
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| x CN Tower |
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WZMH Architects | Futurist architecture | 1976 |
The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the...
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| x Camp David |
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Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is a mountain based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland used as a country retreat and for high alert protection of the President of the United States and his guests.
First known...
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| x Chrysler Building |
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William Van Alen | Art Deco | 1930 |
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing at 319 metres (1,047 ft), it was the world's tallest...
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| William Van Alen | Streamline Moderne | ||||
| x Central Plaza, Hong Kong |
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1987 |
Central Plaza is the second tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong. With a height of 374 m (1,227 ft), Central Plaza is only surpassed by 2 IFC (415 m / 1,362 ft) in Central. The building is located at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. It...
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| x Eiffel Tower |
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Stephen Sauvestre | Mar 31, 1889 |
The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel, [tuʀ ɛfɛl]) is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower,...
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| x Empire State Building |
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Gregory Johnson | Art Deco | May 1, 1931 |
The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest...
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| William F. Lamb | Streamline Moderne | ||||
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| x Great Pyramid of Giza |
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Hemon | Ancient Egyptian architecture | 2561 B.C.E. |
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...
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| x Glasgow City Chambers |
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The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland is the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, located on the earned side of the city's George Square. The building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 by the architect William Young and is an eminent example...
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| x Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong |
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Hopewell Centre (Chinese: 合和中心) is a skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is located at 183 Queen's Road East, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. It is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is named after Hong Kong-listed property firm Hopewell...
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| x Palace of Westminster |
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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin | Victorian Gothic | 1852 |
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is the seat of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London...
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| x Pembroke College, Cambridge |
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Christopher Wren |
Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.
The college has over six hundred students and fellows, and is the third-oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges,...
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| x Scotland Yard |
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New Scotland Yard (NSY) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police.
The current New Scotland Yard building...
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| x Sears Tower |
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Bruce Graham | High-Tech Architecture | 1974 |
Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973 it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York....
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| x Statue of Liberty |
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Gustave Eiffel | 1884 |
The Statue of Liberty (French: Statue de la Liberté), officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La Liberté Éclairant le Monde), dedicated on October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United...
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| x The Center |
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1998 |
The Center (traditional Chinese: 中環中心) is the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after Two International Finance Centre (88 storeys), Central Plaza and Bank of China Tower. With a height of 346 m (1,135 feet), it comprises 73 storeys. The...
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| x Tower of London |
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Gundulf of Rochester | 1078 |
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is an historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located...
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| x UMIST |
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The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On October 1...
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| x Villa Savoye |
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Le Corbusier | 1929 |
The Villa Savoye is considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, it is one of the most recognisable architectural presentations of the International Style. Construction was...
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| x White House |
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James Hoban | Palladian architecture | 1800 |
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late...
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| Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. | |||||
| Ramesh Ganesan | |||||
| x World Trade Center |
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Minoru Yamasaki | High-Tech Architecture |
The World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City whose seven buildings were destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the...
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| x Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science |
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Lev Rudnev | 1955 |
The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland, the eighth tallest building in the European Union. From 1955 to 1957 it was the tallest building in Europe. The...
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| x The Pentagon |
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George Bergstrom | Classical Revival | Jan 15, 1943 |
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building...
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| x Peckforton Castle |
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Anthony Salvin | Norman architecture | 1850 |
Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
The...
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| x Millennium Dome |
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Richard Rogers | 2000 |
The Millennium Dome, often referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. Located on the...
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| x John Hancock Center |
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Fazlur Khan | High-Tech Architecture | 1969 |
John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Gold Coast area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and...
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| x Aon Center | Edward Durell Stone | 1973 |
The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building) is a modern skyscraper in Chicago designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in 1973 as the Standard Oil Building. With 83...
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| x European Court of Human Rights |
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Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners |
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) (French: Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) in Strasbourg is an international judicial body established under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of 1950 to monitor respect of human rights by...
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| x Westminster Abbey |
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Nicholas Hawksmoor |
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...
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| Henry Yevele | |||||
| x Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
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Christopher Wren |
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ...
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| x Kirkstall Abbey |
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Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery to the west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, set in grounds which are now a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152 and was over seventy five years in...
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| x Colosseum |
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Roman architecture | 80 C.E. |
The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman...
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| x Annesley Hall |
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Annesley Hall is the all-female residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto campus. The residence is a National Historic Site located across from the Royal Ontario Museum.
Built in 1903 and renovated in 1988, Annesley Hall is the first...
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| x University College London |
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University College London (UCL) is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London.
Founded in 1826, UCL was the first university institution to be founded in London, the...
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| x Monticello |
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Thomas Jefferson | Neoclassical architecture | 1809 |
Monticello (pronounced /mɑntəˈtʃɛloʊ/), located in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and founder of the...
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| x Hampton Court Palace |
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Christopher Wren |
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has not been lived in by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing...
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| x Centre Georges Pompidou |
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Richard Rogers | Brutalist architecture | 1977 |
Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high...
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| Renzo Piano | High-Tech Architecture | ||||
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| x Amphitheatre |
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Roman architecture |
An amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is an open-air venue for spectator sports, concerts, rallies, or theatrical performances. There are two similar, but distinct, types of structure for which the word 'amphitheatre' is used: Ancient...
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| x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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I. M. Pei | 1995 |
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other...
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| x Sagrada Familia |
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Antoni Gaudí |
The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (official Catalan name; Spanish: Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia; "Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family"), often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic...
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| x Palau Güell |
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Antoni Gaudí |
The Palau Güell is a town mansion (translated literally a "palace") in Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the Catalan industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni...
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| x Helsinki University of Technology |
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Alvar Aalto |
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu; Swedish: Tekniska högskolan) is the premier technical university in Finland. It is located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was...
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| x Transamerica Pyramid |
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William Pereira | Futurist architecture | 1972 |
The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline.
Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company and is...
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| x Fountains Abbey |
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Fountains Abbey is near to Aldfield, approximately two miles southwest of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. It is a ruined Cistercian monastery, founded in 1132. Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England....
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| x Tour Montparnasse |
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Jean Saubot | 1972 |
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest...
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| x London Stansted Airport |
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Sir Norman Foster |
London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is a passenger airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the District of Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km (30 mi) north-east of central London. It is 2.5 NM (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) north northeast of Bishop's...
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| x National Gallery of Scotland |
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William Henry Playfair | 1859 |
The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by...
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| x National Gallery of Victoria |
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The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, in the heart of the Melbourne...
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| x Museum of Modern Art |
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as...
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| x Palais Garnier |
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Charles Garnier | Neo-baroque | Jan 1, 1875 |
The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris or Opéra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Opéra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style,...
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| x Millennium Bridge |
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Sir Norman Foster | 2000 |
The London Millennium Footbridge is a pedestrian-only steel suspension bridge crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City. It is located between Southwark Bridge (downstream) and Blackfriars Railway Bridge (upstream)...
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