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| x Casa Batlló |
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Antoni Gaudí | Expressionist architecture | 1877 |
Casa Batlló (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəʎˈʎo]) is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904–1906; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or...
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| x Park Güell |
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Antoni Gaudí | Modernisme | 1914 |
Park Güell (Catalan: Parc Güell [ˈparɡ ˈɡweʎ]) 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...
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| x Casa Milà |
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Antoni Gaudí | Modernisme | 1907 | |
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| x Abbotsford House |
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1824 |
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 | Neoclassicism | 1703 |
Buckingham Palace, in London, is the official residence and office 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 focus for the British people at times of...
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| x Bletchley Park |
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Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Codes Centre and the National Museum of Computing. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom...
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| x British Library |
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Colin St John Wilson | Brutalist architecture | Jun 1998 |
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from many countries, in many languages...
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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 Admiralty, 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...
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| x Burwash Hall |
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| x CN Tower |
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John Andrews | Futurist architecture | 1976 |
The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the...
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| x Chrysler Building |
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William Van Alen | Art Deco | 1930 |
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco style 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. At 1,046 feet (319 m), the structure was the world's...
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| x Central Plaza, Hong Kong |
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Postmodern architecture | 1992 |
Central Plaza is the third tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong. With a height of 374 m (1,227 ft), Central Plaza is only surpassed by 2 IFC in Central and the ICC in West Kowloon. The building is located at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong...
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| x Eiffel Tower |
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Stephen Sauvestre | Mar 31, 1889 |
The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], nickname La dame de fer, the iron lady) is a wrought iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a...
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| x Empire State Building |
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William F. Lamb | Art Deco | May 1, 1931 |
The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 meters), and with its antenna spire included,...
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| x Great Pyramid of Giza |
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Hemon | Ancient Egyptian architecture | 2560 B.C.E. | |
| x Glasgow City Chambers |
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William Young | 1889 |
The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square. An eminent...
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| x Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong |
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1980 |
Hopewell Centre 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 Holdings Limited,...
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| x Scotland Yard |
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| x Willis Tower |
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Bruce Graham | High-Tech Architecture | May 1973 |
Willis Tower (formerly named Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1,451-foot (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, and...
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| x Statue of Liberty |
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Gustave Eiffel | Neoclassical architecture | 1886 |
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a...
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| x The Center |
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1998 |
The Center is the fifth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre (88 storeys), Central Plaza and Bank of China Tower. With a height of 346 m (1,135 ft), it comprises 73 stories. The...
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| x Tower of London |
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Gothic Revival architecture | 1078 |
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the...
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| x Villa Savoye |
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Le Corbusier | Modern architecture | 1931 |
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [saˈvwa]) is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced...
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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., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of...
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| x Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science |
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Lev Rudnev | Stalinist architecture | 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. The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of...
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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 County, 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...
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| x Peckforton Castle |
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Anthony Salvin | Gothic Revival 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 has been designated by English...
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| x Millennium Dome |
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Richard Rogers | Jan 1, 2000 |
The Millennium Dome, colloquially 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...
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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 Streeterville 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...
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| Bruce Graham | Structural Expressionism | ||||
| x Aon Center |
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Edward Durell Stone | Modern architecture | 1973 |
The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building) is a modern skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in...
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| x Westminster Abbey |
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Nicholas Hawksmoor | Gothic architecture | 1090 |
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...
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| x Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
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Christopher Wren | 1676 |
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO), in London, England played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian. It is situated on a hill...
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| x Colosseum |
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Titus | Roman architecture | 80 C.E. | |
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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 Monticello |
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Thomas Jefferson | Neoclassical architecture | 1772 |
Monticello is a National Historic Landmark just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and...
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| x Hampton Court Palace |
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Christopher Wren | Tudor style architecture | 1525 | |
| Nicholas Hawksmoor | Baroque architecture | ||||
| x Centre Georges Pompidou |
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Richard Rogers | Brutalist architecture | 1977 |
Centre Georges Pompidou (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ ʒɔʁʒ pɔ̃pidu]; also 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...
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| Renzo Piano | High-Tech Architecture | ||||
| Peter Rice | Postmodern architecture | ||||
| x Sagrada Familia |
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Antoni Gaudí | Spanish Gothic architecture | Nov 7, 2010 |
The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (English: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family; Spanish: Basílica y Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia), commonly known as the Sagrada Família (Catalan pronunciation: [səˈɣɾaðə...
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| Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano | Modernism | ||||
| Domènec Sugrañes i Gras | Art Nouveau | ||||
| Francesc Quintana | Noucentisme | ||||
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| x Palau Güell |
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| x Transamerica Pyramid |
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William Pereira | Futurist architecture | 1972 |
The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline and one of its most iconic. Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company and...
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| x Fountains Abbey |
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Cistercian architecture | 1132 |
Fountains Abbey is approximately three miles south west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the...
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| x Tour Montparnasse |
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Cabinet Saubot-Jullien | Modern architecture | 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 was the tallest...
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| Urbain Cassan | |||||
| Louis-Gabriel de Hoÿm de Marien | |||||
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| x National Gallery of Scotland |
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William Henry Playfair | 1859 |
The Scottish National Gallery is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, in a neoclassical building designed by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. The gallery houses the...
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| x Palais Garnier |
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Charles Garnier | Neo-baroque | Jan 1, 1875 |
The Palais Garnier (pronounced: [palɛ ɡaʁnje]) is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in...
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| x Millennium Bridge |
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Sir Norman Foster | 2000 | ||
| x Tribune Tower |
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John Mead Howells | Neo-gothic architecture | 1925 |
The Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic building located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Tribune and Tribune Company. WGN Radio (720 kHz) also broadcasts from the building, with ground-level studios...
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| x Lincoln Cathedral |
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Gothic architecture | 1311 |
Lincoln Cathedral (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St. Mary's Cathedral) is a historic cathedral located in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. It was...
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| x Chatsworth House |
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Thomas Archer | English Baroque | 1549 | |
| William Talman | Italianate architecture | ||||
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| x Bath Abbey |
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Robert Vertue | Gothic architecture |
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th...
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| William Vertue | Perpendicular Period | ||||
| George Gilbert Scott | Victorian Gothic | ||||
| George Phillips Manners | English Gothic architecture | ||||
| x Canterbury Cathedral |
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William the Englishman | Gothic architecture |
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic...
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| William of Sens | Romanesque architecture | ||||
| x Hatfield House |
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Jacobean architecture | 1611 | ||
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| x Holyrood Abbey |
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Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland. During the 15th century, the abbey guesthouse was developed into a royal residence, and after the Scottish...
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Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early...
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| x Berkeley Plantation |
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1726 |
Berkeley Plantation, one of the first great estates in America, comprises about 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred and...
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| x Grande Arche |
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Johann Otto von Spreckelsen | 1990 |
La Grande Arche de la Défense (pronounced: [la ɡʁɑ̃d aʁʃ də la defɑ̃s]; also La Grande Arche de la Fraternité) is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is...
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| x Osborne House |
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Thomas Cubitt | Italianate architecture | 1851 | |
| x Leeds Castle |
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Robert de Crèvecœur | 1119 |
Leeds Castle, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Maidstone, Kent, England, dates back to 1119. In 1278 the castle came in the hands of King Edward I, for whom it became a favourite residence. The castle seen today dates mostly from the 19th century and is...
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| x Holyrood Palace |
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William Bruce | Neoclassical architecture | 1854 |
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, commonly referred to as Holyrood Palace, is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. The palace stands at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle. Holyrood...
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| x Sheldonian Theatre |
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Christopher Wren | Classical Revival | 1669 | |
