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| Taj Mahal |
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The Taj Mahal (pronounced /tɑdʒ məˈhɑl/; Hindi: ताज महल; Persian/Urdu: تاج محل) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
The Taj Mahal (also "the Taj") is considered the...
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Roof | Marble | Dome | ||
| Santa Maria del Fiore |
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The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The...
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Roof | Brick | Dome | ||
| Santa Maria del Fiore |
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The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The...
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Facade | Marble | |||
| Rogers Centre |
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Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. Originally opened in 1989, it is home to the American League's Toronto Blue Jays, the...
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Retractable roof | Steel | Truss | ||
| Chase Field |
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Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark) is a baseball stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, and is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. It opened in 1998 just in time for the Diamondbacks' first game after coming...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Minute Maid Park |
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Minute Maid Park (also The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field) is a ballpark in Houston, Texas, United States that opened in 2000 to house the Houston Astros.
The ballpark was Houston's first retractable-roofed stadium,...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Safeco Field |
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Safeco Field, sometimes referred to as Safeco, is a retractable roof baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is the home stadium of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club, seating 47,116 for baseball. The name is sometimes...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Veltins-Arena |
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The Veltins-Arena is a football stadium in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. Originally named the Arena AufSchalke, it opened in 2001 as the new home ground for Bundesliga club Schalke 04. It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League final and 5 matches...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Telstra Dome |
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Docklands Stadium, currently also known by its sponsored name of Etihad Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction started in October 1997 and was completed...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Miller Park |
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Miller Park is a ballpark located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is home to the Milwaukee Brewers and was built as a replacement for Milwaukee County Stadium. The park is located just southwest of the intersection of I-94, US-41, and Miller Park Way ...
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| Rod Laver Arena |
Rod Laver Arena is a part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and is a current venue for the Australian Open in tennis. Originally called Centre Court, the arena was officially renamed in January 2000 to honour...
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| West Side Stadium |
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The West Side Stadium (also known as the New York Sports and Convention Center) was a proposed football stadium to be built on a platform over the rail yards on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The arena would be an all-weather facility...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Amsterdam ArenA |
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Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The stadium was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on August 14, 1996. It has been used for association football, American football, concerts, and...
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| Millennium Stadium |
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The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm) is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team but is also host to many other large...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Mellon Arena |
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Mellon Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and Civic Arena, nicknamed The Igloo) is an arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. Constructed in...
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| Fukuoka Dome |
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The Fukuoka Dome (福岡ドーム, Fukuoka Dōmu) is a baseball field located in Fukuoka, Japan. The stadium serves as the headquarters of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. In 2005, Yahoo! Japan, one of SoftBank's subsidiaries, bought the stadium's naming rights for...
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| Gelredome |
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The Gelredome is the home stadium of Vitesse in the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands. It was built in 1998, featuring a retractable roof as well as a convertible pitch that can be retracted when unused during concerts or other events held at the...
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| Parken Stadium |
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Parken Stadium (English: the Park) is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (Inner Østerbro) district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990-1992. It currently has a capacity of 38,050 for football games, and is the home ground of F.C....
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| Commerzbank-Arena |
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The Waldstadion (official name:Commerzbank-Arena) is a 52,300 seat football stadium in Frankfurt, Germany. It is the home of Eintracht Frankfurt of the Bundesliga. The Waldstadion was first opened in 1925 and during World War II it was used for...
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| Centre Court |
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Centre Court is the main court at the Wimbledon Championship, the 3rd annual Grand Slam event of the tennis calendar. It is situated in the Aorangi Park and is home to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club, its only regular use is for the two...
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| Oita Stadium |
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Ōita Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the city of Ōita in Ōita Prefecture on Kyushu Island in Japan.
The stadium is usually called as Kyushu Oil Dome (九州石油ドーム), sponsored by the Kyushu Oil. It is primarily used for football, and is the home...
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| Lucas Oil Stadium |
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Lucas Oil Stadium (LOS) is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The stadium celebrated its grand opening on August 24, 2008, in a game against the Buffalo Bills and its ribbon-cutting ceremony August 16, 2008. It replaced the RCA...
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| University of Phoenix Stadium |
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University of Phoenix Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) and the annual Fiesta Bowl. The new stadium is located next door to the...
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| Toyota Stadium |
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Toyota Stadium (豊田スタジアム, Toyota Sutajiamu) is a 45,000 seat retractable roof stadium in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. It was built in 2001 and is home to the J. League club Nagoya Grampus. It is also used by Toyota Verblitz, a rugby union team in the Top...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| LTU arena |
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The Esprit arena is a multifunctional football stadium in Düsseldorf, Germany. The stadium holds 51,500 and has a closable roof. The special heating system allows comfortable events at the height of winter.
It was built from 2002 to 2004 to replace...
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| Vodafone Arena |
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Hisense Arena (formerly known as Vodafone Arena) is a sports venue that is part of the Melbourne Park complex, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Construction of Hisense Arena commenced in the late 1990s, and was completed in 2000. It was originally...
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| Vikings Stadium |
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The Vikings Stadium is the working title of the proposed stadium for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It would be the franchise's third, replacing their current domed stadium, the Hubert H....
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| Singapore Sports Hub |
The Singapore Sports Hub (simplified Chinese: 新加坡体育城; Malay: Hub Sukan Singapura) is a proposed sports complex located in Kallang, Singapore to be built on the present site of the National Stadium, which was officially closed on 30 June 2007. It is...
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| Wembley Stadium |
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Wembley Stadium (usually shortened to just Wembley) is a stadium, located in Wembley Park in London, England. Primarily an association football venue, Wembley is owned by The Football Association (The FA) via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Stade Borne de l'Espoir |
Stade Borne de l'Espoir is a multi-use stadium near Lille, France, that is currently being planned. Once completed in 2012, it will be used mostly for football matches and will host the home matches of Lille OSC. The stadium will have a capacity of...
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| Qi Zhong Stadium |
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The Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena, also known as Qi Zhong stadium, (pronounced "chee-jong") is an arena in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The complex is located on an 80-hectare area, in the southwest of Shanghai, the Minhang District.
It...
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Retractable roof | ||||
| Château de Chenonceau |
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The Château de Chenonceau is a castle near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in...
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Hip roof | ||||
| Château de Chenonceau |
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The Château de Chenonceau is a castle near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in...
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Dormer | ||||
| Speyer Cathedral |
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The Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae (German: Dom zu Unserer lieben Frau in Speyer) in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of...
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Roof | Copper | |||
| Hospices of Beaune |
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The Hospices or Hￃﾴtel-Dieu of Beaune, France was founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy. Though it is built largely of wood, the material is in good preservation. The buildings which surround the main courtyard have high-pitched...
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Dormer | Glazed tile | |||
| King's College Chapel, Cambridge |
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King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late Gothic (Perpendicular) English architecture.
Henry VI planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose chapel is...
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Roof | Portland stone | Lead | Stone Ribbed Fan Vault | |
| Grand Palais |
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The Grand Palais ("Big Palace") is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. It is located in the 8 arrondissement of Paris, France.
Built at the same time as the Petit Palais and the Pont Alexandre III, four...
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Roof | Glass | |||
| Sydney Opera House |
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's...
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Roof | Ceramic tiles | Thin-shell structure | ||
| Parthenon |
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The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: Παρθενών) is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their protector. Its construction began in 447BC and it was completed in 432BC on the Athenian Acropolis. Decorations of the...
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Gabled Roof | Masonry | Post and lintel | ||
| Temple of Isthmia |
The Temple of Isthmia (also known as the Temple of Poseidon) is an ancient Greek temple on the Isthmus of Corinth, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) east of ancient Corinth.
The site was originally found by Oscar Broneer in 1952 with excavations...
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Gabled Roof | Post and lintel | ||||
| Temple of Zeus |
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The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, built in 470-456 BC, was the ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the chief of the gods, Zeus. It was the very model of the fully-developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order. The temple stood...
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Gabled Roof | Post and lintel | |||
| Temple of Apollo at Bassae |
The Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, built around 420 BC is a Doric style temple that faces north-south, unlike most other temples that face east-west. It was discovered by German and French travelers. The fact that it is intact can be...
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Gabled Roof | Post and lintel | ||||
| Temple of Hera |
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The Temple of Hera (also known as Heraion) is an ancient Doric Greek temple at Olympia, Greece. The Temple of Hera was destroyed by an earthquake in the early 4th century AD, and never rebuilt. In modern times, the temple is the location where the...
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Gabled Roof | Post and lintel | |||
| Erechtheum |
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The Erechtheum (Greek: Ἐρέχθειον Erechtheion) is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece.
The temple as seen today was built between 421 and 407 BC. Its architect may have been Mnesicles, and it derived its...
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Gabled Roof | Post and lintel | |||
| Monboddo House |
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Monboddo House (56°53′N 2°25′W / 56.89°N 02.42°W / 56.89; -02.42) is a historically famous mansion in The Mearns, Scotland. The structure was generally associated with the Burnett of Leys family. The property itself was owned by the Barclay...
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Crow-stepped gable | ||||
| Muchalls Castle |
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Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lower course is a well preserved double groined 13th century towerhouse structure, built by the Frasers of Muchalls. Upon this...
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Crow-stepped gable | ||||
| Ariake Coliseum |
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Ariake Coliseum (有明コロシアム, Ariake Koroshiamu) is an indoor sporting arena in Ariake Tennis Forest Park (有明テニスの森公園, Ariake Tenisu no Mori Kōen) located in Ariake, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It has a capacity of 10,000. The arena is used as the center court...
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Retractable roof | ||||
