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22/01/2006
The Pantheon is the best-preserved building from the time of ancient Rome. He was raised in honor of the Gods. Inside, there was a ceremonial altar where animals were sacrificed and burned. Smoke was coming through the hole in the top of the dome, called "all seeing the eye of the heavens".
Oculus, or the "eye" of the dome, lets the daylight in, is wide at 8.2 meters, 5 hands holding students...
22/01/2006
The tallest building in Poland, has 42 floors. On the 30th floor, at a height of 114 m, there is an observation deck.
There are 3288 rooms in the Palace of Culture.
Skyscraper was erected as a gift of the Soviet nation for Poland. The originator of the project was Józef Stalin.
Architect LW Rudniew wanted the office building to be in the Polish style, so he visited well-known cities, for...
22/01/2006
Ruined stone castles and towers embedded in a huge cliff looked like a fortified city built by crusaders or a Moorish military dignitary and then abandoned.
The city builders were called Pueblo (village), they built their amazing buildings without using metal tools or modern machines. Their buildings are referred to as the first high rise residential buildings in America. Klifowy Palace is the...
22/01/2006
The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai is the highest tower in Asia and the third highest in this type of building in the world. Only the CN Tower in Toronto and Ostankino Tower in Moscow are higher.
Shanghai is the fastest-growing metropolis in China. The Oriental Tower was to be its symbol and attraction. The project was made by Chinese architect Jia Huan Cheng. He designed an extremely...
22/01/2006
Opera building is an architectural fantasy adapted to the modern era of space travel. It is one of the most famous symbols of Australia.
The winner of the best design competition announced in 1956 was Dane Jörn Utson, his project was selected from 222 projects from 32 countries around the world. As the winner he was awarded 5,000 pounds.
The opera building is 183 meters long and 120 meters...
22/01/2006
The church was started by Edward the Confessor. At the beginning, the building served as a church, then in the eighth century, the building became a Benedictine monastery. The abbey grew during the 13th and 14th centuries, in the 7th century the chapel of Henry VII was added. Two twin towers over the west entrance were added in the 18th century.
The first ruler who crowned him here was William...
22/01/2006
The Olympic park consists of: a stadium, a sports hall, swimming pools, an Olympic village and a press and conference center. All this forms one complex, besides, the following are located: canoe and rowing races, shooting range and stadium for horse riding.
It was calculated that the total construction cost would amount to 487 million marks, but this amount increased to 1.972 billion...
21/01/2006
The bridge weighs 88 million pounds, half of which is steel and concrete.
Every year on the third Saturday in October the bridge is completely open to pedestrians, on this day over a quarter of a million people come here to watch various attractions. One of the biggest attractions is the possibility of jumping on Bungee or with a parachute.
Thanks to the construction of this bridge it was...
21/01/2006
Newgrange, praised in Irish literature, is a megalithic passageway tomb. It is proof of the existence of a Neolithic society with advanced technical knowledge at that time in the Boyne Valley.
Newgrange comes from 3200 BC, is older than Mycenae, the Pyramid and even Stonehenge.
The entire Newgrange complex consists of: a large stone circle with a diameter of 105 meters, 12 stones from the...
21/01/2006
The wall is 4.5 meters high and 2.5 - 3 meters wide.
Wall width is variable. The western part was initially made of peat, later it was made of stone.
750,000 m were used for the construction of the monument? stones.
For centuries, Hadrian's Wall was robbed of stone (evidence of this is visible in many surrounding buildings), and in some places it was blown up to make it easier to draw stone...
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