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15/01/2006
The Iron Bridge was the world's first major iron structure. It is an engineering icon and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, whose significance transcends time and space.
Built between 1777 and 1779 over the River Severn in Shropshire, England, this iron bridge designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard and overseen by Thomas Telford played a key role in the history of construction and...
15/01/2006
Building located at Statue Square in the city's central district.
The tower rises to a height of 178.8 meters, with forty-seven floors above the basement, where the shopping center is located.
The building also has four underground levels. The elevations are made of a steel structure composed of gray aluminum modules. An additional effect is created by metallic panels with aluminum blinds...
15/01/2006
Home Insurance Building is the first skeleton tower in history.
The engineer who came up with this brilliant idea was American William LeBaron Janney. He was to design a modern office building for the insurance company Home Insurance Company. The legend says that one day Jenney felt bad and returned from work early. He wanted to sit in his favorite chair, but he was lying on a large old photo...
15/01/2006
The bridge has lost the status of a visual city symbol in favor of the Opera House . The bridge over the port, which was previously only a ferry, was demanded almost from the very beginning of Sydney. There were also those who opted for the construction of the tunnel. Finally, the Australian rail engineer John J. Brad Bradfield was approved. The road running along the bridge, on which trains...
15/01/2006
In 336 Emperor Constantine the Great built the first church on the site of the present-day Hagia Sophia, he called it "Meggale ekklesia", the great church. Two hundred years later the building burned down during the uprising. Emperor Justinian rebuilt the church, making it even bigger and more beautiful.
The building served as a Christian church and an Islamic mosque and now houses a...
03/08/2005
Initially, other locations of the structure were considered, among others 36th Street, 54th Street, Park Avenue or the Riverdale section of the Bronx, but in the end the Museum was built between 88th and 89th Street.
The Guggenheim Museum is an attempt by Wright to restore the plasticity of organic forms in architecture.
The building has the shape of an inverted Babylonian pyramid or a...
03/08/2005
Grand Central is the largest railway station in the world. Although it really is a terminal, not a station, because trains end their route there.
In 1869 the construction of the Grand Central Depot station began, in 1871 it was completed and the New York Central station was moved there, where Medison Square Garden was built. In 1913, the name of the station was changed from Grand Central Depot...
03/08/2005
The 18-meter faces of four American presidents look at the vertical granite rock: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
A local historian and publicist, Doane Robinson, came up with the idea of a mountain-monument. He thought that this eye-catching project would attract tourists to the beautiful Black Hills mountains. In 1924 he interested Gutzon...
03/08/2005
The complex consists of two bridges: Eastern Bridge, 4 car tracks with a length of 1,624 meters, Western Bridge between Sprogoe and Funen with a length of 6,611 m and double tunnel with 8 067 m tracks. Between 31 main tunnels 31 connecting tunnels were located, every 250 meters. These tunnels also serve as evacuation exits.
June 12, 1986 The Danish Parliament approved the construction of the...
03/08/2005
George Washington's name bridge connects New York with New Jersey.
As with Akashi Kaykio, the construction of this bridge was an unattainable dream for engineers for almost 100 years. This problem grew in the 1920s. People always wanted to work in the city center, but live outside of it. However, the use of slow ferries when traveling to work was cumbersome. People began to demand a permanent...
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06/03/2024 08:26
"w roku 1968 na zaporze odbywaly sie cwiczenia wojskowe, akurat bylem w wojsku . Mielismy za zadanie obrone zapory przed najezdza ktorym byla jednostka komandosow . Mile wspomnienia z tamtych lat..."
04/02/2024 21:13
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28/01/2024 17:11
"Zamek sam w sobie z zewnątrz perełka i cudo.
W środku, jak to w takich starych zamkach bywa, dużo drewana, sporo pustych pomieszczeń i dużo schodów do przejścia :)
Ale na pewno warto zobaczyć!..."
28/01/2024 16:09
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Jakie są obecnie ceny biletów?..."
28/01/2024 14:12
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A sam budynek taki sobie ;)..."
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