Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts
The Shanghai World Financial Center
The Shanghai World Financial Center is a skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Japanese Mori Building Company. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls.
Montreal Biosphere, Canada
The Biosphère is a museum in Montreal dedicated to the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Île Sainte-Hélène in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair Expo 67.
20 Marvelous Photographs of St. Peter's Basilica
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest churches in the world.
'Burj Khalifa' A breathtaking great shot of the tallest man-made marvel in the world
3 hectares (7.4 acres) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare (30-acre) man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.
Architectural Height : 828 m (2,717 ft)
Floor area : 3,331,100 sq ft
Floor count : 163 floors
Cost : USD $ 1.5 billion
Location : Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serthar, Tibet,China
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, also known as Serthar Buddhist Institute, sits in the Larung Valley at an elevation of 4,000 meters, about 15 km from the town Sêrtar, in Sertar County, Garze Prefecture in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham.
7 Amazing Museums around the world
1. Louvre Museum
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement.
2. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
3.Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group. It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year.
4. Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary arts located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France.
5. The Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
6. The National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, Republic of China. It is one of the national museums in the island nation of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 10,000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic age to the late Qing Dynasty. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors.
7. The Musée d'Orsay Museum
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900.
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Teatro Arriaga Auditorium
The Arriaga Theatre is in Plaza del Arenal in the center of Bilbao. In 1834, the first "theater of the Villa" opened built on municipal land in Arenal. 52 years later it was closed and demolished, and in the same place rose the new theater that opened in 1890. It was called the "New Theatre Bilbao" In 1914 a fire razed it completely and in 1919 it was reopened again with Verdi's opera Don Carlo. In the floods of 1983 the theater suffered serious damage especially in the basement, damage was repaired by 1984.
When
you first enter the hall there is a wonderful staircase, two hands,
with a red carpet, you feel like a queen climbing it. On the first
landing of there is a bust of musician and composer Juan Crisostomo
Arriaga. The Main Hall has stalls and three floors, was respected in
structure and decoration as had previously been created.
However,
the stalls, had the novelty of an orchestra pit that can be adjusted to
three levels and has room for almost a hundred musicians. The room
seats 1,744 people, and the stage has a large capacity. The ceiling has
paintings depicting allegorical poetry, music, tragedy and comedy.
The Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall
The Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall is located in the city of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, beside the Estuary of Bilbao, built in part of the area that was formerly occupied by the Euskalduna shipyards.
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8 Amazing glass buildings around the world
Aldar headquarters building is the first circular building of its kind in the Middle East. It is located in Al Raha, Abu Dhabi (emirate), United Arab Emirates.
2. National Grand Theater of China
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is the trademark opera house of Beijing, China. The National Centre for the Performing Arts is also called the National Grand Theatre or more colloquially ‘The Giant Egg’. It’s a beautiful specimen of fine modern architecture.
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3. 30 St Mary Axe
30 St Mary Axe is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London.
4. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has celebrated more than a decade of extraordinary success.
5. Downtown Manhattan from the East River
Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan or "downtown" is defined most commonly as the area delineated on the north by 14th Street, on the west by the Hudson River, on the east by the East River, and on the south by New York Harbor (also known as Upper New York Bay).
6. Roy Thomson Hall
Roy Thomson Hall is a concert hall located at 60 Simcoe Street in Toronto, Ontario. It is the home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Opened in 1982, its circular architectural design exhibits a sloping and curvilinear glass exterior. It was designed by Canadian architects Arthur Erickson and Mathers and Haldenby.
7. Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a 297.3-metre (975 ft) skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Eureka Tower is named after the Eureka Stockade, a rebellion during the Victorian gold rush in 1854. This has been incorporated into the design, with the building's gold crown representing the gold rush and a red stripe representing the blood spilt during the revolt.
8. La Défense
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares area, 72 glass and steel buildings and skyscrapers.
Photo credits: Herve Bourderon, Claude Dareau
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