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Procuratie |
The Procuratie (literally, "procuracies") are three connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are historic buildings over arcades, the last of them, Ala Napoleonica, completed under Napoleon 's occupation to finish off the square.
The oldest of the buildings is the Procuratie Vecchie ... |
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Palazzo Grassi |
Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is an edifice in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, northern Italy. It was founded by the Grassi family and designed by Giorgio Massari, and the building was completed between 1748 and 1772.
The latecomer among... |
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Galeries Lafayette Berlin |
Galeries Lafayette is a department store designed by Jean Nouvel, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 2008, located in Berlin. Due to the the excellent, sophisticated architectural details and impressive glass facade, the building does not resembles an average shopping mall. The store was built ... |
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Royal Palace of Madrid |
The Palacio Real de Madrid (The Royal Palace of Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish Royal Family in the city of Madrid, but it is only used for state ceremonies. King Juan Carlos and the Royal Family do not reside in the palace, choosing instead the more modest Palacio de la Zarzuela on... |
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Grand Canal in Venice |
The Grand Canal (Canal Grande) is a canal in Venice, Italy, which forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
At one end the canal leads into the lagoon near Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into Saint Mark Basin: in between it makes a large S-shape through the ce... |
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The Basilica of St Mary of Health |
The Basilica of St Mary of Health (Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di... |
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City of Culture of Galicia |
City of Culture of Galicia (Galician: Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is a complex of cultural buildings in Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and office, and opened at 2011. The buildings are an extreme challenge to construct as the design of them m... |
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Bridge of Sighs |
The Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, northern Italy.
The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Con... |
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial , is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs... |
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Kulturforum |
The Kulturforum is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin, Germany. It was built up in the 1950s and 60s at the edge of West Berlin, after most of the once unified city's cultural assets had been lost behind the Berlin Wall. The Kulturforum is characterized by its innovative modernist architec... |
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