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 | Edmund B. Gustorf Boat House
Built in 1922 by a traveling salesman and marine enthusiast, this landlocked boat on the city's east side has never seen the water, although the Milwaukee River flows enticingly nearby. The "boat" is roughly 65 ft long with a beam of 18 ft.... |  | 02/06/2008 | 516 | 
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 | The wonderful acoustic barrier with a car store inside designed by ONL (Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lenard) beside the motorway between Utrecht and Amsterdam. A nice non conventional building with a complex structure and a futuristic shape. | | 02/04/2008 | 298 |
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 | These new apartment buildings at Bispebjerg is a mixture of art, architecture and handcraft.
135 appartments on 37,854 m2 with sizes between 85 and 229 m2 were build between 2004 and 2006. The design was a co operation beween a scuptor and an architect-company.
The sculptor made the design by clay and the architects painted by CAD.
Link in danish. | 01/05/2008 | 413 |
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 | This is the post office building of Texarkana. Left part is in Texas and the right one in Arkansas. | | 12/04/2007 | 301 |
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 | Karl-Marx-Hof is one of the best-known Gemeindebauten (municipal tenement complexes) in Vienna, situated in Heiligenstadt, a neighbourhood of the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling.
At over one kilometre in length (1100m, 0.68 mile) and spanning four Straßenbahn (tram) stops, Karl-Marx-Hof holds the distinction of being the longest single residential building in the world.
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 | Here are the remaining buildings Gaudi designed in Barcelona and other places in Spain not in our directory.
He also designed 2 street lamps and the enrerior in two churches and a Rosary Path.
In Barcelona: Bellesguard, Andreu Calvet House, Vicens House, Santa Teresa School, Sagrada Família Schools, Güell Pavilions, Güell Palace, Miralles Property Fence, Street lamps in Pl... | | 11/20/2007 | 695 |
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 | This is the firestation of the island Romo. The building is from 1887 and was in duty until 1965. It's a unusual place for such a station. Far away from the beach. That's why the desicion was made to establish a new one on Vestervej nearer to the North Sea.
Just south of the building is a replica of the former lifesaving station from 1865. It was demolished 1965. But 2003 the fir... | | 10/21/2007 | 210 |
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 | This restaurant in Greenville, Mississippi, is buil as one of the famous steamboats you see on the river Mississippi. | | 08/28/2007 | 256 |
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 | You see an Amish buggy at the building to the right. No other vehicles. | | 06/22/2007 | 470 |
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 | The university hospital in Mannheim, Germany. The first buildings are built in 1922. The university of Heidelberg is on the owners. The hospital has more than 1.400 beds and 4.500 employees. | | 06/16/2007 | 316 |
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 | Building that has a shape of a swastika, just outside of Decatur, in Alabama | | 04/09/2007 | 796 |
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 | This is a CA sales building that burnt down like a few days before this was taken, and only been built again like last year, | | 03/19/2007 | 448 |
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 | These Dutch houses are designed to float. If the rivers and canals flood they rise with the tidewater. |  | 03/03/2007 | 352 |
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 | What is this stadium looking building? Obviously you can drive a car inside. | | 02/19/2007 | 240 |
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 | Some of the many thermae in Germany |  | 02/05/2007 | 233 |
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 | These buildings are arranged in what looks like an aerial view of a monoplane. | | 02/01/2007 | 184 |
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 | I thought people might be interested in seeing this destroyed building. |  | 01/27/2007 | 668 |
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 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was built in 1998 at Little France, Edinburgh. It replaced the original ERI which was in the city centre | | 01/03/2007 | 266 |
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 | After the EXPO 2000 in Hannover the Nepal Himalaya building was moved to the Martinipark in Wiesent.
Link in german:
http://www.nepal-himalaya-pavillon.de/index.php | | 12/19/2006 | 240 |
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 | Nearly 40 years after Chinatown's only public park was demolished to make way for the Dan Ryan Expressway, the South Side neighborhood celebrated the dedication of a new five-acre jewel on the Chicago River in 1999 - Ping Tom Memorial Park. With a new pagoda-styled pavilion, this riverfront park has become a community center. | | 12/17/2006 | 307 |
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 | 40 Wall Street is a 70-story skyscraper in New York City completed in 1930 after only 11 months of construction. It is located on the north side of Wall Street between Broad Street and William Street. It was first known as Bank of Manhattan Trust Building when it was built. Its pinnacle reaches 927 feet (282.5m) and was very briefly the tallest building in the world, soon surpassed by the Chrys... |  | 12/13/2006 | 370 |
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 | Casa Batlló is a building designed by Antoni Gaudi and built in years 1905–1907.The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudi designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.The building looks very remarkable — like everything G... | | 11/24/2006 | 139 |
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 | A yurt in the Gobie desert. | | 11/23/2006 | 330 |
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 | The Westhafen Tower in Offenbach while being built. Both under construction and when finished is it impressive. A picture of the tower up close and a view from the oppositeshore are included.
Nice duel language (German/English) website here: http://www.westhafentower.com/ | | 11/21/2006 | 220 |
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 | the french cultural center | | 11/21/2006 | 208 |
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