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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 | 160 | 
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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 | 210 |
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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 | 276 |
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 | The Kiev TV Tower (Ukrainian: Телевезійна вежа, Televiziina vezha; Russian: Киевская телебашня, Kievskaya telebashnya) is a 385 meter high lattice steel tower built in 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine. It is the high... |  | 12/04/2006 | 423 |
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 | The Long Ta (also known as Dragon Tower) (Chinese: 龙塔, Pinyin: lóng tǎ) in Harbin, China is a tall tower of lattice steel used for communication. It was built in 2000 and rises to 336 m (1102 ft).
The Long Ta Tower, Heilongjiang Broadcast and TV Tower, 336 meters high, ranks the 2nd highest in the world and the highest in Asia. It is a comprehensive multifuncti... |  | 12/04/2006 | 273 |
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 | The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 204.8 metre high concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck at Mannheim. It was designed from the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and constructed between 1973 and 1975. This modern monument of Mannheim contains besides transmission facilities for UHR radio services and omnidirectional radio services a glassed observation deck and a revolving... | | 12/04/2006 | 200 |
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 | Big estate owned by somebody important enough for GE to label a village after their estate. (turn on the villages layer under "populated Places" and Antony Estate appears.) | | 12/02/2006 | 147 |
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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 | 90 |
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 | A yurt in the Gobie desert. | | 11/23/2006 | 257 |
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 | A major seaport and amazing fortress, this is a man-made island which looks incredibly well defensible. |  | 11/21/2006 | 226 |
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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 | 164 |
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 | the french cultural center | | 11/21/2006 | 136 |
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 | It's the latest style in homebuilding..building houses in the water... | | 11/07/2006 | 336 |
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 | Antigone a keylike building located in Montpellier,France. Built by the famous Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill | | 10/20/2006 | 123 |
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 | This monument is called "makam echahid" which means the place where the martyre rests. It's a monument in memory of all the martyrs who died during the independence war agaisnt the french colonization. |  | 10/19/2006 | 287 |
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 | Not sure what this houses, but it sure has a futuristic look. | | 10/16/2006 | 570 |
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 | View of the building with the interior schulpture visible through the glass panels. | | 10/13/2006 | 151 |
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 | An important British library, which serves the city and the region, and one of the largest outside London, it has an extensive collection of books for lending and for reference, as befits a major university city. It also houses audio-visual material and exhibitions.
Manchester had been the first local authority in Britain to introduce a public lending and reference library, under powers ... | | 10/08/2006 | 134 |
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 | The gasometer was build 1883 and was the second in Copenhagen. It was in use untill 1979.
1986 it was rebuild to a new theater of Copenhagen, Oestre Gasvaerk. | | 09/10/2006 | 126 |
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 | A monument celebrating the turn of the century, located in central Beijing.
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 | CCTV's new 550,000 square meter headquarters, to be completed for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, will be among the first of 300 towers to be constructed in Beijing's new Central Business District.
As part of an international architectural competition organized by the Beijing International Tendering Co., the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was awarded the contract on Dec... | | 09/07/2006 | 201 |
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 | The CCTV tower is one of the modern wonders of Beijing. If this were any less of a city, with fewer attractions, the tower would feature heavily in any tourist promotions. As it is, there are so many things to see in Beijing, especially of historical and cultural interest, the poor old tower tends to get overlooked.
The CCTV tower not surprisingly is the home of many TV and R... | | 09/07/2006 | 197 |
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 | Couldn't find much on it, but it appears to be some sort of exhibition area (that you can rent?). If anybody in Romania could fill me in, that would be helpful.
http://www.romexpo.org/ (Not English)
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 | This building is under construction | | 09/06/2006 | 144 |
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 | Observation Tower Koeppel in the Westerwald near Montabaur. | | 08/27/2006 | 105 |
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