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Famous or noteworthy buildings |
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 | the french cultural center |  | 11/21/2006 | 205 | 
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 | It's the latest style in homebuilding..building houses in the water... |  | 11/07/2006 | 430 |
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 | Antigone a keylike building located in Montpellier,France. Built by the famous Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill | | 10/20/2006 | 271 |
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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 | 548 |
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 | Not sure what this houses, but it sure has a futuristic look. |  | 10/16/2006 | 702 |
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 | View of the building with the interior schulpture visible through the glass panels. | | 10/13/2006 | 220 |
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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 | 187 |
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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 | 181 |
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 | A monument celebrating the turn of the century, located in central Beijing.
| | 09/07/2006 | 273 |
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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 | 297 |
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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 | 288 |
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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)
| | 09/07/2006 | 280 |
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 | This building is under construction | | 09/06/2006 | 220 |
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 | Observation Tower Koeppel in the Westerwald near Montabaur. | | 08/27/2006 | 143 |
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 | TV Tower near Koblenz | | 08/27/2006 | 156 |
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 | Be prepared to wait a lot in this office ! | | 07/02/2006 | 194 |
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 | The city hall of Mont Dore, a town in the suburb of Noumea. | | 07/01/2006 | 209 |
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 | When Saddam Hussein rose to power in Iraq, he conceived a grandiose scheme to rebuild the ancient City of Babylon -- Hussein said that Babylon's great palaces and the legendary hanging gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) would rise from dust. Like the powerful King Nebuchadnezzar II who conquered Jerusalem 2,500 years ago, Saddam Hussein would rule over the world'... |  | 07/01/2006 | 1,568 |
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 | In 1590 Spanish troops, who had arrived to support the Duc de Mercoeur (the Catholic Governor of Brittany) in revolt against the Protestant King Henry VI, built the first citadel at Port Blavet. Following Mercoeur's defeat, Port Blavet returned to French control in 1598 and the defences were later restored and extended in the period 1616-36.
http://www.blavet.co.uk/port%20louis%2... | | 07/01/2006 | 205 |
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 | The Liberation Tower is the tallest structure in Kuwait. Construction of the tower commenced before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. It was meant to be called The Kuwait Telecommunications Tower.
When the invasion took place, construction, which was almost half-way complete, was put on hold. However, the structure received no damage, and construction resumed after ... | | 06/28/2006 | 392 |
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 | The Hamalir, also known as the Sports and Music Complex (Marzahamergayin Hamalir) was opened in 1984 in Yerevan. Stairs along a cascade of fountains lead visitors to the Complex, reminiscent of the silhouette of a huge bird with open wings. The building itself resembles the Sydney Opera House of Australia... |  | 06/25/2006 | 356 |
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 | A fancy, high-res house on the outskirts of Cape Town. Shows the dfference in living that still exists between white and black people. | | 06/21/2006 | 288 |
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 | Factory and test circuit of KIA Motors in Kooni, South Korea | | 06/20/2006 | 231 |
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 | Some placemarks in Kigali, capital of Rwanda. Including the Presidents Residence, some embassies and the famous "Hotel Rwanda". Feel free to add some comment or correct the information. I have been there in 2003 - so my memories are perhaps a little outdated... | | 06/16/2006 | 341 |
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 | Caravanserail Kusadasi Turkey | | 06/15/2006 | 324 |
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