Buildings

• 30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin)


  Bought by Safra for 700M Pounds
• Angkor Wat (Pisnulok)


  • Aligned to west
  • It was at first hindu then become Buddhist temple
• Arc of Constantine
• Buckingham Palace


  • John Sheffield built Buckingham House as a place to stay during his visits to London
  • The Queen's official and main royal London home
• Christ the Redeemer


  • 3rd tallest Jesus' statue
  • Started as one of the 7 wonders of the world July 2007
• Chrysler Building


  Tallest building in the world at completion, overtaken by the Empire State Building just one year later
• Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)


  • Largest amphitheatre in the world
  • 80 entrances, 50,000 spectators
  • Took 10 years to build starting in 70 AD and was completed in 80 AD using over 60,000 Jewish slaves
• Dancing House (Fred and Ginger)

  The uppermost floor of the house, there is a restaurant called "Ginger & Fred"
• Eiffel Tower


  • During cold weather the tower shrinks by about six inches
  • The most visited paid-for monument in the world
  • There are 20,000 light bulbs used on the Eiffel Tower to make it sparkle every night
• Empire State Building


  • 41 years between 1931 and 1972 the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world
  • The Empire State Building has a lightning rod near the top which is struck by lightning around 23 times every year
• Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore)


  • The cathedral has the largest masonry dome in the world
  • The famous Pantheon was the inspiration for the dome cathedral in Florence
  • The 3rd largest cathedral in the world
• Forbidden City


  • 9,999 rooms
  • Home of 24 emperors
  • Twice the size of Vatican
• Forum Romanum
• Grand Mosque (Sheikh Zayed Mosque)
• Hagia Sophia (Sultan Ahmad Mosque)


  The church became a Mosque for 500 years - museum
• The Louvre Pyramid


  • I.M. Pei, was the first non-French architect to work on the Louvre
  • The glass pyramid is one of four, as three smaller glass pyramids surround the courtyard
• Machu Picchu (Lost City of Incas)


  • 150 buildings ranging from baths and houses to temples and sanctuaries
  • Built in ashlar (stones that are cut to fit together without mortar)
• Milan Cathedral (Milan's Duomo)


  • 5th largest Christian Church
  • 3400 statues (Mary stands on the highest spire)
  • Set your watch w/ its sundial
  • Red buld (nails)
  • 6 centuries, 78 architects
• Pantheon


  • The best preserved ancient roman monument
  • Pantheon means "Honor all god"
  • However the Pantheon is STILL to this day the worlds largest unreinforced concrete dome in the history of architecture
• Petronas Tower
• Step Pyramid Djozer
• Step Pyramid of the Sun
• The Shard


  The tallest building in western Europe
• St. Basil's Cathedral


  • 9 churches in 1
  • Onion domes
• St. Marks Basilica
• St. Paul's Cathedral
• St Peter's Basilica
• St. Peter's Square


  The obelisk as sun dial
• Stonehenge


  • 83 stones in total, larger is sarsen and smaller is bluestone
  • Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Colosseum
• Sydney Opera House


  • He won 5000 pounds for this design
  • Expressionist modernism
• Taj Mahal


  17 years to complete
• Great Hypostyle Hall
• Temples of Abu Simbel
• The Great Wall of China

  • Glutinous rice flour was used in making the binding material to bind the bricks
  • Called the longest cemetery on Earth
• Arc de Triomphe
• Westminster Palace (The Houses of Parliament)


  Charles Barry, Augustus Pugin