The present building, planned and built 1963 – 1966 by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith in a distinctively modern style, is easily distinguished from the neighboring townhouses by its staircase façade made from granite stones and its external upside-down windows.

The substructure of the South Tomb is entered through a tunnel-like corridor with a staircase that descends about 30m before opening up into the pink granite burial chamber.

The upper gallery of the staircase is adorned with twenty grey Serdobol granite columns and feature 19th-century European sculpture and Russian lapidary works.

The staircase is two sections at right angles with the central plateau and paneled roof deck, the steps are of granite in one piece.

In the main wing is the unique staircase in the palace, consisting of four flights in granite.

One noted interior feature is the grey granite grand staircase, which is lined with stained glass windows adorned with images of Poseidon, anchors, ships bells and shells and well as dedications to countries of the British Empire including Singapore, South Africa, Canada and Australia.

This granite monument, over 100 feet high, contains in its base a large vaulted hall from which rises a staircase leading to a viewing platform.

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The main dining room, one floor up and connected by a bronze and marble Renaissance-style staircase, had a futuristic look, with polished granite columns and etched glass sconces.

The national park's distinctive hard granite boulders and range originally formed out of magma that first slowly solidified under the Earth's crust about 250 million years ago.

Hikers may explore the park's watershed and granite outcrop on their own, or they may join park staff for guided hikes onto the restricted-access mountain.

Built as a Victorian folly in 1869, the castle caps Vista Rock, the park's second-highest natural elevation Constructed of Manhattan schist quarried in the park and dressed with gray granite, it tops the natural-looking woodlands of The Ramble, as seen from the formal Bethesda Terrace.

To the northwest is the Yade Massif, a granite plateau with an altitude of.

In the far northwest of Togo lies a higher region which is characterized by its rocks: granite and gneiss.

On December 30, 1937, Ravel was buried next to his parents in a granite tomb at the cemetery at Levallois-Perret, a suburb of northwest Paris.

The underlying granite caused the till to be more thickly deposited on the northwest sides of ridges: on the southeast sides boulders were " plucked " and transported further south.

The memorial is carved on the northwest margin of the Harney Peak granite batholith in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so the geologic formations of the heart of the Black Hills region are also evident at Mount Rushmore.

Most of the highest ground is formed by the masses of granite which have been intruded into the Ordovician and Silurian rocks ; the Criffel mass lies about Dalbeattie and Bengairn, another mass extends east and west between the Cairnsmore of Fleet and Loch Ken, another lies northwest and southeast between Loch Doon and Loch Dee and a small mass forms the Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.

The soil is predominantly podsol, which contains massive boulders, especially in the north and northwest, where large granite rocky outcrops occur.

Grooves in the exposed granite bedrock are still visible in the area from the movement of glaciers, and numerous erratics are found in the elevated areas to the northwest of the coulee.

Rocks in the area range from the volcanic along the reservoir and Noun to Precambrian deposits of crystalline rocks such as granite and gneiss under a cover of basaltic rock in the northwest.

Visitors enter the memorial by climbing thirty granite steps in the northwest corner.

Twin pink granite obelisks flanked the arched entryway ; these now stand, one at the Piazza dell ' Esquilino ( on the northwest side of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore ) and other at the Quirinal fountain.

On the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, now the U. S. National Geodetic Survey, has placed a small medallion into a granite block showing an elevation of.

The only object in the King's Chamber is a rectangular granite " sarcophagus ", one corner of which is broken.

Several granite quarries operated during this time, the largest of which was the Beattie Granite Quarry, near what is now North Quarry Street, near the corner of Locust.

The granite monument for this battle can be viewed at the corner of 1st Street and Electric Avenue in the town of Four Lakes.

On 22 September 2004, a dark blue granite plaque set in a sandstone border was unveiled in the vicinity of the old Munich Airport on the corner of Rappenweg and Emplstraße, just metres from the wooden memorial.

The Hall of Twelve Columns in the southeastern corner of the New Hermitage, adorned with columns of grey Serdobol granite, which is also designed in the Greek revival style and was originally intended for the display of coins, is now used for temporary exhibitions.

A larger store in Philadelphia was then designed by famous Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham, and this 12-story granite " Wanamaker Building " was completed in 1910 on the site of " The Grand Depot ", encompassing an entire block at the corner of Thirteenth and Market Streets across from Philadelphia's City Hall.

One is built into a corner of the ' mort house ' in the churchyard, and shows two crosses incised in a worn pink granite slab.

It consists of battlemented walls with four square corner towers and a central granite and marble keep ( Torre de Menagem ), with its height of 40 m the highest in Portugal.

It is built of Caledonia granite originally quarried in Rivière à Pierre, Quebec, with a bronze relief sculpture and four bronze corner pieces.

On February 10, during a dinner party at the mansion, he fell near a basement door, possibly after tripping, and was killed instantly after hitting his head on a sharp corner of the mansion's granite base course and then again on the cobblestone pavement.

On the exterior a highly-polished shoulder-height dado, veneered with veined and colored Minnesota granite, presents a glistening variegated surface to the pedestrian passing at close distance and offers a discreet inscription near a corner:

Shell House ( 1988 ), on the corner of Spring and Flinders Street is a notable granite clad modern office tower designed by Harry Seidler in a similar style to his buildings in Sydney and Brisbane.

The old Cambridge High & Latin building was demolished in 1980, but the old granite lintel and doorway frame have been put in place at the corner of Ellery Street and Broadway as a commemorative archway, leading into the grassy fields of Joan Lorentz Park.

An architectural hybrid of Gothic and Romanesque styles, Vaux's design called for a more weighty Manhattan schist and granite structure with a corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet walls between them.

Groby Quarry is located on the narrow lane which leads through to Newtown Linford, and is still used to quarry granite.

A flight of steps of granite stones leads to its top.

By granite steps leading down from the Eternal Flame visitors enter the main 480-meter path which leads to the majestic Motherland monument.