The building's distinctive silhouette has nevertheless become symbolic of Barcelona itself, drawing an estimated 2. 5 million visitors annually.

Most of the building's original character, such as the distinctive square malthouse roof-vents, was retained.

The building's distinctive pillars have been retained ( but not the originals ) on its Warwick Road frontage.

Its four distinctive domes were designed as a decorative means of disguising the building's shape.

One of the building's most distinctive features is its façade formed out of thousands of large multicolored stained-glass panels.

Among the building's most distinctive features are its windows, which open to allow natural ventilation to supplement the mechanical systems for a good part of the year.

The GMW Partnership undertook the design and Mowlem carried out the necessary reconstruction work from 1990, which included part-infilling of the building's distinctive archway.

Mather Company's founder, Alonzo Mather ( a descendent of Cotton Mather ) is said to be responsible for a number of the building's distinctive design features, including the octagonal tower.

During his tenure, Rogers oversaw completion of the building's interior and coordinated work on the distinctive rotunda and its enclosing cupola.

One of the building's most distinctive exterior features is the low, conical roof atop the cupola, positioned where many viewers expect to see a dome.

The building's distinctive belfry was, however, the work of a different architect, Jan van Ruysbroeck.

That building was acquired by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the mid-1990s, which gutted and rebuilt the building's interior, but kept the distinctive facade intact.

St Georges Tower was painted royal blue, turning it into a very distinctive local landmark, albeit one that attracted mass controversy due to its perceived ugliness and difference from the original architect's renders for the building's renovation.

The building's distinctive look was also copied in D. C. Comics for the headquarters of S. T. A. R.

After the building's structural integrity was called into question, Aquino's office was moved to the Presidential Study on June 21, 2011.

In May 2010, the Friends of the Upper Room called for daily worldwide prayer beginning May 8, 2010 and asked interested persons from around the world to pray about the building's future and lift up its owners in prayerful support.

At this point on October 18, 1999, the building's owners Music Heritage Ltd, called in PricewaterhouseCoopers to administer the day-to-day running.

The building's food court is run by a private restaurant called Jasmine, making it the only non-unionized commissary on campus.

The building's east side ( called the County Building ) is devoted to the various offices of Cook County.

At the hearing it was suggested by the counsel for Vigano's parents that the building's wooden construction was unsuitable for its purpose as a locked dormitory ; he called it " a potential fire hazard and a death trap ".

The school newspaper is called the Tower Times, and the school yearbook The Tower, both referring to the school building's five-story tower and facade that rise over the main entrance and dominate the village's skyline.

During the late 20th century, the building's use changed again, with a section becoming a busy bar / café ( called variously: ' Life Bar ', ' Prohibition ', ' The Bar and Grill ', ' Lyceum Café ').

One evening, Cleveland Heep ( Paul Giamatti ), who became a handyman at a Philadelphia apartment complex after his family was murdered, discovers Story ( Bryce Dallas Howard ), a naiad-like character ( called a Narf ) from the Blue World, in his building's pool, immediately rescuing her from an attack by a " Scrunt ," a grass-covered lupine that lies preternaturally flat.

For years the building's offices were notably dentists ' offices ; the New York Daily News once called it ' The Mecca of Dentistry '.

" An Easter egg found in the Sucker Punch game inFAMOUS shows a movie called " Sly Cooper 4 " on the building's marquee ; there is also a Sly Cooper symbol on Cole's backpack and back of his pants.

The building's windows and horizontals were inset slightly behind columns and piers, as part of a “ vertical aesthetic ” to create what Sullivan called “ a proud and soaring thing .” This perception has since been criticized as the skyscraper were designed to make money, not to serve as a symbol.

The building's name, as well as its architecture, is a reference to the simple gable-roofed sheds ( called " fishing rooms ") that were once so common at the waterline in Newfoundland fishing villages.

The building's first principal, Edward E. McMillan, was later honored as the namesake of the nearby middle school called McMillan Magnet Center.

Above that height, the buildings are required to set back behind a theoretical inclined plane, called sky exposure plane, which cannot be penetrated by the building's exterior wall.

They increase a building's autonomy by decreasing the heat or fuel used to heat water.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

To ensure that all aspects of the building's performance in strong winds will be acceptable, a detailed wind tunnel study was carried out by Professor Alan Davenport at the BLWT at the UWO.

Extant Roman coins struck by the Alexandrian mint show that a statue of a Triton was positioned on each of the building's four corners.

Once World War I started in 1914, the Goetheanum volunteers could hear the sound of cannon fire beyond the Swiss border, but despite the war, people from all over Europe worked peaceably side by side on the building's construction.

Later on, wind tunnel study came into its own: the effects of wind on man made structures or objects needed to be studied when buildings became tall enough to present large surfaces to the wind, and the resulting forces had to be resisted by the building's internal structure.

Wearing a wetsuit and using a climbing device that enabled him to ascend the I-beams on the building's side, Goodwin battled repeated attempts by the Chicago Fire Department to knock him off.

In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in Greenwich Village in a building next door to the townhouse destroyed by members of the Weathermen when they detonated a bomb in the building's basement, killing three people.

But waste heat can also significantly increase the energy required by a building's air conditioning system.

The building's first phase was designed by British architect Sir Denys Lasdun and is one of his few works outside the UK.

In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.

The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre ( 349 ft ) plain pyramid dating from the 1140s and a 113-metre ( 377 ft ) early 16th century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower.

Its abandonment, or perhaps its destruction " by zealous Christians ", was so abrupt that much of its cult paraphernalia survived virtually intact beneath the building's later collapse.

The Centre Refreshment Room 1865 – 77 was designed in a Renaissance style by James Gamble, the walls and even the Ionic columns are covered in decorative and moulded ceramic tile, the ceiling consists of elaborate designs on enamelled metal sheets and matching stained glass windows, the marble fireplace was designed and sculpted by Alfred Stevens and was removed from Dorchester House prior to that building's demolition in 1929.

Also in 1992, the New York museum building's exhibition and other space was expanded by the addition of an adjoining rectangular tower, taller than the original spiral, and a renovation of the original building.

On June 13, 2007, the Thomson building's northern portion was destroyed by a fire.

A quote by the building's main architect:

Stevens then reused the building's scheme, while reducing its size by two-fifths, to become The Bay of Naples Inn at Naples, Maine, which opened in 1899.

The 100-year-old Pine Stump Mall building, housing numerous businesses on the boardwalk, burned to the ground, while the Copper Butterfly building, gutted by the fire, left the building's walls standing without a roof.

The building was severely damaged by a fire on January 15, 1975, but was restored, and a new wing was added ; the wing was named after Anna Mae Auchmoedy, the building's first librarian.

Unfortunately, in 1963 the United States Glass Company was damaged by a tornado, and their 80-foot water tower collapsed through the building's roof.

The building's cost has been secured by $ 1. 325mil in federal funding.