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building and Norman
The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.
Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.
From Henry II onwards, ira et malevolentia had come to describe the right of the king to express his anger and displeasure at particular barons or clergy, building on the Norman concept of malevoncia – royal ill-will.
* 2005, Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia ( the first Sir Norman Foster building in the Southern Hemisphere )
* Norman Foster's building Valencia Conference Centre
In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still within Westminster, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease ; the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw ( North ) building, part of which is used as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.
Edward's Norman sympathies are most clearly seen in the major building project of his reign, Westminster Abbey, the first Norman Romanesque church in England.
After they discover some of the drugs missing, DEA agents storm the building, led by sharply dressed drug addict Norman " Stan " Stansfield ( Gary Oldman ).
Pope Paschal II ordered the building of the a basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati on the ashes of the one burned during the Norman sack of Rome in 1084.
The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).
The city was quarried for building material when medieval St Albans was founded ; indeed, much of Norman abbey was constructed from the remains of the Roman city, with Roman brick and stone visible.
* Eastgate Chapel is a very different building ; a neo Norman design of 1843 in dark flint, it originally had a pepper pot dome but this was removed in favour of a traditional spire in case traffic vibrations below made it fall off.
At its north-east corner access was given from the dormitory to the necessarium, a building in the form of a Norman hall, 145 ft ( 44 m ) long by 25 broad ( 44. 2 m × 7. 6 m ), containing fifty-five seats.
The earliest part of the building at Worcester is the multi-columned Norman crypt with cushion capitals remaining from the original monastic church begun by St Wulfstan in 1084.
Another major purpose of Norman castle building was to overawe the conquered population and at Guildford this also was the case.
After he moved to Los Angeles in 1968, Norman was associated initially with the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and its Salt Company coffee shop outreach ministry, which operated in the upstairs loft of a converted apartment building located behind the Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
By October 1969 Norman was a regular performer at the Salt Company, " a combination of late Victorian and early Salvation Army ", which held concerts on weekends in the upstairs loft of a converted apartment building in downtown Hollywood.
Archaeological records indicate that a smaller wooden and stone Norman church had existed on the location of the south aisle of the present building.
There is modern architecture at Nîmes too: Norman Foster conceived the Carré d ' art ( 1986 ), a museum of modern art and mediatheque ; Jean Nouvel the Nemausus, a post-modern residential ensemble, and Kisho Kurokawa a building in the form of a hemicycle to reflect the Amphitheatre.
The Norman keep was built on a high motte on the site of a Roman castra, first uncovered during the third Marquess of Bute's building campaign.
The present building dates mainly from the early 12th century and is a fine example of Norman architecture.
Starting in about 1090, Harold's building was demolished and a new church with crossing tower and transepts was begun in the Norman style.

building and Abbey
Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.
This red sandstone-clad building, with its distinctive ' wave-shaped ' organic roof, planted with sedum, houses displays on the history of the Abbey and some of the best surviving stonework and other relics.
An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.
The process began with the demutualisation of the Abbey National building society in 1989.
" ... the paradox of the Abbey members who campaigned against flotation to a Plc bank of their building society.
things, to the construction of a large wall and gate surrounding the Abbey ( for instance, the Great Gatehouse, the " Abbey Gateway ", which is the only surviving monastic building other than the Abbey Church, dates from 1365 ).
Its name, which derives from the neighbouring Westminster Abbey, may refer to either of two structures: the Old Palace, a medieval building complex that was destroyed by fire in 1834, and its replacement New Palace that stands today.
On moving into the Abbey, Dashwood had numerous expensive works done on the building.
* Paul of Caen is installed as Abbot of St Albans ; the building of St Albans Abbey Church commences.
* Bailey ( BY ) ( 19 Sixth Form girls ) is in a mainly 18th-and 19th-century building which incorporates the fine 14th-century Abbey gateway originally called St Ethelbert's Gate.
This purpose wasn't enough of the original building so Richeza built a new Abbey, which is substantially conserved until today.
* In The Simpsons episode " Father Knows Worst ", when Homer falls asleep while building a balsa wood model of Westminster Abbey, he has a vision of the ghost of Anne of Cleves played by Pamela Hayden.
Bernard led twelve other monks to found the Abbey of Clairvaux, and began clearing the ground and building a church and dwelling.
The Abbey of Saint-Denis thus became the prototype for further building in the royal domain of northern France.
The current building on the site of the choir of the old Abbey church is a Parish Church of the Church of Scotland, still with the name Dunfermline Abbey.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Abbey Gateway is Grade I listed building.
Following the dissolution, parts of Battle Abbey became a private home, and other parts of the monastic buildings were ravaged for building materials.
Fontevraud Abbey or Fontevrault Abbey ( in French: abbaye de Fontevraud ) is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l ' Ouest, in the village of Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France.

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