These striking, modernistic buildings on the East River are open to the public and every weekday guided tours are available.

At the top of the hill the buildings on the left gave way to a park.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on which the sultans sat cross-legged.

It is possible, of course, to work on extant or projected buildings where either architect or owner will explain their necessities so that the student may get `` the feel '' of real interior design demands.

Narrow four-story buildings ran the length of the block like books tightly packed on a shelf.

if the angle of fire were too great the jutting buildings on either side would interfere.

It was a district of small factories and loft buildings and occasional tenements, and he could see the police radio car as he rounded the corner and slammed on the brakes.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

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On one hand, the library profession called for designs that supported efficiency in administration and operation ; on the other, wealthy philanthropists favored buildings that reinforced the paternalistic metaphor and enhanced civic pride.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Since the death of Elissa Aalto the office has continued to operate as the Alvar Aalto Academy, giving advice on the restoration of Aalto buildings and organising the vast archive material.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

are landmark buildings on the campus of Acadia University.

The buildings in the old city originate, on the whole, from building projects during the 16th century, when nearly all the Middle Age period buildings were replaced or expanded.

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.

Off-grid buildings often rely very little on civil services and are therefore safer and more comfortable during civil disaster or military attacks.

It looked at the effects of acid rain and funded research on the effects of acid precipitation on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, historical buildings, monuments, and building materials.

Traveling north to south, the first neighborhood, the " North Residential Neighborhood ", has high-rise residential buildings, a large hotel, Stuyvesant High School, a movie theater and a modern branch of the New York Public Library.

) Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s and completion of the final lots scheduled to be completed by spring 2011.

Prince Albert had an active role in these improvements, overseeing the design of parterres, the diversion the main road north of the river via a new bridge, and plans for farm buildings.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

Upriver and north of downtown is historic Old Town Lansing with many architecturally significant buildings dating to the mid-19th century.

The new city market will be across the river from where the Accident Fund Insurance Company is renovating the former ( art deco ) Ottawa Street Powerplant into their new headquarters, as well as the addition of modern buildings to the north that will be connected by an atrium.

The organization of building numbers roughly corresponds to the order in which the buildings were built and their location relative ( north, west, and east ) to the original center cluster of Maclaurin buildings.

The impressive Gründerzeit suburbs north of the city, called the Nordfront, were destroyed as well as the city's main street with its Baroque buildings.

The communal buildings of the area on the north side of Cooper Island ( the only occupied area of the atoll ) consist of a common cooking and dining building next to the only sea dock, and there is a kayak and scuba diving equipment storage building adjacent to this.

Further wrangles effectively brought work on the north side of Leipziger Platz to a complete stop for several years ; even now there are some " fake facades " where completed new buildings should be, while a long-running dispute over who owned the Wertheim department store site ( or had claims to the revenue from its sale by the government ), has to this day left another large gap in the central Berlin cityscape that is only now finally being redeveloped.

In 1956 a major earthquake near Amorgos island resulted in the demolishing of many buildings in the north of Santorini, leading to the desertion of many of its villages.

The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate ( called Ardoise ) roofs ; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs.

When these were analyzed and compared with samples from jasper sources around the north Atlantic area, it was found that two buildings contained only Icelandic jasper pieces, while another contained some from Greenland ; also a single piece from the east coast of Newfoundland was found.

Many of its older buildings have been renovated, and a business and commercial area is being developed into the New City Centre, expected to become the city's main administrative and business district on the north side of the Neris river.

The design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect rainwater, a low-rise hotel, and a row of office buildings along the north side of the main parking lot.

The old stone fort was demolished, and replaced by an unconventional set of army buildings on the west, and an unusual array of many round stone huts where the old fort had been: some of these circular huts are visible by the north and the southwest walls of the final stone fort.

Nearby buildings include the Dresden State Theatre to the southwest, the Haus am Zwinger to the south, the Taschenbergpalais hotel to the southeast, the west wing of the palace with its Green Vault to the east, the Altstädtische Hauptwache to the northeast, the Semper Opera to the north and the former royal stables to the northwest.

The buildings are arranged around a ward with the principal accommodation on the north side.

On the south and north sides of the promontory, there are comparatively few buildings, while, at the west end there is a sheer precipice to the sea.

Just to the north of " Kato Plateia " lie the " Palaia Anaktora " ( Παλαιά Ανάκτορα: literally " Old Palaces "): a large complex of buildings of Roman architectural style used in the past to house the King of Greece, and prior to that the British Governors of the island.

Much of the north side of what was then the " Pembroke Leys " was sold to the University and is now home to scientific buildings (" The Downing Site ").

The most dramatic alteration to the original, Tudor court however remains the Victorian amendment of the north range, which involved the demolition of the original mediaeval chapel and the construction of a new, far larger set of buildings in the 1860s.

The districts in the north and in the centre consist mainly of historical buildings, the south of the city is dominated by larger areas of newer buildings.