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Guild houses along the Lys River in Ghent, Belgium.
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Night view of the Opera House and new business quarter, Oslo, Norway.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's House, Weimar,Germany; photocrom print published between 1890-1900.
5 Historically Significant Houses in Germany
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, designed by the Japanese architecture firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) and opened in 2007. Attached to the facade is Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's sculpture installation Hell, Yes! (2001)
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The Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, rises 79 feet (24 meters) above the plaza at Chichen Itza in Yucatan state, Mexico. The pyramid was built after invaders conquered the ancient Maya city in the tenth century.
What’s Inside the Pyramid at Chichén Itzá?
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
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Also Known As Hector-Germain Guimard
Born March 10, 1867 • Lyon • France
Died May 20, 1942 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Art Nouveau

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Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
Antoni Gaudí: Sagrada Família
Antoni Gaudí
Spanish architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
Germain Boffrand
French architect
Les Invalides, Paris
Libéral Bruant
French architect
Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect
Prouvé, Jean: prefabricated gas station
Jean Prouvé
French engineer
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov
Russian architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect

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