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Pontiac Silverdome - Detroit
The Pontiac Silverdome. An entertainment center for all seasons...and all events. The 80,311 seat dome, home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions, has hosted record-breaking crowds for everything from football games to musical concerts. In between professional, college, and high school football games and musical concerts of all types - rock, country and western, and popular - crowds enjoy motorcycle racing, truck and tractor pulls, off-road car and truck racing, carnivals, wrestling, religious gatherings, trade/consumer shows, NCAA basketball tournaments, banquets on the playing field and ""Ride N Drive"" events in the 100+ acre parking lot.
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Pontiac Silverdome - Detroit
The Pontiac Silverdome. An entertainment center for all seasons...and all events. The 80,311 seat dome, home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions, has hosted record-breaking crowds for everything from football games to musical concerts. In between professional, college, and high school football games and musical concerts of all types - rock, country and western, and popular - crowds enjoy motorcycle racing, truck and tractor pulls, off-road car and truck racing, carnivals, wrestling, religious gatherings, trade/consumer shows, NCAA basketball tournaments, banquets on the playing field and ""Ride N Drive"" events in the 100+ acre parking lot.
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Queen's University Belfast - Belfast
Queen's University Belfast. Queen's University Belfast, with its mellow brickwork and Tudor cloister. It was built in 1849 by Charles Lanyon who designed more fine buildings in Belfast than anyone before or since. The university area is full of charming Edwardian terraces with magnolia trees in their front gardens.
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Riding School - Vienna - Austria
Is the oldest and last Riding School in the world where classic dressage is still practised in its purest form. This Institute was founded in 1572 and its very name gives away the fact that the horses were of Spanish origin. The superb arena - the Winter Riding School in the Vienna Hofburg (Imperial Palace) in which the Riders of the Spanish Riding School train the horses and where they perform was commissioned by Emperor Karl VI. His portrait decorates the white baroque hall built by Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from 1729 to 1735. Since 1920 the presentations of classical dressage have been open to the public.
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Rockefeller Center - New York
Rockefeller Center is an art deco marvel consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering 11 acres in midtown Manhattan from 49th to 52nd Streets, Fifth to Seventh Avenues. Named after the multi-millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928.
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Rockefeller Centre - New York
Rockefeller Center is an art deco marvel consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering 11 acres in midtown Manhattan from 49th to 52nd Streets, Fifth to Seventh Avenues. Named after the multi-millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928.
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Rookery Building - Chicago
Rookery Building. The powerful exterior of this building, which is softened by lively ornament detailed by architect John Root, typifies the lingering picturesque attitudes toward commercial architecture still prevalent in the 1880s. A transitional structure in the evolution of modern architecture, the Rookery Building employs both masonry wall-bearing and skeletal frame construction techniques. It takes its name from a temporary City Hall and water tank that stood on the site following the Fire of 1871. A favorite roost for pigeons, these structures were referred to as ""the rookery."" When Frank Lloyd Wright remodeled the Rookery's large skylit lobby in 1905, he introduced elements characteristic of his Prairie School designs.
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Saarinen House - Detroit
Saarinen HouseOf the three proposed institutions, the academy was foremost in George Booth's mind. On a trip to Europe in 1922, the Booths had visited the American Academy in Rome. Deeply impressed by the quality and strengths of that institution, he returned home hopeful that a comparable academy of arts could be established at Cranbrook. To help him formalize his ideas, he approached Eliel Saarinen, a visiting professor of architectural design at the University of Michigan, at the suggestion of his youngest son, Henry, a student of Saarinen's. Whereas the plans for the Cranbrook Academy of Art that Saarinen presented to Booth were far too ambitious to be seriously acted upon, Booth did recognize that Saarinen possessed many of the qualities that he was searching for in an architect. Booth authorized Saarinen to serve as design consultant to the building erected to house the Cranbrook Architectural Office in 1925 and to develop plans for the construction of Cranbrook School for boys. Satisfied that he could work successfully with the Finnish architect, Booth invited Saarinen to come to Cranbrook and head the architectural activity that was poised to commence under terms of a new trust created by the Booths in 1927, the Cranbrook Foundation.
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Saarinen House - Detroit
Saarinen HouseOf the three proposed institutions, the academy was foremost in George Booth's mind. On a trip to Europe in 1922, the Booths had visited the American Academy in Rome. Deeply impressed by the quality and strengths of that institution, he returned home hopeful that a comparable academy of arts could be established at Cranbrook. To help him formalize his ideas, he approached Eliel Saarinen, a visiting professor of architectural design at the University of Michigan, at the suggestion of his youngest son, Henry, a student of Saarinen's. Whereas the plans for the Cranbrook Academy of Art that Saarinen presented to Booth were far too ambitious to be seriously acted upon, Booth did recognize that Saarinen possessed many of the qualities that he was searching for in an architect. Booth authorized Saarinen to serve as design consultant to the building erected to house the Cranbrook Architectural Office in 1925 and to develop plans for the construction of Cranbrook School for boys. Satisfied that he could work successfully with the Finnish architect, Booth invited Saarinen to come to Cranbrook and head the architectural activity that was poised to commence under terms of a new trust created by the Booths in 1927, the Cranbrook Foundation.
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Stone Stelae Garden - Clarity Pond - Hanoi - Vietnam
Temple of LiteratureOriginally built in 1070 in the Ly dynasty, the temple is a shrine to Confucius and his disciples responsible for spreading his teachings. Six years later, Quoc Tu Giam or School for the sons of the Nation was established for the princes. The school later admitted sons of mandarins and finally commoners were allowed to attend but, only after they passed a rigorous examination at the regional level. In 1484, Van Mieu became a place to memorialize the most brilliant scholars of the nation.
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