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The area of the British Museum in London was again the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, known as the Great Court in 1990. It was founded by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. Court mosaic glass in the roof of Foster & Partners (architect) and the Bureau Happold (engineer), all the court and move the reading room of the British Museum in the center, now a museum. It is the largest covers an area of Europe. The glass ceiling is made of steel and 1656 pairs of windows , each with a unique way because of the hilly nature of the roof.

Hagia Sophia (Church of) Holy Wisdom, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, a former Eastern Orthodox church into a mosque in 1453 on the islands of Turks and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey. It has traditionally been regarded as one of the great historic buildings. His conquest of the empire in the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the greatest tragedies of Christianity in the Greek Orthodox faithful.
The name comes from the Greek names Ἁγία Σοφία, compression Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, in the sense of “Holy Wisdom of God.” He is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although sometimes referred to as “Santa Sofia” in English is not the name on behalf of St. Sophia – the Greek word Sophia means “wisdom”.

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí challenge to the rigid geometry in the development of Casa Mila, Barcelona. Casa Mila in Barcelona this house with a touch of fantasy. Corrugated walls seem to volnistym and comic series of chimney stacks dance around the roof. “The straight line belongs to the people, the curve to God,” said Gaudi.

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Ponte Vecchio is a medieval bridge over the River Arno. Indeed, it is much more than a bridge – this street markets, as well as a milestone in Florence, Italy.

Ponte Vecchio that we know today, was in 1345 by Taddeo Gaddi after more than age was destroyed in the floods. To finance the bridge, many along the street were rented to traders, especially butchers and tanners to Hok their products.

In 1565, Duke Cosimo I de Medici ordered the architect Giorgio Vasari described the construction of the roof of the corridor. Shortly thereafter, jewelers, silversmiths and traders of luxury prompted butcher of the Ponte Vecchio. Centuries of random additions gave the bridge of the distinctive, irregular appearance today.

During World War II, companies, many of the floods, the bridges facing the most serious threat: German bombers were to blow up a bridge in Florence. There is a direct order from Hitler that spared Ponte Vecchio from certain destruction.

This suggests that the word “bankruptcy” came from Ponte Vecchio. If the trader does not pay its debts, the table (the “Bank”) to sell its product has been broken ( “art”) by soldiers. You do not have images ( “bancorotto”), means that the seller is in bankruptcy.

Pantheon (Pantheon Latin infrequently Pantheum , Pantheion from Greek, means “haven for all the gods”) is a building in Rome, which was originally built as a temple of the seven gods of the seven planets in the state religion of ancient Rome, but it was Christian Church from 7 century. This is the best preserved of all Roman buildings and the oldest building in the world with its original roof intact. He has been in continuous use throughout its history. Although the identity Pantheon chief architect remains uncertain, largely due to Apollodorus of Damascus.