Amazing World

Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center

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Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center

watch the amazing places from the space.

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Amazing places to see

Erwin Wurm: House Attack.

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House Attack, is located in Viena, Austria.

Lotus Temple

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The Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple due to its flowerlike shape.It was completed in 1986.

The Ryugyong Hotel

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The Ryugyong Hotel is located in North Korea. The Ryugyong Hotel is a skyscraper intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea.Construction began in 1987 and ceased in 1992, due to the government's financial difficulties. The unfinished hotel remained untouched until April 2008, when construction resumed after being inactive for 16 years.

Calakmul building,The Washing Mashine .

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Dancing House

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The Dancing House is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in Czech Republic.The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.

Wonderworks

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Wonderworks, located in Pigeon Forge, TN, United States. is an amusement park.....

Kansas City Public Library

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Kansas City Public Library is located in Kansas City.Founded in 1873, it is the oldest and third largest public library system in the metropolitan Kansas City area.

The Basket Building

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The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

Transamerica Pyramid

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The iconic Transamerica Pyramid is to the San Francisco skyline what the Eiffel Tower and Space Needle are to Paris and Seattle: Instantly recognizable symbols on the cities they tower over. he shape of the building was chosen because its tapered design casts a smaller shadow and allows more natural light to filter down to the streets below than conventional high-rises.

Space Needle

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Like the Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle was built for the World’s Fair. A space-age structure was chosen to go along with the 1962 fair’s theme, Century 21.There are 848 steps from the bottom of the basement to the top of the Observation Deck.The foundation weighs 5,850 tons and there are 250 tons of reinforcing steel in the foundation.The Needle weighs alone 3,700 tons.The center of gravity for the Space Needle is 5 feet above the ground.The Space Needle is fastened to its foundation with 72 bolts, each 30 feet in length.The Space Needle is 605 feet high and 138 feet wide at its widest point.It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour.

Shibam

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It is known as “the oldest skyscraper city in the world” and “the Manhattan of the Desert.” Shibam is an ancient walled city of five- to nine-story mud brick towers that date back to the 16th Century. They were built to resist attacks by Bedouin invaders who coveted the city’s stores of frankincense and myrrh.

Willis Tower

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Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper inChicago, Illinois.At the time of its completion in 1973 it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York. Currently, Willis Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

Seagram Building

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The Seagram Building is a skyscraper in New York City, located at 375 Park Avenue, between52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan.It is 516 feet tall with 38 stories.It was the world’s most expensive building upon completion because of the materials used and the architect’s decision to sacrifice rentable office space in favor of building a large plaza at the building’s base.

Russ Building

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The first building in San Francisco to have an indoor parking garage, the Russ Building was the tallest building in that city from 1927 to 1964. It has such a prominent place in the heart of the city’s financial district that for years it was known simply as “the skyscraper.” The neo-Gothic structure is a California State Historic Landmark. It’s known for its exquisite interior of granite floors and marble wainscoting.

Puerto de Europa

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Standing astride the Paseo de la Castellana,these twin towers are the world’s first leaning high-rise buildings. To distinguish the two buildings, the helipad on the roof of Tower I is blue, while the helipad on Tower II is red. The first building is also a centimeter taller than the second.

Hearst Tower

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Hearst Tower in New York City, New York is located at 300 West 57th Street, 959 8th Avenue, near Columbus Circle. It is the world headquarters of the Hearst Corporation, bringing together for the first time their numerous publications and communications companies under one roof, including among others Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Burj Al Arab

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The Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At 321 m (1,050 ft), it is the second tallest building in the world used exclusively as a hotel.The Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic structure, designed to symbolize Dubai's urban transformation and to mimic the sail of a boat. It is the arguably the most famous building in The United Arab Emirates.

Bank of China Tower

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The Bank of China Tower is one of the most recognisableskyscrapers in Central, Hong Kong. It houses the headquarters for the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island.

Baiyoke Tower II

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The Baiyoke Tower II, located on 222 Rajprarop Road in the Ratchathewi district of Bangkok,Thailand, is the country's tallest building. It contains the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel inSoutheast Asia and the third-tallest all-hotel structure in the world, with 673 guest rooms.

AT&T Building Nashville

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The AT&T Building is a 630.5 ft (192 m), 32-story skyscraper completed in August 1994 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. The structure is designed as an office tower capable of housing 2,000 workers and as of 2008 is occupied by two companies. It is currently the tallest building in the state of Tennessee.

Kingdom Centre

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Kingdom Centre also called Burj Al-Mamlaka is a supertall skyscraper located in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.It is the 45th tallest building in the world with a height of 311 m (1,020 ft). It is also host to the highest mosque in the world. The Tower Contains a total of 43 floors excluding the 4 levels of basement.Besides the shopping mall, the Centre includes the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh and state-of-the-art apartments. The 100 meter long skybridge atop the skyscraper, at a height of 297 meters, contains a public observation deck and a view of the entire city of Riyadh.

Al Faisaliyah Center

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The Al Faisaliyah Center is a commercial skyscraper located in the business district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Immediately below it an outside viewing deck; at ground level, there is a shopping center with major world brands. The Al Faisaliyah Center is about 267 meters high and consists of 44 floors.The 4 corner beams of the al faisaliyah centre join at the top above a golden ball. The design is said to be based on that of a ballpoint pen. Inside the golden ball is a luxury revolving restaurant. There is a clear view of Saudi Arabia's other skyscraper, the Kingdom Centre, from the Al Faisaliyah Center and the two buildings create a silhouetted skyline in the evening.

2 Prudential Plaza

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Two Prudential Plaza is a skyscraper that was built in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago,Illinois, United States in 1990. At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is currently the fifth-tallest building in Chicago and the eleventh tallest in the United States. It has also been honored with 8 awards, including winning the Best Structure Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois in 1995.