Tag: Building
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The Shard
The Shard is a 95 storey skyscraper in Southwark, London. standing at 309.6 meters high, the Shard is also the tallest construction in the United Kingdom, the 4th tallest building in Europe as well as the 105th tallest building on Earth. Renzo Piano, the project’s architect, made the Shard as a spire like sculpture appearing…
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Casa Milà
Apartment block constructed among 1906 and 1910 in Barcelona for the Milà circle of relatives. The façade is an outstanding wave-like mass of rough-shipped stone. The home windows and doorways seem to be dug out of this stone mass and are trimmed in exquisitely crafted wrought iron work with vegetal forms at the balconies and…
