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  2. List of tallest freestanding structures - Wikipedia

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    Demolished on 3 December 2006. Tallest free-standing structure ever demolished in a controlled manner. The Marina Torch: 336.1 1,105 2011 Skyscraper Residential United Arab Emirates Dubai Damaged by fire in 2015. Wilshire Grand Center: 336 1,102 2017 Skyscraper Office / Hotel United States Los Angeles

  3. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    An office building in Accra, Ghana. Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2] Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories) Mid-rise (7–25 stories) High-rise (more than 25 stories), including skyscrapers (over 40 stories) Office buildings by quality [3] [4]

  4. Byzantine architecture - Wikipedia

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    The style continued to be based on arches, vaults and domes, often on a large scale. Wall mosaics with gold backgrounds became standard for the grandest buildings, with frescos a cheaper alternative. The richest interiors were finished with thin plates of marble or coloured and patterned stone. Some of the columns were also made of marble.

  5. How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing ...

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    NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today ...

  6. Will All New Federal Buildings Look Like Ancient Rome Now? - AOL

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    It, too, stipulated that federal buildings should be "beautiful," with priority given to classical and traditional styles that are "visual embodiment[s] of America's ideals."

  7. List of visionary tall buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of buildings and other structures that have been envisioned. The X-Seed 4000 is one of the tallest structures ever conceived. Shown in this image is the Burj Khalifa (828 m (2,717 ft)), tallest structure in the world at the time of completion in 2010 to this year (2025), and the X-Seed 4000 project (4,000 m (13,000 ft)).

  8. Novelty architecture - Wikipedia

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    Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip in the form of novelty architecture include the pyramid-shaped Luxor Hotel and the New York-New York Hotel & Casino, a building designed to look like the New York City skyline; Paris Las Vegas whose front suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre; and Excalibur Hotel and Casino (1990), with its stylized ...

  9. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...