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The Clarion Hotel Post is a hotel and conference facility at Drottningtorget in central Gothenburg, Sweden. Designed by Semrén & Månsson, the hotel was built in the former Posthuset (post office building) of Gothenburg, with the addition of a modern tower. It opened on 26 January 2012. The hotel is owned by the Swedish firm Home Properties ...
The hotel was financed and built by Oslo Municipality to accommodate the 1952 Winter Olympics. [1] [2] At the time of its formal opening on December 10, 1951, it was the largest hotel in Scandinavia. Today, the hotel remains one of the largest in Norway, with 810 rooms and 24 conference rooms, and is now owned by Strawberry. The hotel has been ...
[93] [94] [95] The Clarion's hotel tower was demolished by implosion on February 10, 2015, shortly before 3 a.m. [96] It was the first hotel-casino in Las Vegas to be imploded since the New Frontier in 2007. [91] [97] The Clarion implosion did not go as planned; an elevator shaft on the tower's west side was left standing afterward. Debris from ...
In 1963, a 7-Eleven store near an Austin, Texas, university began to stay open all night for student shoppers. It was such a success that other stores in the chain adopted the 24/7 hours, and ...
During 1994 the company signed a franchise agreement with Choice Hotels International that gave them the right to market its hotels as Comfort, Clarion and Quality hotels. The company was listed at the Oslo stock exchange in 1997, but was lifted in 2005 when Home Invest (owned by business man Petter Stordalen) bought 100% of the stock.
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet Sept. 7, 2023.
A 7-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old brother inside a truck parked in a California shopping center, authorities said.. On Monday, just before 4 p.m. local time, the boy ...
The Clayton Hotel in Limerick City is a 4 star hotel [3] and is currently Ireland's tallest hotel. [3] It rises 187 ft above Limerick making it the 2nd tallest building in Limerick after Riverpoint and the 13th tallest storied building on the island of Ireland. The hotel has 158 riverside rooms, 3 suites and a penthouse.