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Pagadian City Rotunda View Deck Tower Musical Dancing Fountain in Plaza Luz, Pagadian City The Pagadian Rotunda is a roundabout and circular park that overlooks Illana Bay where the North Diversion Road and F.S. Pajares Avenue converges, two of the three major roads in the city center (the third one being Rizal Avenue).
English: It is a park located in the middle of Pagadian city Rotunda Circular Highway. Date: ... Uploaded while editing "Pagadian" on en.wikipedia.org:
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A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It may also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. ).
Rotunda (geometry), a family of dihedral-symmetric polyhedra with alternating pentagons and triangles around an axis; Rotunda (script), a specific medieval blackletter script; Rotunda radicals, or Rotundists, London radical reformers who gathered around the Blackfriars Rotunda in the 1830s; A localized term for a traffic roundabout
The Doors of the Roman Pantheon are the main entrance bronze doors to the rotunda of the Roman Pantheon. As a monument of applied arts, the exact date of their creation has remained open to speculation for centuries, with scholars attempting to determine the age of the doors and whether they are contemporaneous with the Pantheon.
Dating from the 2nd century, it is an unreinforced concrete dome 43.4 meters (142 ft) wide resting on a circular wall, or rotunda, 6 meters (20 ft) thick. This rotunda, made of brick-faced concrete, contains a large number of relieving arches and voids. Seven interior niches and the entrance way divide the wall structurally into eight virtually ...
The rotunda was designed in the neoclassical style and was intended to evoke the design of the Pantheon. [1] The sandstone rotunda walls rise 48 feet (15 m) above the floor; everything above this—the Capitol dome–was designed in 1854 by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol. Walter had also designed the Capitol's north and ...