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Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria.
Other elements of this architecture include heavy decorative patterns, gargoyles, flying buttresses, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. Many of the most prominent Gothic revival buildings in Washington, D.C. are churches and cathedrals built from the end of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th century.
By far Pugin's most significant work in London that is arguably the most famous building of the entire Victorian era is The Palace of Westminster (1840–60), which he worked on alongside classical architect Charles Barry. The original building was a varied collection of medieval and Georgian structures which burnt down in 1834, with the ...
Arkitekturupproret – "Småland's most beautiful building" Tellushuset , or The Tellus Building in English , is a three-story-tall residential and retail building in the south-western corner along Storgatan and Föreningsgatan , it is also met by the street Stationsgatan from south-west, and is one of the few remaining buildings from Ljungby's ...
The seven Fisher brothers, who owned the automotive company Fisher Body, essentially gave architect Kahn a blank check to design and build the "most beautiful building in the world." [16] This was the Fisher Building (1927) which, with its detailed work, has been called the city's "largest art object." Its opulent three-story, barrel-vaulted ...
Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
The city now features modern buildings alongside arabesque Ottoman buildings, [citation needed] as well as Roman and Byzantine structures. Beirut is famous for a group of five columns that were discovered underground in the heart of the city in 1963, found to be a small part of a grand colonnade of Roman Berytus. [9]