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The building could be placed on concrete, on pilings, or directly on the ground with a wood floor. The original design used low-grade steel, which was later replaced by a more rust-resistant version. The flexible interior space was open, allowing use as barracks, latrines, medical and dental offices, isolation wards, housing, and bakeries.
Home Office Building. 2 Marsham Street is an office building on Marsham Street in the City of Westminster, London, and headquarters of the Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (and its predecessor bodies), departments of the British Government, since March 2005. Before this date the Home Office was located at 50 ...
The New York Life Building was designed with Gothic Revival details similar to Gilbert's previous commissions, including 90 West Street and the Woolworth Building. The tower is 615 feet (187 m) tall (the equivalent of forty stories), consisting of 34 office stories topped by a pyramidal, gilded six-story roof.
Jaffray Woodriff has been honored with a U.S. Squash Special Recognition Award for his leadership and substantial contributions to the sport of squash in the U.S.A. The building of the University of Virginia's McArthur Squash Center at Boar's Head Sports Club, where the U.S. Squash Championships was held, was made possible by donating $12.4 million from the Quantitative Foundation, where ...
The Tower at PNC Plaza is a 33-story skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the corporate headquarters of the PNC Financial Services Group and has approximately 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2), standing 33 stories (545 feet) tall. [2][3] Nearby buildings totaling 37,000 square feet (3,400 m 2), were purchased by PNC and deconstructed to ...
Austin J. Tobin Plaza. v. t. e. 7 World Trade Center (7 WTC, WTC-7, or Tower 7), colloquially known as Building 7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, was an office building constructed as part of the original World Trade Center Complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The tower was located on a city block bounded by West Broadway, Vesey Street ...
Barbara Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1930 [10] [notes 1] in Woolwich, London, the daughter of Jack Quant and Mildred Jones.Her parents, who both came from Welsh mining families, had received scholarships to a grammar school and had been awarded first-class honours degrees at Cardiff University before moving to London to work as schoolteachers.
1936; 88 years ago (1936) Technical details. Floor count. 9. Design and construction. Architect (s) Guy Morgan and Partners. Florin Court is an Art Deco / Streamline Moderne Grade II residential building on the eastern side of Charterhouse Square in Smithfield, London.