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| x Residential | 199 New Montgomery | ||
| Millennium Tower | |||
| One Rincon Hill South Tower | |||
| One Rincon Hill North Tower | |||
| Steiner House | |||
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| x Office | Gap Headquarters | ||
| 53 State Street | |||
| Ernst & Young Tower | |||
| Bay Wellington Tower | |||
| Two World Financial Center | |||
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| x Home |
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Glass House |
A home is a place of residence or refuge and comfort. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food....
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| Bill Gates' house | |||
| Pardee Home | |||
| Royal Observatory, Greenwich | |||
| Smith Estate | |||
| x Museum |
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Milwaukee Art Museum |
A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the...
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| Kiasma, Helsinki | |||
| Mole Antonelliana | |||
| National Palace Museum | |||
| Mwalimu Nyerere Museum Centre | |||
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| x School |
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DeLand Hall |
A school (from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure", and also "that in which leisure is employed", "school"), is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most...
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| Mayfield School | |||
| Lyndhurst | |||
| x University |
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William Gates Computer Science Building |
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin...
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| DeLand Hall | |||
| Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | |||
| x Temple |
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Parthenon |
A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A ‘’templum’’ constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same...
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| Wat Manolom | |||
| Kinkaku-ji | |||
| Erechtheum | |||
| x Warehouse |
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Yates |
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns....
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| Factor | |||
| Amar | |||
| Hill | |||
| Sierra Pine | |||
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| x Lot |
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Rio Vista |
In real estate, a lot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A lot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in other countries...
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| x Industrial | Peppertree | ||
| Yates | |||
| Hathaway I | |||
| Westcore Miramar | |||
| Factor | |||
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| x Retail Center | Main Street Marketplace | ||
| Coronado | |||
| Butterfield Valley Village | |||
| Riverside Plaza | |||
| Hillcrest | |||
| x Manufacturing | 780 Shiloh Road | ||
| Stafford | |||
| Baldwin Park | |||
| x Retail | Corona Plaza | ||
| Sears | |||
| Vons Poway (Leasehold Purchase) | |||
| 350 University | |||
| L.A. Fitness | |||
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| x Lab | William Gates Computer Science Building | ||
| Fremont Business Center | |||
| x Office Tower | Southfield | ||
| Two Commodore Plaza | |||
| 800 Brazos | |||
| Terminal Tower | |||
| Transamerica Pyramid | |||
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| x R&D | Peppertree | ||
| Remec | |||
| Mission Falls Business Park | |||
| Westcore Miramar | |||
| Westcore Pacific Center | |||
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| x Distribution | Hathaway I | ||
| Amar | |||
| WDC - Stafford | |||
| WDC - Amar | |||
| WDC - Gale | |||
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| x Land | North County Industrial Park | ||
| Airport Centre (Lot 12) | |||
| x Mixed-use |
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One Beale |
Mixed-use development is the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings. In planning zone terms, this can mean some combination of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional, or other land uses....
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| Sky Tower Dubai | |||
| Terminal Tower | |||
| Project City Center | |||
| x Religion |
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A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life...
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| x Soccer-specific stadium |
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Wildparkstadion |
Soccer-specific stadium (or football-specific stadium) is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada, coined by Lamar Hunt, to refer to a sports stadium whose primary purpose is to host association football matches. A SSS may host other...
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| Stanley Park Stadium | |||
| x Church |
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St. Peters Roman Catholic Church |
A church building is a building or structure whose primary purpose is to facilitate the meeting of a church. Originally, Christians met in synagogues and in one another's homes. As Christianity grew and became more accepted by governments, rooms,...
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| The Class of 1959 Chapel | |||
| Santa Maria sopra Minerva | |||
| San Nicola in Carcere | |||
| Santa Bibiana | |||
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| x Commercial | Empire State Building | ||
| Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II | |||
| Millennium Tower, Vienna | |||
| Bank of America Center | |||
| x Business school |
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Tanaka Business School |
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
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| x Observation tower |
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Eiffel Tower |
An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision. They are usually at least 20 metres (65.6 ft) tall and made from stone, iron, and wood. Many modern towers are also used as...
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| Washington Monument | |||
| Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower | |||
| Sears Tower | |||
| x FM broadcasting |
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Eiffel Tower |
FM broadcasting is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation (FM) to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio.
The term ‘FM band’ is effectively shorthand for ‘frequency band in which FM is used...
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| x Library |
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Library of Parliament |
A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a...
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| Library of Congress | |||
| British Library | |||
| Bibliotheca Alexandrina | |||
| University of Idaho Law Library | |||
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| x Swimming pool |
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Leeds International Pool |
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest and deepest is the Olympic size. A pool can be built...
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| John Smeaton leisure centre | |||
| Royal Commonwealth Pool | |||
| x Athletics |
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Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping. The name "athletics" is derived from the Greek word "athlos", meaning "contest".
The original and...
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| x Thermae |
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Baths of Caracalla |
The terms balnea or thermae were the words the ancient Romans used for the buildings housing their public baths.
Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings, which were centers of public bathing and socialization. Baths were...
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| Baths of Diocletian | |||
| Baths of Trajan | |||
| Baths of Constantine | |||
| Baths of Agrippa | |||
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| x Lighthouse |
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Raffles Lighthouse |
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to pilots at sea.
Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines,...
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| x Theatre |
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Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow |
A theater (US) or theatre (UK, also a playhouse) is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be given. While a theater is not required for performance (as in environmental theater...
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| Teatro alla Scala | |||
| Teatro Massimo, Palermo | |||
| Teatro Regio di Torino | |||
| Finnish National Theatre | |||
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| x Train station |
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Terminal Tower |
A railway station, train station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight (or goods) may be loaded or unloaded. Historically, the term (railroad) depot has...
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| Flinders Street Station | |||
| North Philadelphia station | |||
| München Hauptbahnhof | |||
| Moskovsky Rail Terminal | |||
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| x Shopping mall |
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Toronto Eaton Centre |
A shopping mall, shopping center, or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings which contain retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit.
Strip malls have developed since the 1920s,...
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| Terminal Tower | |||
| The Mall Athens | |||
| The Boulevard, Emirates Towers | |||
| Mall of the Emirates | |||
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| x Cathedral |
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Cologne Cathedral |
A cathedral (Lat. cathedra, "seat") is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a religious building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and some...
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| Basilica of San Gaudenzio | |||
| Guildford Cathedral | |||
| Verona Cathedral | |||
| Duomo di Milano | |||
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| x Tomb |
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Newgrange |
For the New York prison see The Tombs.
A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a...
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| Zhaoling | |||
| x Music library | Library of Congress |
A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Collections may also include non-print materials, such as digitized music scores or audio recordings. Use of such materials may be limited to specific patron groups, especially in...
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| Charles H. Mills Music Library | |||
| x Bell tower |
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Leaning Tower of Pisa |
A bell tower (also belfry) is a tower which contains one or more bells, or which is designed to hold bells, even if it has none. In the European tradition, such a tower most commonly serves as part of a church and contains church bells. When...
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| Bell Tower, San Nicola, Pisa | |||
| Giotto's Bell Tower | |||
| Ivan the Great Bell Tower | |||
| San Marco Campanile | |||
| x Palace |
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Palace of Versailles |
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word itself is derived from the Latin name Palātium, for Palatine Hill, one of the...
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| Hofburg Imperial Palace | |||
| Schönbrunn Palace | |||
| Buckingham Palace | |||
| Winter Palace | |||
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| x Castle |
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Neuschwanstein Castle |
A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in...
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| Castello Sforzesco | |||
| Windsor Castle | |||
| Prague Castle | |||
| Castelvecchio | |||
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| x Roadhouse | Washoe House | ||
| x All-Ages Club | Phoenix Theater | ||
| x Movie theater |
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Phoenix Theater |
A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ("movies" or "films").
Most movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by...
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| Capitol Cinema | |||
| Stanley Theatre | |||
| Standalone movie theaters of the Philippines | |||
| Broadway Cinematheque | |||
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| x Market |
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West Side Market |
A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy. It is an arrangement that allows buyers...
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| x Mausoleum |
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Taj Mahal |
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...
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| Castel Sant'Angelo | |||
| Mausoleum of Theodoric | |||
| Lenin's Mausoleum | |||
| Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii | |||
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| x Music venue |
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The 2 I's Coffee Bar |
A music venue is any location regularly used for a concert or musical performance. Music venues range in size and location, from an outdoor bandshell or bandstand to an indoor sports stadium. Typically, different types of venues host different...
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| London Astoria | |||
| Astoria 2 | |||
| London Forum | |||
| Queen Elizabeth Hall | |||
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| x College |
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St Catherine's College, Oxford |
College (Latin: collegium) is a term most often used today to denote degree awarding tertiary educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College...
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| Emmanuel College, Cambridge | |||
| x Theme Park | Ferrari World | ||
| x Embassy | British Embassy in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Embassy of Mexico in London | |||
| Embassy of Germany in London | |||
| Embassy of Serbia in London | |||
| Embassy of Switzerland in London | |||
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| x Hospital |
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Hospital, Woolwich |
A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays.
Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, by health organizations,...
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| Manipal Teaching Hospital | |||
| Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital | |||
| Patan Hospital | |||
| Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital | |||
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| x Dormitory |
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Blue Boar Quadrangle |
Dormitory in the United States typically refers to residence halls, which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university...
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| Farnham Hall | |||
| Welch Hall | |||
| Lanman-Wright Hall | |||
| Bingham Hall | |||
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| x Hostel |
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YMCA Building, Barbican Estate |
Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed, sometimes a bunk bed, in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex, although private rooms may also be...
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| x Abbey |
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Ottobeuren Abbey |
An abbey (from Latin abbatia, derived from Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community. The term can also refer to an...
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| Dryburgh Abbey | |||
| x Monastery |
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Valaam Monastery |
Monastery (plural: monasteries), a term derived from the Greek word μοναστήριον, neut. of μοναστήριος - monasterios (from μονάζειν - monazein, "to live alone") denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e...
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| Smolny Convent | |||
| Mafra National Palace | |||
| Songzanlin Monastery | |||
| x Mosque |
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Hassan II Mosque |
A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid, Arabic: مسجد — Arabic pronunciation: [ˈmæsdʒɪd] (pl. masājid, Arabic: مساجد — [mæˈsæːdʒɪd]). The word "mosque" in English refers...
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| Koutoubia Mosque | |||
| Tin Mal Mosque | |||
| Sultan Ahmed Mosque | |||
| Faisal Mosque | |||
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| x Place of worship |
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St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne |
A place of worship or house of worship is a building or other location where a group of people (a congregation) comes to perform acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion. The form and function of religious architecture has evolved over...
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| St. Paul's Cathedral | |||
| Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo | |||
| Angkor Wat | |||
| Notre Dame de Paris | |||
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| x Casino |
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Newport Casino |
A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist...
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| The Mirage | |||
| Casino Velden | |||
| Monte Carlo Casino | |||
| x Public Museum | Pardee Home | ||
| x Wat |
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Wat Xieng Thong |
A wat (derived from the Sanskrit word Vattaka) is a monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, Lanna or Laos. The word "wat" (Khmer: វត្ត, Thai: วัด, sometimes rendered "vat" when referring to Laos) means "school." Strictly speaking a wat is a Buddhist...
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| Wat Phou | |||
| x Fortification |
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Château d'If |
Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs. The term is derived from...
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| Kilgore Fort House | |||
| Habsburg castle | |||
