Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973.
The statue weighs 635 metric tons, and is located at the peak of the 700-metre Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin within Mitte, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz.
It is the tallest brick building in the world, with a steel structure.
Construction of the [answer] began in 2004, with the exterior completed 5 years later in 2009.
It is 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) tall and weighs 175 kilograms (385 lb).
Its nine 18 m (60 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, it is 605 ft (184 m) high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 tons.
Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its shape.
Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.
Approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 72,735 square metres (782,910 square feet).
When completed in 1859, it was, says clockmaker Ian Westworth, “the prince of timekeepers: the biggest, most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world.”
The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight.
The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States.
It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to [answer] during the Night Journey.
It is considered by Muslims to be the bayt Allāh, the 'House of God', and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism.
The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931.
The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge built 1158–1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342.
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