Church of Saint Demetrius, Budapest

The Church of Saint Demetrius or the Church of the Holy Trinity (, ) was a Serbian Orthodox church in Budapest, Hungary, located in the Tabán area. It was built between 1742 and 1751 in Central European Baroque style by the Serbian community of Buda, and served as the co-cathedral of the Eparchy of Buda. The building was seriously damaged in the siege of Budapest in 1945, and the ruins were demolished in 1949.
History.
Establishment and early history.
The first group of Serbian refugees arrived at Buda in the first half of November 1690. They belonged to the Great Migration of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Empire led by Arsenije III Crnojević, the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch. The Cameral Administration of Buda resettled almost 600 families in the part of the Lower Town between Castle Hill and Gellért Hill which had been destroyed during the siege of Buda in 1686. The new neighbourhood was called Tabán, or officially Ratzenstadt (Rácváros), i.e. the "town of the Serbs". The first census in 1696 found more than 1000 Serbian families in the Tabán (about 5000 people). The majority of the new settlers followed the Orthodox faith: 461 of the taxpayer heads of families belonged to the Serbian Orthodox Church and 250 were Catholics in 1702.
As the former Ottoman mosque of Pasha Sokollu Mustafa was converted into a Catholic church, the Serbs built their own temporary chapel nearby. Construction of a permanent church dedicated to Saint Demetrius began shortly after the Cameral Administration issued a permit on 23 September 1697. It was consecrated in 1698 by Arsenije III Crnojević although the tower was only added in 1716. The Tabán parish had a stavropegial status being directly under the jurisdiction the Patriarch. During the 18th century the Serbian community increased in number and wealth, and established its own institutions.
Due to the frequent floods of the Danube, the church soon went to ruin, and in 1738 the townspeople – in consultation with the Bishop of Buda, Vasilije Dimitrijević – made a decision to replace it with a more durable and monumental structure. The design of the new church was entrusted to architect Ádám Mayerhoffer whose contract was signed on 29 March 1741. The parish applied for a building permit on 12 August 1741 but the Council of Buda denied it because constructing new Orthodox churches was not allowed. The Serbs claimed that the project was in fact a reconstruction because the roof was leaking badly and the wooden upper parts of the existing building created a fire hazard.
The building permit was only issued on 28 April 1742. Construction work began on 1 May 1742, and the vault and the roof of the nave was already complete on 26 November. The original plans were slightly modified in the final build. Due to a shortage of money the new church was equipped with icons salvaged from the previous building between 1745 and 1747. In 1751 Bishop Dionisije Novaković consecrated the church to the Holy Trinity but a chapel on the loft was established in the honor of Saint Demetrius to carry on the tradition. The Tabán church was the largest church building in the whole Metropolitanate of Karlovci and the only one with two rows of windows.
At first the tower had a simple pyramidal roof clad with shingles but in 1775 a new copper spire was made. The richly decorated spire, designed by Mihajlo Sokolović, was one of the most beautiful Rococo church spires in Central Europe. A painted and gilt wood model was made by Joseph Leonard Weber in 1774 which still exists.
The surroundings of the church in the 18th century were narrow and cramped. In 1766 the Serbian community enlarged the churchyard and asked for a property-tax exemption arguing that the church was surrounded by "small hovels" and they could not even hold a procession. The houses in the vicinity were mainly built of wood or mudbricks. In 1769 the city block of the Serbian Orthodox church contained a house for the magistracy and the school and another for the schoolmaster and the sexton.
19th century.
The church was completely burned out in the Great Tabán Fire of 1810 which destroyed the whole district, "only its copper spire survived" as a contemporary report claimed. The reconstruction was a long process that began in 1811 and lasted until the early 1820s. The church was damaged again by the Great Flood of the Danube in 1838 when the water reached a height of 110 cm inside the building.
The surroundings of the cathedral has changed with the renewal of the area after the two disasters as a new square was created along the southern and eastern side of the church. It was called Kirchenplatz (Egyház tér) and served as the main square of the district. In this new setting the church had a narrow churchyard on the south and the east, and it was surrounded on the northern and western sides by an enclosed courtyard and smaller buildings owned by the Serbian parish.
At the end of October 1814 the three rulers of the Holy Alliance, King Francis I, King Frederick William III of Prussia and Emperor Alexander I of Russia visited Buda during the Congress of Vienna. Archduke Joseph, the Palatine of Hungary accompanied them to the Church of the Holy Trinity where the young priest, Jovan Vitković was his protégé. At 10.30am the church was full of spectators when the three rulers arrived. On the great occasion, Vitković delivered three orations: King Francis was greeted in Latin, the Emperor of Russia in Slavic and the King of Prussia in German.
The first half of the 19th century was the heyday of Serbian culture in Buda where local intellectuals established strong connections with the national awakening movement of the Hungarian Reform Era, and even took part in the literary and cultural debates of their Hungarian compatriots. They also paid attention to the national and cultural renaissance unfolding in Serbia, and were part of the Serbian enlightenment. Petar Vitković (Péter Vitkovics) was the priest of the Tabán church from 1803 until his death in 1808. He came from an old Serbian family in Eger but he left his hometown for Buda later in his life. An erudite and jovial man, and a polyglot speaking Serbian, Hungarian, German, Latin and Greek, he wrote several treatises and orations. His large personal library was destroyed in the fire of 1810. His elder son, Mihailo Vitković (Mihály Vitkovics) was a Serbian and Hungarian poet, translator and lawyer who carried an extensive correspondence with his prominent Hungarian contemporaries as well as Serbian writers and intellectuals. Mihailo's younger brother, Jovan Vitković (1785-1849) served as priest of the Tabán church after his father, and cultivated friendships with Benedek Virág, a Hungarian poet and historian living in Tabán, and Matija Petar Katančić, a Franciscan friar, pioneer archaeologist and Croatian writer. In the second half of the century Jeremija Mađarević (Jeremiás Magyarevics) served as priest of the parish from 1864 until 1896. He was loyal to the Hungarian state and was a long-standing member of the Legislative Committee of Budapest.
The housing stock of the Tabán gradually improved in the 19th century, especially after the unification of Pest and Buda in 1873 as Budapest grew into a booming modern capital during the age of the Dual Monarchy. In the late 1890s the Serbian Parish built a large new tenement house on a nearby lot which also served as the headquarters of the deanery. At the same time the church was restored in Neo-Baroque style. The urban context of the church changed fundamentally between 1898 and 1903 when the central part of the Tabán was rebuilt creating new roads and squares, demolishing the poorest quarters and even building a new bridge across the Danube.
20th century and destruction.
In 1907 the church got a new bell which was consecrated by Bishop Lukijan Bogdanović and it was first tolled on the 40th anniversary service of King Franz Joseph's coronation on 8 June. In the spring of 1916 the bells were requisitioned by the government and melted down for war uses. In 1933-1934 a large part of Tabán district was demolished by the municipality of Budapest but the church, which was still in use by the Eparchy of Buda, was preserved. The 1934 urban plan of the municipality foresaw the creation of a sunken courtyard around the church and a row of arches on the side of the planned new thoroughfare. However in the following years a new park was created on the site of the demolished district, and the excavated Tabán ruins were incorporated into the design of the green area. The last buildings around the church, including the large tenement house owned by the Serbian parish and the old parish house were demolished in 1938. In the last ten years of its existence the church was stranded in the middle of the park as almost every traces of the former Rácváros disappeared due to the large-scale demolitions. The Serbian Orthodox population in the area was also greatly reduced following these changes.
The building was seriously damaged in the siege of Budapest in 1944-45. The Rococo spire and the roof was destroyed, and parts of the vault fell down but the interior and the iconostasis survived the destruction. The liturgical objects and the paintings were saved by the last parish priest, Vujicsics Dusán (Dušan Vujičić). Although the church was not fit for use, the priest strongly opposed its demolition. In early 1946 György Zubkovics (Georgije Zubković), the Bishop of Buda asked the government for help but the municipality and the Fővárosi Közmunkatanács (Council of Public Works) was against the restoration the church. The urban planners at the time regarded the cathedral obsolete and a hindrance to the intended restructuring of the bridgehead area.
The ruined church was finally demolished in 1949. The cast iron railings of the churchyard were re-erected in the garden of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Budakalász, and a few pieces of furniture were moved by Vujicsics Dusán to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pest. The area was landscaped but a little more than ten years later it was completely restructured again when the new Elisabeth Bridge was built. In 1962 new roads and a traffic interchange was built covering the land where the cathedral had stood. In 2014 a memorial bell was erected nearby which was created by Kristóf Petrika and László Rétháti. The bell is decorated with the coat-of-arms of the Eparchy of Buda and a Serbian inscription recalling the foundation and the destruction of the former Orthodox cathedral.
Architecture.
The Church of Saint Demetrius was a freestanding, single-nave Baroque church with a single western tower and an apse in the east. The walls were built of mixed stone and bricks. The western facade was divided into three vertical sections by simple lesenes. The slightly projecting central bay had segment arched windows on three levels, the largest one on the first level was topped by a curved Baroque pediment with shell design. The side bays originally had four openings which were later replaced with false windows (these were also removed during the Neo-Baroque remodelling). The heavy cornice was supported by large projecting modillions. The western entrance was protected by an aedicular porch with two Ionic columns and a triangular pediment. The lower level of the tower was flanked by voluted gables with crosses, while the belfry on the upper level had four arched windows on each side with arched pediments and balconets. The corners were emphasized by Corinthian pilasters. The Rococo copper spire was decorated with flaming urns, rocaille ornaments and a lantern. Four turret clocks were set into the arched cornice of the tower.
The architecture of the side facades was similar with lesenes and two rows of superimposed segment arched windows. The larger windows on the lower level were topped by pediments with shell design. The southern and northern side doors had red marble frames decorated with crosses. A few old gravestones were immured into the outer walls. The facades were enriched by the Neo-Baroque remodelling with new decorative elements like the heavy cornice and the railings of the balconets.
At the time of its construction the church was located in the middle of a city block, surrounded by the institutions of the Serbian Orthodox community. The dense urban grain of the neighbourhood was gradually broken up during the 19th century and finally the area was totally cleared in the 1930s creating a wholly new spatial situation where the church became a solitary building in a park.
The nave of the cathedral was three bays long, covered with Baroque Bohemian vaults, ending with a shallow apse in the east and a preceded by a vaulted narthex on the west. The double transverse arches sprung from pairs of Corinthian half pillars which had elaborate capitals decorated with festoons. The projecting cornice was strongly articulated. The organ loft above the western narthex opened to the nave by a large triumphal arch. A similar arch on the sanctuary side framed the iconostasis which dominated the view of the interior.
The vault was decorated with frescos. In the first bay in front of the iconostasis there was God the Father standing on a celestial sphere raised by angels, and surrounded by the celestial forces arranged in nine groups. In the corners, the four evangelists were presented, together with their symbols: Matthew with an angel and Mark with a lion at his feet (northern side); John with an eagle and Luke in front of an easel, with the icon of the Virgin on it (the southern side). This was painted by Arsenije Teodorović in 1818, and the composition was similar to his previous work in the Almaška Church in Novi Sad.
Iconostasis.
The unusually large dimensions of the building presented a challenge to create a suitably large iconostasis separating the nave from the sanctuary. Due to financial difficulties the work only started a decade after the consecration of the church. On 16 July 1761 a contract was signed with Antonije Mihić, a woodcutter and carpenter from Pest. He not only created the high wooden frame of the iconostasis but also a pulpit, choir stalls on both sides of the altar for six persons, the archbishop's throne with a canopy, sixty stalls along the side walls and a tabernacle above the altar table. Mihić finished most of these works in the first half of 1764. The parish signed a contract with Vasilije Ostojić on 25 March 1764 to paint the icons.
The first iconostasis of the church is only known from descriptions but it seems that its conception strongly influenced the iconostasis of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Szentendre, painted between 1777 and 1781. The co-cathedral in Buda certainly had an outstandingly representative Baroque interior suitable to its status as one of the most important churches in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. However the Great Tabán Fire of 1810 destroyed the whole ensemble.
Second iconostasis
The wood frame of the second iconostasis was installed in 1815 after the necessary repairs of the interior had been completed. It was created by Petar Padić, a woodcarver from Eger who received the job in 1813 for 6,000 forints. Following the recommendation of the priest, Jovan Vitković, the parish board made a contract with Arsenije Teodorović on 28 May 1817 to paint 68 icons for the iconostasis and to gild their frames, together with the ornaments. He was commissioned to marble paint the proskomedia and the altar space and decorate its walls with three paintings. The first vault in front of the iconostasis was to be painted with a representation of God the Father in Majesty and the nine angelic orders. Two choir stalls were to be gilded and decorated with an icon painted on each of them. These works should have been executed "with diligent labor and all kinds of experience and skill of indefatigable care" within two years from May 1818. His remuneration was 9,000 forints in silver coins, and lodging was provided in Buda and 288 gallons of vine.
Teodorović was a renowned painter from Novi Sad who received his artistic education in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and worked in a refined Classicist style. He painted many iconostases for the Serbian Orthodox communities of the Habsburg Empire. This time he applied for the job at Jovan Vitković in a letter dated 10 April 1816 and enjoyed the confidence of both Bishop Dionisije Popović and Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović. He has also known the Vitković family from Eger where he worked on the iconostasis in 1801.
In the end, Teodorović only began to work in August 1818 and finished the larger part of the iconostasis by September 1820. A few icons were made later in his workshop in Novi Sad, and sent to Buda during the course of 1821. The contract was ended on 23 September 1821. Although he was supposed to paint the icons "with his own hands", this was an unrealistic expectation on part of the parish because Teodorović worked with many assistants, and the less important details, the gilding and the background of the paintings were always entrusted to them.
The Buda iconostasis belonged to the group of tall, richly decorated, Ukrainian-type partition screens that appeared in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci in the middle of the 18th century. The icons on the two ends and the medallions of the highest zone were concave, creating an illusionistic impression that the iconostasis extended into the space of the observer. As regards the paintings, the lack of Baroque gestures and the calmness of their style reveals the artist's aspiration towards classical simplicity. Teodorović used engravings and woodcuts of Western artists from prayer books, illustrated Bibles and painter's pattern books as models for his compositions. The icons were arranged in four zones separated by horizontal beams: the Sovereign tier (with additional icons above the lintels of the doors and on the socle), the tier of Feasts, the tier of the Apostles and the great cross surrounded with two rows of medallions depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ and half-length figures of the prophets. The arrangement of icons and the program of the iconostasis focused on the most important topics of Serbian Orthodox theology in the 18th century: God's incarnation and redemption through Christ's sacrifice. The basic structure and the arrangement of the icons was almost identical to Teodorović's previous work, the iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Virgin in Zemun.
The icons
The choice and arrangement of the icons was traditional with a few deviations. The place to the left of the Mother of God is usually dedicated to the Patronal Saint or Feast but this was replaced by an icon of Saint Nicholas. The icon of the Holy Trinity was located instead in the middle of the iconostasis in the form of a large central painting. The celestial figures of Christ, the Theotokos, Archangel Michael and Gabriel are standing on clouds while the saints were shown in real, earthly space. The small icons on the socle were narratively and symbolically connected to the icons of the Sovereign tier: under the icon of Jesus Christ there was an episode from his life, the meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well; under John the Baptist his beheading was depicted. The presence of the Old Testament prophets of Moses and Aaron the tier of the Apostles is somewhat unusual. They illustrated the idea of the high priesthood that began with them, and continued through the apostles who founded the first Christian communities, and appointed the first bishops.
After the demolition of the church, the icons and a few pieces of the wood frame were preserved by the Eparchy of Buda. From 2012 to 2017 the icons were restored, documented and researched for the first time since the dismantling of the screen. The scientific project was a cooperation between the Museum of Serbian Church Art in Szentendre, the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad and the Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments.
"Socle (from left to right)":
"Royal doors":
"Side doors":
"Sovereign tier (from left to right):"
"Above the lintels:"
"Feasts tier (from left to right):"
"Large central painting (above the Royal doors):"
"Tier of the Apostles (from left to right):"
"The Great Cross:"
"Around the Great Cross:"
"Inner row of medallions (from left to right):"
Agony in the Garden, Arrest of Jesus, Christ before Annas, Christ before Caiaphas, Christ before Herod, Christ before Pilate, Pilate Washing his Hands, Flagellation of Christ, The Crowning with Thorns, Ecce Homo, The Way of the Cross (half of the painting was lost), Jesus Falls at the Cross
"Outer row of medallions (from left to right):"
Holy Prophet Isaiah, Holy Prophet Jeremiah, Holy Prophet Ezekiel, Holy Prophet Daniel, Holy Prophet Hosea, Holy Prophet Joel, Holy Prophet Amos, Holy prophets Obadiah and Jonah, Holy Prophet Micah, Holy Prophet Nahum, Holy Prophet Habakkuk, Holy Prophet Zephaniah, Holy Prophet Haggai, Holy Prophet Zechariah, Holy Prophet Malachi
"Five more icons by Teodorović, that were not part of the iconostasis, also survived:"
King David (backs of the northern choir stalls), St. John of Damascus (backs of the southern choir stall), Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi (proscomedy), The Virgin and Child (the Virgin's throne)
The fronts of the choir stalls were also decorated with icons that depicted Saint Ignatius of Antioch (north) and Saint Romanos the Melodist (south). As they are not known today, as well as any documentation about them, it remains unknown whether they were painted by Teodorović. Unusually the pulpit, which had been destroyed by the fire, was not replaced after the reconstruction. The Eleusa icon on the Virgin's throne was signed by the painter: "Created by Arsenije Teodorović, painter and citizen of Novi Sad in 1820". The Serbs in Buda had great respect for this icon, as shown by the numerous votive offerings (silver thalers, ducats, jewels) mentioned in the church inventories.
Parish priests.
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Honiara International Airport , formerly known as Henderson Field, is an airport in the province of Guadalcanal in the nation of Solomon Islands. It is the primary international airport in the country, the second being Munda Airport in Western Province, which serves as its alternate. It is located from the capital, Honiara.
History.
The airfield was commenced by Japanese forces during World War II. In 1942, the airfield, then under construction by the Imperial Japanese Navy, was captured by the American 1st Marine Division. At that time it became the main project of the Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 6. Control of the airstrip was the focus of months of fighting in the Battle for Henderson Field during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II and the Seabees ensured that the airstrip remained operational throughout the battle. Henderson Field was named for Marine Major Lofton Henderson, commanding officer of VMSB-241, who was the first Marine aviator killed in action at the Battle of Midway while leading his squadron in an attack against Japanese carrier forces.
The field was abandoned after the war, but reopened in 1969 as an international, civilian airport. The airport routinely accommodates the Airbus A320.


Philippine School in Greece

Philippine School in Greece (PSG), formerly the Katipunan Philippine Cultural Academy-Philippine School (KAPHILCA-PSG) is a Philippine international school in Vyronas, Attica, Greece; it was previously in Ambelokipi, Athens. The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) supervises the school, which operates under the Cultural Section of the Philippine embassy in Athens. It is Europe's sole Philippine international school.
History.
It was established on September 9, 1997 and on June 29, 1999, it was accredited by the Philippine Department of Education. It was established after a visit of Fidel V. Ramos, former President of the Philippines to Athens in June 1997.
As of 2010 about 185 students are enrolled.
The Katipunan Philippines Cultural Academy (KAPHILCA) was inspired by the idea that young Filipinos overseas must never become alienated from their native land; they must know about their Filipino identity and culture, and must be given the best opportunity to learn about the Philippines and its people.
The KAPHILCA was established in 1997 to provide affordable formal education to dependents of overseas Filipino workers in Greece. It was borne of a vision shared by the Philippine Embassy in Athens, the Filipino community in Greece, and the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, with a start-up contribution from the President’s Social Fund and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
The school was accredited by the Department of Education of the Philippines on 26 October 1999. Since the school follows the curriculum prescribed by the DepEd, it enables students to be readily integrated into the Philippine school system on their return to the country, and to cultivate in them their Filipino identity and character.
Now the Philippine School in Greece is privately managed by the Board of Management headed by Mr. Manfred Nickel as the current CEO/President.
The Philippine School in Greece was established in 1997 to serve the educational needs of the children of the Filipino community in Athens. Its birth was the result of the determination of pioneering members of the Filipino community in Athens under the auspices of the Philippine Embassy in Athens.
As required under the laws of the Philippines, the school has been incorporated as a non-stock, non-profit educational corporation and is duly registered as the Philippine School in Greece, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As such, the school is governed by the Corporation Code and special laws and regulations of the Philippines.
A special set of regulations for the operation of the PSG as a private school is the Manual of Policies and Regulations, otherwise knows as MOPAR. This was drawn up by the Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) of regulatory agencies of the Philippine government, namely, the Department of Labor and Employment.
The MOPAR is amplified by the PSG Manual of Norms and Policies approved by the BOM in order to manage and operate PSG pursuant to the amended by- laws of the school corporation.
On the other hand, the school is also governed by a Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic Law No. 4186 on 17, Sept. 2013 regarding organization of private schools in Greece and by applicable regulations of concerned local authorities. In accordance with the general provisions of the said Ordinance, PSG was given permission by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to operate as a private school of the FIlipino community in Greece.
The Department of Education granted PSG the permit to operate in 1997, per Government Permit No. . Subsequently, in Oct, 2017, PSG was granted recognition by the DepEd per Government Recognition No. 2017.
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Mattequartier

The Mattequartier is a historic section in the Old City of Bern in Bern, Switzerland.
The first expansion of Bern occurred as the city was founded in 1191. The central and oldest neighbourhood was known as the "Zähringerstadt" (Zähringer town) after the founder, Duke Berthold V of Zähringen. While the Zähringerstadt grew, the area below the Zähringerstadt along the banks of the Aare river developed into the Mattequartier.
Situated in the southeast of the Aare peninsula, the "Mattequartier", together with the "Nydegg", constitute medieval Bern's smallest neighbourhoods. Workshops and mercantile activity prevailed in this area, and medieval sources tell of numerous complaints about the ceaseless and apparently nerve-wracking noise of machinery, carts and commerce. The Matte area at the riverside features three artificial channels, through which Aare water was diverted to power three city-owned watermills built in 1360. In the early 20th century, a small hydroelectric plant was built in that location. Nearby, the busy "Schiffländte" (ship landing-place) allowed for the reloading of goods transported by boat up and down the river.


Khairun University

Khairun University is an Indonesian public university in Ternate City, North Maluku. Named after a historical monarch of the Sultanate of Ternate, it was founded in 1964 initially as a partner of the Sam Ratulangi University in Manado. The university was nationalized in 2004, making it a state-operated institution. In 2016, the university claimed a student count of 1,120 with 115 teaching staff, over double of 550 in 2014. The university offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
In 2017, following the prohibition of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, the university demanded all its teaching staff affiliated with the organization to resign.


Kalvertoren

The Kalvertoren, a shopping center in Amsterdam, is located on Kalverstraat, Amsterdam's busiest shopping street.
The project was developed by Multi Corporation. In 1998, the shopping centre tower won the annual European Shopping Centre Award that is presented by the ICSC, the International Council of Shopping Centres.
The glass and steel tower has a staircase, an escalator and a glass lift, ferrying customers to the top. From the restaurant on the top floor (named Blue°), one has a view of Amsterdam's inner city. Besides many shops, it is also home to two department stores, various cafes and a restaurant.


Nea Hydroelectric Power Station

The Nea Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Tydal, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. It operates at an installed capacity of , with an average annual production of 675 GWh.


Paul Storz Tenement in Bydgoszcz

Paul Storz Tenement is a habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°81, in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The edifice is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.
Location.
The building stands on the western side of Gdańska Street, between Cieszkowskiego and Świętojańska streets.
It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
History.
Building was constructed in 1897, for Paul Storz, a master carpenter.
At the time, the location of the building was "47a Danzigerstrasse, Bromberg".
The adjacent tenement at N°83, built in 1890 and following the same eclecticism style, has been owned by Carl Rose, designer of houses in the same street (16 Gdanska St. and 51 Gdanska St.).
Architecture.
The building was built following Eclecticism forms and elements of Mannerism.
The facade is decorated with stylized cartouches. Above first floor windows are placed panels with putto heads: this adornment was at the time a manifest against typical ornament rule.
Second floor windows are topped with classical pediments, and third floor windows are festooned on their side by pilasters topped with expressive masks.
The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List N°601311 Reg.A/1056, on February 26, 1997.


The Golden House

Swisshorn Gold Palace () aka. "The Golden House" was a showroom of Hang Fung Gold Technology and a tourist attraction in Hong Kong, advertised as a luxury hotel. It was located at G/F No. 71-77 Pau Chung Street, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon.
It was supposedly modeled after ancient European palaces. The structure took five years to design and was built from approximately two tonnes of gold. The inside of the "hotel" was covered in gold from its ceilings, door frame, and even toilet seats. The construction cost about US$38 million to build. It opened on 23 September 2006. It was said to be available for weddings and lodging. One night in the Golden House would have cost about $28,000.
Most of the gold features were melted in 2008.


Goethe-Oberlyzeum

The Goethe-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in Königsberg, Germany, named in honor of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
History.
In 1913 a women's teaching institute ("Lehrerinnenbildungsanstalt") was converted into a gymnasium. Fritz Gause began lecturing there in 1922. The school, which was located on Friedrichstraße in Neue Sorge, was acquired by the city of Königsberg in 1925. Its directors included Bruno Dannenbaum and Richard Scheibe. The building survived Bombing of Königsberg in World War II and was razed in January 2018, under protest from presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak and other conservationists, in Kaliningrad, Russia.


Mesa Arizona Temple

The Mesa Arizona Temple (formerly the Arizona Temple; nicknamed the "Lamanite Temple") is the seventh operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Located in the city of Mesa, Arizona, it is the first of six LDS temples built or planned in the state.
History.
The LDS temple in Mesa was one of the first to be constructed by the church. Similar to the Cardston Alberta Temple, the church decided to hold a competition for the design of the temple with the exception of only inviting three Salt Lake firms to participate. The winning design was proposed by Don Carlos Young Jr. and Ramm Hansen. Announced in 1919, only seven years after Arizona had achieved statehood, it was one of 3 temples announced and constructed to serve outlying Latter-day Saint settlements in the early part of the century, the others being constructed in Laie, Hawaii and Cardston, Alberta. While none of the three settlements were particularly large in their own right, they were considered thriving centers of largely Latter-day Saint populations. The long and arduous trip to existing temples located in the state of Utah would prove costly and even dangerous for the faithful of the era, and temple attendance was (and is) an important part of the faith. As such, it was seen as necessary to construct temples in these communities.
Numerous colonies had been set up in Arizona by the church during the last half of the nineteenth century, and plans had been discussed for a temple in the area as early as 1908, but the start of World War I stopped these for a while. The plan to build a temple in Mesa, Arizona was finally announced on October 3, 1919 and a site was selected and bought in 1921. The site was dedicated shortly after on November 28, 1921 and on April 25, 1922 the groundbreaking ceremony took place. Heber J. Grant conducted the ceremony.
Following the earlier traditions set forth in the building of temples, such as the Salt Lake Temple, the new structure in Mesa was a centerpiece of an organized and planned community for the faithful that lived nearby. Upon its completion in 1927 it was the third largest temple in use by the church and the largest outside of Utah, and remains among the largest temples constructed to this day.
In a departure from the style of temples constructed prior, the Mesa temple (along with the temples in Laie and Cardston) was built in a neoclassical style suggestive of the Temple in Jerusalem, lacking the spires that have become a mainstay of temples built since then, and prior to the announcement and impending construction of the Paris France Temple it was the last LDS temple constructed without a spire. The temple is a neoclassical design featuring the primary structure atop a pedestal, a frieze, pilasters with Corinthian capitals (12 pair along the long side and 10 pair along the short side) and amphorae on fluted columns on the grounds. Below the cornice, eight frieze panels (carved in low relief) depict the gathering of God's people from the Old and New World, and the Pacific Islands to America.
When construction was finished on the temple, the public was able to take tours through the temple. Two hundred thousand people were able to take a tour through the Mesa Temple. The temple was dedicated on October 23, 1927 by Heber J. Grant. By that afternoon, the temple was being put to use. In 1945, the temple was distinguished by becoming the first to offer temple ordinances in Spanish, the first time they were offered in a language other than English.
Renovations.
The Mesa Temple was closed in February 1974, for extensive remodeling that equipped the ordinance rooms for motion-picture presentation of the endowment sessions, and that added a new entrance and an additional , providing larger dressing rooms and increasing the number of sealing rooms. Spencer W. Kimball re-dedicated the temple on April 16, 1975.
In May 2018, the temple closed for renovations that were anticipated to be completed in 2020, but the completion date was postponed. When the renovations are completed, a public open house will be held, followed by the temple being rededicated.
Public exhibits and events.
Just north of the temple is a visitors' center where people can enjoy murals, videos, displays, and other activities. The visitors' center also houses a replica of a statue of Jesus Christ by Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen called the "Christus". The visitors' centers and grounds are staffed by Mormon missionaries and the public is welcome to walk on the temple grounds and enjoy the well-kept gardens.
During Christmas there is a light display and a nativity scene. During late March to early April, the temple hosts the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant "Jesus the Christ", which attracts approximately 150,000 people annually and is the "largest annual outdoor Easter pageant in the world."
Presidents.
Notable presidents of the temple include David K. Udall (1927–34); Junius E. Driggs (1975–80); and L. Kenyon Udall (1997–2000). The current president is Kenneth M Smith (2017–).


Kingsway Mansions, Johannesburg

Kingsway Mansions is a three-story apartment block dating back from 1928 that has Cape Dutch and classical design elements in the decoration of the balconies and the gables along the main façade towards Kingsway Avenue. The building has 27 units with 21 of its apartments being 100 square metres and the remaining 6 ‘studios” 65 square metres each.
History.
Kingsway Mansions takes its name from the road which it faces, which was once lined with tall blue gum trees. The building was designed by the prominent architect P. Rogers Cook who with the practice of J.C. Cooke and Cowan was responsible for an impressive collection of Art Deco buildings in central Johannesburg and for a number of theatres and movie houses including The Playhouse in Durban and Capital Theatre in Pretoria.
The intended extension of the wings on the undeveloped land adjacent to Kingsway Mansions was never carried out, and the main entrance was positioned on the western side of Henley Road to give easy access to the property.
For many years, the tenants included members of the Johannesburg Country Club, whose main entrance was directly across the road. When the SABC moved from the city centre to Auckland Park, tenants reflected the convenience for broadcasters, announcers, actors, and show-business people involved in radio and later TV productions. Among the people who have lived there over the years have been scriptwriter Dannie Folbeck, TV presenter Donna Werzel, actor Richard Haines, the actor / director Robert Whitehead, musician John Oakley Smith, publisher Ivan Beek and art gallery owner Trent Reed. The present tenant profile includes SABC executives, university lecturers and other professionals.
Current ownership.
The current owner, Patrick Corben, purchased this “rent controlled” block in 1990, from Lionel Waldman whose family had previously owned the building for some 40 years. Mr Corben also purchased the adjacent house at 77 Richmond Avenue, to ensure that the site was not developed to the detriment of Kingsway Mansions.


First cattle dip

The first cattle dip is a provincial heritage site in Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
In 1994 it was described in the Government Gazette as


Eschenbach Abbey

Eschenbach Abbey (; ) is a community of Cistercian nuns in Eschenbach in Lucerne, Switzerland. The abbey was founded in about 1290 for Augustinian nuns, and became Cistercian in 1588.
History.
The abbey was founded by Baron Walther III von Eschenbach in about 1290 in Niedereschenbach in the present municipality of Inwil. The chapel of St. Catherine in Niedereschenbach still marks the location of the first nunnery, which was for a community of Augustinian nuns. In 1309 the abbey moved from Niedereschenbach to its present site in Obereschenbach. In 1588 the nuns joined the Cistercian Order, and from then on lived according to the Rule of St Benedict.
In 1612 the guest house was built. In 1625 the foundation stone was laid of the new abbey church, 24 cells, the cloister and the chapter house. In 1683 the guest house was refurbished and extended, and the famous sundial was installed, the largest in Switzerland. In 1910, when the parish of Eschenbach built a new parish church separate from that of the abbey, which up to then had been shared by both, the community also decided to build a new abbey church (designed in Baroque revival style by the architect August Hardegger), which was dedicated in the same year.


Boval Hut

The Boval Hut (, ) is a refuge in the Alps in Switzerland. It lies at the foot of Piz Morteratsch and Piz Bernina, above the Morteratsch Glacier.


CentralPlaza Rama II

Central Plaza Rama II is a shopping center located on Rama II Rd in Bang Khun Thian District, Bangkok, Thailand. The mall opened in 2002. Central Rama II can support people from the Thonburi, Jomthong, and Bangkhuntien areas. People from nearly provinces such as Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram also visit this shopping center. Foreign workers also often visit here.
Overview.
The shopping center has a total of five floors. The shopping center is located on the main highway south of Bangkok in a rapidly expanding and densely populated residential area. The plaza has a retail shopping center, a Central Department Store, a supermarket, a food court, a 38-lane bowling alley and a 9-screen cinema multiplex.
Construction.
Construction of CentralPlaza Rama 2 began in November, 2000 by K-TECH construction public company limited. The client is Central Pattana PCL. This project included a five-storey building with a basement. Central Rama 2 has a total usage area of 260,000 sq. m. The total area is 96 rai including architecture, power line and M&E works. The budget of this project is 4075 million baht. The theme of this shopping center is galaxy of the universe.
Parking.
The shopping center has a carpark with a parking space for some 3120 cars.


Gjakova Regional Museum

The Gjakova Regional Museum is a museum in Gjakova, Kosovo.
History.
The Gjakova Regional Museum was founded on October 9, 1951, initially as a municipal institution. At first it was used to house exhibits from the Kosovo Operation (1944), later supplemented by archaeological and field ethnographic materials. In 1971, the City Council transferred the museum to the regional government. The museum has three faculty employees and a custodian, but lacks an ethnographer. The history section features 3,800 documents, mainly from the period of the Albanian National Awakening, including an extensive collection on the League of Prizren. The ethnography section includes 900 items, though traditional costumes are sparse. Researchers at the museum study the regions of Has, Dushkaja, Mira, and Keqa.


Montevideo Shopping

Montevideo Shopping Center is the first shopping mall that opened in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is located in the neighborhood Buceo, on the border with Pocitos, right in front of the World Trade Center Montevideo.
The mall.
Opened in 1985 and later expanded, it has 181 shops on three levels; parking place for 2051 vehicles on six levels. Work of the Estudio Gómez Platero, López Rey Estudio Gómez Platero, with the intervention of the engineer Eladio Dieste in the original brick structure. The original idea was from the accountant Luis Eugenio Lecueder. The seagull design was made by cartoonist Gabriel Odera.
The mall is managed by the Estudio Luis E. Lecueder (which in turn is owned along with the Portones Shopping, Tres Cruces Shopping, Nuevocentro Shopping, Salto Shopping Terminal, Mercedes Terminal Shopping, Colonia Shopping and the Paysandú Terminal Shopping). The complex receives around 1,400,000 visitors per month, and has been expanded 21 times.
Montevideo Shopping has been the landing place for several international brands that have arrive in the country, such as McDonald's (1991), Zara (1999), Forever 21 (2014), Starbucks Coffee (2018), H&M (2018).


Monte Ceneri transmitter

The Monte Ceneri transmitter was first established as the nationwide medium-wave radio transmission station for Italian-speaking Switzerland in 1933. Located on Monte Ceneri in Ticino, it broadcast on a frequency of 558 kHz.
1933 mast.
The original transmission mast – a 120-metre-high free-standing lattice tower insulated from the ground – was constructed in the Monte Ceneri pass (at 46°8'26"N 8°54'56"E). Today this tower is used for DAB and DVB-T broadcasting, for which purposes a 15-metre-high antenna has been added at the top, so that the full height of the mast is now 135 metres.
1978 mast.
In 1978 a new facility for the Monte Ceneri transmitter was built north of Isone (at 46°8'19"N 8°59'25"E). This uses as its main antenna a 220-metre guyed lattice-steel mast insulated from the ground and, as backup, a T-antenna, which is suspended between two guyed tubular-steel masts. The main mast – which is the only tall guyed mast in Switzerland, as well as being the country's second-tallest tower-type structure – is equipped with an elevator, the machinery of which is installed in a compartment just above the basement insulator.
Despite the location change, the old name of the transmitter was retained. On 30 June 2008 the transmitter was shut down. The Voice of Russia (VoR) subsequently expressed an interest in acquiring a licence to broadcast from the site using the 558 kHz frequency and on 9 February 2011 it received permission from the Swiss Federal Office of Communications to do so. VoR began transmissions from Monte Ceneri on 1 April 2011; it has been reported, however, that these will cease after 31 December 2012. In July 2016 the scheduled demolition of the nowadays unused mast has begun.


St. Catharines Components Plant

St. Catharines Components Plant was a General Motors automobile powertrain factory in Canada and one of two GM facilities in St. Catharines, Ontario. The plant was operated by General Motors Canada.
Also called Manufacturing Facilities - St. Catharines Powertrain and St. Catharines Powertrain - Ontario Street Plant, it was located on Ontario Street. The factory first opened in 1901 as the McKinnon Dash & Metal Works Limited plant and produced carriages and wagons but also produced metal pieces for carriages and wagons. McKinnon Dash and metal was acquired by General Motors in 1929 and GM converted the facility into a powertrain plant. In the late 1970s, the plant began to experience layoffs due to industrial decline in the city. However, by the 1980s and 1990s, the plant suffered from severe industrial decline and layoffs. On September 21st, 1992, two maintenance workers were killed at the plant, after falling 165 feet to their death from the plant's smokestack. The cause of the accident was due to their scaffolding giving away. General Motors permanently closed the plant by 2010, due to restructuring of General Motors Canada. In 2015, the site was purchased by BayShore Groups and demolition on the factory began in 2016. BayShore Groups has plans to redevelop the site into a mixed-use commercial and residential space.
The plant produced engine and transmission components and final drive assemblies for GM's powertrains.


Strand Theatre (Shreveport, Louisiana)

The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, opened in 1925 as a Vaudeville venue and was nicknamed "The greatest theatre of the South" and the "Million Dollar Theatre" by its builders, Julian and Abraham Saenger of Shreveport, owners of the Saenger Amusements Company, which operated theaters throughout the American South and in Central America. By the 1940s it had evolved into a movie cinema, which it remained until its closure in 1977. Threatened with demolition, it was saved by a coalition of concerned citizens who restored it to its original grandeur over a nearly seven-year period. It is the "Official State Theatre of Louisiana". Since its re-opening in 1984 following restoration it has served as a performing arts venue, featuring the Shreveport Broadway Series and other traveling Off-Broadway shows.
Emile Weil and Charles G. Davis of New Orleans were the architects of the theater with interior design work by Paul Heerwagen of Arkansas. Construction foreman was Ernest Raleigh Darrow of Shreveport. The Strand was a flagship theatre for Saenger Amusements Company and its successor, Saenger-Ehrlich Enterprises, a forerunner of Paramount Pictures.
During the 1960s, when the Strand was in use as a cinema, the facility was desegregated through the efforts of the Reverend Herman Farr, who in 1978 became one of the first three African Americans to have served on the Shreveport City Council.
In 1977, the theatre was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It also became a contributing property of Shreveport Commercial Historic District when its boundaries were increased on .


Fairfield House, Nelson

Fairfield House in 48 Van Diemen Street, Nelson, New Zealand, is registered with Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure. Originally built in 1849, today's house was constructed as a residence for Arthur Atkinson in 1872. It was at some stage owned by the Nelson College for Girls, who used it as a boarding house. After the 1929 Murchison earthquake, boarders from Nelson College also moved in, as their hostel got damaged. The house was given to Nelson City Council in 1979 and was threatened with demolition. A community group formed that had the objective of saving the house. Alan Stanton moved into the derelict building as a squatter and started restoring it. Today, it is a community centre.
Atkinson, who was the brother of Premier Harry Atkinson, had an observation tower built onto the house in 1883, as his hobby was astronomy. He was tasked by the Royal Society to observe the transit of Venus in 1882. The tower had at one point been demolished, but a replica has since been built.


Tirana International Hotel

Tirana International Hotel (also called in , ) is a hotel located in Tirana, Albania on the corner between central Skanderbeg Square and Zogu I Boulevard. Originally built in 1979 in a Soviet-era architectural style, it was named Hotel Tirana. In 2001 the hotel was renovated by an Italian company and now it is a 4-star hotel.
Tirana International has 168 rooms on 15 floors.
History.
The Tirana International Hotel was built in 1979 during the period of communism in Albania. The hotel was designed by Valentina Pistoli, an Albanian architect born in Korce, Albania and was built by the Albanian government. The building was one of the biggest buildings in Albania during communist times. During communist times, it was open to few people from outside of Albanian borders such as business representatives and foreign government officials, and was also open to citizens of Albania.


Le Bahia

Le Bahia is a high-rise residential building in Monaco.
Location.
It is located at 39 Avenue Princesse Grace in the Larvotto district of Monaco.
History.
The construction of the building was completed in 1971. It was built by the Monegasque construction firm, J. B. Pastor et fils. It was designed in the modernist architectural style. It is 38.35 metres high, with twelve storeys.
It was owned by heiress Hélène Pastor through her eponymous real estate company.
The building is mostly residential. However, it is also home to some shops.


Embassy of Indonesia, Moscow

The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Moscow (; ) is the diplomatic mission of Indonesia in the Russian Federation and concurrently accredited to the Republic of Belarus. It is located at 12 Novokuznetskaya Street () in the Zamoskvorechye District of Moscow.
The Embassy occupies two former private residences built on adjacent lots in the beginning of the 20th century. The first, Protopopov-Tatischev House, was built in 1900s to the design of Vladimir Sherwood (Jr.). In 1911-1913 it was expanded by Gustav Helrich, who also designed and built the service buildings located deep inside the Embassy territory. The second is the residence of princes Ouroussoff, was built in 1912 to the design of Ivan Rerberg. All these buildings are officially recognized listed memorials.


Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science

The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science (also as CEEC of Cognitive Science ) at the New Bulgarian University undertakes research in fundamental and applied cognitive science. Research topics include: memory, thinking, language, learning, perception, context, applications to robotics, AI, and cognitive systems, cognitive economics, human factors and usability, education and learning methods. The Center is co-directed by Boicho Kokinov and Jeff Elman.
The CEEC of Cognitive Science grants M.Sc., Ph.D. degrees in cognitive science and organizes annually summer school.


City Park Mall

City Park Mall is a large shopping mall located in Constanţa, Romania. The center includes over 200 stores and a multiplex with eight screens. The complex has a floor area of and over 1,000 parking spaces.


Iulius Mall Suceava

Iulius Mall Suceava is a shopping mall in Suceava, Romania.
It was opened on 15 November 2008. The building was designed by Valentin Ilie and Calin Caliman of Rocada Architects.
The mall has:
The mall has a colourful chimney. It is planned to transform it into an observation tower.


Bern University of Applied Sciences

The Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH, German: "Berner Fachhochschule", French: Haute école spécialisée bernoise) is a public vocational university with a strong national and international profile. It comprises six departments and also incorporates the Higher Technical School of Wood, which is affiliated to the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering.
Locations.
BFH is currently spread across 26 locations in Bern, Biel, Burgdorf, Magglingen and Zollikofen. In 2012, the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern decided to bring together the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Information Technology onto a single campus in Biel. The launch of the Biel/Bienne campus is scheduled for autumn 2023. The Health Professions, Social Work and Business departments and Bern University of the Arts will likely move to a shared campus in Bern in autumn 2026.
Departments.
The Departments of the Bern University of Applied Sciences include:
As well as Bachelor and master's degree programmes, BFH offers continuing education, applied research and development and other services.
The sports, agriculture, forest science, automotive engineering, nutrition and dietetics, literary writing and medical informatics degree programmes are unique in German-speaking Switzerland or throughout the whole of Switzerland.
Growth.
The following table shows how student numbers at the Bern University of Applied Sciences have grown since the University was founded in 1997.
1 Figures as of 31 December
2 Degree programmes prior to the Bologna Reform (which introduced Bachelor/Master's degree programmes)
3 Only MAS/EMBA students (not including CAS/DAS students). From 2014 onwards, non-matriculated MAS/EMBA students are also included in the statistics for BFH's areas of activity.


Shwesandaw Pagoda (Twante)

The Shwesandaw Pagoda, or Shwesandaw Paya, (; ) is a Buddhist Stupa in Twante Township, south of Yangon region, Myanmar. It is one of the popular tourist destination and also pilgrimage site for Buddhists as it is said to contain a couple of the Buddha's hairs and its name means Golden Hair Relic.


Kerry Hotel Hong Kong

Kerry Hotel Hong Kong () is a five star hotel located in Hung Hom Bay, Hong Kong. Opened on 28 April 2017 and is managed by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts.


Kongstedlund

Kongstedlund is an old Danish manor house built in 1592 in the Renaissance-style and situated on the peninsula of Himmerland near Aalborg. Kongstedtlund is not open to the public, but the building can be seen from the nearby road.
Architecture.
Kongstedlund was built on the foundations of an ancient, storied castle, and is surrounded by drained moats. The main building was constructed in 1592 for the Danish nobleman Niels Juul. In 1640, a sandstone portal in the Baroque-style was added to the entrance of the main building by the owners of the property, Ivar Krabbe and Dorte Juul. In the 1770s, a low half-timbered wing was attached to the main building. Kongstedtlund rests upon an old arched vault that has remained as part of the older construction. The mansion's facades are now whitewashed, but were originally made unpainted brick. The levels of the main building are marked by anchor plates. The rectangle windows are embedded in curved window slots. The gables are now adjusted to the saddle roof in a straight line, but were originally probably arched in the style of the Renaissance. The baroque sandstone portal with the initials of the owners by that time, Ivar Krabbe and Dorte Juul, is a particularly precious architectural detail.
The most prominent elements of the portal are the sculptures of two warriors in full armour framing the entrance, as well as those of two angels, on which the uppermost part of the portal rests, and two female figures in the upper part which are framing a family coat of arms and a laurel wreath.
Royal inhabitant.
From 1922 to 1961, Princess Dagmar of Demark, the daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden, lived on Kongstedlund. She was married to the squire Jorgen Castenskiold, hunting master of the Danish court and member of the ennobled Danish family Castenskiold.
See also.
List of castles and palaces in Denmark


Supreme Court of Pakistan library

The Library of the Supreme Court of Pakistan is an official and principal research as well as reference library of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. It is located in the judicial complex of the Supreme Court, and is listed as a repute of national legal Library.
Since its establishment, it has become one of the noted and reliable law libraries in the country, with resources that span the ages and cover virtually every jurisdiction and history of law. Currently the Library has a collection of ~80,000 volumes on a variety of topics including general books, legal textbooks, law reports and research journals. Almost all the local law reports are available from the date of their publication.
The All India Reports (AIR) as well as All England Law Reports and Halsbury's Laws of England are also some of the important documents available in the Library. The Library also contains reference books such as the encyclopaedias, maps, and dictionaries.


Forum Piscarium

The Forum Piscarium () was the fish market of ancient Rome (a "forum venalium"), north of the Roman Forum, between the Sacra Via and the Argiletum. It was burned in 210 BC and rebuilt the next year. In 179 BC it was incorporated in the general Macellum, built by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior in the same region.
This forum is called "piscatorium" in Livy, and "piscarium" in Varro and Plautus (Curc. 474).


Cape Tourville Lighthouse

The Cape Tourville Lighthouse is an unmanned, automatic lighthouse built in 1971 by private contractors (Hurburgh and Olbrich). The road was constructed through virgin eucalypt forest, along with the powerline, with minimal disruption to the National Park. The top of the granite headland was levelled by blasting to provide the base for the lighthouse and parking area.
This lighthouse was built at the same time as the new lighthouse at Point Home, near Triabunna, to provide better guidance for the bulk carriers carrying wood chips from the Triabunna wood chip mill.
It replaced the Cape Forestier Lighthouse which had been situated nearby on another headland jutting off the Freycinet Peninsula known as Lemon Rock.


Cutting Hall

Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center is a theater in Palatine, Illinois, which was once the auditorium to Palatine High School. It was built in 1927 in honor of Mr. Charles S. Cutting, the principal of Palatine High School. The remainder of the original school building no longer stands. Three separate building additions were added. After the school district opened the Current high school In 1977, a referendum was passed, and the Community Center and Village Hall now occupy these facilities. This beautiful theater has been renovated and seats 430. The main lobby was added in 1978. The box office and entries were the original front entrance to the building.
Cutting Hall is home to recitals, plays, musicals, and movies. Cutting Hall is a facility maintained by the Palatine Park District. The theatre space is utilized by numerous amateur theatrical groups, including Music On Stage, Theatre Nebula, Up and Coming Theater, Lake Zurich Players, Wood Street Theater, Christian Youth Theater, and Cricket Theatre Company.


Kennedy Bridge (Niamey)

The Kennedy Bridge is the main crossing for the Niger River in Niamey, Niger. It was built in 1970, and named for United States President John F. Kennedy. Its construction enabled Niamey to expand onto the right bank of the river to the west. On 9 February 1990, a confrontation between students of the University of Niamey and police on the bridge left 20 civilians dead, and hastened the end of the military regime led by General Ali Saibou.


Palace of Ganja Khans

Palace of Ganja Khans was the palace of Javad Khan, the last ruler of the Ganja khanate. The palace once located in the center of the city of Ganja, at west of Juma Mosque. The remaining ruins were demolished in 1974 and the Baku Cinema now occupies the palace site. Mausoleum of the last ruler of Ganja, Javad Khan was erected nearby.
History.
According to written sources, the palace of Javad Khan was built two centuries ago at current location of «Baku» cinema in Ganja. There were entrances to the underground roads of Ganja. Through these roads it was possible to get to the nearby Chorak-hamam and Juma-mosque (Shah-Abbas mosque).
In December 1803, on the eve of the assault on Ganja by Russian troops, the palace covered an area of about 233,8 square meters.
A photograph of the ruins of the Khan's palace is given in A. Salamzade, E. Avalov and R. Salayev's book "The Problems of Protection and Restoration of Historical Cities of Azerbaijan" (Baku, 1979).
See also.
Architecture of Azerbaijan


Government House, Chisinau

The Government House in Chisinau (Romanian: Casa Guvernului din Chișinău) is a government building in Chisinau located on Great National Assembly Square and Stefan cel Mare Avenue. It was designed by Semyon Fridlin in 1964 on Victory Square (now PMAN) and along Lenin Avenue (now Stefan cel Mare Avenue). It used to be the headquarters of the Council of Ministers of the Moldovan SSR. The building is a 6-storey reinforced concrete structure, lined with white stone, made in the shape of a letter Russian letter "П" (translated to "P" in English). Above the main entrance to the building is the inscription "The Government of the Republic of Moldova", as well as the Coat of Arms of Moldova and the Flag of Moldova. In 2010, the Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation was opened right in front of the building.


Navrongo Airport

Paga Airport/Airstrip is an airstrip serving Paga and Navrongo, towns in Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana.The Airport was initially constructed to help land soldiers to defend the country’s borders incase of attacks.
Caution: OurAirports and Great Circle Mapper sources for DGLN have erroneous coordinate and elevation data.


Yemen Military Museum

The Yemen Military Museum or The Military Museum (Arabic:"المتحف الحربي") is a museum in central Sana'a, Yemen. It is located on the southwestern corner of the Al-Tahrir Square, next to the National Library of Yemen.It has a wide range of artifacts from ancient artifacts to items during the British occupation and subsequent revolution.


Jinling Hotel

Jinling Hotel Nanjing () is a hotel in Nanjing, China, located near the city's Xinjiekou district. "Jinling" is an old name for Nanjing which is often used to refer to the city in a poetic context. The hotel was Nanjing's first modern hotel and is still often regarded as the pre-eminent five-star hotel in Nanjing. Jinling Hotel was the highest building in China until 1985, while Baiyun Hotel in Guangzhou built earlier was taller if including its antenna.
The hotel also has nine restaurants of differing cuisine types.
The hotel was built in 1981


Alderney Hospital

Alderney Hospital is a hospital in Alderney, a suburb of Poole, Dorset.
History.
Alderney Hospital was built in 1888 for the care of the elderly; it now specialises in dementia and mental health with both in and out patients.
In 2018, £5.9million was given by the Department of Health to aid older people's inpatient mental health services at the hospital.


Limbe Airport

Limbe Airport was a public use airport located southeast of Limbe, Sud-Ouest, Cameroon.


Estadio Centenario (Comodoro Rivadavia)

The Estadio Centenario will be an indoor arena in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province. With 10,000 seats, it will be the largest indoor venue in Patagonia and will host matches of local basketball team Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia, volleyball, handball, tennis matches and concerts.


Alytus railway station

Alytus is a railway station in Lithuania. It opened in 1899.


Kapanda Airport

Kapanda Airport is an airport serving the Capanda Dam project near Kapanda, a village in Malanje Province, Angola.


Technological Educational Institute of Epirus

The Technological Educational Institute of Epirus (TEIEP; Greek: Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Ηπείρου) is a higher education public institute in Epirus, Greece, founded in 1994.
Its main campus and administrative centre is in Arta and departments are also located in Ioannina, Preveza and Igoumenitsa.
History.
The first Schools to operate, in the academic year 1994–95, was the School of Agricultural Technology and the School of Health and Welfare Professions. The Institute hosts today more than 10.000 students and it employs more than 100 members of academic and technical staff. The "ATHENA" Reform Plan restructured Higher Education programmes in 2013.
Schools and departments.
The institute comprises five Schools, consisting of eight Departments.
Academic evaluation.
In 2016 the external evaluation committee gave TEI of Epirus a "Positive evaluation".
An external evaluation of all academic departments in Greek universities was conducted by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQA).


Jaarbeurs

The Jaarbeurs (; Dutch for "Yearly Fair") is an exhibition and convention centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Noted events include the former Space '86, the Hobby Computer Club Days ("HCC Dagen"), and the Mega Record & CD Fair. The venue is also a regular base for music festivals like ASOT festival and Thunderdome.
The Jaarbeurs extends to an area of 100.000 m² next to Utrecht Centraal railway station.
The first Jaarbeurs was held in 1917. It was a major success from the start, opening up the city of Utrecht as a trade centre and giving it an economic boost.


Tinson Pen Aerodrome

Tinson Pen Aerodrome in Kingston, Jamaica is the largest of Jamaica's three domestic airports. It is located on Marcus Garvey Drive, a major highway that links Kingston to the nearby residential community of Portmore. The airport is also located near the Kingston Free Zone, a transshipment port. The airport caters mainly to business travellers. The airport also provides a vital commercial link between the cities of Kingston and Montego Bay.
Tinson Pen Aerodrome handled approximately 92,091 passengers in 2001. The airport formerly had scheduled passenger service provided by Air Jamaica Express and International AirLink.
Facilities.
The airport is at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with an asphalt surface measuring . There is a 100LL fueling station and the airport supports night flight operations.
Airlines and destinations.
In June 2019, Jam Air Ltd. will be commencing daily domestic scheduled flights to and from Tinson Pen to Montego Bay and Negril.
AirLink Express also offers domestic charters from Tinson Pen to all registered aerodromes across the country.
PRESSHA.
Passengers.
The following table shows the number of passengers using the airport annually from 1997 through 2001.


Soroti Secondary School

Soroti Secondary School is a government secondary school located in Soroti Town in Uganda. Its EMIS code in the Ministry of Education and Sports (Uganda) is 10706. Its enrolment is about 4000 students.


Roosevelt station (Puerto Rico)

Roosevelt station is a train station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Located in the Hato Rey Norte financial district, it serves the Tren Urbano rapid transit system. The station opened on December 17, 2004. It features a tile mural by the artist Susana Espinosa entitled "Encuentros Fugaces".


Rotokawa Power Station

The Rotokawa Power Station is a geothermal power station owned and operated by Mercury Energy. It is located approximately 10 km north east of Taupo in New Zealand. The station uses a binary cycle manufactured by Ormat Industries.
In May 2008, work began on the nearby Nga Awa Purua Power Station.
Environmental aspects.
Due to the high temperatures associated with the geothermal vent here, this locale is an occurrence of extremophile micro-organisms that can thrive on the high vent water temperature.


Teatro Chueca

Teatro Chueca was a theatre on the Plaza de Chamberí in Madrid, Spain. It was built in 1925.


Wardija Tower

Wardija Tower (), originally known as Torre della Guardia di Giorno and also known as Bubaqra Tower (), is a small watchtower in the limits of Żurrieq, Malta. It was completed in June 1659 as the thirteenth of the De Redin towers.
Wardija Tower was the last coastal watchtower to be built on the main island of Malta. It is situated between Żurrieq and Ħal Far, with the nearest tower to it being Sciuta Tower to the west.
The tower follows the standard design of the De Redin towers, having a square plan with two floors and a turret on the roof, but it is slightly smaller. It was originally armed with 2 cannons and 2 mortars.


Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre

Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre is a community arts centre in Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and maintained by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, one of the successors to the territory's Urban Council. It was opened on 4 December 1990.
The 3-floor venue consists of:
It is serviced by Sai Wan Ho station of the MTR Island line.


Gulustan Fortress

Gulustan fortress is an ancient fortress in Goranboy region of Azerbaijan. The fortress is located at the foothills of Murovdag, bordering Agdere and Goranboy regions. It is encircled by precipice from eastern, western and southwestern sides, forest from the north side, and slope from the south-eastside. The fortress is situated on the coast of Incechay, at a height of 1700 m above sea level and 200–250 m above the nearby territory. The way to the fortress is from south-east. The length of the fortress is 200–250 m in the east-west direction and 20–25 m in the north-south direction. The width of the wall is 0.8–0.9 m in the north and west, and in the south wall it is 1.5 m. It is reported that there is also a secret road leading to the river.
The name of the fortress, "Gulustan" is a Persian word, meaning "flower garden". Certain towers of it have been preserved. According to researchers the date of construction of the tower dates back to the period of Caucasian Albania. It is built of local stones. The fortress was a strong defensive tower. It was the center of the Gulustan Kingdom which existed in the 18th–19th centuries. Also, the significant historic Treaty of Gulistan was signed in this fortress.
See also.
Architecture of Azerbaijan


Hotel Carlton Madagascar

The Hotel Carlton Madagascar, formerly the Hilton Tana Antananarivo or the Madagascar Hilton, is a hotel in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The hotel has 171 rooms including 6 suites and overlooks Lake Anosy. It is described as one of the few high-rise buildings in the city and the only "truly high-rise building" in Antananarivo. In 2001 it was reported that the hotel was the centre for Madagascar Airtours.


Military Technical Academy

The Academia Tehnică Militară Ferdinand I is a public university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1949.


Akrotiri Lighthouse

Akrotiri Lighthouse is a 19th-century lighthouse on the Greek island of Santorini. The lighthouse was built by a French company in 1892, making the lighthouse one of the oldest in Greece. The lighthouse ceased operating during World War II. The Greek Navy recommissioned the lighthouse in 1945. The lighthouse is famed for its sunset views.


Santa Cruz/Graciosa Bay/Luova Airport


Tbilisi Sports Palace

Tbilisi Sport Palace () is an indoor sports arena situated in Tbilisi, Georgia. The arena usually hosts basketball, handball, judo, tennis, boxing and other games and tournaments with high attendance.
History.
Built in 1961, the arena was used primely for the basketball games of local Dinamo Tbilisi and is still the largest basketball designed arena in all of the former USSR successor states. The construction was led by architects Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Yuri Kasradze, Temo Japaridze and designer David Kajaia.
The arena was renovated in 2007 and was reopened on 22 August 2007, with management rights given to the Logic Group Ltd for a 30-year contract.
This was the first phase of renovation and reconstruction, with the second phase including changing the roof of the building and installing new individual seats. Total cost of the renovation is estimated at 5 million USD.
Concerts.
Tbilisi Sports Palace is one of the greatest arena for concerts in Georgia. Many international and national acts have performed here.
Other sold-out concerts were by Georgian rapper Lex-Seni and Georgian pop-group Kuchis Bichebi. (about 15,000 people)
The venue was to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 on 26 November 2017. However the venue was later changed to the 4,000-capacity Olympic Palace which was considered more suitable for hosting the contest.


NIS building

The NIS building is the headquarters building of Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), located in Novi Sad, Serbia.
History.
Construction started in 1989 and finished in 1998. The building is one of the landmarks of Novi Sad. It is located in the city quarter known as Liman III, across from Liman Park, on "Narodnog Fronta" Street and "Bulevar oslobođenja".


Former National Bank of New Zealand Building

The National Bank of New Zealand Building is a historic building on the corner of Cuba Street and Vivian Street, Wellington, New Zealand. It is now occupied by Logan Brown Restaurant.
The building, designed by Claude Plummer-Jones, contains an exceptionally fine main banking space. Built by day labour, the structure is of concrete, faced externally with Malmesbury stone for the rusticated base with sandstone for the levels above. The building is Classical in style. The two storeys above the ground floor have attached Corinthian columns that extend through both storeys and are surmounted by an entablature and a balustraded parapet. Inside, the ground floor contains the (former) banking hall and some ancillary office space. Octagonal in shape, the paired Corinthian column theme of the exterior is repeated internally to form, with arches between each pair, an open arcade. Above, a 6-metre diameter glazed dome further enhances the quality of the space. The banking hall as a whole offers one of Wellington's finer interior architectural experiences.
The building is classified as a "Category 1" by Heritage New Zealand.


Chiantla Municipal Palace

Chiantla Municipal Palace or Palacio municipal is a palace and government building in Chiantla, Guatemala.


Fontaine de Charonne

The Fontaine de Charonne, formerly known as Fontaine Trogneux, is a historic fountain in Paris, France.
Location.
The fountain is located on the corner of rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine and rue de Charonne.
History.
The fountain was built from 1719 to 1724 for the inhabitants of Faubourg Saint-Antoine to have access to water. It was designed by architect Jean Beausire. It was named after Mr. Trogneux, a brewer who lived in the neighbourhood.
The fountain was refurbished from 1806 to 1810, and it was restored in 1963.
Architectural significance.
It has been listed as a national historical monument since 1995.


The Memorial for the Victims of Fascism (Schytomyr)

The Memorial for the Victims of Fascism, also called Memorial for the Victims of the Concentration Camps or Memorial for the Victims of Fascism in Bogunskiy-Forrest, was erected in 1996 in the district of Boguniya in the city of Schytomyr in Ukraine. The sculpture's creators are the sculptor Josef Tabachnyk and the architect Peter Biryuk.
History of Location.
The memorial is dedicated to the peaceful citizens and prisoners of the Second World War (over 110,000 people) that died there. There at the outskirts of Schytomyr, the German army's prisoner of war camp “Stalag - 358” was situated from January 1941 to November 1943.
Memorial components and meaning.
The monument is a sculptural composition made from bronze and rose coloured granite with a height of . In the middle of the memorial is a bodiless, almost weightless bronze figure, which depicts the spirit of the people, which has lost its matter and has only its courage, strength and invincibility fluttering around in space. Within the stone-cutting, the faces of those who shortly before were people have become eternal and are shown, speaking, asking and screaming.
At the base of the memorial there is a granite plate (1.5 x 0.65m) with the inscription:
“This earth, which has seen much suffering, is a witness of the cruelty of the fascist destruction of tens of thousands of prisoners of war and peaceful citizens of Schytomyr from 1941 to 1943. In eternal memory of the deceased.”
In 2002 a capsule, containing the remains of the inhabitants of Schytomyr who were tortured to death in KZ Majdanek, was buried. The engraving on it says:
“At this place the remains of our countrymen who were tortured to death in Hitler’s KZ Majdanek are buried. In eternal memory.”
At the right of the composition there is a pink granite plate with the inscription “Sculptor J. Tabachnyk and Architect P. Biryuk”.


Hotel Bristol Palace

Hotel Bristol Palace is a 4-star Luxury hotel in Genoa, Italy on Via XX Settembre.
History.
The hotel was designed by Dario Carbone and built in 1905.
During World War 2, it housed the German command. At the end of the war, it housed the National Liberation Committee.
The hotel has hosted famous and notable guests such as the Emperor of Japan Hirohito and the writers Edmondo De Amicis, Luigi Pirandello and Gabriele D'Annunzio. In 1926, Alfred Hitchcock stayed in the hotel during the filming "The Pleasure Garden".
The hotel is currently managed by Gruppo Duetorrihotels Spa.


National Forum of Music

The National Forum of Music ("Narodowe Forum Muzyki") is a music venue located in Wrocław, Poland. It was completed in 2015 and houses a large concert hall with 1800 seats and three chamber halls (from 250-450 seats) and is home to many major ensembles and festivals in Wrocław. The postmodern building of the National Forum of Music (NFM) was designed by APA Kuryłowicz & Associates. It is one of the largest and most modern music venues in Poland.
History.
The construction of the venue started in 2009 and was completed in 2015. It covers the area of 48,500 square metres and is situated in the Liberty Square in the city centre near the historic Wrocław Opera. The building consists of six floor above ground level as well as three underground floors. The Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music is a cultural institution that is headquartered in the building. It was created in 2014 due to a merger of two other institutions - Wratislavia Cantans International Festival of Music and the Wrocław Philharmonic. Andrzej Kosendiak, the current director of NFM, was one of the main initiators of the project to create the new venue.
The NFM organizes a wide range of educational projects for children such as Choir Academy ("Singing Wrocław", "Singing Poland", "Polish National Youth Choir"), Singing Europe, Family Philharmonic, Philharmonic for Youngsters as well as for adults e.g. Music Lovers' Choir.
The NFM was one of the key cultural institutions responsible for establishing the cultural programme of Wrocław as one of co-host cities bearing the title of the European Capital of Culture in 2016.
Events.
Presently, the National Forum of Music organizes the following national and international festivals and events:
Orchestras.
The venue is home to such orchestras and music bands as:


Jiali Plaza

Jiali Plaza (), also known as Ping An Building, is a tall skyscraper located in Wuhan, China. The 61 storey building was completed in 1997 under the design by WMKY Lim. The building has two underground floors which are used as a car park.


Matitone

The Matitone (a popular nickname meaning literally "big pencil", officially San Benigno North Tower) is a skyscraper designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mario Lanata and Andrea Messina and finished building in 1992, used as a business center located in the district of San Teodoro, in the San Benigno neighborhood, near the Genova-West highway.
Activities based in the Matitone.
The Matitone is home to several administrative offices including:


Mona Airport

Mona Airport is an airstrip on Mona Island (), the third largest island of Puerto Rico. Private and commercial flights require a permit for use of the landing strip. The permit can only be acquired through the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. The airport is also available to planes for emergency purposes.
Mona Island is a natural reserve and there are no permanent inhabitants. Rangers from the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources rotate residence on the island to manage visitors and take part in research projects.
The runway parallels the island's southwest shore. Approach and departures are over the water. An overrun to the northwest will hit some coral rock outcroppings.
The Mayaguez VOR/DME (Ident: MAZ) is located east-northeast of Mona Airport. The Punta Cana VOR/DME (Ident: PNA) is located in the Dominican Republic northwest of the airstrip.


Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Carnegie Mellon University Africa is a campus of the Carnegie Mellon University located in Kigali, Rwanda.
History.
CMU was offered a funding of $95 million by the Government of Rwanda for the university. The university was inaugurated in 2011 by President of Rwanda Paul Kagame. The inauguration was also attended by Farnam Jahanian, the president of CMU.
Academics.
The university offers master's degrees in Information Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Campus.
The 6000 sq. metre campus is located in Kigali Innovation City.


Wat That Noi

Wat That Noi (; "Temple of the Little Reliquary") is a ruined temple of the Wiang Kum Kam archaeological area, outside of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, so named because of its relatively restricted scale.
It is adjacent to Wat Chang Kham, a larger site in the same group.


Aksum University

Aksum University (AKU) is a teaching university in Aksum in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It offers teaching programs and research projects which lead toward undergraduate and master's degrees. It was established in February 2007 with the objective of teaching about education, research and community service. During the Tigray War in late 2020 and early 2021, the university's facilities were "completely destroyed", according to Alula Habteab, head of the Bureau of Construction, Road and Transport in the Transitional Government of Tigray.


Dalanj University

Dalanj University is a public university in Dalang, South Kordofan State, Sudan.
The Teachers college was established in 1995 AD. This was followed in 1999 by the Centre for Peace Studies, Computer Center and College of additional studies, which evolved into the Faculty of Community Development. The Graduate School was established in 2001.
As of September 2011, the university was a member in good standing of the Association of African Universities.


Mwadui Airport

Mwadui Airport is an airport serving the Williamson diamond mine, in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania. The runway extends along the east side of the mine pit.
The Mwadui non-directional beacon (Ident: WM) is on the field.


Nagahama Hall

 is a concert hall located in the Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Park in Yokohama, Japan. Built in 1952, it has hosted concerts by some of Japan's most successful musicians. In 2008, pianist Atsuko Seta gave a recital in the hall.