Villa La Roche [SEP] architect
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Fondation Le Corbusier


Fondation Le Corbusier is a private foundation and archive honoring the work of architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). It operates Maison La Roche, a museum located in the 16th arrondissement at 8-10, square du Dr Blanche, Paris, France, which is open daily except Sunday. The Maison La Roche was temporarily closed for renovation in 2008-2009. The Fondation Le Corbusier was established in 1968. It now owns Villa La Roche and Villa Jeanneret (which form the foundation's headquarters), as well as the apartment
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Villa La Roche


Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier. La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a villa as well as a gallery to house his art collection. In July 2016, the house, Villa Jeanneret, and sixteen other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. La
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Raoul Albert La Roche


became the "Villa della Rocca" (Villa La Roche) in Paris, at the "". The villa was built in joint ownership with Le Corbusier's brother, the violinist Albert Jeanneret, and housed his collections of paintings, including works by Picasso, Braque, Fernand Léger. La Roche donated this villa to Le Corbusier for his foundation. La Roche died on 15 June 1965 in Basel. He bequeathed one-third of his collection to the musée du Louvre, another third to his hometown (Basel),
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Villa La Roche


Roche-Jeanneret house, is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Corbusier's third commission in Paris. They are laid out at right angles to each other In 1928, Le Corbusier and Perriand collaborated on furniture, the fruits of their collaboration were first done for Villa La Roche. The furniture items include, three chrome-plated tubular steel chairs designed for two of his projects, The Maison la Roche in Paris and a pavilion for Barbara and Henry Church. Maison La Roche is now a museum containing about 8,000
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Villa Jeanneret


Villa Jeanneret and Villa La Roche are two houses in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1923-1925 and renovated by Charlotte Perriand in 1928. No longer inhabited, they house the Fondation Le Corbusier museum and archives. The houses are located at 8-10 square du Docteur-Blanche, 16th arrondissement, Paris. Villa Jeanneret is not open to the public. In July 2016, the house, Villa La Roche, and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The
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Villa Jeanneret


Villa Jeanneret was commissioned by Le Corbusier's brother, Albert Jeanneret, and his fiancée Lotti Raaf. It forms part of a joint project with the connected Villa La Roche - the original scheme involved more houses and more clients, but it was only Jeanneret and La Roche that stayed the course and saw their villas built. The program included a salon, dining room, bedrooms, a study, a kitchen, a maid's room and a garage. The site faced north, and zoning restrictions prevented windows looking over the surrounding
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La Roche-en-Ardenne Castle


built a villa on the site. Approximately 844, Adelard, Count of La Roche, established the first castle. After the death of Henri de la Roche in 1152, the countship passed to Henri the Blind Count of Namur, and upon his death in 1196, to his daughter Ermesinde of Luxembourg (and thus to the line of the counts of Luxembourg). In the 14th century, the inhabitants of La Roche were authorized by Jean the Blind, count of Luxembourg, to protect their city by a wall and towers
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Raoul Albert La Roche


, during the invasion of France by the German army, he left Paris and moved to Lyon, keeping his job at the bank, until the end of the war. He returned to Paris after the war. In 1918, La Roche met Le Corbusier and was attracted to the purism style of painting whose foundations were laid by Le Corbusier. In 1922, on the occasion of a trip to Venice and Vicenza (Italy) with Le Corbusier, La Roche planned to have a villa built by his friend. This project
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Paris between the Wars (1919–1939)


Samaritaine, which originally had a colorful Art-Nouveau interior and facades, was expanded and remade with characteristic art-deco features in 1933 by Henri Sauvage. The modernist architect Le Corbusier, who at the age of twenty-one had worked as an assistant to Auguste Perret, opened his own architectural office with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1922 and built some of his first houses in Paris. The Villa La Roche, built for a Swiss pharmaceuticals magnate, was constructed in 1925, and introduced many of the themes found in
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Architecture of Paris


Sauvage also made art-deco residential buildings with clean geometric lines, made of reinforced concrete faced with white ceramic tiles. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier. went further, designing houses in geometric forms, lacking any ornament. At age of twenty-one worked as an assistant in the office of Perret. In 1922 he opened his own architectural office with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1922 and built some of his first houses in Paris, notably the Villa La Roche at 10 square
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Villa La Mauresque


. Here he had a villa constructed in the Moorish style by an unknown architect. In 1927, the author Somerset Maugham purchased the property and commissioned the young American architect Barry Dierks to eliminate the villa's original neo-oriental elements, to classicize the façades and patio, and to modernize the layout by creating a staircase. Villa "La Mauresque" became Maugham's main residence until his death in 1965. Becoming a near-obligatory stop for the literary and Riviera society, "La Mauresque", from the point of
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Fondation Le Corbusier


occupied by Le Corbusier from 1933 to 1965 at rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris 16e, and Villa Le Lac, which he built for his parents in Corseaux on the shores of Lac Leman (1924). Maison La Roche and Maison Jeanneret (1923–24), also known as the La Roche-Jeanneret house, is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Corbusier's third commission in Paris. They are laid out at right angles to each other, with iron, concrete, and blank, white facades setting off
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Villa La Prairie


Villa La Prairie is one of the most distinctive productions of French architect Louis Quételart. The villa is located in the golf area of Le Touquet, alongside other villas built in the 1920s and 1930s, of which one was owned by Somerset Maugham and P.G. Wodehouse. Commonly referred to as La Prairie, the villa, built in 1928, is part of the French heritage inventory (Base Mérimée). It is of both Flemish and Picard influence, and unlike vast villas of that time of Anglo-Normand style, it has
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Villa Leopolda


The Villa La Leopolda is a large detached villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera. The villa is situated in 18 acres of grounds. The villa has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and, since 1987, by Edmond (1932–1999) and Lily Safra, who inherited the villa after her husband's death. Villa La Leopolda in its current incarnation was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by an American architect,
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Le Locle


of new housing units was 0.1 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 5.71%. The historical population is given in the following chart: The Ancien Hôtel des Postes, Monts Castle and the Museum d’horlogerie, City Hall, the Immeuble, Moulins souterrains du Col-des-Roches (Cave mills in the Col des Roches), the Villa Favre-Jacot and Zenith SA are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: La
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Chiswick House


from dawn until dusk without charge. Chiswick House was an attempt by Lord Burlington to create a Roman villa, rather than a Renaissance pastiche, situated in a symbolic Roman garden. Chiswick Villa is inspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi. The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, as architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a villa closely based on the Villa Capra for his
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Rocca Pisana


Rocca Pisana is a 16-century patrician villa in the comune of Lonigo, province of Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi for the Pisani family. In Italy there are several villas called Villa Pisani, which take their name from this powerful Venetian family. This villa is also known as "La Rocca" or "La Rocca Pisana". Lonigo is also the home of Palladio's Villa Pisani (Bagnolo). Dominating a hill-top site, the exterior of Rocca Pisana shows the influence of Palladio's
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La Unión, Murcia


mining activities. The people who settled in La Unión came mostly from Almería. On 1 January 1860, La Unión, Roche and Portmán were conceded a town council, in that time its name was Villa El Garbanzal. In 1868, there were some disagreements among the locals and this led to the name change of this new municipality — its name became the current name of "La Unión". A period of new splendour took place in this recent municipality from the last years of the 19th century and the first of the
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Casa de Cisneros (Madrid)


The Casa Cisneros is a palace located on the Plaza de la Villa in Madrid, Spain. Built in Plateresque style in 1537, at the request of Benito Jiménez de Cisneros, a 16th-century architect and nephew of Cardinal Cisneros (statesman and whose founder of founded the Complutense University), in honor it is named. The façade on the Plaza de la Villa was restored in about 1909, when the city of Madrid acquired ownership of the property and integrated it into the premises Casa de la Villa. The remodeling was
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Mark Steven Greenfield


Doo-Dahz Offramp Gallery Dec, 2010 Holiday Season Art Show LA Artcore Brewery Annex Nov, 2010 inSCRIPTion: ... text ... image ... action ... Cerritos College Art Gallery Nov, 2010 LATITUDE 34-40 Art 1307 Villa Di Donato Sep, 2010 Social/Political Content José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery Apr, 2010 4TH INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SHOW WITH THAILAND LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts Mar, 2010 4TH INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SHOW WITH THAILAND LA Artcore Brewery Annex Jan, 2010 Spirituality in Art Avenue 50 Studio Dec, 2009 Testimonies Two
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Simone Guilissen


with Jacques Dupuis (1952–1956). In 1957, she completed one of her most notable projects, La Quinta, a large villa in La Roche which she designed with separate functional areas. In 1947, she received a major commission for the sports centre in Jambes but it was not completed until the early 1960s. She also completed a provincial institute for the blind with Jean Dupuis in 1953. In the early 1970s, she participated in the development of Louvain-la-Neuve completing a student residence complex. In 1980,
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Othon de la Roche


Othon de la Roche, also Otho de la Roche (died before 1234), was a Burgundian nobleman of the De la Roche family from La Roche-sur-l'Ognon. He joined the Fourth Crusade and became the first Frankish Lord of Athens in 1204. In addition to Athens, he acquired Thebes by around 1211. The chronicler Alberic of Trois-Fontaines writes that Othon was the son of "a certain noble Pons of La Roche in Burgundy". The identification of La Roche is uncertain, because Burgundy may refer
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Villa La Mauresque


estate and the villa. In 1967, the villa was purchased by an American, Lynn Wyatt, a prominent figure in international society. The façades and the interior layout were modified – while retaining the classic style – at this time by the French architect Marcel Guilgot. "La Mauresque" is arranged around a central patio, on a rectangular plan. Two superimposed galleries, including one that is arcaded and the other on the ground floor, which is glazed, surround this patio. The entry façade is marked by a columnated
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William de la Roche (lord of Veligosti)


William de la Roche was a Baron of Veligosti and Damala in the Principality of Achaea, and a relative of the ruling Dukes of Athens of the de la Roche family. William's exact parentage and position within the de la Roche family is unknown. The 19th-century scholar of Frankish Greece, Karl Hopf, proposed that he was a brother of the second Duke of Athens, Guy I de la Roche, who at the time was supposed to be the nephew of the duchy's founder, Otto de la Roche.
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Villa Valmer


The Villa Valmer is a historic mansion in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It is located near several other villas such as the La villa de Gaby Deslys. The building is in the Renaissance style with three floors. There is a garden open to the public. The villa was built for Charles Gounelle, an oil manufacturer, in 1865. It was designed by architect Henry Condamin. It is home to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Originally named "Wave to the Sea", it was later called Villa
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Villa La Mauresque


The villa "La Mauresque" is located in cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes) and was remodeled in 1927 by the American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) to serve as the main residence of the British novelist Somerset Maugham. Surrounded by gardens and terraces, this villa has received numerous writers and celebrities. Around 1900, the former missionary and chaplain to Leopold II, King of the Belgians, Félix Charmettant (1844-1921), purchased a parcel of land () on the newly subdivided peninsula of cap Ferrat
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Villa La Rotonda, Inverigo


The Villa La Rotonda is a 19th-century castle located on Via Privata D'Adda #2 just outside the town of Inverigo, Province of Como, Lombardy, Italy. The villa was built for himself by the Neoclassical architect Luigi Cagnola, and after his death in 1833, completed by his pupil Francesco Peverlli. The work is a preening agglomeration of academic quotations, hitched together to create a house that lacks the essence of an era and the passion of any specific style. It is an architectural showplace, with a central block
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Architecture of Chiswick House


Italian architects Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616). The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a villa very closely based on the Villa Capra for his use at Chiswick. However, although still clearly influential, Lord Burlington had rejected this design and it was subsequently used at Mereworth Castle, Kent. Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence
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Isabella de la Roche


Isabella de la Roche (died before 1291) was a daughter of Guy I de la Roche. She was married twice, firstly to Geoffrey of Briel, Lord of Karytaina and then secondly to Hugh, Count of Brienne, having children only with her second husband. Isabella's date of birth is unknown. She was the fifth of six children, her siblings included: John I de la Roche, William de la Roche and Alice de la Roche, who was regent of Beirut. Her father Guy was created Duke of
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La Roche-sur-Yon


of 230,386 (1999 census). La-Roche-sur-Yon is chief town of two cantons, Canton of La Roche-sur-Yon-1 and Canton of La Roche-sur-Yon-2. The Gare de La Roche-sur-Yon railway station offers connections to Nantes, Paris, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Bordeaux and several regional destinations. The A87 motorway connects La Roche-sur-Yon with Les Sables-d'Olonne and Angers, the A83 with Nantes and Niort. The commune has designated attendance zones for
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Fred Roche


Frederick Lloyd Roche, CBE (11 March 1931 – 9 November 1992), better known as Fred Roche, was an architect, most known for his work in Milton Keynes during the 1970s and for his company Conran Roche in the 1980s. He trained at Regent Street Polytehnic (now University of Westminster) and qualified in 1955. He remained in London for three years working as a housing architect but in 1958 moved to Coventry where he became an architect specialising in schools. In 1963 he returned to housing when he became principal
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Saint-Paul-la-Roche


Saint-Paul-la-Roche, in Occitan Sent Pau la Ròcha, is a commune in the northeast of the Dordogne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. The commune is integrated into the Regional Natural Parc Périgord Limousin. The commune's name is derived from Saint Paul and the hamlet "La Roche" ("the rock") referring to the white quartz rocks ("La Roche Blanche") cropping out nearby. Saint-Paul-la-Roche is situated 9 kilometers northeast of Thiviers
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Ban de la Roche


-la-Roche (along with hamlets La Haute Goutte and Riangoutte), Waldersbach, Bellefosse, Belmont, Fouday (with the hamlet Trouchy) and Solbach. One of the most important lords of Ban de la Roche was Georges-Jean de Veldenz () (1543–1592), son-in-law of the king of Sweden, and founder of the city of Phalsbourg. Count de Veldenz bought Le Ban de la Roche for its mining possibilities. There were many witchcraft trials held in Le Ban de la Roche between
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Joseph de La Roche Daillon


Joseph de La Roche Daillon (died 1656, Paris) was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan "Récollet" priest. He is best remembered in Canada as an explorer and missionary, and in the United States as the discoverer of oil near the Allegany River. He was the son of Jacques de La Roche, seigneur of Daillon in Anjou, and of Jeanne Froyer of La Baronnière. La Roche's career as a missionary lasted less than five years in the 1620s. La Roche arrived at Quebec
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La Pietra


death this site was sold to James Campbell, in 1883. Walter F. Dillingham bought the land from Campbell and built a home for his bride, Louise Gaylord. Dillingham was the son of Benjamin Dillingham, of Oahu Railway and Land Company. The Dillinghams were married in Florence, Italy, at Villa La Pietra, the 600-year-old villa of Louise's aunt Hortense Mitchell Acton. After selecting the Diamond Head site as their home, Louise Dillingham and her husband hired Chicago architect David Adler to draw up plans for a villa
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ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon


ESOF Vendée La Roche ("Etoile Sportive Ornaysienne de Football Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon") is a French women's football club founded in 1978 and is based in La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée department of the Pays de la Loire. The women's football department, created in 1978, took part in the multi-group French championship in the 1986–1987 and 1991–1992 seasons. Following the creation of a single-group top league in 1992, ESOF La Roche first played it in the 1996–1997
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MBH Architects


Event Pavilion in Irvine, California; Newport Coast Villas in Newport Beach, California, which includes 600 timeshare units on 75 acres; and Marriott's Shadow Ridge in Palm Desert, California. For Hilton, MBH created the hotel construction documents for the Paris Las Vegas casino/hotel in Las Vegas, and was one of the architects for two Las Vegas Hilton Grand Vacations Clubs: Las Vegas Hilton and Strip. Currently MBH is working on the seismic upgrade of the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square along with the renovation of the
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Tourism in Uruguay


and waterfalls. A great tourist attraction of the department is Villa Serrana, known as "La Villa" and the product of an urban planning of architect. Julio Vilamajó. There it can visit the Mesón de las Cañas, the Ventorrillo de la Buena Vista, the Dam Stewart Vargas and adding the wide range of holiday cottages. It also find unmissable places of Lavalleja like the Salus Park with its source of cougar, big Penitente Waterfall, the luxurious Holiday Park UTE y ANTEL, Camping Arequita with its wide range of amenities
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Henri Sauvage


Finished in 1902, the Villa Majorelle brought international attention to the young architect. In 1899, Savage created two Art Nouveau private dining rooms for the celebrated restaurant Café de Paris, after the three salons that Majorelle had created the previous year. The restaurant was later demolished, but the mauve salon was recreated in the Carnavalet Museum of the history of Paris. At the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, Sauvage designed a theater for the American dancer Loïe Fuller, working in collaboration Pierre Roche, Francis Jourdain and the ceramic artist Alexandre
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Mazo de la Roche


. Though there has been much speculation in recent years as to the exact nature of the relationship between de la Roche and Clement, de la Roche's autobiography makes no mention of them being anything other than close companions. Not long after de la Roche's death in 1961, in accordance with her wishes Clement burned almost all of the author's personal diaries. Clement died in 1972. Most recently, de la Roche was the subject of a Red Queen Productions and National Film Board of Canada co-production, "The
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Norda Stelo


d’éducation et d’action sociale (AFEAS) St-Jean Eudes. The Roche Saguenay team designed the plans and specifications and supervised the construction work in collaboration with architect Alain Voyer. Award of merit from the Réseau québécois de Villes et Villages santé. Route 175 – Environmental monitoring The Ministère des Transports du Québec asked Roche to carry out the engineering work required to extend Highway 73 North and redevelop Route 175, as well as to conduct environmental surveillance on projects carried out between kilometres 84 and 227. Bypass road in La Tuque - With
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Mazo de la Roche


her father's side of the family, her uncle Francis signed himself as "Francis J. de la Roche", claiming a descendancy from Sir Richard de la Roche (1199-1283) of Strongbow's army; Mazo eventually adopted the "de la Roche" surname as her own as well. de la Roche was born in Newmarket, Ontario, north of Toronto. The family moved frequently throughout Southern Ontario during her childhood because of her mother's ill health and her father's many jobs. She lived successively in Newmarket
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Mazo de la Roche


Mazo de la Roche (January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time. de la Roche was the only child of William Roche, a salesman, and Alberta (Lundy) Roche, who was a great-great-niece of David Willson, founder of the Children of Peace, through the latter's elder half-brother Hugh L. Willson. On
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Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet


de La Tour-du-Pin, sold all of the family's land in Cubzaguais to the father of Louis Henri Hubert Delisle in 1835. In 1759 he began the demolition of the chateau of La Roche-Chalais, due to the decay of the house and the cost of repairing it. He demolished the old chateau in Saint Andre Bouilh Cubzac, and began construction of a new edifice in 1787, designed by the Parisian architect Victor Louis. However, before the chateau was completed, the Revolution broke out and the
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La Roche, Fribourg


La Roche is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. La Roche is first mentioned in 1134 as "de Rocha". The municipality was formerly known by its German name "Zurflüh", however, that name is no longer used. La Roche has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 46.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.0% is settled (buildings or roads),
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Villa Foscari


Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as "La Malcontenta", a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn't live up to her conjugal duty. The villa was commissioned by the brothers Nicolo and Luigi Foscari, members of a patrician Venetian family that produced Francesco Foscari, one of Venice's most noted doges. It was built between 1558
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Villa Schwob


Villa Schwob also Villa Turque is a house located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed by noted architect Le Corbusier. It was commissioned in 1912 by the watchmaker Anatole Schwob, and completed in 1916. In 1986, this early masterpiece of Le Corbusier has been acquired by the group Ebel for its 75th anniversary to serve both as a reminder of its core values and as "an inexhaustible source of inspiration" for the brand. The villa is built in Oriental style. Le Corbusier used the Regulating Lines design principle
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Roche-Dinkeloo


of Architect’s 25-Year Award for the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York City. In 1982, Kevin Roche received the Pritzker Prize and in 1993, he received the AIA Gold Medal. In 2015 Kevin Roche received the George M. White Award from the American Architectural Foundation. Kevin Roche has been referred to as the "first [architect] to see architecture and nature as one." KRJDA has completed over 200 projects in the US and internationally. These include 8 museums, 38 institutional and corporate headquarters, 7 research laboratories,
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Villa La Reine Jeanne


The villa "La Reine Jeanne" is an imposing holiday mansion, built in 1928 by the American architect Barry Dierks for the French industrialist Paul-Louis Weiller. Located on of land in the village of Cabasson, in the commune of Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), the property is near the Fort de Brégançon. It is renowned for having received numerous celebrities, stars, writers, monarchs, and heads of state, among whom Santiago and Sebastian de Escoriaza, Maïté et François d’Hautefort, Charlie Chaplin, Richard
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Club Hotel de la Ventana


Club Hotel de la Ventana was a large, luxurious hotel resort, built by the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town of Sierra de La Ventana, in the southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Gherardi, who also designed the customs house in the nearby city of Bahía Blanca. Construction began in 1904, under the direction of the architects Gaston Luis Mallet and Jacques Dunant, with bricks provided by Ernesto
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La Roche-Guyon


La Roche-Guyon () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the . The commune grew around the Château de La Roche-Guyon, upon which historically it depended for its existence. The commune's population in 2015 was 464. It is located approximately 58km from Paris. The present Château de La Roche-Guyon was built in the 12th century, controlling a river crossing of the Seine, itself one of the routes to and
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Mazo de la Roche


and lived there until 1908, selling one of her stories while she was there. Her novel "Delight" was based on her time there, and Acton's geography figures notably in "Possession". A few years later in 1911, by now in her early thirties, de la Roche moved with Caroline and the Roches to Sovereign House in Bronte, Ontario, to try life as farm owners. By now, de la Roche had resumed writing and was placing stories in American magazines on an occasional basis. William Roche
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Sophie von La Roche


his country estate in Bönnigheim. Through the Count's will, La Roche's husband was appointed as supervisor of the Bönningheim estates. La Roche followed her husband there in 1770, and it was there that she completed—on the advice of a parson friend—the novel she had already begun at Warthausen, "Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim". ["History of Fräulein von Sternheim"]. The novel was published by Wieland in 1771. Georg von La Roche supervised the Stadion-Warthausen estates until 1771, when
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La Roche University


La Roche University is a private university in McCandless Township, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a Roman Catholic college and now sits on an campus in McCandless within the Diocese of Pittsburgh. La Roche University was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a private college for religious sisters. It was named in honor of Stephanie Amelia la Roche von Starkenfels, the first Mother Superior of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The first president of the university was Sister Annunciata Sohl, C.D.P.
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Arboretum de La Roche-Guyon


The Arboretum de La Roche-Guyon (12 hectares), also known as the Arboretum de La Roche, is an arboretum managed by the "Office national des forêts" (ONF). It is located in the regional forest (309 hectares) north of La Roche-Guyon, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, and open daily without charge. The arboretum was created in 1990 by the ONF. It symbolizes the geography of Île-de-France, and contains 1821 trees reflecting the
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Barony of Veligosti


passed on to a junior branch of the de la Roche family, whose senior branch ruled the Duchy of Athens. Already in a document dated to 1256, William de la Roche is mentioned as "lord of Veligosti" ("dominus Villegordus"). The process of the transfer is obscure; Hopf hypothesized that a sister of Matthew of Mons may have married William de la Roche. William, a younger brother of the Duke of Athens Guy I de la Roche, also held the region of Damala in the Argolid as
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La Roche University


, who served until 1968. The college had begun to admit its first lay students by 1965. It continued to grow, and two years later, La Roche expanded beyond its leased space to construct the first building, the John J. Wright Library. La Roche encountered financial difficulties soon after its founding. Although closing the college was considered, Sister de la Salle Mahler, C.D.P., president from 1969 to 1975, carried on. The Board amended its charter in 1970 to establish La Roche as an independent, coeducational Catholic institution
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Joseph Bruseau de La Roche


Joseph Bruseau de La Roche (? in Paris – 17 July 1750 in Brussels) was an 18th-century French actor, playwright and theatre manager. Joseph Bruseau La Roche directed the Théâtre de la Monnaie from 1731 to 1733, a job that had previously been handled by Jean-Richard Le Roux. The theater knew several successful performances under his guidance, but also endured harsh competition by the Théâtre du Coffy. La Roche relinquished the position in 1733, but remained in contact with the theater throughout his acting career. He
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Ellen Browning Scripps


Diocese of the Episcopal Church, to establish The Bishop's School as a preparatory school for girls. South Molton Villa, located on Prospect St. in La Jolla, was located next to Wisteria Cottage, a bungalow owned by Virginia Scripps. Wisteria Cottage was renovated in 1910 by architect Irving J. Gill a pioneer in the modernist movement. It now serves as the gallery and exhibition space of the La Jolla Historical Society. After South Molton Villa was destroyed by fire in 1915, Ellen Scripps commissioned Gill to build a new, fireproof
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La Pausa


as she had arranged it. The collection of 1,400 objet d'art is displayed at the museum as the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection in a reconstruction of five rooms from La Pausa. The villa's central courtyard and patio were reconstructed at the museum along with the villa's dining room, library, salon, bedroom, and hall, situated in a purpose built 16,500-square-foot wing designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Wendy Reves also donated $3 million to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, to establish
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La Roche-en-Ardenne


La Roche-en-Ardenne is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg and the arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne. Lying beside a bend in the River Ourthe, the small town of La Roche-en-Ardenne is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Ardennes. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 147.52 km², had 4,348 inhabitants, giving a population density of 29.5 inhabitants per km². La Roche-en-Ardenne is located between the E25 Liège-Luxembourg and
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Ouvrage Roche-la-Croix


were associated with Roche-la-Croix. Additional fortifications on the opposite site of the valley form a barrier to an advance through the Ubayette valley. The battery and the original Redoute de Roche-la-Croix are closely associated with the system of fortifications centering on the Fort de Tournoux to the west, built in the late 19th century. Roche-la-Croix fired on an Italian patrol that crossed into French territory on 17 June 1940. As Italian troops of the Forli Division advanced into France on 20 June,
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Ouvrage Roche-la-Croix


they were bombarded by Roche-la-Croix's 75mm gun turret, supported by fire from Saint Ours Haut, stopping the advance. The turret fired four salvos the following day. On the 22nd, Roche-la-Croix's turret was used for counter-battery fire against Italian artillery, followed by fire on Italian forces advancing along the Col des Monges, supported by fire from Block 6 of the main "ouvrage" and Roche-la-Croix Supérieure. Additional fire was directed to support the defense of
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Joseph de La Roche Daillon


trip made in Huron canoes, he at last arrived at the village of Toanché. La Roche left the Hurons on October 18, 1626, choosing to minister to the Neutrals, so-called because they remained neutral between the Huron and Iroquois. The Neutrals lived near the modern-day sites of both Hamilton and Buffalo and along the Grand and Niagara rivers. At the time, the Neutrals had 28 villages, as reported by de la Roche. La Roche settled on the east bank of the Niagara, north of the
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Anne de La Roche-Guilhem


Anne de La Roche-Guilhem or La Roche-Guilhen (July 24, 1644, Rouen – 1707 or 1710, England) was a French writer and translator. The daughter of Charles de Guilhen and Marie-Anne d'Azemar, she was, by her mother, a grand-niece of the poet Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant. Anne de La Roche-Guilhem became known by several works of fiction. A Protestant, she emigrated to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), perhaps via
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Château de La Roche (Saint-Priest-la-Roche)


The Château de La Roche is a restored castle situated in the "commune" of Saint-Priest-la-Roche in the Loire "département" of France, 20 km from Roanne. The castle stands on an island in the lake formed by the Villerest dam. The earliest written records of the castle date from 1260. It was built on a rocky platform overlooking the Loire river from a height of 30 metres. The fortress allowed a watch to be kept and tolls to be collected for the County of Forez border
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Notenstein La Roche Private Bank


surroundings, Benedikt La Roche, whose great-grandfather's military prowess in the service of the French crown had earned him the privilege of using the sobriquet “La Roche”, founded a trading and freight forwarding company in 1787. In the wake of the economic crisis of 1800, growing demand for industrial capital caused the trading company's banking arm to become increasingly important. By the end of the century, La Roche was active in financing projects ranging from the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn railway to a brewery. Basel attained
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La Roche-sur-Yon


1793–96); the renamed Napoléonville was laid out and a fresh population of soldiers and civil servants was brought in. Napoléonville was designed to accommodate 15,000 people. The town was called successively: The river Yon flows southward through the commune and crosses the town. The "Communauté d'agglomération" "La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération" contains 15 communes: La Roche-sur-Yon is the chief town of the Arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon, which covers 11 cantons, 92 communes, and has a population
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Mazo de la Roche


, Mazo's father, died in 1915 of cirrhosis of the liver brought on by alcoholism. de la Roche, her mother Alberta and Caroline moved back to Toronto. de la Roche continued to write, but at this juncture Caroline Clement was the main breadwinner of the household, working as a civil service clerk. (She would eventually rise to become the province of Ontario's chief statistician.) During the summers, Clement lived in a Toronto boarding house while de la Roche and her mother would stay in a cottage near
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Villa Mariani


the bedroom which has remained miraculously intact. Above the bed are the message boards, made by Eugenio Quarter, where Mariani always kept the paper sheets on which to sketch something. On the shelf of toiletries, there are his razor and his talcum powder. The Villa's Park, appliances and all the contents of the property are protected by the Ligurian Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape. The artist's workshop, La Specola, is located in the garden of the villa and was built by the architect Rodolfo Winter in 1911
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Raoul Albert La Roche


Raoul Albert La Roche (born 23 February 1889 in Basel, Switzerland, died 15 June 1965 in Basel) was a Swiss banker and collector and donor of art. He was especially interested in purism and cubism and his collections of paintings have been donated to the museums in Switzerland and France.. His home in Paris, "Maison La Roche", was designed by his friend Le Corbusier and now houses the Le Corbusier Foundation. Raoul Albert La Roche was born on 23 February 1889, and grew up in Basel, Switzerland
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François-Étienne de La Roche


François-Étienne de La Roche (or Delaroche) (9 December 1781 – 23 December 1813) was a Genevan physician, naturalist, chemist, botanist and ichthyologist. He was born in Geneva to Marie Castanet and Daniel de La Roche, and was the youngest of three children. His father was an Edinburgh-trained physician, botanist and medical translator from Geneva, who was friends with Louis Odier, the Swiss physician, medical translator and publisher. After working in Geneva, the family moved to Paris where de La Roche
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Sophie von La Roche


of Christoph Martin Wieland, and became engaged to him. In 1753, however, she married Georg von La Roche—completely surprising to her fiancé Wieland, who at the time lived in Switzerland. Georg von La Roche was an illegitimate son of Count Friedrich von Stadion-Warthausen and a dancer, Catharina La Roche. Stadion-Warthausen took custody of the boy and provided for his education as a secretary. Of the couple's eight children, five survived past childhood: Maximiliane (1756–1793), Fritz (born 1757)
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Sophie von La Roche


her time in Speyer and Offenbach am Main, and traveled to Switzerland, France, Holland and England, which experiences prompted her to write and publish travelogues. Through her daughter Maximiliane, who was married to the businessman and diplomat Peter Anton Brentano, La Roche became the grandmother of Bettina von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. When Maximiliane died in 1793, La Roche took in three girls of the couple's eight children. La Roche died in Offenbach am Main. She is buried at the outer wall of the St. Pancras Church in
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Estienne de La Roche


Estienne de La Roche (1470–1530) was a French mathematician. Sometimes known as Estienne de Villefranche, La Roche was born in Lyon, but his family also owned property in Villefranche-sur-Saône, where he lived during his youth. He studied mathematics with Nicolas Chuquet. Having in his possession Chuquet's manuscripts, it is probable that La Roche was on good terms with Chuquet. He taught commercial mathematics in Lyon for 25 years. He is regarded today as a professor of arithmetic (at the time, Master of
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Joseph de La Roche Daillon


his voyage to and sojourn among the Neutrals, describing their country and their customs, and mentioning the oil he discovered. Gabriel Sagard and Chrétien Le Clercq reproduced it in their writings, in a more or less abridged form. La Roche's discovery of oil makes him a notable figure in the history of Western New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he's typically called "De La Roche D'Aillon". Interest in him grew after the Pennsylvania oil boom starting in 1859. De La Roche Hall, the main science building at
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Château de La Roche (Saint-Priest-la-Roche)


. The building suffered floods from the Loire more often than attacks from enemies. In 1290, Girard de La Roche paid homage to the Count of Forez for his house in La Roche. In the 17th century, because of repetitive floods, the castle lost its attraction, resembling more and more a fortified house that became a ruin in later centuries. At the end of the 1900s, an industrialist from Roanne bought the castle and restored it in the Gothic style, intending it as a second home. During the 1930s,
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Jacqueline de la Roche


Jacqueline de la Roche (d. after 1329), was sovereign baroness of Veligosti and Damala in 1308-1329, from 1311 in co-regency with her spouse. She was the daughter and heiress of Renaud de la Roche, and as such the last heiress of the de la Roche family which had ruled the Duchy of Athens from 1204 to 1308. She married Martino Zaccaria, Lord of Chios in 1311, who became her co-regent. When Martino was captured and carted off to Constantinople by Andronicus III Palaeologus in
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Villa La Californie


the garden of the villa and ordered a winter residence project from the architect H. Piquart. In 1920, the project was commissioned and the house was named "Villa Fenelon". Pablo Picasso bought the house in 1955 and moved there with Jacqueline Roque. It is from this workshop that he painted the Bay of Cannes, in 1958, where he represents the seascape strangled by the urban environment. In 1961, with the construction of a new building concealing the sea view, Picasso decided to look for another home. He left
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Oradea


(Moskovits Palace I and II, Apollo Palace, Stern Palace, Adorjan Houses I and II, Darvasy Palace), villas (La Roche, Vágó, Okany Schwartz), hôtels (Pannonia, Emke, Rimonoczy, Weiszlovics, Vulturul Negru), military buildings – on Armatei Române Street, industrial buildings and warehouses (beer-, spirit-, bricks-factories, electric plant’s chimney), public institutions (City Hall, Palace of Orthodox Bishopry, Palace of Greek-Catholic Bishopry, Palace of Justice, banks, houses
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Roches Noires, Mauritius


Roches Noires is a village located in the Rivière du Rempart district of Mauritius, on the east coast. It is located about east of the capital of Port Louis. It has an estimated population of 5,733 inhabitants. Roches Noires is a residential area, with many of the bungalows and villas occupied as secondary residences. This part of the coast located near the village consists of several secluded coves of white sand beach. In several places around Roches Noires, the reef comes to within 50 meters of the shore. Popular attractions include
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Sophie von La Roche


Maria Sophie von La Roche (née Gutermann von Gutershofen; 6 December 1730 – 18 February 1807) was a German novelist. She is considered the first financially independent professional writer in Germany. Sophie von La Roche was born in Kaufbeuren, present-day Germany, the oldest child of the doctor Georg Friedrich Gutermann and his wife, Regina Barbara. Gutermann was originally from Biberach. La Roche spent the majority of her childhood in Augsburg, under strict Pietist upbringing, and made frequent visits to Biberach. There she became the friend
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La Roche (horse)


Jubilee in the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket. One week after her Oaks triumph, La Roche followed up by "cantering" to victory under 107 pounds in the valuable Manchester Cup, a handicap race over one and three quarter miles at Manchester Racecourse. La Roche won again at York Racecourse on 28 August, when she "slaughtered" the opposition to take the Yorkshire Oaks from Inquisitive and Vain Duchess at odds of 1/4. La Roche had never been entered in the St Leger, for which she might well have
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La Roche-sur-Yon


its primary schools. Schools include: In 2014 La Roche-sur-yon hosted the 2014 French championship of table tennis La Roche-sur-Yon's Vendéspace hosted one of the first round ties of the 2014 Davis Cup tennis tournament over the weekend of 31 January - 2 February 2014. France hosted Australia as both teams competed for a place in the World Group quarterfinals. In 2015 La Roche-sur-Yon, will host the 2015 FIRS Men's Roller Hockey World Cup, the first time that a World Cup
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Mazo de la Roche


de la Roche's productivity slowed somewhat once she was in her sixties and seventies. Partly due to arthritis in her hands, much of her later work was dictated to Clement. She still published regularly right up to her death, with her final novel "Morning at Jalna" appearing in 1960 when she was 81. Overall, de la Roche and Caroline Clement lived a fairly reclusive life, and their relationship was not discussed widely in the press. In her infrequent interviews, de la Roche often expressed a need for privacy
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Mazo de la Roche


Mystery of Mazo de la Roche", which premiered on March 17, 2012 at the Festival international du film sur l'art in Montreal, then had its Toronto Premiere at Hot Docs April 29/12. The film is directed by Maya Gallus, produced by Justine Pimlott & Anita Lee, and combines archival material with dramatic reenactments featuring Severn Thompson as Mazo de la Roche. The film "lend(s) credence to the theory that its subject was a closeted lesbian", although several people in the film who knew de la Roche and Clement
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La Salle Hotel


occupied by the five-story La Salle Building from 1872 to 1908 and the adjacent Oriental Hall, a Masonic temple, from 1873. Known as the “Empire Block,” it housed the Metropolitan National Bank. The hotel was named in honor of Robert Cavelier de LaSalle. Built at a cost of approximately $3,500,000, or 44 cents per cubic foot, the architects were Holabird & Roche while the engineers were the firm of Purdy & Henderson. At one time Chicago's largest hotel, the LaSalle was opened in 1909
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Saint-Ambroise Church


Saint-Ambroise Church () is a church in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is situated on Beaubien Street, between de La Roche Street et de Normanville Street. Saint-Ambroise Church was built between 1924 and 1925. It is part of an architectural ensemble that also includes the presbytery and École Anthelme-Verreau. All three buildings were designed by Montreal architect Ernest Cormier. Also located nearby is École Saint-Ambroise which was designed by Jean-Omer Marchand.
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Roche Bobois


brand. Roche Bobois works in collaboration with a number of designers and architects to create its collections. In the 1980s, Hans Hopfer and Italian architect, Luigi Gorgoni, worked with the brand. Again, in the 2000s, collaborations include: A number of these collections were presented at the Mobi Boom exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris. Fashion designers, too, have added their mark to Roche Bobois: Kenzo, Missoni, Ungaro, Jean Paul Gaultier and Sonia Rykiel and Christian Lacroix. The information on this
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Kevin Roche


of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut and has been viewed at The Museum of the City of New York and at the Building Museum in Washington, and the University of Toronto. In addition to the Pritzker Prize, Roche was the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal Award for Architecture, and the "French Academie d'Architecture" Grand Gold Medal. A feature documentary called "Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect" was released in 2017
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Notenstein La Roche Private Bank


Notenstein La Roche Private Bank was a Swiss private bank headquartered in St. Gallen and CHF 16.8 billion of client assets under management. The private bank, which had belonged to Raiffeisen (Switzerland) since 2012, was sold to Bank Vontobel in July 2018 and was fully integrated into that banking group as of 30 September 2018. Notenstein La Roche Private Bank specialised in comprehensive wealth structuring for private clients. Notenstein La Roche Private Bank's core competencies included wealth management and investment advisory services, financial and pension planning, as well as providing
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Mazo de la Roche


There de la Roche began to develop her fictional world of rural aristocracy that would—years later—become Jalna. When de la Roche was seven, her parents adopted her orphaned eight-year-old cousin Caroline Clement, who joined in Mazo's fantasy world game and would become her lifelong companion. De la Roche wrote her first short story at age 9. She attended high school at Jameson Collegiate (now Parkdale Collegiate Institute) in west end Toronto, and later studied at the Metropolitan School of Music, the University
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Ricardo Porro


Ricardo Porro Hidalgo (November 1925 – 25 December 2014) was a Cuban-born architect. He graduated in architecture from the Universidad de la Habana (University of Havana) in 1949 and built this year his first project Villa Armenteros in Havana, following which he spent two years in post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism at the Sorbonne. Back to Cuba, in 1952, he conceived and made in Havana a serie of works of architecture: Villa Ennis (1953), Villa San Miguel (1953),
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Hernán Ruiz the Younger


Hernán Ruiz the Younger (sometimes spelled Hernán Ruiz II; c. 1514 – 21 April 1569) was a Spanish Renaissance architect, active mostly in Andalusia. He was born in Córdoba or Burgos, the son of Hernán Ruiz the Elder, also an architect. His activities include the role of director of the construction of the Cathedral of Córdoba (from 1547) and of Seville (since 1557), the baptistery of San Nicolás de la Villa (1540–1554), the Casa consistorial de Sevilla, the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas
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Estadio Augusto César Sandino


Estadio Augusto César Sandino is a multi-use stadium in Santa Clara, Cuba. It is currently used mostly for baseball games and is the home stadium of Villa Clara Naranjas. The stadium holds 20,000 people. Sandino Stadium "Orange fury" | La furia naranja, el estadio sandino de Santa Clara La Furia Naranja (Orange Fury) is the nickname of Villa Clara province baseball team, the name also given since 2009 to everything painted in orange throughout the city. The architects Emilio Castro and Gustavo R. Arnavat projected the Sandino
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Oxegen 2010


of June several more acts were added on oxegen.ie: Vitalic, Fake Blood, Louis La Roche, Fred Falke, Jesse Rose, The Golden Filter, Popof, Primary 1, DJ Villa, French Horn Rebellion, Bitches with Wolves, Ou Est, Amasis, Dublin Streets, Al Gibbs, Vogue and DJ Gordo. On 14 June, the complete day and stage breakdown was revealed by MCD. On 18 June 2010, Choice Prize-shortlisted indie-electro band Codes confirmed on "The Rick O'Shea Show" that they
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La Roche-Guyon


) was added below. Guy de La Roche fell at the Battle of Agincourt, and his widow was ousted from the Roche, after six months of siege, in 1419; she preferred to depart rather than accept Henry Plantagenet as her overlord. It came to the Liancourt family with the marriage of Roger de Plessis-Liancourt to the heiress Marie de La Roche; he was a childhood companion of Louis XIII, first gentleman of the "Chambre du Roi", and was made a duke in 1643. He and his
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Mazo de la Roche


Lake Simcoe, several hours north of the city. Alberta Roche died in 1920. After this, de la Roche's writing career began in earnest, and Clement and de la Roche were never again separated for any significant length of time. During most of the 1920s, they split their time between Toronto and a cottage they had built in Clarkson, Ontario. Her first published book, "Explorers of the Dawn", appeared in 1922, and was a fix-up of some previously published sketches, vignettes and stories
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