270 Park Avenue [SEP] architect
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270 Park Avenue


270 Park Avenue (also known as the JPMorgan Chase Tower and formerly the Union Carbide Building) is a high-rise office building located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. 270 Park Avenue was built between 1957 and 1960, and is tall. The building is expected to be demolished between 2019 and 2020, making it the tallest voluntarily demolished building in the world, overtaking the current record holder Singer Building that was demolished in 1968
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East Side Access


tours by September 2018. In advance of the planned deconstruction of 270 Park Avenue above East Side Access, the MTA and 270 Park Avenue's owner JPMorgan Chase signed an agreement in July 2019, in which JPMorgan agreed to ensure that the deconstruction of 270 Park Avenue would not disrupt the timeline of East Side Access. Previous work extending subway service through the upper level of the 63rd Street Tunnel to lines in Queens also extended the lower level to a point west of Northern Boulevard, across from the Sunnyside Yard. Work in Queens
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270 Park Avenue


. The address 270 Park Avenue was previously occupied by a 6-building complex which formed the 12-story, stone-clad Renaissance Revival Hotel Marguery built in 1917 by New York developer Charles V. Paterno. New York Central Railroad owned the land underneath the project since building the nearby Grand Central Terminal. The buildings were centered around a 250-foot long Italian Garden which occupied the center of the block. When the building was first constructed, Vanderbilt Avenue passed through the center of the buildings where the garden was eventually built. After the street was closed
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JPMorgan Chase


in a space that has a capacity of 3,500. The new headquarters is part of the East Midtown rezoning plan. The bulk of North American operations take place in four buildings located adjacent to each other on Park Avenue in New York City: the former Union Carbide Building at 270 Park Avenue, the hub of sales and trading operations, and the original Chemical Bank building at 277 Park Avenue, where most investment banking activity took place. Asset and wealth management groups are located at 245 Park Avenue and 345 Park Avenue. Other
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JPMorgan Chase


, the current world headquarters for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are located at 270 Park Avenue, Chemical Bank's former headquarters. In 2018, JPMorgan announced they would demolish the current building on site at 270 Park Avenue to make way for a newer building that will be 500 feet (150 m) taller than the existing building. Demolition is expected to begin in early 2019, and the new building will be completed in 2024. The replacement 70-story headquarters will be able to fit 15,000 employees, whereas the current building fits 6,000 employees
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John W. Campbell (financier)


nearby 270 Park Avenue apartment, and later, from the Westchester Country Club to the north. To satisfy these needs, he leased of space from Grand Central Terminal. It was a single room long by wide with a ceiling and an enormous fireplace in which he kept a steel safe. In 1923, Campbell commissioned Augustus N. Allen, an architect known for designing estates on Long Island and townhouses in Manhattan, to build an office in the leased space in Grand Central. He transformed it into a 13th-century Florentine palace
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Hot Springs, Arkansas


Grand Avenue, Summer Street, Albert Pike Road, and Airport Road, while U.S. Route 270 Business enters from the east as Malvern Avenue, joins US 70 Business along Grand Avenue and Summer Street, and exits to the west as Albert Pike Road. US-70 leads east to Benton and west-southwest to Glenwood, while US-270 leads southeast to Malvern and west-northwest to Mount Ida. Arkansas Highway 7 passes through the center of Hot Springs as Central Avenue and Park Avenue. It leads north across the Ouachita Mountains to Russellville
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Park Avenue


270 Park Avenue and 277 Park Avenue, UBS at 299 Park Avenue, Citigroup, Colgate-Palmolive, and MetLife at the MetLife Building. Prior to July 2010, the eleven intersections between 46th Street and 56th Street lacked the city's usual pedestrian crossing signals and overhead gantry-mounted traffic lights, because the railroad tunnel ceiling, which is also the street, was not thick enough for their poles' foundations. (These intersections did, however, have upright pole-mounted traffic lights prior to 2010, but there were
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Grand Central LIRR terminal


entrances at Grand Central North. The new LIRR station would also contain entrances at 335 Madison Avenue, near the southeast corner with 44th Street; at 270 Park Avenue and 280 Park Avenue near 47th and 48th–49th Streets, respectively; and at 347 Madison Avenue, on the east side of the avenue at 45th Street. An entrance on 46th Street between Lexington and Park Avenue was also built, connecting with Grand Central North. However, the MTA later announced its intent to defer construction of an entrance at 48th Street because the owner
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Chemical Bank


decades. Under Chairman Donald Platten, Chemical's headquarters was to move to 277 Park Avenue in 1979. The bank moved across Park Avenue in 1991 to occupy the former headquarters of Manufacturers Hanover Corporation at 270 Park Avenue, which remained the headquarters of Chemical's successor, JPMorgan Chase, until the building was vacated in early 2019 in preparation for demolition and construction of a new JPMorgan Chase headquarters on the same site. JPMorgan Chase would returned to 277 Park Avenue in 2000, following the departure of its previous tenant, Donaldson Lufkin
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270 Park Avenue


the Grand Central Terminal's rail yards, which are directly underneath 270 Park Avenue. In May 2019, New York City Council unanimously approved JPMorgan's headquarters. In order to secure approvals, JPMorgan was required to contribute $40 million to a district-wide improvement fund and incorporate a new privately owned public space plaza in front of the tower. After pressure from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and New York City Council member Keith Powers, JPMorgan also agreed to fund numerous upgrades to the public realm surrounding the building including improvements to
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Vanderbilt Avenue


above the street's eastern side. The Yale Club of New York City is located on Vanderbilt Avenue, at the intersection of East 44th Street, as is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and One Vanderbilt supertall skyscraper. When it was originally built, it ran from 42nd Street to 49th Street. However, in the 1960s, the portion between 47th Street and 49th Street was closed permanently, as it became part of 270 Park Avenue and 280 Park Avenue. Vanderbilt Avenue runs northeast-southwest through East Shore. It
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655 Park Avenue


655 Park Avenue is a Georgian-style co-op residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, located on Park Avenue between 67th Street and 68th Street, adjacent to the Park Avenue Armory. It was developed in 1924 by Dwight P. Robinson & Company. The building at 655 Park Avenue was designed by architects James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr., often referred to by the initials "J.E.R. Carpenter", and Mott B. Schmidt. Carpenter is considered the leading architect for luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City
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Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio


270 outerbelt. It is bordered by East Powell Road on the north, North Cleveland Avenue and Interstate 71 on the east, I-270 on the south, and the west border of the Highbanks Metro Park on the west. The Northland area is bordered mostly by the Interstate 270 outerbelt and East Dublin-Granville Road/State Route 161 on the north (some areas go as north as the Hoover Reservoir), New Albany on the east, Morse and East Cooke roads on the south, and Sinclair Road and Busch Boulevard on
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270 Park Avenue


for JPMorgan Chase, as successor to Manufacturers Hanover Trust through Chemical Bank. The building is tall and contains 52 floors. In 2012, it was announced that 270 Park had achieved Platinum LEED status following what was then the largest such renovation in history. In February 2018, JPMorgan announced they would demolish the current building on site to make way for a newer building that will be taller than the existing building. The tower would thus become the tallest voluntarily demolished building in the world, as well as the third-tallest ever
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East Side Access


the lower level of Grand Central. The number of elevators in this terminal would exceed the 19 escalators in the remainder of the LIRR system combined. The MTA originally planned to build and open additional entrances at 44th, 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets. The station would connect to existing entrances at Grand Central North. The new LIRR station would also contain entrances at 335 Madison Avenue, near the southeast corner with 44th Street; at 270 Park Avenue and 280 Park Avenue near 47th and 48th–49th Streets, respectively; and at
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Park Avenue Historic District (Detroit, Michigan)


from Grand Circus Park up Park Avenue. In 1922, Albert Kahn designed the Park Avenue Building, located at the entrance to Park Avenue (but included in the neighboring Grand Circus Park Historic District). Other architects and artisans contributed hotels, apartment buildings, and office buildings to the structures on Park Avenue. In 1923, the Park Avenue Association was formed. They planned the street to concentrate high-grade commercial and office space at the south end, and prestigious residential development at the north end. As the district developed
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Interstate 270 (Maryland)


lanes and the inner three lanes and the HOV lane serving as express lanes. Past Montrose Road, I-270 continues north into the Rockville area, turning northwest before it comes to a single-point urban interchange with MD 189 (Falls Road), where the highway sees 253,620 vehicles daily. The road continues to a modified cloverleaf interchange with MD 28 (Montgomery Avenue). Past MD 28, the freeway passes numerous business parks and some wooded areas before coming to an interchange with Shady Grove Road. Past this interchange, I-270
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625 Park Avenue


625 Park Avenue is a co-op residential building in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side at the intersection of East 65th Street and Park Avenue. It is noted for its spacious residences and well-known residents. The building at 999 Park Avenue was designed by Park Avenue architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. often referred to by the initialism "J.E.R. Carpenter". Carpenter has many designs on the avenue and together with Rosario Candela is considered among its primary influencers. 625 Park Avenue was developed in 1929
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Mount Morris Bank Building


the residential portion in the Queen Anne style. At the time, the New York Central Railroad ran in an open cut along Park Avenue, with a (below-grade) station at 125th Street. The building's location was thus convenient for commuters as well as for commerce. In 1889-90 the building was doubled in size using the adjacent lot on its north (Park Avenue) side, in an expansion designed by the original architects, which included a basement entrance at 1820 Park Avenue. In 1912, architect
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History of Albany, New York (1860–1900)


of the city is evident in the opening of Washington Park in 1871 (lake, bridge, and lakehouse finished in 1875) and of a fifth police precinct on Central Avenue, occupying building at 270 Central Avenue in 1876 (just west of North Lake Avenue). In Albany's South End Second, Third, and Fourth avenues receive their names, formerly being in order- Whitehall Road, Van Vechten Street, and Nucella Street. George Thacher resignes in 1874 and Edmund Judson (Republican) is elected by a margin of 1,492
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Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio


bounded by West Broad Street on the north, Sullivant Avenue on the south, South Grener Avenue on the east, and Redmond and Hiler roads on the west. Cherry Creek is a neighborhood on the West Side. It contains the Lincoln Park and Westview apartment complexes. It is bounded on the east by the Interstate 270 Outerbelt, on the north by Sullivant Avenue, on the west by Norton Road, and on the south by Hall Road. Hardesty Heights is located in the West Side, and the most western part of
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Canarsie, Brooklyn


in 1992. The pier contains a restaurant and a visitor center. The neighborhood also has many parks operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Bayview Playground is located at Seaview Avenue and East 100th Street, within the Bayview Houses and next to PS 270. The original plot for the playground was acquired in 1955, and NYCHA gave additional land in 1962. Bayview Playground contains basketball and handball courts, as well as a play area and fitness area. Bildersee Playground is located on Flatlands Avenue between East 81st
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Roser Park Historic District


features close proximity to commercial centers, municipal facilities, hospitals, colleges, arts and entertainment, sporting arenas, boating, beaches and recreation, and regional and international airports. The 270-acre district is bounded by 4th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street (9th St. S.). to the east and west, and by Booker Creek and Ingleside Avenue (11th Avenue South) to the north and south. The first residential subdivision to be established outside of the downtown St. Petersburg business district, Roser Park was an early "
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383 Madison Avenue


277 Park are adjacent to JPMorgan Chase's world headquarters at 270 Park Avenue. A night time photograph of the building taken at a steep angle from its base appears on the cover of William D. Cohan's book, "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street" (2009). The original building at 383 Madison was a 14-story, limestone office building designed by Cross & Cross named the Knapp Building. The building occupied the entire block and had served as the headquarters of the Manhattan Savings
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1251 Avenue of the Americas


the façade. A seven-floor base wraps around the western portion of the building, and there is a sunken plaza with a large two-tier pool and fountains facing Sixth Avenue. In the plaza stands the bronze statue named "Out to Lunch" by John Seward Johnson II—of the same series as the one standing outside the 270 Park Avenue. The building was part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings". Their plans were first drawn in 1963 by the Rockefeller family
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Buick Park Avenue


only), 旗舰型 (Flagship) and 旗舰版 (Ultimate - 2010 only) The Park Avenue was powered by Australian-built versions of the GM High Feature engine. The standard engines were the 2.8 L "LP1" and the 3.6 L "LY7" engine available as an option on the Elite and Flagship models from 2007 to 2009. The engine control unit is a Bosch E77 32-bit ECM processor. In 2010, only one engine option was offered, a 3 L SIDI (270 bhp) replacing the old 2.8 V6
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Lake Seppings


Lake Seppings (Noongar: Tjuirtgellong) is a freshwater lake located within the city of in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The lake is east-north-east of the Albany city centre. The main bitumen roads that border Lake Seppings are Golf Links Road to the east, Troode Street to the north, Collingwood Road, Drew Street/Sleeman Avenue to west and Lake Seppings Drive to the south. The lake is nearly completely surrounded by a compacted gravel footpath and wooden walkways. A wooden bird hide has been
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903 Park Avenue


903 Park Avenue is a 17-story residential building on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The building is located on the corner of 903 Park Avenue (where the main entrance is) and East 79th Street. The building was erected from 1912 to 1914 by the construction firm Bing & Bing. It was designed by architect Robert T. Lyons. At the time of its construction, 903 Park Ave was said to be the tallest residential building in New York City. It was acquired by Maria DeWitt
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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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Maryland Route 117


Maryland Route 117 (MD 117) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway runs from MD 28 near Dawsonville east to West Diamond Avenue next to MD 355 in Gaithersburg. MD 117 is an L-shaped highway that connects the rural western Montgomery County communities of Dawsonville and Boyds with Germantown, Gaithersburg, and Interstate 270 (I-270) in the suburban central part of the county. The highway also provides access to Seneca Creek State Park, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and several commuter
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Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District


upper-middle-class homes were built on the west side of the street, facing the park. In 1899, the Wade Park Avenue Bridge (designed by prominent Cleveland architect Charles F. Schweinfurth) opened. This bridge carried East Boulevard (later Liberty Boulevard, and still later Wade Park Avenue) over the park, and helped to provide greater accessibility to the neighborhood. Beginning in 1910 and ending in 1928, several apartment buildings of varying size were built between Talbot Avenue and Wade Avenue. The first of these was the
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Jeanne Manor Apartment Building


The Jeanne Manor Apartment Building is a seven-story apartment hi-rise located in downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architects Bennes and Herzog finished the Art Deco structure in 1931. The Jeanne Manor faces the South Park Blocks at the corner of Southwest Park Avenue and Clay Street. Designed to reflect some of the features of Beaux-Arts apartment buildings along New York City's Park Avenue, the structure was reputedly selected by a group of American architects as an
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Highland Park, New Jersey


Avenue between Lawrence Avenue and North Second Avenue. The next block to be developed was the northwest side of Lincoln Avenue between Lawrence Avenue and North Second Avenue. Six stucco bungalows were then constructed on the southern side of Lawrence east of Lincoln Avenue. As the housing development grew in popularity, houses were constructed less systematically by block, and more often on lots that individual homeowners selected from the remaining available properties. Whittlesey used plans from architects George Edward Krug and Francis George Hasselman, as well as plans generated by several local architects
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Interstate 270 (Missouri–Illinois)


367 and Lilac Avenue exits on October 28, 2002, forced detours and lengthy delays. There were plans to sign an section of I-270 from Glen Carbon to Edwardsville as I-870. However, this idea was discarded. In 2008, MoDOT implemented new variable speed limits on I-270/I-255 with the normal limit being . However, due to complaints from the public, these signs were planned to be updated in 2011 to advisory signs. IDOT wanted to widen I-270 from Lilac Avenue to I-255 from four lanes to six, but no
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Newport Beach Civic Center and Park


The Newport Beach Civic Center and Park is a civic center and community park located in Newport Beach, California. It is situated on a 16-acre lot that is bordered by Avocado Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. The project was officially approved in 2008. The Newport Beach City Council created a design competition to allow architects to bid for the project. The competition was overseen by a chosen committee of local architects. Out of the 50 teams of architects and landscape architects, 5 finalists were chosen. Each of these teams had three months and
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Midtown Detroit


Cass Technical High School and the Detroit Masonic Temple, but the portion near Woodward Avenue and the once-fashionable Park Avenue district are awaiting redevelopment. The Brush Park district proper runs from Mack Avenue to the Fisher freeway, and extends east and west from Woodward Avenue to Beaubien Street. Brush Park was developed beginning in the 1850s as a residential neighborhood for Detroit's elite citizens. Construction peaked in the 1870s and 1880s; one of the last homes built was constructed in 1906 by architect Albert Kahn for his personal use. Early
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Sep Ruf


design and build the government buildings of the new capital city of the western part of Germany, Bonn. Every architect got his own part to realize. For example, the new upper house of the German parliament, the tower building of the delegates, the privat- and representative house of the chancellor of the Federal Republic. In 1963 and 1964 Ruf built the house for the chancellor. It was to be a house to live in and also to be a representative building to welcome guests of state. In a park beside the
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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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Oregon Shakespeare Festival


. Richard L. Hay designed the theatre space. Architects Thomas Hacker and Associates of Portland designed the building. The contractor was Emerick Construction, and acoustical engineering was provided by Dohn and Associates. The seats can be arranged in three configurations. In arena mode, a stage of is surrounded on all four sides by 360 seats. In three-quarter thrust mode, a stage is surrounded on three sides by 270 seats, and in avenue mode, a stage provides 228 seats on two sides. There is a trap room under
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Arkansas Highway 128


70) and US 270, known as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway in Hot Springs, at exit 7. North of this interchange, the highway passes an industrial facility and the Arkansas State Police Troop K Headquarters before terminating at a junction with US 270B (Malvern Avenue). In northeast Garland County, Highway 128 begins at Highway 5 (Park Avenue) in Fountain Lake. The entire length of the highway is known as Lonsdale Cutoff Road. The highway runs east across the South Fork Ouachita River, with a
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JPMorgan Chase


bank's retail banking activities in the United States, and commercial banking. Both the retail and commercial bank and the bank's corporate headquarters are currently located at 383 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, while the prior headquarters building directly across the street, 270 Park Avenue, is demolished and replaced with a new building. The company was formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. As of 2017, the bank is one of the largest asset management companies in the world with US$
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St. Louis


. A small portion of the Interstate 270 outer belt freeway runs through the northern end of the city. The 563-mile Avenue of the Saints links St. Louis with St. Paul, Minnesota. Major roadways include the north-south Memorial Drive, located on the western edge of Gateway Arch National Park and parallel to Interstate 70, the north-south streets of Grand Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue, both of which run the length of the city, and Gravois Road, which runs from the southeastern portion of the city to downtown and used
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432 Park Avenue


as the tallest building in the world known only by its street address. The tower sits in the middle of the block bounded by East 56th Street, Madison Avenue, East 57th Street, and Park Avenue. The building's base covers most of the lot. The tower is a square in plan, giving each floorplate an occupiable area of . At 15:1, 432 Park has one of the greatest height-to-width ratios of any skyscraper in the world. The design of the structure was conceived by architect Rafael Viñoly
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Spirit of Justice Park


Spirit of Justice Park is a park in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Bounded by C Street to the north, D Street to the south, Delaware Avenue Southwest to the east and New Jersey Avenue Southeast to the west, the park is located south of the United States Capitol and is separated into two sections by South Capitol Street Southwest. Spirit of Justice Park is a green roof on an underground parking garage built by the Architect of the Capitol to service the House Office Buildings. A number of buildings were
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Irving Park, Chicago


Church and Society of Irving Park was constructed on the southeast corner of Keeler Avenue and Belle Plaine Avenue. It remained the only house of worship for thirteen years. The building was completely remodeled in 1908, according to plans by noted architect Elmer C. Jensen. Jensen's spectactular personal residence in the Colonial Revival style built in 1905 still stands in the Old Irving Park neighborhood on North Lowell Avenue. By the turn of the century, congregations representing the Episcopalians, Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Catholics and Baptists had been established.
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Park Avenue West Tower


Park Avenue West Tower is a high-rise in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the fourth tallest building in Portland behind the Wells Fargo Center, KOIN Center, and the US Bancorp Tower. Developed by TMT Development and designed by TVA Architects, the tower consists of commercial office space, ground floor retail, and apartments. Park Avenue West Tower was initially scheduled to be completed in 2010 and is being developed by Tom Moyer's TMT Development. The tower was to have a total of 33 floors and
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Franklinton, Columbus, Ohio


, parks recreation and open space, traffic and streets, sanitary sewers, urban design, historic preservation, and economic development. The McKinley Avenue Corridor Plan was initiated in 2000. This plan concerns an area 1.5 miles west of downtown, accessible from I-270, I-70, Broad Street and State Road 33. The McKinley Avenue Corridor is one of the most productive employment areas in Columbus with more than 5,000 employees. This plan mainly focused on the property, land use and zoning, streets and traffics, as well as public safety
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383 Madison Avenue


if First Boston attempted to sell the property. JP Morgan Chase entered negotiations with the al-Babtain family in October 1996, hoping to build a new headquarters for themselves on the site, near their existing headquarters at 270 Park Avenue. Bear Stearns signed a 99-year lease for the land beneath the building in 1999 with plans to move its headquarters and most of its 4,500 employees to the new building. The building changed hands in 2008 during JP Morgan's takeover of Bear Stearns. On their second-quarter 2008 conference call,
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Avenue Foch


called the Avenue de l'Impératrice, the Avenue of the Empress, for the Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III. The Avenue was built by Jean-Charles Alphand, the chief engineer of the Service of Promenades and Plantations of Paris, who also designed the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Monceau, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, and other parks and squares built by Napoleon III. The iron fences and lamps were designed by the architect Gabriel Davioud, who designed all the distinctive ornamental park architecture
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520 Park Avenue


520 Park Avenue is a skyscraper located on East 60th Street and Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The building was funded through a US$450 million construction loan from The Children's Investment Fund. At 781 ft (238 m) tall, it is the 36th tallest building in New York, and the tallest on the Upper East Side. Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf of Zeckendorf Development developed the building. The developers had been planning a site
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Klingle Valley Bridge


The Kingle Valley Bridge, officially known as the Connecticut Avenue Bridge, is an Art Deco steel-arch bridge located near the National Zoological Park on Connecticut Avenue, Northwest in Washington, D.C. The bridge crosses Klingle Valley, running from Macomb Street to Devonshire Place and connecting the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods. The bridge was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski. It was built in 1931–1932. There is no direct connection between Connecticut Avenue and Klingle Road in the narrow valley below. The bridge features two
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Rockaway, Queens


Twin Towers. Solemn ceremonies are held at the park every Sep 11, including a reading of the names of all of the locals who perished on that day. Almost exactly two months after 9/11, on November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, killing 265 people: 260 aboard the aircraft and five on the ground. Many of the passengers on the plane were from the Dominican community in Washington Heights. A temporary memorial was developed at the actual site of the disaster, on Newport Avenue.
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Hanscom Park


at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in the Hanscom Park neighborhood. Today the Gerald R. Ford Birthsite and Gardens celebrates this location. Hanscom Park, located at 1899 South 32nd Avenue, was developed by the City of Omaha in 1889 as one of the first by the newly formed Park Commission. After paying a landscape architect $913.30 for plans to improve the rough tract of land, the Commission reported the park was, "radically changed in plan and very greatly improved... Two lakes, a cascade, extensive flower beds, two and one
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Washington State Route 270


lane highway travels east through a cut in the hills on Davis Way and passes several residential subdivisions on the outskirts of the city. After descending from a hill and following the South Fork Palouse River and a freight railroad into downtown Pullman, SR 270 turns southeast and begins a short concurrency with its parent route, SR 27, on Grand Avenue. The two highways travel south on Grand Avenue for a two blocks before SR 270 turns east onto a pair of one-way streets: Southeast Paradise Street for eastbound traffic and East
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Moed de Armas and Shannon


, Owings & Merrill. Dan Shannon, an associate at SOM, joined Moed de Armas Architects at its founding. In 1997, he became a partner and the firm changed its name to Moed de Armas & Shannon. Mike Zaborski joined the firm in 1998 and became a partner in 2012. The firm officially changed its name to MdeAS Architects in October 2014.They have jointly completed 510 Madison Avenue, Gotham Center, the rejuvenation of the GM Building Plaza, and the redevelopments of 100 Park Avenue and 330 Madison Avenue. The firm
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St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church


began to collect funds to build of a church. In 1871, St. Albertus Parish was organized with three hundred or so Polish families. That same year, the parish purchased a plot of land, 100 feet wide and 270 feet deep, on the western side of St. Aubin Avenue and what is now East Canfield Street. They hired architect John Wiesenhoffèr, and construction of a frame church began in 1872. The church was dedicated to St. Wojciech; early pastors borrowed the erroneous Latin equivalent Adalbertus, which is St. Albertus or
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Crown Fountain


city as Millennium Park. Millennium Park was conceived in 1998 as the capstone of Grant Park, to celebrate the new millennium and to feature world-renowned architects, artists, designers, landscape architects, and urban planners. As of 2007, Millennium Park trails only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction. The fountain is centrally located in Chicago: it is east of Michigan Avenue and its Historic Michigan Boulevard District, north of Monroe Street and the Art Institute of Chicago; and south of Madison Street. Looking north from the
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Lake Seppings


built along the western side of the lake. A car park for access to the path is located along Golf Links Road. Lake Seppings is approximately in length (from north to south) and the north end is approximately in width. The lake narrows toward the southern end and the path crosses the lake approximately before the southern tip. The lake is situated in the Lake Seppings nature reserve that has a total area of . Lake Seppings is regarded as an excellent place for bird watching, particularly for water-birds. Over
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U.S. Route 36 in Colorado


, mostly parallels the road between Table Mesa Drive in Boulder and 80th Avenue in Westminster, the first 11-mile stretch between Westminster and Louisville/Superior opening on Bike-to-Work Day in June 2015, the full route to Table Mesa in Boulder in March 2016. At the very complicated junction of US 36, I-25, I-76, and I-270, US 36 emerges overlapped and unsigned with I-270, and continues overlapped and unsigned with I-70 when I-270 ends near the former Stapleton Airport site. At Colfax Avenue, this I-70/
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Pelican Stadium


; the Boston Red Sox held their spring training at the ballpark in 1925–1927. The stadium was designed by New Orleans architect Emile Weil and constructed at the southeast corner of Tulane Avenue and South Carrollton Avenue in Mid-City New Orleans, an area that was only recently being developed thanks to improved drainage. A short lived amusement park called "White City", was on the site just before, which in turn had replaced the Pelicans prior home field, Athletic Park. The Park spanned by . Pelican Park (or Stadium
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Architecture of metropolitan Detroit


553 East Jefferson houses the Michigan Society of Architects. The city and its surrounding area have numerous monuments by noted architects and sculptors along tree-lined boulevards and parks just some of which are noted. Campus Martius is a park at the encircled confluence of Woodward and Michigan Avenues. It serves as one of the city's central gathering places for events. The park disappeared in the 1900s as the downtown reconfigured to accommodate increased vehicular traffic. In 2004, the city restored the park with traffic circle. Granite waterfalls are at the
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Attingham Park


site of Attingham Park called Tern Hall, but with money he received along with his title he commissioned the architect George Steuart to design a new and grander house to be built around the original hall. The new country house encompassed the old property entirely, and once completed it was given the name Attingham Hall. The Estate comprises roughly 4,000 acres, but during the early 1800s extended to twice that amount at 8,000 acres (3,000 hectares). The extensive 640 acres (270 hectares) parkland and gardens of Attingham have a Grade
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Highland Park, Illinois


, notably the Willits House by Frank Lloyd Wright. In addition to several houses designed by Wright, the National Register lists homes designed by prominent architects including John S. Van Bergen, Howard Van Doren Shaw, Robert E. Seyfarth, and David Adler. Landscape architect Jens Jensen lived in Highland Park and designed a number of projects in the community that are listed on the register. There are three public beaches in Highland Park: Rosewood Beach, Moraine Beach (part of which is available for off-leash dogs) and Park Avenue
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Downing Park (Newburgh, New York)


was burned to the ground. Later that year, architect Frank Estabrook designed the pergola to be built on the farmhouse foundations. The band shell was removed in the 1920s; the observatory was torn down in 1961 as part of an "urban renewal" project. Downing Park is centrally located within the city, between Robinson Avenue (US 9W-NY 32) on the west, South Street on the north, Dubois Street on the east and Third Street to the south. Carpenter Avenue divides the park into an eastern and
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Robert T. Lyons


. Lyons would partner with Bing & Bing on a number of prominent projects over a period of several decades. Among the earliest projects in that partnership was “the tallest apartment building in the world” at 903 Park Avenue at 79th Street—breaking the record of 12 stories with 17 stories when it opened in 1916. Another prominent Bing & Bing project was the Gramercy Park Hotel,completed in 1925. It is located at the commencement of Lexington Avenue on Gramercy Park and was built on the site of architect Stanford White’s
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Park of Friendship, New Belgrade


was symbolically marked the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement, one of the whose founders was Yugoslavia. The work of the architect Pališaški, according to the selection panel, was a strict geometric solution with geometrical divisions and monumental size, ceremonial and representative. The Avenue of Peace with the memorial obelisk "Eternal Flame" is located in the central part of the park. The park features a flower statue of the sculptor Lidija Mišić. Peace Avenue with 26 plane trees that were planted by statesmen, during a conference of the
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Artwall


Artwall, also known as Art Wall, is an outdoor 2005 sculpture by German architect and artist Herbert Dreiseitl, located at Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. "Artwall" was designed by architect Herbert Dreiseitl along with Tanner Springs Park. The sculpture was installed at Northwest Marshall Street and Northwest 10th Avenue, along the east edge of the park, in 2005. It was funded by the City of Portland's Percent for Art program and construction funds from PDC. The "art wall" measures x
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College Point, Queens


architect of the houses. In 1953, the Fleet Street Company sold 108 Cape Cod-style homes for $13,500 near 25th Avenue and 126th Street. The architect of the homes was Alwin Cassens, Jr. The development was called Allied Homes. A commercial park was first proposed for College Point in 1960. The site was bounded by Whitestone Expressway on the southeast, 15th Avenue on the north, and 127th Street on the west, and was chosen because it was the largest suitable tract that was not on Staten Island. The
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Union Park Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware


Union Park Gardens is a neighborhood located between Union Street and Lancaster Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. It was designed by landscape architect John Nolen and the architect Emile G. Perrot of the firm Ballinger & Perrot during the First World War. Union Park Gardens first served as housing for shipyard workers of the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Liberty Land Company and Lynch Construction Company built houses in Union Park Gardens for the United States Shipping Board during World War I. The term "Union Park" comes from
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47 Plaza Street West


was built, 1 Plaza Street West, at the corner of Plaza Street West and Flatbush Avenue. Real estate brochures of the era touted Plaza Street and its environs as the "Park Avenue District of Brooklyn." In 1926 developer Jacob Mark retained Rosario Candela to design 39 Plaza Street, at the corner of Plaza Street and Berkeley Place, known as the Berkeley Plaza Apartments. By this time Candela was very much on his way to becoming the most noted architect of luxury apartments on Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues. In
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Burns Square Historic District


Burns Square Historic District is a historic district located in Sarasota, Florida, United States. The area runs from Ringling Boulevard to Mound Avenue along South Pineapple and South Orange Avenues. Burns Square is bound by Laurel Park Historic District to the east, Palm Avenue residential neighborhood to the west, and Hudson Bayou to the south. In 1925, Owen Burns developed and built the Burns Court subdivision in the area, designed by architect Thomas Reed Martin. The Burns Court Historic District was designation by the National Park Service in 1984.
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Body Block


Places on September 18, 1998. The Body Block began construction in 1892, and was completed in 1893. The building was commissioned and owned by Charles Body, a local businessman who owned a wallpaper store. Although it is not known for certain, the architect was likely George H. Smith, a local architect of note who designed the 1888 Cleveland Arcade. Located at the intersection of Payne Avenue and E. 55th Street in the Goodrich–Kirtland Park neighborhood, the three-story structure has a frontage on Payne Avenue and a
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Bank of America Tower (Manhattan)


The Bank of America Tower (BOAT) at One Bryant Park is a skyscraper in the Midtown area of Manhattan in New York City. It is located on Avenue of the Americas, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, opposite Bryant Park. The project was designed by COOKFOX Architects, and advertised to be one of the most efficient and ecologically friendly buildings in the world. It is the fifth tallest building in New York City, after One World Trade Center, 432 Park Avenue, 30 Hudson Yards, and the Empire State Building
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737 Park Avenue


737 Park Avenue is a prewar residential building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, United States. Initially, the building had more than 100 apartments. The current capacity after renovation is 60 apartments. Built in 1940 by Sam Minskoff and Sons, the building was designed by art deco architect Sylvan Bien. The building is made of traditional red brick with a limestone base, featuring a marble lobby and 24-hour doorman. The building is within blocks of Central Park, The Frick Collection, and The Whitney Museum, as well as
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California State Route 270


State Route 270 (SR 270), also known as Bodie Road, is state highway in the U.S. state of California. It is a spur route off of U.S. Route 395 south of Bridgeport in Mono County, leading into Bodie State Historic Park. The route connects U.S. Route 395 with Bodie State Historic Park. A few miles before entering this park, which holds a preserved ghost town, are unpaved. SR 270 is not part of the National Highway System, a network of highways that are considered essential to the country
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Cleveland, Minneapolis


Cleveland is a neighborhood in the Camden community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are Dowling Avenue to the north, Penn Avenue North to the east, Lowry Avenue north to the south, and Xerxes Avenue North to the west. To the west of Xerxes Avenue is the suburb of Robbinsdale. Some people believe that the neighborhood is named after former United States President Grover Cleveland, while others maintain it is named after Horace Cleveland, a landscape architect who framed the development of the Minneapolis Park System in the 1880s. It contains the Fournier
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Constitution Avenue


to between 6th and 15th Streets NW (by moving the south curb south). This decision was reaffirmed by a joint meeting of the NCPC and the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury (which was overseeing construction of the Federal Triangle office complex on the north side of B Street between 6th and 15th Streets NW). The NCPC agreed in February 1927 that B Street should extend to Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and was studying whether to extend it through the proposed Senate Park. Architect William Mitchell Kendall proposed creating a
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Hercules (Marvel Comics)


the "Avengers Under Siege" storyline in "Avengers" #270 - 277 (Aug. 1986 – March 1987), involving supervillain team the Masters of Evil. The story lead directly into the "Assault on Olympus" storyline in "Avengers" #281 - 285 (July 1987 – Nov. 1987), in which Hercules left the team. The character starred in the self-titled limited series "Hercules" vol. 3, #1 - 5 (June - Sep. 2005), and guest starred in the limited
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Cherry Creek, Columbus, Ohio


Cherry Creek is a neighborhood on the West Side of Columbus, Ohio. It is a part of Lincoln Village and the Greater Hilltop. It contains the Oakbrook Manor (formally Lincoln Park) apartments and the Westview apartments. It is bounded on the east by Interstate 270, on the north by Sullivant Avenue, on the west by Norton Road, and on the south by Hall Road. It is in the ZIP code 43228. Its official area is West Columbus. The neighborhood is known as being the birthplace of the Westside
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West-Park Presbyterian Church


West-Park Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival Presbyterian church located on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue at 86th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It consists of a main sanctuary and chapel. The congregation was founded in 1852 as the 84th Street Presbyterian Church, building its first chapel of timber in 1854 on 84th Street and West End Avenue, to designs by one of the city’s most prominent architects, Prague-born Leopold Eidlitz. The church changed its name to Park Presbyterian Church in 1887
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Stillwell Avenue


and was certified by Brooklyn borough president James J. Byrne. Stillwell Avenue, at the intersection with Surf Avenue, is the location of an original Nathan's after the first one was torn down. The New York Sun newspaper released a story on November 13, 2006 about plans to reinvigorate Coney Island. Most of it was for the amusement parks, including a roller coaster that would go in and out brand-new buildings along Stillwell Avenue. Where Stillwell Avenue meets the Riegelmann Boardwalk, the architect wanted to build a large waterpark
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Clarendon Park, Leicester


was intended to be a good class residential district". Building work began immediately and the streets west of Queens Road were laid out and developed very quickly by local builders such as Harry Orton or architect/builders such as James Bird. East of Queens Road, development was slower and more sporadic, with some larger plots in Clarendon Park Road, North, East and Central Avenues being bought as investments. The better-known architects active in Clarendon Park during the 1880s included James Tait, Isaac Barradale (6-12 Clarendon
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Stern


called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or "circular" stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns
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Wyoming Highway 270


and Lance Creek. At almost 40 miles, WYO 270 intersects US 18/US 20 just before entering Manville. Upon entering Manville, the former Wyoming Highway 274 (9th Avenue) is intersected. Highway 274 was designated for the old alignment of US 18/US 20, but was decommissioned in the early 1990s. North of Manville, Highway 270 heads to Lance Creek and intersects the eastern terminus of Wyoming Highway 271 (Twentymile Road). Wyoming Highway 270 then begins to turn east as the last length of its routing
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Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church


congregation purchased the undeveloped site at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street for $350,000 for construction of a new sanctuary. Church leaders believed that the recently established Central Park would be a natural barrier against business and factory expansion. With its steeple rising 286 feet high, the church was the tallest building in Manhattan when it was dedicated in 1875. Eleven architects were considered to design the new church, with the choice eventually between the renowned George B. Post, architect of the New York Stock Exchange building and the former Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth
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Charles A. Hausler


One of them—the pavilion in Indian Mounds Park—became a popular picnicking site. During Hausler's years as city architect he continued his private practice, specializing in Prairie School home designs. Examples include the homes at 1058 St. Clair Avenue in Summit Hill, 633 Holly Avenue in the Summit-University neighborhood, and his own home at 526 Grace Street in the West Seventh neighborhood. Hausler's eight-year tenure as city architect came to an end in 1922 when he was elected to the Minnesota Senate. He represented
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The Claridge Hotel (Atlantic City)


property to a stand-alone hotel without casino gambling. Located between Park Place and Indiana Avenue, with an attached parking structure extending to Ohio Avenue, the Claridge is set off the Boardwalk behind Brighton Park. The Claridge stands next to the site where the Sands Atlantic City used to be located. The Claridge Hotel is different from most Atlantic City resorts, because it did not grow out of a modest boarding house. It was the idea of Philadelphia architect John McShain who designed the 24-story, 400-room hotel. Opened in 1930
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101 Park Avenue


101 Park Avenue is a tall skyscraper in New York City, New York. It was completed in 1979 to 1982 and has 49 floors. Eli Attia Architects designed the tower, which is the 109th tallest building in New York. It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film "The Secret of My Success", as well as the fictional "Clamp Tower" in the 1990 film "". The building features in the 1991 Jeff Bridges film "The Fisher King",
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Avenida da Liberdade


. The Avenida da Liberdade, as well as the Restauradores Square, have their origins in a public park ("Passeio Público") inaugurated in the area in 1764. Projected by Pombaline architect Reinaldo Manuel, the park was initially surrounded by a high wall. It was revamped in the 1830s and 1840s by architect Malaquias Ferreira Leal, who introduced a new arrangement of the flora as well as fountains, a waterfall and statues. The allegoric statues representing the Tagus and Douro rivers still existing in the boulevard of the Avenue date
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The Inch, Edinburgh


to the east, Liberton Road to the west, Kingston Avenue to the south and Glenallan Drive and Inch Park to the north. The housing development began in 1949. The City of Edinburgh Council had departed from the usual practice of using in-house architects for the design and arranged for a competition open to private firms of architects. The judges were George Macniven, formerly chief architect at the Department of Health for Scotland assisted by the City Architect, Ebenezer MacRae, and Lady Gilmour, a previous resident of the adjacent Inch
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New York State Route 270


Stahl Roads. At Getzville, NY 270 joined its modern alignment and followed it to Saunders Settlement Road (now NY 31), where it turned northeast onto Saunders Settlement Road for a short distance to Upper Mountain Road, where it ended at NY 3 outside of Lockport. Both extents of NY 270 were realigned slightly by 1932. In the vicinity of Eggertsville, the route was reconfigured to follow Bailey Avenue and Grover Cleveland Highway between Main Street and Eggert Road. Near Lockport, NY 270 was shifted southward onto Hinman Road and
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Interstate 270 (Missouri–Illinois)


to I-55 in Illinois was finished by May 1965. During the Great Flood of 1993, the New Chain of Rocks Bridge carrying I-270 over the Mississippi River was the only bridge open from St. Louis to Keokuk, Iowa, at one point. (All other bridges from the McKinley Bridge to the Keokuk Bridge were closed at the peak of that flood.) The last major construction project on I-270 occurred from 1995 to 1998. Both the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and IDOT upgraded I-270 to modern standards from Lilac Avenue
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Park Avenue Apartment District


The Park Avenue Apartment District is a historic district in Omaha, Nebraska that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. One component, the Portland, was built as the Barnard Apartment Building in 1902, and has been known as the Portland since 1917. It was designed by architect John Latenser, Sr. and is a three-story apartment building with three wings, forming a U-shape around a courtyard. It includes Italian Renaissance styling. The Unitah, built two years later by the same owner
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Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.


Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. (Sep 7, 1845– August 16, 1928) was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1890), and served as its first head. Born in Boston on 7 Sep 1845, the son of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and his wife Elizabeth J Schlatter, Chandler was educated at Harvard University and in the atelier of
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Château de Saint-Just


1810 Suchet replaced the elm trees of the avenue from the 17th century with poplar trees. Beginning in 1816, he made major transformations on the house, done by the architect Lacornée. He redecorated and refurnished the house in the French Empire style, and had the park redesigned by the landscape architect Belguise. In 1825, part of the park was transformed into an English garden. After the death of the Marshal in 1826, his widow divided the property and sold a part, including to the chapel, the Osmont pavilion,
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El Cajas National Park


meaning "gateway to the snowy mountains". or "caxa" (Quichua:cold). It has also been linked to the Spanish word "cajas" (boxes). The highest point is the 4,450 m high Cerro Arquitectos (Architects Hill), and the elevation of roads reaches higher than 4,310 meters (13,550 feet). About 270 lakes and lagoons can be found in the páramo of Cajas. Luspa is the largest of these lake and extends over 78 hectares with a maximum depth of 68 m at a
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Worth Avenue


caused merchants to move south to what became Worth Avenue. The first stores were built near the Everglades Club on Via Mizner and Via Parigi, named for Worth Avenue's original developers, architect Addison Mizner and Paris Singer. The area became known for its high-quality merchandise in the 1920s. Recognizing the value of the undeveloped street, the merchants formed the Worth Avenue Association in 1938. This organization maintains guidelines for the appearance, parking, etc. of the stores and the street. In 1942, Mary Duggett Benson opened
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Singer Building


it. Demolition commenced in August 1967 and was completed the following year. At the time, it was the tallest building ever to be destroyed until the September 11, 2001 attacks, when the World Trade Center one block west collapsed. The Singer Building is currently the third-tallest building to be destroyed, and is still the tallest building whose demolition was not an act of terrorism. However, it will no longer be the world's tallest voluntarily demolished building when the 270 Park Avenue, in midtown Manhattan, starts its
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Lake Seppings


with the intention of establishing a botanical park along the shoreline for a portion of the lake and a timber reserve around the lake. In 1888 Lake Seppings was declared a Botanic garden. The lake was renamed "Albany Park" in 1900 and protected as a natural wetland. Between 1900 and 1970 the west side of the lake became a rubbish dump until 1972 when the department of fisheries and fauna suggested the lake become a water-fowl reserve. The Apex club of Albany began work on the bird-walk during the 1980s
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