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Victor Emmanuel II Monument

It's a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. Its design is a neoclassical interpretation of the Roman Forum, it was realized by Giuseppe Sacconi.

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Nikolaj Grigorevskij
Yerevan. Republic Square. 2022
The Paul Hamlyn Hall at London’s Royal Opera House

Originally built as a flower market(1860), the magnificent glass and iron structure now houses a restaurant and champagne bar, where events and performances also take place.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Iron-frame house with glazed earthenware cladding

This drawing published in 1872 in his famous Discourses on Architecture, has become a legendary image, a true architectural icon.
The idea of this study was to adapt, used in factories a load-bearing framework system to a residential building, and to have the metal structure exposed on the facade, and projecting.
View of the British Normandy Memorial.2021
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Alcántara Bridge over the Tagus River, 103-104 AD.

photo by Dantla
Quinlan Terry
Kilboy house.
County Tipperary, Ireland
Ancient Palmyra, Syria
photo by Maxim Atayants
Ouse Valley Viaduct

Known for its ornate design, the structure has been described as "probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain. 1841
Goddess in gold V 2.0

Artificial intelligence creates more and more perfect characters. Created by midjourney.
Antwerpen-Centraal railway station, Belgium.

The station is widely regarded as the finest example of railway architecture in Belgium, although the extraordinary eclecticism of the influences on Delacenserie's design had led to a difficulty in assigning it to a particular architectural style.

In 2009, the American magazine Newsweek judged Antwerpen-Centraal the world's fourth greatest train station. In 2014, the British-American magazine Mashable awarded Antwerpen-Centraal the first place for the most beautiful railway station in the world.

The station is used in Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "The Chocolate Box" to represent a station in Brussels