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The Golden Hall (Swedish: Gyllene salen) is a banqueting hall in Stockholm City Hall. Measuring 44-metre (144 ft) in length, it received its name when its walls were decorated by mosaics created by the artist Einar Forseth on a proposal by the City Hall architect Ragnar Östberg . [ 1 ]
Cueva de los Tayos (Spanish, "Cave of the Oilbirds ") is a cave located on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountains in the Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador and became infamous for reportedly having 'golden plates' that contains the history of Mankind. It owes its name to being the home of the native nocturnal birds called Tayos ( Steatornis ...
3,200 (basketball) Opened. 1964. Tenants. San Diego Conquistadors (ABA) (1973–1974) Golden Hall is an indoor arena in San Diego, California. It was built in 1964. [1] Golden Hall is located within the San Diego Concourse complex at 1 Civic Center Plz San Diego, CA 92101. It is primarily utilized as a homeless shelter today.
musikverein.at. The Wiener Musikverein (German: [ˌviːnɐ muˈziːkfɐ̯ˌaɪn] or German: [ˌviːnɐ muˈziːkfəˌʁaɪn]; German for 'Viennese Music Association'), commonly shortened to Musikverein, is a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, which is located in the Innere Stadt district. The building opened in 1870 and is the home of the Vienna ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area includes a variety of buildings found in Hōryū-ji and Hokki-ji in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. These buildings were designated in 1993 along with the surrounding landscape, under several criteria. The structures inscribed are some of the oldest extant wooden ...
The Taj Mahal (/ ˌtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl, ˌtɑːʒ -/ TAHJ mə-HAHL, TAHZH -, Hindi: [taːdʒ ˈmɛɦ (ɛ)l]; lit. 'Crown of the Palace') is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658) to house the ...
The Golden Pavilion (金閣, Kinkaku) is a three-story building on the grounds of the Rokuon-ji temple complex. [13] The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf . [ 13 ] The pavilion functions as a shariden (舎利殿), housing relics of the Buddha (Buddha's Ashes).
Tōshōdai-ji (唐招提寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Risshū sect in the city of Nara, in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Classic Golden Hall, also known as the kondō, has a single story, hipped tiled roof with a seven bay wide facade. It is considered the archetype of "classical style". It was founded in 759 by the Tang dynasty Chinese monk ...