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Hace 1 día · The Regency of Algiers (Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized: Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, located on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830.
- State affiliated to the Ottoman Empire (Nominal since 1659)
Hace 5 días · Architecture. The 18-story French Beaux-Arts style hotel, the tallest in the city when completed, was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston, with interiors by Arnold Constable & Company. Trowbridge & Livingston's original structure occupies the corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.
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- 2 East 55th Street, Manhattan, New York
Hace 5 días · Grosvenor Square. The great square which lay at the heart of the Grosvenors' Mayfair estate was notable more for its size, and fame, than for its architectural distinction.
Hace 3 días · Georgian Architecture refers to the preferred architectural designs completed from August 1714 to June 1830, during the reigns of George I, George II, George III, and George IV. Georgian buildings became prominent across Europe and were popular in public and private structures.
Hace 5 días · The Mexica (Aztecs) of central Mexico followed the same principles, but in addition to limestone they had access to tezontle, a porous volcanic rock with a reddish tinge - ‘it is black, chili-red, rough...’ - which they shaped into blocks and also broke up and crushed to form mortar - tezontlalli.
Hace 2 días · In 1836 a scheme was devised in connexion with the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway (architect, William Hosking) for bringing in a line to a terminus at Knightsbridge Green, with a large triangular market and arcade at the angle between Brompton Road and Knightsbridge (Plate 10c).
Hace 1 día · Louis was a major patron of architecture; he spent more money on buildings over the course of his reign than Louis XIV. His major architectural projects were the work of his favorite court architect, Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
