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  2. Karaganda - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 25 Planners set out to create a dozen coal mines, and drafted blueprints for a city to house an estimated 40,000 workers. [4]: 25 Coal mining in the area resumed in 1930, and temporary structures were built for miners and their families. [3] The new area for the city was to the south of the initial mines.

  3. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    An office building in Accra, Ghana.. Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2]. Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories)

  4. Indigenous architecture - Wikipedia

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    The clan structure, therefore, evolved as new people arrived and were given a place and a role in the social organisation of the clan, or through clan members leaving to join other clans. Traditionally a village is set up in the following manner.

  5. Baker Hotel (Mineral Wells, Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The hotel reopened two years later, in 1965, when a group of local investors leased the structure from the Baker family, but the revival was brief and marred by the death of Earl Baker of a heart attack in 1967 after he was found unconscious on the floor of the cavernous Baker Suite. In 1972, the Baker closed its doors for the last time.

  6. Wewelsburg - Wikipedia

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    Wewelsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈveːvl̩sbʊɐ̯k]) is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle has a triangular layout, with three round towers connected by massive walls.

  7. Vault (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

  8. Ancient Egyptian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Others are inaccessible, new buildings having been erected on ancient ones. However, the dry, hot climate of Egypt preserved some mud brick structures. Examples include the village Deir al-Madinah, the Middle Kingdom town at Kahun, [8] and the fortresses at Buhen [9] and Mirgissa. Also, many temples and tombs have survived because they were ...

  9. Stave church - Wikipedia

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    The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse (stav in modern Norwegian). Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often called 'stave churches'.