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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)
The full 601-foot (183 m) length of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was opened for the first time on November 30, 1941. [ 141 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] [ 154 ] At that time, St. John's was only three-fifths completed, yet it was the second-largest Christian church in the world by area, behind only St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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.
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.
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'.
The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, [1] also known as Circuit de la Sarthe [2] (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race.
[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.
Before the lifting of the main dome the "Simplex" piles below the main tower-column had to be improved for carrying gravity and other loads. The foundation pile was partly replaced. While the initial foundation were only 6 m deep, the new ones with 1,4 m diameter reached a depth of 17 m and reached solid rock.