The Torre Velasca (Velasca Tower, in English) is a skyscraper built in the 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy.
The tower, approximately 100 metres tall, has a peculiar and characteristic mushroom-like shape. Its structure recalls the Lombard tradition, made of medieval fortresses and towers, each having a massive profile. In such fortresses, the lower parts were always narrower, while the higher parts propped up by wooden boards or stone beams. As a consequence, the shape of this building is the result of a modern interpretation of the typical Italian medieval castle
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Scais dam wall
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Spiral Roadway
Former Fiat Factory Lingotto was opened in 1923. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level to go onto the test track. It was the largest car factory in the world at that time
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Parco Dora - Lotto Vitali
The Parco Dora is a post-industrial area, transformed as a park by the city of Turin, located in the Spina 3 area, where up to the Nineties there were the great production sites of Fiat and Michelin
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Parco Dora - Lotto Vitali
The Parco Dora is a post-industrial area, transformed as a park by the city of Turin, located in the Spina 3 area, where up to the Nineties there were the great production sites of Fiat and Michelin
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Subalpina Gallery
The Subalpina Industry Gallery is a historic building in Turin that hosts numerous commercial premises.
It is located in the area between Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Alberto and is one of the three historical commercial galleries of the Piedmontese capital
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Church of San Lorenzo
The Royal Church of San Lorenzo is a Baroque-style, adjacent to the Royal Palace of Turin. It was designed by the architect Guarino Guarini.
The dome itself is supported by eight ribs forming a lattice similar to those found in mosques and Romanesque churches in Spain.
The high altar, separated from the nave by a convex and concave archway receives natural light from a hidden dome, devices drawn from the other key architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Palazzo Vecchio - first courtyard and Arnolfo's Tower
The frescoes on the walls are vedute of the cities of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, painted in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari for the wedding celebration of Francesco I de' Medici to Archduchess Johanna of Austria. The harmoniously proportioned columns, at one time smooth, and untouched, were at the same time richly decorated with gilt stuccoes. The barrel vaults are furnished with grotesque decorations
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Scala Momo
The double-ramp helicoidal stair, located at the entrance of the Vatican Museums in Rome (1929-1932) made by Giuseppe Momo.
The conical helical shape leads us back to the well-known iconography of the "Tower of Babel", the emblem of human folly, or, in antithesis, of the "Tower of Philosophy" represented by the sacred mountain circumnavigated by an upward path that envelopes it
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The Basilica of San Francesco
Assisi, a medieval city built on a hill, is the birthplace of Saint Francis, closely associated with the work of the Franciscan Order. Its medieval art masterpieces, such as the Basilica of San Francesco and paintings by Cimabue, Pietro Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Giotto, have made Assisi a fundamental reference point for the development of Italian and European art and architecture
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Le marché du Cannes
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Tête Carrée
The Square Head is a habitable sculpture that houses the administrative offices of the municipal library
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Place Massena
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Gare de Monaco
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Musée Océanographique
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Diagonal Terraces
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Gombaro
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Banff Pedestrian Bridge
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Old Stairs
// Montreal, Canada
Wrought iron
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World Trade Centre Montreal
Located halfway between Old Montreal & downtown, World Trade Center Montreal it is an example of a 'horizontal skyscraper' and a leading example of urban renewal, architectural preservation and rehabilitation. The complex includes other historic elements, such as a fountain by French architect and sculptor Dieudonné-Barthélemy Guibal (1699–1757) also donated to the city in 1992
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Jardin Botanique
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The Montreal Tower
is the tallest inclined tower in the world, rising 165 meters at a 45-degree angle and it's accessible by a funicular. It was built in 1976 to host the Olympic Games
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Grid of light
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Windows update
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The CORE Shopping Centre
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Highway viaduct
// France
Corte Ducale
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Stairway to heaven
// Switzerland
Opera House's roof made by tiles
// Australia
Sydney Tower
// Australia
Bondi Icebergs Swimming Pool
// Australia
Pura Ulun Danu Bratan
It's a major Shivaite and water temple on Bali. Built in 1663, the temple complex is located on the shores of Lake Bratan in the mountains near Bedugul
