Halifax Town Hall is a grade II* listed, 19th century town hall in the English town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. It is notable for its design and interiors by Charles Barry and his son, Edward Middleton Barry, and for its sculptures by John Thomas.
Burnley is a town in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is 21 miles north of Manchester and 20 miles east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.
The town is located near countryside to the south and east, with the smaller towns of Padiham and Nelson to the west and north respectively. It has a reputation as a regional centre of excellence for the manufacturing and aerospace industries.
The town began to develop in the early medieval period as a number of farming hamlets surrounded by manor houses and royal forests, and has held a market for more than 700 years. During the Industrial Revolution it became one of Lancashire's most prominent mill towns; at its peak it was one of the world's largest producers of cotton cloth, and a major centre of engineering.
Burnley has retained a strong manufacturing sector, and has strong economic links with the cities of Manchester and Leeds, as well as neighbouring towns along the M65 corridor. In 2013, in recognition of its success, Burnley received an Enterprising Britain award from the UK Government, for being the "Most Enterprising Area in the UK". For the first time in more than fifty years, a direct train service now operates between the town's Manchester Road railway station and Manchester's Victoria station, via the newly restored Todmorden Curve, which opened in May 2015.
Burghley House é um grande palácio rural quinhentista, situado próximo da cidade de Stamford, no Lincolnshire, Inglaterra. O seu parque foi desenhado por Capability Brown.
O fronteira do Lincolnshire fica entre a cidade e Burghley House que, de facto, está localizada no antigo Soke of Peterborough, anteriormente parte do Northamptonshire mas agora no Cambridgeshire. O palácio é administrado como fazendo parte da área de Peterborough.
O Castelo de Hohenzollern é um palácio fortificado da Alemanha situado a cerca de 50 km de Estugarda, entre as cidades de Hechingen e Bisingen, no coração do Jura suábio. Foi a residência dos condes suábios a partir da primeira metade do século XI. A família Hohenzollern chegou ao poder durante a Idade Média, tendo governado o Reino da Prússia, Brandemburgo e o Império Alemão até ao final da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
The Bruce Museum is a museum in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut with both art and natural history exhibition space. The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95. Permanent exhibits include minerals, area Native American history and culture, changes in the area landscape and environment by human activity, and dioramas of Connecticut woodland wildlife and birds. The museum hosts changing exhibitions of art, photography, natural history, science, history and culture.
A second location, the Bruce Museum Seaside Center, is maintained at Greenwich Point Park, focusing on beach-related exhibits, including a touch-tank. The museum also has a "Brucemobile" with exhibits in a traveling van for outreach education. The museum hosts frequent lectures, classes and social events.
A Universidade Brown é uma instituição de ensino superior privada norte-americana localizada em Providence, Rhode Island. Membro da famosa Ivy League, a Brown foi fundada em 1764, antes da Independência dos Estados Unidos, com o nome College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. É a terceira universidade mais antiga da Nova Inglaterra e a sétima mais antiga dos Estados Unidos, e uma das instituições acadêmicas mais prestigiosas do mundo.
Brown foi a primeira faculdade na nação a aceitar estudantes independentemente de suas religiões. Academicamente, Brown consiste em The College, Graduate School, e Alpert Medical School. Os programas internacionais da Brown são organizados através do Watson Institute for International Studies.
O campus principal da Brown está localizado em College Hill, na zona leste de Providence. Desde 1904 o mascote da Brown é um urso chamado "Bruno", que frequentemente faz aparições em jogos da universidade. Pessoas envolvidas com a Brown são conhecidas como Brunonians.
Desde 2001, o décimo oitavo presidente da Brown é Ruth J. Simmons, a primeira presidente permanente da universidade. Ela é também a primeira afro-americana e segunda presidente mulher de uma instituição da Ivy League.
Entre seus ex-alunos, estão 8 laureados com Prêmio Nobel, 19 agraciados com o Prêmio Pullitzer, 8 bilionários, 1 Chefe da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos, 4 Secretários de Estado dos Estados Unidos e outros membros do Gabinete Presidencial, 55 membros do Congresso dos Estados Unidos, além de membros de famílias reais, fundadores e executivos de multinacionais.
Broughton House is an 18th-century town house standing on the High Street of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. It was the home of Scots impressionist artist E. A. Hornel between 1901 and his death in 1933. During this time Hornel remodelled the house and created the Japanese-influenced gardens. Since 1997 it has been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and is maintained as "a living museum of Hornel’s life and work". The house is a category A listed building, and the gardens are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
Britannia Royal Naval College , commonly known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place in Dartmouth since 1863. The buildings of the current campus were completed in 1905. Earlier students lived in two wooden hulks moored in the River Dart. Since 1998, BRNC has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training.
Bristol Central Library is a historic building on the south side of College Green, Bristol, England. It contains the main collections of Bristol's public library.
Built in 1906 by Charles Holden, its design was influential in the development of Edwardian Free Style architecture. Holden would later go on to build the Edward VII Memorial Wing of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, giving Bristol two of its most highly regarded Edwardian buildings. The Library has been designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building.
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum is a history museum in Braunschweig, Germany, operated by the state of Lower Saxony. The museum is scattered on four locations: Vieweghaus, Hinter Ägidien , Kanzlei and Bauernhausmuseum .
The collection covers 500,000 years and includes objects from the history of the Braunschweig area, including culture, economy, technology, folk arts, and social history. Today, the BLM hosts a collection of 600,000 to 800,000 objects.
The Brauer Museum of Art is home to a collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art, world religious art, and Midwestern regional art. It is located in the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, US. Prior to the museum's opening, the university's collection was housed and displayed within several buildings across campus. It was named the Brauer Museum of Art in 1996 to honor the collection's long-time director and curator, Richard H. W. Brauer.
O Portão de Brandemburgo, ou Porta de Brandemburgo , é uma antiga porta da cidade, reconstruída no final do século XVIII como um arco do triunfo neoclássico, e hoje um dos marcos mais conhecidos da Alemanha.Está localizado na parte ocidental do centro da cidade de Berlim, no cruzamento da avenida Unter den Linden e Ebertstraße, imediatamente a oeste da Pariser Platz. Um bloco ao norte fica localizado o Palácio do Reichstag. O portão é a entrada monumental para Unter den Linden, a famosa avenida de tílias que anteriormente levava diretamente ao Palácio da Cidade dos reis da Prússia. Construído no estilo neoclássico no projeto de Carl Gotthard Langhans, possui doze colunas dóricas de estilo grego. Sendo seis de cada lado. Há cinco vãos centrais por onde passam cinco estradas. Sobre o arco está a "quadriga" . Suas dimensões são: 26 m de altura, 11 m de profundidade e 65 m de largura. .
Foi encomendada pelo rei Frederico Guilherme II da Prússia como um sinal de guerra e construída por Carl Gotthard Langhans entre 1788 e 1791. Tendo sofrido danos consideráveis na Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Portão de Brandemburgo foi totalmente restaurado entre 2000 e 2002 pela Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin .Durante a partição da Alemanha no pós-guerra, o Portão estava isolado e inacessível imediatamente ao lado do Muro de Berlim, e a área ao redor do Portão se destacou mais proeminente na cobertura da mídia sobre a abertura do muro em 1989. Ao longo de sua existência, o Portão de Brandemburgo foi muitas vezes um local para grandes eventos históricos e é hoje considerado um símbolo da tumultuada história da Europa e da Alemanha, mas também da unidade e da paz européia.
O Palácio de Belas Artes de Bruxelas , também conhecido como BOZAR, é um centro de cultura em Bruxelas, um espaço multidiciplinar, destinado a receber diversas manifestações artísticas .
Foi construído por Victor Horta entre 1922 e 1929 no estilo Art Déco.
The Boston Public Library is the municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also the Library for the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; all adult residents of the commonwealth are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library receives state funding. The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million volumes, and electronic resources, making it the third largest public library in the United States, behind the federal Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. In fiscal year 2014, the library held more than 10,000 programs, all free to the public, and lent 3.7 million materials.This building was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 2000.
