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 James Hoban
entered a competition to design a
presidential residence. His design, inspired by
Kildare House (now Leinster House), then the
headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society and now
of the Irish Parliament, was chosen, and he was
awarded a prize of $500. The residence he
designed is now known as the White House. |
 Peter Behrens
worked as a painter and graphic artist before
turning to architecture. As artistic consultant
for a major German manufacturing company, he not
only designed the company's logo and sales
literature, but its factories and workers'
apartments as well. He also designed a number of
household electrical appliances, china, glass
objects, and patterned linoleum flooring. |
 The
Leaning Tower
of Pisa is the
popular name for what is actually the campanile
(bell tower) of the Piazza del Duomo
(Cathedral Square) in Pisa, Italy. Officially
known as the Torre Pendente di Pisa, it
gets its popular name from the fact that it leans
about sixteen feet (5.5 degrees) from the
vertical. |
 The Taj Mahal was built by the Mugal Emperor Shah
Jahan in memory of his third (and favorite) wife,
Arjumand Banu, who died in 1631 while giving
birth to the couple's fourteenth child. It is
believed that the structure's familiar name comes
from the empress's popular name, Mumtaz-i-Mahal,
which means Pride of the Palace. |
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