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Pionen is a commercial data center operated by Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof, located inside a former Cold War civil defense bunker beneath the Vita Bergen park in central Stockholm. The bunker was originally built in 1943 to shelter government officials during air raids and was later co...
The Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, NYC, designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Clarke Withers in 1877 as a courthouse, features a Victorian Gothic clock tower designated a New York City landmark.
Deanston Mill is a historic water-powered cotton mill in Stirling, Scotland, notable for its 1785 construction and its innovative use of water wheels to power industrial textile machinery.
The Clock Tower Building is part of the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora in central Christchurch, New Zealand. Designed by Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Mountfort and opened in 1877 for Canterbury College, it features stone construction, pointed arches, and a prominent clock tower. The former edu...
The Old Post Office tower is part of the Romanesque Revival government building completed in 1899 on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Rising about 96 meters, it was among the capital's tallest structures and contains the Bells of Congress, a set of change-ringing bells presented by the Ditchl...
Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca, Tuscany, is a public square built over the ruins of a Roman amphitheater dating to the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The oval shape of the piazza directly preserves the arena's ground plan, with medieval and Renaissance residences constructed atop the ancient amphitheater's...
Napier Barracks is a former British Army barracks in Folkestone, Kent, built in the 19th century and repurposed in recent years as accommodation for asylum seekers.
The Heiligengeistfeld Flakturm was a massive anti-aircraft tower built in Hamburg in 1942 to defend against Allied raids, but it was fully demolished in 1947.
