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Hoover Dam :: Nevada

Sam Rohn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:20:51 +0000

Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction [...]

Lincoln Center :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:20:38 +0000

Virtual tour Panoramas shot for Lincoln Center Event rentals department

New York Stock Exchange :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:30:25 +0000

The history of the New York Stock Exchange begins with the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement by twenty-four New York City stockbrokers and merchants on May 17, 1792, outside 68 Wall Street under a Buttonwood tree. In 1903, the Exchange moved into its present home at 18 Broad st, a building of neoclassic design by architect [...]

New York Public Library :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:32:09 +0000

http://www.samrohn.com/360-panorama/new-york-public-library-nyc/ The New York Public Library was the largest marble building ever built in the U.S. when it opened in 1911, using 530,000 cubic feet of marble. The Main Reading Room is a majestic public space, measuring seventy-eight feet by two hundred and ninety-seven feet — roughly the length of two city blocks — and [...]

Cunard Hall :: New York

Sam Rohn — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:35:41 +0000

Built in 1921 as a ticket office for the Cunard Passenger Ship Line, the grand interior of the Great Hall of the Cunard Building shows how the popular Beaux Art style was adapted to a new use. The architect Benjamin Wistar Morris collaborated with muralist Ezra Winter to produce a decorative program focused on shipping [...]

Statue Of Liberty :: New York

Sam Rohn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:45:38 +0000

Chelsea Hotel :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:42:52 +0000

The twelve-story red-brick building that now houses the Hotel Chelsea was built in 1883, and opened in 1884 as one of the city’s first private apartment cooperatives. At the time Chelsea, and particularly the street on which the hotel was located, was the center of New York’s Theater District. However, within a few years the [...]

Audubon Terrace :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:40:34 +0000

Named for naturalist and artist John James Audubon, on whose former land the complex sits, and who is buried across the street, Audubon Terrace was commissioned by railroad heir and philanthropist Archer M. Huntington in 1907. Among the well-known architects who designed the buildings were Cass Gilbert, Stanford White, and Charles Pratt Huntington. Huntington designed [...]

Grand Army Plaza :: Brooklyn :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:57:59 +0000

Tent of Tomorrow :: 1964 World’s Fair

Sam Rohn — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:32:26 +0000

Tent of Tomorrow :: New York State Pavilion :: 1964 World's Fair :: New York City designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964 worlds fair, the floor of the new york state pavilion contains the worlds largest terrazzo map.

Hall of Science :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:43:24 +0000

Museum of Natural History :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:50:40 +0000

Brooklyn Public Library :: NYC

Sam Rohn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:06:12 +0000

Unisphere :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:20:33 +0000

Snug Harbor :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:48:49 +0000

Cloud Gate :: Chicago

Sam Rohn — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:23:58 +0000

Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago. The sculpture is shaped like an ellipse, and its legume-like appearance has caused it to be nicknamed “The Bean”. It is made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, [...]

Pritzker Pavilion :: Chicago

Sam Rohn — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:01:27 +0000

Pritzker Pavilion :: Millennium Park :: Chicago Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Pritzker Pavilion, or Pritzker Music Pavilion is a band shell in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The Frank Gehry designed pavilion, named for Pritzker family member Jay Pritzker, was constructed between June 1999 and July 2004 in Millennium [...]

The Monument :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:18:47 +0000

Soldiers & Sailors Monument :: New York City

Dome of the Rock :: Jerusalem

Sam Rohn — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:47:56 +0000

The magnificent Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was completed in 691 AD at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik, and has been refurbished many times over the centuries. it the oldest extant Islamic building in [...]

Damascus Gate :: Jerusalem

Sam Rohn — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:36:10 +0000

Damascus Gate :: Jerusalem :: Old City The Damascus Gate (also known as Shechem Gate or Nablus Gate) (or in Arabic: Bab-al-Amud, meaning Gate of the Column) is an important gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The modern gate was built in 1542 by the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent. The original gate was [...]

TWA Terminal :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:48:03 +0000

TWA Flight Center was the original name for the Eero Saarinen designed Terminal 5 at Idlewild Airport — later called John F. Kennedy International or JFK Airport — for Trans World Airlines. The terminal had a futuristic air; The interior had wide glass windows that opened onto parked TWA jets; departing passengers would walk to [...]

Marble Lobby :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 03:13:41 +0000

Top of the Brooklyn Bridge :: New York City

Sam Rohn — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:31:38 +0000

The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn (on Long Island). Construction began on January 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed thirteen years later and was opened for use on [...]

Villa Angarano :: Veneto :: Italy

Sam Rohn — Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:52:08 +0000

Work was started on the wings of Palladio’s design in the 1540s or 1540s . A decision appears to have been reached to leave a pre-existing house in the middle of the site. The proposed Palladian villa was never built: Palladio’s patron may have been obliged to halt the project for financial reasons. However, the [...]