POLYGON SHAPED BUILDINGS

Presented ByName :- Anupreksha JainClass:- IV SLPS, SS Branch Ghaziabad

TAJ MAHAL• On a platform 22' high and 313'

square. Each tower is 133 feet tall• Building is 186 feet high and 70 wide.• Corner minarets are 137' tall. Main

structure 186' on a side, dome to 187'.• The mausoleum is 57 m (190 ft) square

in plan.• "The central inner dome is 24.5 m (81

ft) high and 17.7 m (58 ft) in diameter, but is surmounted by an outer shell nearly 61 m (200).

• The four graceful, slender minarets are 162.5 feet each.

RED FORT• The Red Fort stands at the eastern

edge of Shahjahanabad, and gets its name from the massive wall of red sandstone that defines its four sides.

• The wall is 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, and varies in height from 60ft (16m) on the river side to 110 ft (33 m) towards the city. Measurements have shown that the plan was generated using a square grid of 82 m.

BURJ KHALIFA• Burj Khalifa Tower known as Burj

Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall . It is the tallest artificial structure in the world, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft)

• Construction Highlights Over 45,000 m3 (58,900 cu yd) of concrete, weighing more than 110,000 tonnes were used to construct the concrete and steel foundation, which features 192 piles buried more than 50 m (164 ft) deep. Burj Dubai's construction will have used 330,000 m3 (431,600 cu yd) of concrete and 39,000 tonnes.

ETA HOTEL• The ETA Hotel in Dubai is a small

boutique business hotel with 68 rooms, a restaurant and lounge bar, health club, and a roof top pool.

• 2 Basement car parks, Restaurant, Bar, Health club, Swimming pool, and 68 roomsLocation, City, Country – DubaiDesigner / Architect – Sanjay PuriStatus of project – Waiting Local Authority ApprovalArea of project – 75,000 sqftImage credit – Sanjay Puri Architects Pvt Ltd

COLLOSSEUM• Like other Roman amphitheaters, the

Colosseum in Rome is an ellipse with an arena in its center. The length of the outer ellipse is 524 meters, the length of the long axis is 188 meters, and the length of the minor axis is 156 meters. This is an absolute record.

• Height 50 metres high (187 ft), equivalent to a 12 storey building

• Length 189 metres (615 ft) long• Width 156 metres 510 ft wide• The outer circumference measures 545

metres (1,788 ft)• The center arena was 287 ft long and

180 ft wide. The arena was covered with 15cm of sand

• Dimensions of Arena Wall 15 ft high

PANTHEON• The interior design of the

Roman Pantheon is a striking synthesis of tradition and innovation.

• The dimensions of the interior height and the diameter of the dome are the same (145 Roman feet., which is 141 feet. 8 inches;43.2m).

• The architect, who is unknown, did this on purpose to show the harmony of the building.

PYRAMID• The Great Pyramid was originally 280

Egyptian cubits tall (146.5 metres (480.6 ft))

• With erosion and absence of its pyramidion , its present height is 138.8 metres (455.4 ft).

• Each base side was 440 cubits, 230.4 metres (755.9 ft) long.

• Height: 146.5 metres (481 ft), ancient; 1...

• Volume: 2,583,283 cubic metres (91,22...• Constructed: c. 2580–2560 BC (4th dyn...• Base: 230.4 metres (756 ft)

LIGHT HOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA• The Lighthouse of Alexandria,

sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC which was between 393 and 450 ft tall.

• Drawing by archaeologist Hermann Thiersch (1909)

• Year first constructed c. 280 BC• Deactivated 1303/1323• Foundation Stone• Construction Masonry• Tower shape Square (below),

octagonal (middle) and circular (top)• Height 393–450 ft (120–137 m)• Range 47 km (29 mi)

EIFFEL TOWER• Initial height: 312 m(to the top of the

flagpole)• Current height : 324 m• The deepest foundations: (North and

West) lie 15 meters underground. In each of these foundations, four pillars of masonry are built, which bear the four uprights of each leg of the Tower, known as rafters

• Total weight: 10,100 tons • Weight of the iron structure: 7,300 tons • Lighting: 336 600-W projector lamps

(sodium lamps).• Number of bulbs for the Sparkling Tower:

20,000

DOME OF ROCK TEMPLE• The Dome of the Rock is a shrine

located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock is now one of the oldest works of Islamic architecture It has been called "Jerusalem's most recognizable landmark.

• .The diameter of the dome of the shrine is 20.20 m (66.3 ft) and its height 20.48 m (67.2 ft), while the diameter of the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is 20.90 m (68.6 ft) and its height 21.05 m (69.1 ft).

CASA MILA• Casa Mila popularly known as La

Pedrera , meaning the 'The Quarry', is a modernist building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the last civil work designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, built between the years 1906 and 1912.

• The building is 1,323 m2 per floor on a plot of 1,620 m2. The basement was intended to be the garage, the main floor the residence of the Milàs (a flat of all 1,323 m2),

GREAT WALL OF CHINA• Several walls were being built as early as

the 7th century these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall.

• A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km

• This is made up of 6,259 km sections of actual wall, 359 km of trenches and 2,232 km of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers

• Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km

LIAODI PAGODA• China is the tallest existing pre-

modern Chinese pagoda and tallest brick pagoda in the world, built in the 11th century.

• The pagoda stands at a height of 84 meters (276 ft), resting on a large platform with an octagonal base.

• The tallest pagoda in pre-modern Chinese history was a 100-metre-tall (330 ft)

TORRE AGBAR• The Torre Agbar located between

Avingud Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm built by Dragados.

• The Torre Agbar is located in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona.

• The tower measures a total of 50,693 square metres, of which 30,000 are offices, 3,210 technical facilities, 8,132 services, including an auditorium, and 9,132 square metres for parking.

• It cost 130 million Euros to build