Svenja (Germany)

Eiffel Tower

 The Eiffel tower is a famous tower in Paris. Paris is in France.
It is a 324 meter high tower. Charles Léon Stephen Sauvreste builds the tower from 1887- 1889 with the help of many workers. It is one of the famous sights in France.

Many tourists visit the tower every year. The building is in the middle of Paris at the river “Seine“ and there is also the “arc de triomphe”.

                    On the picture you can see the Eiffel tower by night

I like the Eiffel tower because it looks so good at night and I want to visit the tower one day. I think you got a beautiful view over Paris. Some of my friends visited the building and everyone said it is so amazing. This is another reason for me to visit this unique

Max (Germany)

“Haus Kopf über”

 The “Haus Kopf über“is a building on the island Rügen. It seems like a normal house that stands on his roof. Everything in this one is wrong way. Tables, chairs, and also the toilet are hanging from the ceiling. The house was opened in July of 2010. The house is 12 meters long, 10 meters wide and 12 meters high. It is completely established with kitchen, bathroom, sleeping room and living room. The whole house is inclined, thereby is the balance of the visitors irritated. You can visit the house the whole year, but can’t live in it.

Lukas (Germany)

Terrakotta-army
It’s an army of clay soldiers. This was the army of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuangdis. The Mausoleum is in China in the near of Xi’an. Scientists think that over 700.000 have built the mausoleum. It is 2000 meters long and 900 meters wide. The part for the emperor was built like a pyramid. 310 meters in the east is a pit with 3025 square kilometres. It was found random. The inhabitants of a village in the near want to dig a fountain and bumped at a hard and crusty soil. The found the complete hall at 1974. The army consist of 7200 soldiers and with and without horses and ca. 89 dare fights. Historicist say that the army has really existed.

Ole (Germany)

The Empire State Building

 The EmpireStateBuilding is one of my favourite works of art, because it is one of the highest buildings of the world. I can’t believe that we can so high build and it is look beautiful in the night. It is to the roof 381 metres high and is to the peak 443, 5 metres high. The Building has 1860 stairs. Per day are over 70 lifts in operation and per year ca. 3 million people visit the EmpireStateBuilding. The building was built from 1929 to 1931 and was opened at 1. May 1931. The architect from the EmpireStateBuilding is William F. Lamb. It costs 41 million $. 102 floors are used as offices, telecommunications and for tourism. The address is 350   Fifth Avenue NY 10. The architecture style is Art Déco. Tony Malkin is the owner. You can visit the EmpireStateBuilding and you can go to the viewing platforms. It gives 2 viewing platforms and from it you can see up to 100 km. Visit the platform at the 86th Floor, it costs for children (6-11 years) 21$, for pensioner (from 62 years) 24$ and for adults (from 18-61 years) 27$. For the visit from the 102^nd floor you must pay 44$.

Florian (Germany)

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

My favorite work of art is the “Statue of Liberty”, because it’s a famous icon of freedom for the United States.

It is a colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbour, in Manhattan, New York City.

The statue was designed by “Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi“in year 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

For the United States it’s furthermore a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

The “Statue of Liberty” is of a robed female figure representing Liberty as the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, which is the July 4, 1776.

It is 93 meters high and 3.2 million tourists visit the statue every year. Since 1984 it has been a UNESCO world heritage site.

Georg (Germany)

Sydney Opera House

 The Sydney Opera House is the biggest opera in Australia. It is an UNESCO- world heritage. The architect of this building was Jørn Utzon.

It is 184 meter long and 67 meter high. The Opera House got 5 theatres, 5 casting studios, 1 cinema, 60 changing rooms, 4 restaurants, 6 Bars and a lot of souvenir stores.

Since 1930 the Australians got the idea of a big opera. 1959 the construction work began. The building ended in 1973 and the first event was Ludwig van Beethoven.

Today it is the most important building in Australia. There are 2500 events every year with millions of visitors.

In the middle of the construction work was a big trouble between the architect and the Australian government. The price for building it goes from 3,5 Million Dollar up to 100 Million Dollar. So the architect Jørn Utzon ended his work and other young architects from Australia got the chance. Unfortunately they made some little mistakes and so the acoustically effects are not that strong.

The Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth 2.

 

Arian (Germany)

The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum built with white marble, which is in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in the year 1631. The building process was started 1632. It was finished between the years 1644 and 1648. It is built on a 100*100 meters big marble platform and is 58 meters high and 56 meters wide. The Taj Mahal is one of the best examples for the Mughal architecture, a architecture that combines Persian and Indian architecture styles. It is also a prayer site for the Muslim people. Some of the architects were Abdul-Karim Ma´mur Khan, Makramat Khan and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, an architect from Afghanistan, who is considered as the principal designer. More than 20.000 workers worked on the building. In the year 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World heritage Site. I like the Taj Mahal because the surroundings like the water look good and the building itself just looks monumental.

Anna and Gesa (Germany)

Tower of London

Where:The Tower of London is located in the middle of London. It stands on the banks of the Thames, the biggest river of London.                             

Who:  It was build from King William I in 1078. His descendants were continuing building. In all times the Tower belong to the British royal house.

History: The first the tower was a wood building. Then the son of King William I., William II built a stone tower, which was called “White Tower”. The British kings and queens used the Tower for quite  different things, for example as a zoo, a museum or as a jail. But since 600 years, the Tower can visit by tourists. Since 1988 the Tower is an UNESCO world heritage.

 

Today:

  Inside:  The Tower keep the crone jewelleries. Also it is the home of six ravens.

The architecture: There are four big parts of the whole building.

1.        The castle moat. It is around the tower. The official entrance is the Lion-Tower-drawbridge, which is situated in the south-west of the tower. 

2.      The outer ward. It’s all around the other buildings and protects them.

3.      The inner ward. It encloses the main buildings, especially the Waterloo Block and the building with the crone jewelleries.

4.      The innermost ward. Here stand the White Tower, the heart of the Tower.