Fun Facts About Architecture 2
Mark Muir • 3 March 2025
All TEN of them.....
Ready for some more fun facts about architecture? Of course you are....
- A French Postman Spent 33 Years Building the "Ideal Palace" With Stones He Collected During His Daily Round
- Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's coliseum
- The Empire State Building Generates More Revenue from its Observation Decks than from its 85 Floors of Office Space,
- There are 1792 steps to the top of the Eiffel tower
- Incidentally the Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish green paint every 7 years!!!
- The Pantheon, Rome has the largest unsupported dome in the world and features a mysterious hole at the top called an ‘oculus’.
- The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years, the concrete used to form the immense curved structure will not be cured for another 500 years.
- The Guggenheim Museum. Wright did over 700 sketches before he found the right one.
- Sagrada familia in Barcelona Did you know? It’s been under construction for 137 years! And it’s still not finished.
- More Time Passed Between the Start and End of Construction on the Great Wall of China than Between the Start of Christianity and Today
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