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At 225,000 square feet, the Sfmoma is one of the largest North American buildings devoted to modern art. The museum opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, solely to 20th-century contemporary art.

The steel frame is covered with textured and patterned brickwork, one of Botta’s tradmarks. The five-story tower in the rear is made up of galleries and offices. The  Museum Store offers the West Coast’s finest selection of modern and contemporary art books, as well as innovative design objects and furniture.

Paintings, photos, portraits, and sculptures by contemporary and modern artists can be seen. Also available is a listening tour.

The garden adds 14,400 square feet of gallery space creating greater opportunity for large-scale sculptures.

The Sfmoma Museum Store’s collection of artists’ jewelry features original pieces from around the world — wearable works of art crafted from the finest materials.

The Konzerthaus Berlin  is a concert hall situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central  of Berlin, Germany.

It was destroyed  and reopened in 1984 as a concert house with three halls in which about 550 events are each year.
It offers two venues for classical concerts: the Grosser Konzertsaal for orchestra and the Kammermusiksaal for chamber music.
The Konzerthaus Berlin has shaped the cultural and musical history of the city of Berlin for almost 200 years.

The National Library of Belarus, Minsk is a curious structure that was just completed in 2006. The library is located in new 72 meter tall building in Minsk. It has 22 floors. There are a number of biblical quotations inscribed on the building’s facade, in Belorussian, Russian, English and Arabic, amongst others.

The complex includes four separate conference rooms: The large conference hall with 500 seats, two round-shaped conference rooms, and a small conference room for private talks.
The local network consists of more than 100 servers and 1,400 personal computers.  Electronic resources comprise 80 databases representing history, culture, the arts of Belarus.

The National Library of Belarus is lit at night in stunning fashion by 4646 color-changing  fixtures. The authors suggested hiding the light sources behind the glass to create an illusion of a giant color display. One controller manages up to four STAR fixtures and consists of LED drivers, brightness control, diagnostics, and communication modules.

Prior to the building of the Petronas Twin Towers, the Sultan Abdul Samad building has long been a famous landmark for Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur. Unique moorish-style design, this building is designed by British architect A.C Norman. The building once served as the administrative offices for the government during the British administration, but now it is home to the Supreme and High Courts. This is the most photographed building in the city.

It is one of the oldest buildings in KL. The construction began in 1893. Some 4 million bricks, 2,500 barrels of cement, 18,000 pikuls of lime, 5,000 pounds of copper, 50 tons of steel and iron and 30,000 cubic feet of timber were used. Work was completed in 1897 at a cost of 152,000 Straits Dollars. The front facade is 137.2m (450 ft) in length with an imposing porch in the center. The porch consists of three horseshoe arches, the piers supporting them being nearly 1.2m (4 ft) in thickness. The 41.2m (135 ft) central tower holds a clock that was first heard during Queen Victoria’s birthday parade in 1897.
It features a 41-meter clock tower affectionately dubbed “Big Ben“, topped with a golden dome and flanked on both sides by two domed towers. During state occasions, colored lights twinkle in the arches, making it look like a scene from an Arabian Nights’ tale. Today, this building is the focus of thousands of Malaysian from all walks of life to gather in front of the building to user in every New Year on the stroke.