Built between 1803 and 1812, and located in Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street, New York City Hall is in the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
Bradford is a city is West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines, 14km west of Leeds. Bradford rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution as an international center of worsted cloth and coal manufacture, attracting workers from Ireland and Germany.
Between 1838 and 1867, the Royal Academy was located in the Wilkins Building, in the East wing of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, central London. Founded by King George III, the Royal Academy’s mission was to promote art and design in Britain.
Kanpur, formerly Cawnpore, is the second most populous city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India. The name of the city is believed to have derived from Karnapur, meaning “town of Karna,” one of the heroes of the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic poem.
Gwalior is the northern-most city in the state of Madhya Pradesh, central India. It occupies a strategic military location in the Gird region. It was the administrative headquarters of the Gwalior Princely State until the Indian Independence (1947).
Meerut is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India, located 70km northeast of New Delhi. It came under Mughal rule in the sixteenth century and saw Sikh and Maratha invasions in the eighteenth century. In 1803, the Marathas ceded the territory to the British, and the cantonment of Meerut was set up in 1806.
Designed by Sydney Smirke and located at the center of the Great Court of the British Museum (Bloomsbury, London), the Reading Room is made of cast iron, concrete, and glass. Its design was inspired by the domed Pantheon in Rome.
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