MARIA JAZILDA GODOY, mayoress of Olinda in north-east Brazil, conducts her municipal business from a high-ceilinged office on the upper floor of the town hall, a monument to the town's history.
The town hall's monument steps offer a great people-watching spot, while the summer lawn in Spinningfields, a new glitzy development around the law courts, is a catwalk on a summer day.
Located steps from City Hall, the monument marks a burial ground that contains about 15,000 skeletal remains of African-Americans who lived and worked in colonial New York.
Just as Independence Hall is a monument to America's founding, so Nassau Hall should be a monument to the education behind that founding.
Historic structures include a 12th-century cathedral of St. John the Baptist, a 15th-century castle famous for its sculptures and frescoes that now houses a regional museum, St. Madeleine Church (1288; rebuilt 1788), the 16th-century city hall, and a monument recalling the great plague of 1680.
Market Street was once a glamorous destination for the western world, boasting of such landmarks as the Palace Hotel, the most expensive and luxurious hotel of its time, the Chronicle building's clock, the largest ever built, the Call building- one of the tallest in the world, and City Hall, a splendid monument to the city.
The City Exhibition Hall, that glassy monument of Victorian baroque which can claim to be Manchester's Crystal Palace, has covered its face with an elegant new frontage - sheer, impersonal, superbly screening the facts of life and inviting us to view them in new terms.
It's hard for me to say whether a Wallace Neff building is better than Frank Gehry's Disney Hall," he says, contrasting two dramatically different L.A. architects--Neff is known for period revival homes built in the 1920s; Gehry's concert hall, a public monument, will display the architect's signature dramatically curved metal surfaces.
The indoor hall includes soaring monuments of Mayawati (who uses only one name); of her mentor, the Dalit politician Kanshi Ram; and of B.R. Ambedkar, the father of India's Constitution and a passionate opponent of the caste system.
