While many complained that it did not fit the context of the historic neighbourhood, the Pompidou nonetheless helped bring about the revitalization of the area when it became an internationally renowned landmark.
Including replicas of some of the world's most renowned architectural landmarks like the Empire State Building and Rome's Colosseum, this 500,000 sq.
Lutèce, a renowned French landmark on the East Side, closed on Valentine's Day after 43 years.
In recent years, Chinese companies have been busy buying up internationally renowned brands and landmarks, including New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank and, in the UK, the venerable Weetabix.
Now housed in a beautiful, airy heritage building downtown, it has become a Canadian literary landmark, renowned for its quality and tenacity in the face of the big chains.
Every year, travelers from across the globe flock to China to visit the country's renowned monuments and historical landmarks.
Kenneth Clark's landmark 1969 series is renowned and revered, but it had little to say about women.
In fact, when the dust clears, only one building may remain from the original Terminal City complex at what was once Idlewild: Eero Saarinen's T.W.A. Flight Center of 1962, now called Terminal 5. Were it not an internationally renowned architectural icon and a designated landmark, there is little doubt that Terminal 5 -- woefully small and outdated -- would have been swept away, too.
Buddhist women are celebrating a landmark victory: In April, the renowned Institute for Buddhist Dialectical Studies IBDD) in Dharamsala, India, conferred the degree of "Geshe" -- the Tibetan equivalent of Ph.D. -- to Venerable Kelsang Wangmo, a German nun.
But in French-speaking Switzerland it's renowned as a lively cultural capital, with a wealth of historic landmarks and loads of stylish shops and cafés.
