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The building. The museum is located in Les Tranchées, in the city centre, on the site of the former fortification ring. It was built by the architect Marc Camoletti between 1903 and 1910, [1] and financed by a bequest from the banker Charles Galland (1816–1901). [2] The building is square, with 60 m (200 ft) sides surrounding an inner courtyard.
Part of the HEAD campus at Helvétique 9; the former campus of École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) (French: Haute École d'art et de Design Genève) is a European art and design school founded in 2006, and belonging to the network of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland.
The Jet d'Eau fountain in Geneva The first jet d'eau, around 1886.. The Jet d'Eau (French pronunciation: [ʒɛ do], Water-Jet) is a large fountain in Geneva, Switzerland and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being featured on the city's official tourism web site and on the official logo for Geneva's hosting of group stage matches at UEFA Euro 2008. [1]
Buffer zone. 1.8 ha (190,000 sq ft) Immeuble Clarté is an apartment building in Geneva designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret starting from 1928 and built in 1931–32. It has eight stories comprising 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes. [1][2] It is one of Le Corbusier's key early projects in which he explored the ...
Headquarters. 6-8, Place de la Concorde, Paris. Leader. Robert Panhard. Website. www.automobileclubdefrance.fr. The Automobile Club of France (French: Automobile Club de France) (ACF) is a men's club founded on 12 November 1895 by Albert de Dion, Paul Meyan [fr], and its first president, the Dutch-born Baron Étienne van Zuylen van Nyevelt.
Geneva. Geneva (/ dʒəˈniːvə / jə-NEE-və; [5] Arpitan: [dzəˈnɛva] ⓘ; French: Genève [ʒənɛv] ⓘ) [note 1] is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the ...
Annual. L'Escalade, or Fête de l'Escalade (from escalade, the act of scaling defensive walls), is an annual festival in Geneva, Switzerland, held each December commemorating the defeat of an attempt to conquer the Protestant city-state by the Catholic Duchy of Savoy in 1602. The celebrations and other commemorative activities are usually held ...
An estimated 1/4 to 1/3 of the Chechen population perished due the harsh conditions. [34] [35] [36] Many scholars recognize the deportation as an act of genocide, as did the European Parliament in 2004. [37] [38] [39] In 1992 the separatist government built a memorial dedicated to the victims of the acts of 1944. The pro-Russian government ...