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Chysler Building was the tallest building in the world, during the period of 1930 – 1931. William Van Alen was the architect, one who built this architecture. He was born in New York at Brooklyn in 1883. Chysler was one of the landmarks of New York and among the top 25 New York buildings, it took the 2^nd place. The building was constructed during the time period of 1928 – 1930. Art Deco was the type of style used to construct this building. It has 77 floors with 1048 feet (319.5m) high. The structure was made up of 29961 tons of steel with 3,8,26,000 bricks. The bricks were used near the rows of the window. Its cost was about $20,000,000 for the construction of this architecture.  The building was covered with dark gray and white bricks. The dark gray brick was used to elevate all the window rows for decoration purpose. The building is located at 405 Lexington Avenue at 42^nd street. It has Sharp Entrance Gateway that is in triangular form to ease traffic in all three directions. The entrance hall is greatly ornamented with sienna – colored floor, Red Morccon marble walls, blue marble and steel in composition of Art Deco.

Thus we conclude with our discussion about the some of the best architectures worldwide. On the overview of the modern architecture we will feel that it is completely rested on the aspect of economic development and development in the field of engineering and technology. The innovation in architectures can only be made with the help of huge investors.

Nataraja temple is situated at Chidambaram with four kopuram (pyramid structure that decorate the entrance) and thousands of pillars which hold the roof. It is one of the Panchabhoota sthalam (represents the five basic elements-fire, earth, air, water and space). Among the five elements, the Nataraja temple represents space and the other four were Thenjo sthalam ( Tiruvannamalai )– Fire,  Prithvi sthalam ( Kanchipuram ) – Earth , Vayu sthalam( Kalahasti )  – Air, Appu sthalam (Tricy ) –Water. The Chidambaram, Kalhasti and Kanchipuram temples are located at a straight line of 79`45“ East Longitude.  It represents one of the five basic elements. This temple was assigned to lord Shiva. He was positioned as a cosmic dancer. This temple is one of the five dancing halls. An interesting and scientific fact is that, the center of the world was situated at the left leg of nataraja’s statue. The Nataraja’s shrine and Govindaraja’s shrine was built by Cholas. The fanatic people can have darshan of both lord Shiva and Vishnu at the same time. The famous festival in Tamil Nadu called Natayangali is celebrated every year during Maha Shivaratri in this premise. During this festival several dancers of all types take part in the festival.

Cologne cathedral was one of the world’s tallest churches during the time period of 1880 to 1890 .It had a height of 157.4m. This architecture was based on gothic type. Gothic architecture was a kind of style used to build the churches that contains the bishop’s throne and other churches, which is at the height of fame in Europe during the time of medieval period. The construction of this architecture was started at 1248 and with some discontinue, it was completed at 1880.Before the Washington monument called Obelisk, and the Cologne was considered as the tallest. It was honored by the Roman Catholicism as a monument of Christianity. Cologne was most popular, that it was visited by 20,000 people in a day. Visitors had to climb staircase of 509 steps to reach the standing platform to view the Rhine. The spiral staircase is 198m high. Cologne’s one of the treasures was High Altar. The treasure was built by black marbles and instated in 1332. Cologne was included as the culturally important site by the UNESCO World Heritage LIST in 1996.

Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world and is situated in Dubai. It has a height of 160m. It is recorded as the tallest building in the world beating the previous record made by Taipei101. The construction of the building was started in 2004 and it was inaugurated on 4^th January 2010. The contractor of this building was Samsung c&t and he is the one who built Taipei 101.the concrete f this building is made up of mixture of special elements to withstand high weight and all types of climatic changes. The temperature at that place is about 50 degree Celsius and the presence of any crack the entire project will be damaged. The explanation for the design, construction and the challenges faced by the engineer is made as documentaries and telecasted as programs in many bigger channels like discovery, national geographic channel etc. They used the traditional architecture of Islam for the construction of the tallest building Burj Khalifa. Cathodes are used to protect the buildings from harmful chemical present in the ordinary water. The material used for the construction is concrete. It has also made a record for having built the building in a short duration of time.

This building is situated at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and was constructed during the period of 2004 – 2010. The design of the building is on such a large scale that it includes 163 floors, two parking levels in the basement, and also with 46 maintenance levels. The total cost of the project worth around $1.5 billion and employed various high end technological concepts to bring it into one piece. In today’s modern environment, this kind of achievement made is highly appreciable and mind whelming. This development in architecture will play an important role in the near future. It was the effort made by the Emaar properties who had invested a huge amount on this mega marvel. It was also the effort made by the technicians to have focus on the construction process to stay on schedule.

One of the world’s largest Hindu temples is Akshardam. It gives the information about the Hindu’s culture, customs followed by their generation and their concern with the matter of their spirit. The construction of this structure took 7000 artisans and 3000 volunteers to build it. About 70% of the tourist visiting Delhi is attracted by it. It was inaugurated on 6^th November 2005. The temple is situated close to the bank of Yamuna. The structure was built based on the Vasthu Shastra and Panchatra Shastra. The structure is 43m in height, 96m wide and 110m long and the monument is fully carved with plants, animals, musicians and super natural immortal being. It is constructed by using Italian marble which was used in ancient Rome and Rajasthan pink stones. And there is no usage of steel or concrete to strengthen it. It was designed on the basis of ancient architectural planning and rules known as Sthapatya   Shastra by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This temple was made up of 234 carved pillars, 9 domes and 20,000 images of gods and the statue of Hindu monks and the people who establish bakti.