"Like a huge palace or building or a huge temple, it would have had many rooms in there, multilayered rooms so you have rooms for people living, and you would also had several tombs in there of the people who lived in this area here, " Morris told 7NewsBelize.
Brooks points out the crystallized gypsum disguised as marble columns, the Styrofoam used to fill gaps in the palace's building blocks, and the most fundamental flaw: The foundations of the palace, set in an artificial lake, were designed to withstand a 200, 000 square-foot structure.
The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.
Serb television later showed pictures of Milosevic welcoming Chernomyrdin at the "White Palace, " another building used by Milosevic for welcoming delegations and for official functions.
Within the framework of the Project: "Heritage Recovery and Cultural Development in Havana: Segundo Cabo Palace", the building placed in Old Havana is currently being restored for its future use as a Cuba-Europe cultural exchange centre, thanks to the cooperation of the European Union, UNESCO and the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana (OHCH).
After the Gulf War, Saddam began building a modern palace for himself on top of ruins in the style of a Sumerian ziggurat.
At the same time, they built an entirely new building behind the palace, and the hotel occupies both edifices, which are connected both by an underground passage and a private walled park-like plaza.
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In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
Iraqi archaeologist Hai Katth Moussa said that during a massive reconstruction project in the early 1980s, Saddam began building a replica of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II on top of the ruins of the ancient palace.
He's building yet another high- roller palace, this time on the site of the old Desert Inn.
The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.
Grandiose ideas, perhaps too easily uttered amid the imperial splendour of Vienna: the Hofburg Palace, Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square) and a parliament building seemingly vast enough to embrace all 8m Austrians, not just their elected representatives.
William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, currently live in Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace, but will move into a renovated apartment in the main building in 2013.
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On August 15th, before an audience of business leaders at the presidential palace, Ms Rousseff unveiled plans for auctions to bring private firms into building and running infrastructure.
The model on view at the American Folk Art Museum shows that the Palace would have been 136 stories tall 34 more than the Empire State Building.
Local traditions dating back to at least the 18th Century suggest that the then ruined building was either a stronghold of the crusading Knights of Malta or a bishop's palace.
For some months the body that runs the building - the House of Commons Commission - has been considering a radical plan to close the Palace for a number of years while a complete refurbishment is carried out.
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