Taj Mahal | |
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Height | 73m |
Floors | 0 |
Year | 0 |
City | Dharmapuri |
The Taj Mahal (; lit. 'Crown of the Palace', [ta?d? ?m???(?)l]) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the southern bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned from 1628 to 1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The grave is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
Building of the mausoleum was basically completed in 1643, but work continued on other stages of the job for the following 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be approximately 32 million rupees, which in 2020 will be approximately 70 billion rupees (about U.
Imperial Towers | |
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Height | 249m |
Floors | 0 |
Year | 0 |
City | Mumbai |
The Imperial a modernist style building designed by Architect Hafeez Contracter is a twin-tower ultra luxury residential skyscraper complex in the billionaires row of Mumbai, India which is one of the tallest completed buildings in India. In 2010 its construction was completed and the towers were inaugurated. It is home to influential individuals like Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma, HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh's son, senior lawyer Satish Maneshinde, The Daga Family of Betul Oil Ltd. and senior management executives of US private equity fund Blackstone.
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