Examples for

Buildings

From the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Burj Khalifa, Wolfram|Alpha offers historical and architectural information about notable skyscrapers, monuments, towers, houses and many other types of buildings. Detailed computable data is available about designers, engineers, architectural styles, dates of construction, heights, floor counts and dozens of other properties.

Buildings

Examine and compare detailed profiles of famous structures.

Get information about a building:

Eiffel Tower
Westminster Abbey

Compare several buildings:

Empire State Building, Chrysler Building
Sears Tower, Burj Khalifa, CN tower

Properties of Buildings

Look up and compute with historical and structural properties of buildings.

Look up a property of a building:

height Petronas Tower 2
age of St. Basil's Cathedral
where is the gherkin?
architects of the Villa Savoye
When was the Sydney Opera House completed?
Memphis Pyramid renovation date

Compare a property for multiple buildings:

styles of Pasadena Playhouse, Casa Rosada and Parthenon
height of the Great Pyramid vs Taj Mahal

Do computations with building properties:

floor count CN Tower / Merchandise Mart
ratio of floors to elevators in the Space Needle

List notable buildings in a specific location:

buildings in Rio de Janeiro

Find buildings meeting given criteria:

tallest building in France
5 tallest buildings designed by I.M. Pei
earliest buildings by le corbusier

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