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Milwaukee, which is the largest city and lake port in
Wisconsin, located west shore of Lake Michigan. It is also a veteran of the
beer capital of America, Harley's hometown. Indians indigenous inhabitants
called "secret Mierlo - Waukegan", meaning "beautiful
land", and therefore have the name of the city of Milwaukee.
Lake
Michigan
Lake Michigan is the Great Lakes region of North
America, it is the only one of the Great Lakes entirely in the United States.
The other four Great Lakes is shared by the United States and Canada.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
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Milwaukee Art Museum, built in 1882, which is located on Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It has more than 30,000 works of art in the collection.
There is another art museum next to the old building,
it is War Memorial by Eero
Saarinen designed in 1957. In 2001, the Milwaukee
Art Museum expansion again, Quadracci Pavilion designed by Santiago
Calatrava Valls. Milwaukee Art
Museum building in any place,
it will definitely be a stunning, other
building cannot be
compared with it. 2001 by the
US "Time" magazine's Annual Design standings, the Milwaukee Art Museum was elected first.
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Santiago Calatrava Valls is one of the world's most
famous and innovative architects, but also controversial architect. Santiago
Calatrava Valls to design the bridge structure and artistic architecture
famous, he designed Venice, Dublin, Manchester and Barcelona Bridge, also
designed Lyon, Lisbon, and Zurich train station. Recent works is the famous
2004 Athens Olympic Games main stadium.
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Since the Santiago Calatrava Valls has a dual academic
architects and engineers, his interaction between structural and architectural
aesthetics has yardstick grasp. He believes that beauty can be expressed by the
mechanics of engineering out, and among nature, trees, birds and insects
morphological appearance, but also has amazing mechanical efficiency. So, he
often to nature as inspiration for his design of a fountain.
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The
Milwaukee Art Museum - Quadracci Pavilion, its design, construction and
exquisite peculiar let me sincere praise. Art gallery like a ship, sail on the
mast, will vary the strength of sunlight or open or with rope. Art Gallery
inside the white walls, white doors, white, the white windows, like white
cabin.
Basilica of St. Josaphat
Built in 1901, the Basilica of St. Josaphat's church,
which is located near the village of North Lincoln, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it is
a Roman Catholic Church.
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The Basilica of St. Josaphat was dedicated to Josaphat
Kuncevyc, a Ruthenian martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as
of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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