hemicycle

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A general view of the hemicycle at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2016.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2022

Back in the other world of central Dijon, the mayor’s office is housed in the Palace of the Dukes, approached through the magnificent hemicycle of the Place de la Libération, or Liberation Square.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022

A general view of the hemicycle at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, November 24, 2021.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2021

In Brussels, Brown got the welcome of a global leader, delivering an address in the vast European Parliament hemicycle from the same rostrum as German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she is in town.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2017

As in a dream, one looks down the last vista to the open rotunda and crescent hemicycle of the Palace of Fine Arts beyond a lagoon that mirrors them on its surface.

From The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Mullgardt, Louis Christian