Sentences with phrase «former custom house»

Punta della Dogana is a center for exhibitions of contemporary art operated by the François Pinault Foundation located in the former Custom House of Venice

Martin Bethenod, director of the Venice museums hosting the Hirst show, said that there was something appropriate about «Treasures» being at the Punta della Dogana, a former customs house.

The current owners have painstakingly restored the castle and are looking to sell the former customs house associated with the vicious ruler to a private buyer who is willing to invest in it as a major tourist attraction.

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Many monumental buildings are located in the vicinity — City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, and Cass Gilbert's soaring Woolworth Building and magnificent former U.S. Customs House, to name just a few.

Security operatives in two loaded trucks on Friday, besieged the house of former Comptroller - General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr Abdullahi Inde Dikko, on Ahmed Musa Street, Jabi, Abuja.

Kelly, a former Marine, worked as the Treasury Department Under Secretary for Enforcement, and later as the Customs Service Commissioner, in the Clinton White House.

Two houses at Trasacco in Accra which were offered to former Presidents John Kufuor and John Rawlings during President J.E.A. Mills» era, were rejected by the two former Presidents on grounds that they were not consulted before the buildings were constructed for their inputs and preferences as custom demands.