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This opera house in Austria was the first main building on Vienna Ring Road. Its construction began in 1861 all through to 1869 when it was completed. Sicard August and Eduard Null were the architects who drew plans for the opera house. The building was constructed in the Renaissance style (19 th Century German style) by Josef, a Czech contractor. The government then commissioned some reports into the accessibility of some building supplies, which resulted in the use of certain stones that had not been seen in Vienna before for instance the Wollersdorfer which was used for plinths and the Kaisersteinbruch , which was appropriate since its color appeared better for luxuriously decorated parts (Erik 2001). There was a decision made for the use of dimension stone in the exterior parts, with the building’s inner parts adorned with marble. The staircases were built using refined Kaisersstein . During the final stages of World War II, it was bombed by American forces which result...