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D. Golden Ratio in
Architecture Taj Mahal in India used the golden ratio

in its construction and was completed in 1648.
The Great Pyramid of Giza built
4700 BC in Ahmes Papyrus of Egypt is

with proportion according to a “Golden

Ratio.” The length of each side of the

base is 756 feet with a height of 481

feet. The ratio of the base to the Taj Mahal

height is roughly 1.5717, which is close
United Nations Building, the window
to the Golden ratio.
configuration reveals golden proportion.

Great Pyramid of Giza

Notre Dame is a Gothic Cathedral
in Paris, built in between 1163 and
1250. It appears to have a golden ratio United Nations Building

in a number of its key proportions of
design. Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, erected in
1889 is an iron lattice.

Notre Dame

Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartes
in Paris, France also exhibits the

golden ratio. Eiffel Tower CN Tower

CN Tower in Toronto, the tallest tower

and freestanding structure in the world,

contains the golden ratio in its design.

Chartes Cathedral

ZANNIE I. GAMUYAO, MSM
Assistant Professor 1 UNIT 1.2 The Fibonacci Sequence
Department of Arts and Sciences