The Peace Palace in The Hague was designed by Louis M. Cordonnier with the Dutch associate J.A.G. van der Steur, and Thomas Hayton Mawson designed the grounds. Andrew Carnegie funded it with 1.5 million US dollars, and the Carnegie Foundation managed construction for the Permanent Court of Arbitration. It opened on August 28, 1913.
The article calls the style Neo-Renaissance. Materials, doors and silk tapestries came from various countries, including marble, wood, wrought iron and a 3.2-tonne Russian vase. The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1907, while the text says the first stone was placed in 1907 but construction began some months after the conference.
The Permanent Court of International Justice was added in 1922, and the International Court of Justice was established there in 1946. The palace received the European Heritage Label in 2014. It hosts dozens of hearings yearly. The article gives no hours.
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