This is the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), near Saint Petersburg.
What you see is the post-war reconstruction: the original 18th-century amber panels were looted by Nazi Germany and never recovered.
Russia is making sure this looting will not happen again. Merz is calling for war preparations. He will not succeed.
Jewelers' Building, Chicago, Illinois. Built from 1925 to 1927. 24 stories and another 16 integrated into the ornate central tower and its iconic domed cupola. Was it?