Dining room in the Ellsworth Greenhouse House, Connecticut, designed by John M. Johansen in 1976 [684x800]

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When the University of Michigan needed to extend its law library in the 1980s, architect Gunnar Birkerts designed the new wing to be concealed underground [1602x2048]

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A loft in an old warehouse, with views of the Brooklyn Bridge through the clock window. Yours for only $2.35 million [920x613]

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Another historic Tesco: the Perivale store is in the Grade II* Hoover Building, a 1933 art deco masterpiece

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Burgo Paper Mill, Mantua, Italy, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in 1961. This factory's suspended roof allows a long open space for machinery.

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Catton House, West Vancouver, Canada, designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey in 1967

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1930s architecture looked incredibly futuristic when it was first built

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This ski resort looks like a Bond villain's lair

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The gorgeous Graham House, West Vancouver, Canada, designed by local architect Arthur Erickson in 1962, demolished in 2007

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Futuristic 1970s architecture on the French coast

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Clever House, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA, designed by Louis Kahn in 1957 [1080x1319]

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Giant umbrella columns in the Palazzo del Lavoro, Turin, Italy, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in 1959

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Child with a burnt-out car, Divis Flats, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1980s

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Apartment block perched on a cliff, Dover Heights, Australia

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Graham House, West Vancouver, Canada, designed by Arthur Erickson in 1962, demolished in 2007

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Food for thought

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Roberto Garza Sada Center, Monterrey, Mexico, designed by Tadao Ando in 2007

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Living room in the Smith House, Bloomfield Township, Michigan, USA, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1949. Virtual interior tour in comments [1755x1170]

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Auto noir: Chrysler Pavilion, Chicago, 1933

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Spiky 1970s building in Paris-Plage, France, known locally as the pinecone

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Room with a concrete ceiling in the Maison Bordeaux-le-Pecq, Bois-le-Roi, France, designed by Claude Parent in 1963 [1440x1800]

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Undoubtedly Belfast's greatest claim to fame: the UK's only Grade I-listed Tesco Metro

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Wood-panelled living room with views of Mt. Hood in the Aubrey Watzek House, Portland, Oregon, designed by John Yeon in 1936 [2364x1773]

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Sibley Breaker, Pennsylvania, built in 1886 and destroyed by fire in 1906.

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The spillway shaft at Mangatangi dam, New Zealand, before the reservoir waters rose for the first time (c. 1976-7)

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Oil platform being towed out to sea, Boknafjord, Norway. Photo by Pal Christensen.

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Adaptive reuse in action: time lapse of the Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, Australia being built around the partial structure of the 1976 AMP Centre

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1960s stadium in Bremen, Germany

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30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin), designed by Norman Foster in 2001, behind the St. Andrew Undershaft Church, built in 1532. London, England.

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Office designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Reconstruction of Old Sarum, England. Beginning life as an Iron Age hill fort, this town was a major urban center from around 1000 until the 1200s, when most of its populace moved to the nearby city of Salisbury. Only a handful of ruins remain today.

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Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1991

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Lobby of the Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan, designed by John Portman in 1977

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1960s church in Harlem

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Cincinatti Music Hall, Ohio, USA, designed by Hannaford & Proctor in 1878

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Taiyuan Botanical Gardens, China, designed by Delugan Meissl in 2016

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Seating pod at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, designed by John Portman in 1974

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Experimental house design by architect Albert Frey - built in 1933

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The Hand of God

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Bauhaus-era teapot, designed by Marianne Brandt in 1924

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River House, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, designed by Gray Taylor in 1968

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Entrance hall of Kyoto Station, Japan, designed by Hiroshi Hara in 1997

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Car parked outside a cinema - Eritrea, East Africa

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Greater Refuge Temple, Harlem, USA, designed by Costas Machlouzarides in 1966

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A slice of the space age in old Mexico City: Los Manantiales Restaurant, 1958

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Home of architect Agustin Hernandez, designed in 1975

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1895 house near Alamance, NC with some minor modern additions

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Fukashiro Dam, Yamanashi, Japan

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Al Shaheed Monument, Baghdad, Iraq, designed by Saman Kamal in 1983 [750x514]

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Mid-Century house built over a river in New Canaan, Connecticut

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Brutalist clock at St Johannes Catholic Church, Aargau, Switzerland, designed by Hans Brutsch in 1965

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Knoll House, Italy, a private home built atop the ruins of a medieval barn. Designed by Werner Tscholl in 1997

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Goulding Summer House, Enniskerry, Ireland, designed by Scott Tallon Walker in 1971

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Dowgate Fire Station, London, England, designed by Hubbard Ford & Partners in 1975

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Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey, designed by Martin Stern Jr. in 1984, demolished by controlled implosion earlier today. It had stood unused and empty since its 2014 closure and was beginning to deteriorate.

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Abandoned lighthouse on Klein Curacao, an uninhabited island in the south Caribbean

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Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Abraham Zabludowsky in 1981

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater under construction, 1936

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Grundtvig's Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Peder Klint in 1913 and completed in 1940 [2731x4096]

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French cafe with 1920s decor

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Inspecting a crack in the Pantheon's dome, 1925

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater seen from the back

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Mariendom (Pilgrimage Church), Neviges, Germany, designed by Gottfried Bohm in 1968. Bohm, a sculptor as well as a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, died yesterday aged 101.

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Brutalist clock at St Johannes Catholic Church, Aargau, Switzerland, designed by Hans Brutsch in 1965

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Central Hall of the Matsuya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, built in 1925. Heavily damaged by bombing in WW2, fully remodeled in 1965

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The headquarters of S.C. Johnson, Wisconsin, USA, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936

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Ohligsmuhle Station, Wuppertal, Germany, designed by Rathke Architects in 1976

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The sinister HQ of Union Carbide, Danbury, Connecticut

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Gold Pyramid House, Wadsworth, Illinois. Built by the Onan family in 1980, heavily damaged by fire in 2018. The property also has a 50-foot statue of King Tut, a metal palm tree, and a four car garage topped by three smaller pyramids.

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Philosophy Building, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, designed by Aleksandar Stjepanovic in 1979

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Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1991

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Library of the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, Osaka, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando in 2000

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Mirador del Rio, Lanzarote, designed by Cesar Manrique in 1973

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Entrance to the Tysso II Power Plant, Odda, Norway, designed by Geir Grung in 1967

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Sydney Opera House under construction, 1973

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Subaru Nursery, Japan

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Temple Beth Sholom, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954

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Brutalist streetlights at the Temple Street Parking Garage, New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Paul Rudolph in 1971

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Villa Foscari (a.k.a. La Malcontenta), Mira, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1558

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First Point Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1877, the structure proved costly to maintain due to unstable foundations; it was replaced by a larger bridge in 1925.

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A look inside the Sydney Opera House [1493x1000]

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Meyer Werft Shipyard, Papenburg, Germany. Home to the world's largest roofed drydock.

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Casa Beretta, Val d'Aosta, Italy, designed by Mario Galvagni in 1967

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Cross-section of the Burroughs Wellcome Center, a 1972 brutalist work by architect Paul Rudolph which now faces demolition

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Library at All Souls College, Oxford, England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1716

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Moore House, Palos Verdes, California. Designed in 1958 by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank), demolished in 2011

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Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by O'Donnell Tuomey in 2003

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Tiled patterns on the Registan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, built by the Timurids in the early 1400s

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Rokko Housing I, Kobe, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando in 1981

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Ralph Rapson's Case Study House #4, designed in 1945

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The Slauerhoffbrug, a drawbridge over a canal in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

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Villa Sayer, Normandy, France, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1972

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The minarets of Alamgir Mosque, Panchganga Ghat, Varanasi, India. Built in the late seventeenth century, one of them collapsed in 1948 and the other was pulled down shortly after. This photograph of the mosque and its surroundings was taken in 1869.

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Speculative rendering of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, the oldest and most important large temple in Rome. Built in 509 BC in an Etruscan-influenced style, destroyed by fire in 83 BC

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Hong Kong

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Canary Wharf Crossrail Station, London, England [805x1143]

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Southgate Estate, Runcorn New Town, Cheshire, UK, designed by James Stirling in 1977, demolished in 1992 due to high maintenance costs and low profitability.

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Renovated 1920s tram stop in Brno, Czech Republic

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Graham House, West Vancouver, Canada, designed by Arthur Erickson in 1962, demolished in 2007

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Glowing greenhouses in the Netherlands. Photo by George Steinmetz

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Galloway's Furniture Store, Sarasota, Florida, designed by Victor Lundy in 1959. Partially demolished in the 1970s, some of the structure still survives within a nondescript exterior

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Krestovsky Water Towers, Moscow, Russia. Designed by Maxim Geppener in the late 19th century, demolished in 1939 during the expansion of the motorway.

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Hotel in Romania (the Grand Bucharest?)

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Home of architect Agustin Hernandez, designed in 1975

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Water Tower near Moncontour, Brittany, France

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Auditorium at the Banca Popolare di Lodi Headquarters, Italy, designed by Renzo Piano in 1990

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Italian Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in 1976

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Restaurant de la Reserve, Nice, France, built in the 1860s. Though the main building (left) still stands, the two outer pavilions were lost in the 20th century.

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Two intact buildings, built two thousand years apart, standing next to each other. The Roman Maison Carree and Norman Foster's Carre d'Art, Nimes, France

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Proposal for a skyscraper on Berlin's Konigsplatz, designed by Otto Kohtz in 1920

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Lota de Macedo Soares House, Sao Paulo, Brazil, designed by Sergio Bernardes and Soares herself in 1953

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Paul Rudolph's 1965 design drawing for the unbuilt Callahan Residence in Birmingham, Alabama

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ANZ Bank Chambers, Christchurch, New Zealand. Designed by Clarkson and Ballantyne in 1907, severely damaged in the 2011 earthquake and subsequently demolished.

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TTC Elite Saigon Kindergarten, Vietnam, designed by Kientruc O in 2019

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Leaves Tower, Nasr City, Egypt, designed by Elgabaly Architects in 2009

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Wedge Office Building, Oslo, Norway, 2016. Architects: A-lab [1140x1369]

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First Church, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Paul Rudolph in 1968

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Decre Department Store, Nantes, France, designed by Henri Sauvage and Frantz Jourdain in 1931. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a bombing raid during WW2

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Atrium of the HSBC Headquarters, Hong Kong, designed by Norman Foster in 1979

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Book Room, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England, designed by Sir John Soane in 1790

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The world's longest conveyor belt. It carries phosphate 61 miles from Bou Craa in Western Sahara to the port of Marsa

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Grundtvig's Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Peder Klint in the expressionist style in 1913 and completed in 1940 [building]

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Police Station in Brakel, Belgium, designed by ORG in 2009

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Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1991

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Greater Refuge Temple, Harlem, USA, designed by Costas Machlouzarides in 1966

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Taq Kasra, Ctesiphon, Iraq, a Persian palace complex dating back to the third century AD. The central arch is original, and remains the world's largest single-span unreinforced brick vault.

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Dr. Saidman's Solarium, Aix-le-Bans, France. Built in 1930 as an experiment in heliotherapy, the building consisted of a rotating platform of cabins which turned to face the sun. It was destroyed in WW2.

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Living room in the Aubrey Watzek House, Portland, Oregon, designed by John Yeon in 1936

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Bordeaux Cathedral, France, built between the 12th and 14th century. Its swampy site meant that only two of four planned bell towers could be built, leading to its asymmetry.

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Stone Court Villa, Arizona, USA, designed by Marwan al Sayed in 2014

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Xi'an Qujiang Art Center, China, 2019. Architects: gad

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Cross-section of the Barbican Centre, a performing arts venue in London [1024x609]

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VC Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, CA. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948

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The bridges of Montrose, Scotland. The Old Bridge was built in 1828 by Samuel Brown and was replaced in 1931 by Owen Williams's New Bridge, which was itself demolished in 2004.

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Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England, designed by Haworth Tompkins in 2017

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Moonda Viaduct, Cornwall, New York. Built 1906-1908

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Rudolph Schindler's 1936 design drawing for the unbuilt Warshaw Residence, Los Angeles, USA

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The stunning interior of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Finland, designed by architect Juha Leiviska

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Round Tower of St. Michael le Pole, Dublin, Ireland, built in the 9th Century, destroyed by a storm in 1775. It stood next to the black pool (Dubh Linn) from which the city took its name

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Villa Sayer, Normandy, France, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1972

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Hotel Siro, Toshima City, Japan, designed by Mount Fuji Architecture Studio in 2020

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The Dresden Suspension Railway is the second-oldest of its kind, dating back to 1901

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Edificio Princesa, Madrid, Spain, designed by Fernando Higueras Diaz and Antonio Miro Valverde in 1975

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The recently-renovated Singleton House, Bel Air, USA, designed by Richard Neutra in 1959

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Agricultural School in Orsonnens, Switzerland, designed by TEd'A Arquitectes in 2018. Inspired by the shingled farmhouses found in the local area.

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K-Museum, Tokyo, Japan, designed by Makoto Sei Watanabe in 1994

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Hydraulics Laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin, designed by Ludwig Leo in 1975

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Living room in the Charles and Ingrid Kobel House, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen in 1939

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The Wave, La Baule, France, designed by Pierre Doucet in 1979

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