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  • Marble astronomical scale of the Samrat Yantra (the Supreme Instrument) is the world's largest sundial, standing 27 meters tall. Its shadow moves visibly at 1 mm per second at the Jantar Mantar, a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II between 1727 and 1734. Jaipur, India, 2002
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  • Detail of Lincoln Cathedral East window showing The Creation and Redemption of Man. Stained glass by Ward and Nixon, 1855. Lincoln, UK, 2004
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  • Neon advertising lights above Nanjing East Road. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Lawn, railings and cobbles on Radcliffe Square viewed from St Mary's,the University Church. Underneath the square is storage space for the Bodleian Library, which contains around 600,000 volumes. Oxford, England, 2009
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  • Detail of the concrete ribs which make up the façade of the Copan building, built by architect Oscar Niemeyer. São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
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  • Outer walls and moat of Nij? Castle. The raised corner used to house a five storey tower which served as a look-out in 1750 but was not rebuilt. (Built from 1601 to 1626 by Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Edo Shogunate). Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • Corner of the three-tier marble terrace leading to the Hall of Preserving Harmony in the Forbidden City. (Built from 1406 to 1420). Beijing, China, 2007
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  • Granite rock formation near the summit of Glyder Fach.Wales, 2003
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  • Göreme is a town of rock-cut dwellings that include troglodyte villages and underground towns - the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century.
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  • Wind towers (Badgir) next to a building which acts as a refrigerator to store food and Zoroastrian Tower of Silence (Dakhmeh). Yazd, Iran 2007
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  • Clean water flows into the Thames from the northern outfall of Beckton Sewage TreatmentWorks. Sewage from 3.4 million Londoners is treated on site every day. Barking Creek Tidal Barrier, which resembles a giant guillotine, was built over four years and completed in 1983. It is about 60m high, which allows shipping to reach the Town Quay in Barking further upstream. The barrier crosses the Barking Creek reach of the River Roding at its confluence with the Thames. London, UK, 2003
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  • Wood-lined gun embrasure of a German WWII bunker. The stepping form and wood lining were designed to minimise shrapnel entering the opening during an attack. Alderney, Channel Islands, 2006
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  • Corridor in the Khas Mahal (white marble palace), a pavilion of imperial apartments in Agra Fort next to the River Yamuna. Agra, India, 2002
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  • Interior of the hexagonal conical dome of the Sheikh's tomb. Sheikh Abd as-Samad Mosque. Natanz, Iran, 2008
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  • Great Dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Built from 1818 to 1858. Under the Soviet government, the building was abandoned, then turned into a museum of atheism. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2007
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  • Bricked up windows of a ruined façade in an abandoned building. Cordoba, Spain, 1993
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  • Rock cut dwellings exposed by erosion and rock fall. Cappadocia, Turkey, 1994
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  • Supporting buttress preventing the collapse of the ruins at Llanthony Priory. Vale of Ewyas,Wales, 2009
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  • Pine tree branch supported by a crutch which prevents collapse and controls growth to prevent twisting. The pine is seen as a symbol of good luck and longevity in Japanese culture. Imperial Park, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • The remains of one of two Moorish style chimneys at Abbey Mills pumping.station which gave the building a mosque-like appearance. They have not been used.since steam power was replaced by electric motors in 1933. They were demolished.during WWII because they were a landmark for German bombers on raids over the.London docks. London, UK, 2003
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  • Alau Minar minaret. Construction was stopped on the death of the Sultan,.Alauddin Khilji in 1316, when it was 12m high. It was intended to be higher than its.neighbour, Qutb Minar Minaret, the world's tallest brick minaret. Delhi, India, 2002
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  • Stones on a reconstructed wall. Lille, France, 2002
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  • Timber profiling blades in the Swindon Woodworking Workshop. Faringdon, UK, 2005
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  • Old Blackfriars Railway Bridge piers and columns across the Thames. The bridge.was used for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in the 1860s but eventually proved too weak to support modern trains. London, UK, 2009
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  • Archaic Doric column and capitals of the Temple of Hera, built around 550 BC by Greek colonists. It is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum, an ancient Greek, and later Roman city. The remains of the town are one of the best preserved examples of archaic Doric architecture. Paestum, Italy, 2001
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  • Honeycomb carved marble lattice screen in Agra fort. Agra, India, 2002
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  • Rooflight in the dome of a bazaar. Yazd, Iran, 2008
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  • Underside of the stage of the theatre in the inner garden, Yuyuan Garden, originally built in the 14th year of the Guangxu reign in the Qing Dynasty, 1888. The old stage underwent extensive rebuilding in 2005. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Ashley Building, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham. Architect: Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis. Refurbished by Berman Guedes Stretton, Birmingham. UK, 2006
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  • Temporary football pitch for the road builders of the Interoceanic Highway next to a recently completed stretch of road. In the Andes near Cuzco, Peru, 2008
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  • Vessel-shaped doorway in Yuyuan Garden, established in 1559. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • A pipe runs between two arches in an arcade in Bologna. There are some 38km of arcades in the city's historic centre, for which it is famous. Bologna, Italy, 2000
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  • Ancient Roman drain constructed from interlocking ceramic pipe sections. Pompeii, Italy, 2001
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  • Detail of terracotta column forming part of main entrance to the Romanesque.Natural History Museum (1860 to 1880). The design was inspired by basalt columns.at Fingal's Cave in western Scotland. Built by the architect Alfred Waterhouse. London, UK, 2008
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  • Detail of sandstone lathe-turned balusters in AngkorWat designed in the same style as the timber balusters of the surrounding buildings of ancient Khmer architecture. The 12th century temple was designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology. Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 2003
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  • Roman brick floor laid in a basket weave pattern. Pompeii, Italy, 2001
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  • The main road known as the Stradun, constructed entirely of marble in 1468.and reconstructed after the 1667 earthquake. The smooth surface reflects the street lights at night and becomes glass-like after rain. The city was shelled in 1991 to 1992 during the CroatianWar of Independence. This left the street pock marked as can be seen at the lower left of the photograph. A more recent patina has been added by chewing gum and a pistachio shell. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2005
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  • Calligraphy in florid thuluth script by Persian calligrapher Amanat Khan around the Pishtaq (main entrance) of the Taj Mahal. Jasper inlaid in white marble panels. The writing is slightly larger on the higher panels to reduce the skewing effect from below. The text is fromYaSin, the 36th chapter of the Koran. Agra, India, 2002
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  • Glazed tile Inscription dating from the 19th century in the northern iwan (semiopen.space on the edge of a courtyard wall), Nasir-al-Mulk Mosque. Flexible timber, visible poking out of the wall at the top of the image, is used for earthquake resistance..The text is from Al Imran, the 3rd chapter of the Koran. Shiraz, Iran, 2008
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  • Glass disks on the façade of Galleria Fashion Store treated with iridescent foil on a metal support structure. A back-lit animated colour scheme ensures that the façade appears to be always changing by day and night. Architect: UN Studio. Engineer: Arup. Seoul, South Korea, 2007
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  • Façade of Birmingham's Selfridges store at night. The skin consists of thousands of spun, anodised aluminium discs that reflect the surrounding city, set against a blue curved, sprayed concrete wall. Architect: Future Systems. Engineer: Arup. Birmingham, UK, 2007
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  • Solar shades on TheWalbrook constructed of fibre-reinforced polymer with an automotive finish - making the sheen resemble that of a car. Architect: Foster + Partners. Engineer: Arup. London, UK, 2009
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  • Bamboo fence opposite Nij? Castle built in the Kennin-ji style after the temple of the same name. Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • Detail of door to the East Gate of the Temple of Heaven (1406-20). The Ancient Chinese regarded odd numbers as masculine and even as feminine. Nine represented the "ultimate masculine" and was symbolic of the supreme sovereignty of the Emperor. The gates have studs arranged in a nine by nine grid. Beijing, China, 2007
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  • Townhouse door knockers. The masculine door knocker on the left is heavy and makes a loud sound, indicating a man's arrival. The feminine door knocker is ring-like and makes a lighter sound, announcing a woman. Islamic custom dictates that men and women should not interact unless they are married or related. Yazd, Iran, 2008
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  • Detail of sculptured spiral stair exits faced with broken ceramics and marble on the roof terrace of Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'). Built 1906-1910. Architect: Antoni Gaudí. Barcelona, Spain, 2003
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  • Detail of a wall of recycled electrical fittings in Nek Chand's Rock Garden. From 1957 he secretly collected stones, metal, bricks, and other waste from Le Corbusier's building sites. When discovered in 1975, it had become a 12-acre (49,000sq.m) complex of interlinked courtyards, filled with hundreds of pottery-covered, concrete sculptures of dancers, musicians, and animals. Chandigarh, India, 2002
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  • Timber roof tiles of the Refectory (Trapezna) of St. John the Divine in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. Kiev, Ukraine, 2007
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  • Red tiles, shaped and patterned like fish scales, on the roof of the National.Museum of Cambodia, constructed 1917-24 and inspired by Khmer temple architecture. The roof tiles have sections offset for ventilation, which incidentally provide entry and exit points for bats. For years the building was infested with bats and until 2003 it housed the world's largest bat enclave - numbering two million - inside a man-made structure. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2003
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  • Detail of the edge of a Roman wall. The flat red bricks make up the edge and the wall is in-filled with the diamond-shaped, grey bricks. Pompeii, Italy, 2001
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  • Koto-In Buddhist temple, detail of tatami mat and sh?ji (paper) screen runners. The edge of the tatami mat is finished with linen bearing a 'Kourai Beri' design (Korean pattern). In polite society the edging was not walked on when moving around the room. Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • Detail of aluminium sunscreens on the façade of the Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. The shields are set to be more open or closed depending on the angle.at which the sun hits them, affording the glass façades protection from direct sunlight without limiting the view. Many Singaporeans casually refer to the Esplanade as the Durian because of its resemblance to the tropical fruit. Architect: Michael Wilford & Partners & DP Architects Singapore. Singapore, 2003
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  • Timber roof tiles of an alpine hay barn, South Tyrol, Italy, 2002
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  • The Arsenal reflected in the façade of the State Kremlin Palace. Architect: Michael M. Poshokin. Moscow, Russia, 2007
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  • Façade of 30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin, at dusk. The double façade creates a natural ventilation system and giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside. The triangulated perimeter structure is structural and adds to the buildings rigidity. Architect Foster + Partners (2004). Engineer: Arup. London, UK, 2009
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  • Knapped flint wall. Norwich. UK, 2001
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  • Detail of geometrical timber design on the door of Masjid-e-Jamé Mosque. Yazd, Iran, 2008
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  • Neon signs advertising Huntley Clock andWatch and an optician. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Detail of glazed tile and terracotta script view of khanqah portal on the right flank of the 13th century Shaykh 'Abd al-Samad Shrine complex. The central part is made up of a square kufic pattern meaning "There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is the prophet of God and Ali is the Imam from Allah." The left script reads "in the year of sixteen." The sentence is incomplete. Natanz, Iran, 2008
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  • Lead covered domes on the Mihrimah Camii Mosque complex, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993
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  • One of the few original roof tiles in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The city known as the.Pearl of the Adriatic was heavily shelled during the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991..During the siege of Dubrovnik two-thirds of the town's old buildings were damaged..Today the roofs are a patchwork of restored and original tiles. The traditional clay tiles were originally shaped over a man's thigh. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2005
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  • A boy in the opening of a finely carved window in the Arg (citadel) of Karim.Khan, Shiraz, the home of Persian romantics and poets. Shiraz, Iran, 2008
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  • Arrow slits in the Tower of London's outer curtain wall built by Edward I between 1275 and 1285. London, UK, 2009
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  • Tourist viewing platform for looking into North Korea from the South Korean side of the 38th parallel. Situated on top of Dorasan (Mount Dora), the observatory looks across the Demilitarized Zone. It is the part of South Korea closest to the North. Mount Dora, South Korea, 2007
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  • Road barrier above a steep drop at the edge of a newly completed section of the Interoceanic Highway in the Peruvian Andes. Above Cuzco, Peru, 2008
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  • Children's benches, Sculpture Park, also known by the expatriate name Fallen.Monument Park, Moscow, Russia, 2007
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  • The Hungarian Parliament Building built in a gothic revival style from 1896-1904 seen through the arches of the Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion, Buda Castle. Budapest, Hungary, 2005
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  • Montezuma Castle National Monument Cliff dwellings built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 1400 AD. The five-storey stone and mortar dwellings contain 20 rooms and once housed about 50 people. A natural overhang shades the rooms and shelters them from rain. Camp Verde, Arizona, USA, 1990
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  • The tombs of the Achaemenid kings Darius 1, Artaxerxes 1 and Xerxes 1 (l. to r.) carved out of the rock face from 4-500 BC. The entrance to each tomb at the centre of the cross opens onto to a small chamber containing the king's sarcophagus. The façades are thought to be replicas of the entrance of the palace at Persepolis. Fars, Iran, 2008
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  • Office tower and apartments. Hong Kong, China, 2004
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  • Edifício São Vito, on the eastern edge of São Paulo's downtown. The building was abandoned and then invaded by squatters. It is sometimes referred to as a vertical favela. São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
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  • Q'allaqasa, the citadel of Inca Písac lies atop a hill at the entrance to the valley. The Inca's agricultural terraces are still in use today. They enabled them to produce more food than would normally be possible at 11,000ft. The narrow rows of terraces are thought to represent the wing of a partridge (pisaca). Pisac, Peru, 2008
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  • An ice house or Yakhchal, an ancient refrigerator allowing the storage of ice in.the desert in summer. It was collected in winter and kept cool by its shape and walls.made from special mortar called s_rooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime,.goat hair, and ash, which was resistant to heat transfer. Abarqu, Iran, 2008
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  • A disused caravanserai on the road from Yazd to Isfahan. The buildings served as a roadside inn for travellers. They provided security and each merchant stayed in one of the identical bays with the square used for animals. Iran, 2008
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  • The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatre. It hosted gladiatorial games and other events. Seating was divided into three distinct social groupings and protection from the sun was provided by velaria suspended above the crowd from the top of the arena. The amphitheatre was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius (visible behind) in 79 AD. Pompeii, Italy, 2001
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  • A large rock shelter its surface scattered with Middle Stone Age artefacts. The walls containing a number of Bushman Rock paintings recorded during the Lesotho.Rock Art Survey, 2000. Lesobeng Valley, Lesotho, 2000
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  • Shadow of the belltower of Saint Sophia Cathedral across Bohdan Khmelnytsky.Square. Kiev, Ukraine, 2007
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  • Internal corridor between the split-level apartments of the Unité d'habitation.built in 1963 by Le Corbusier. Briey-en-forêt, France, 2005
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  • Victory Park Metro Station opened in 2003. Moscow, Russia, 2007
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  • Workers' camp on the Interoceanic Highway. Peruvian Andes, 2008
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  • A corral of llamas on the high Puna at approx. 4000m in the Andes. Peruvian Andes, 2008
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  • Scaffolding surrounding the second temple of Hera. The Greek Doric temple was built in about 450 BC. Paestum, Italy, 2001
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  • Statue of Lenin at Sculpture Park (Fallen Monument Park), Moscow, Russia, 2007
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  • The Interoceanic Highway runs across freshly deforested rock cut into gigantic terraces to try to control rock fall. Sometimes these terraces extend many hundreds of metres up the mountain. Andes, Peru, 2007
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  • Cars parked along a pavement. Prague, Czech Republic, 2006
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  • Stepped Throne of the Incas cut into the Rodadero, a giant diorite rock hill, exactly opposite Sacsayhuamán, an Inca walled complex built in the 15th century near the old city of Cuzco, at an altitude of 3,701m. Its function prior to the conquest remains a mystery. But if the outcrop represents the back of a snake, as has been suggested, the throne is riding on its back. The throne faces east towards the rising sun, which was of the greatest importance to the Inca. Cuzco, Peru, 2008
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  • Photographs of catholic hierarchy from the Pope to the altar of Igreja Nossa Senhora Aparecida. Cubatao, Brazil, 2008
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  • Path through the rubble of demolished houses that are still inhabited before the.construction of new buildings. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Path through an overgrown lawn. Stockwell, London, UK, 2009
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  • The remains of Milecastle 39, also known as Castle Nick, on the Whin Sill. The former barracks was part of the defences of Hadrian'sWall, built by the Romans across the width of England from AD 122-8. Northumberland, UK, 1998
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  • Defensive wall and its surroundings built from the 8th to the 16th century. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2005
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  • Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Damming the river flooded Glen Canyon and created a large reservoir called Lake Powell. Built 1956-66. Page, Arizona, USA, 1990
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  • Raised concrete road at dawn. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • The home of D. Maninha, aged 94, one of the oldest inhabitants. Pylons, Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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  • Thabang and family outside their home in Ha Motenalapi in the Senqunyane valley. They are wearing their Basotho tribal blankets. The door and window mouldings demonstrate Litema, the mural art of the Basotho. The hut floor and window mouldings are made from Daga, a mix of earth and dung. The high ammonia content of the dung acts as an antiseptic. The patterns engraved around the doorways may represent the surrounding furrowed fields. Ha Motenalapi, Lesotho, 2000
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  • The cathedral of Saint Peter in Vysokopetrovsky Monastery was one of the first rotundas in Russian architecture. Built in 1517. Moscow, Russia, 2007
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  • A tufa fairy tower dwelling in Cappadocia sculpted by wind and flood water. Turkey, 1993
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  • Big Chute Marine Railway, a ship lift at Lock 44 of the Trent-SevernWaterway in Ontario. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in a cradle over a change 18m high. Although a conventional lock would have been simpler, the marine railway was chosen to prevent the possible migration of sea lamprey from Georgian Bay into the Trent-Severn system. Built in 1977. Ontario, Canada 1990
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  • Two caravans on Akerman Road, Camberwell. London, UK, 2009
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  • Jag Mandir palace viewed across Pichola Lake framed by a window in Shiv Niwas Palace, Udaipur. Rajasthan, India, 2002
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