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  • Book cover of "Drawing Parallels: Architecture Observed" by Quintin Lake
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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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  • 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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  • From the ongoing series Human Habitats, which portrays telling moments when the figure is framed by the environment. Signed and editioned prints available at 59x42cm, 110x80cm & 155x110cm.
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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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  • Neon advertising lights above Nanjing East Road. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • From the ongoing series Human Habitats, which portrays telling moments when the figure is framed by the environment. Signed and editioned prints available at 59x42cm, 110x80cm & 155x110cm.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • From the ongoing series Human Habitats, which portrays telling moments when the figure is framed by the environment. Signed and editioned prints available at 59x42cm, 110x80cm & 155x110cm.
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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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  • Outer walls and moat of Nijo 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • From the ongoing series Human Habitats, which portrays telling moments when the figure is framed by the environment. Signed and editioned prints available at 59x42cm, 110x80cm & 155x110cm.
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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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  • 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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  • Granite rock formation near the summit of Glyder Fach.Wales, 2003
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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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  • 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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  • Kalyan minaret and Kalyan Mosque Dome. Bukhara is the capital of Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan. It is the nation's fifth largest city, with a population of 238,000. Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1999
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  • Front doors,Walthamstow. London, UK, 2009
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  • Concert hall with water-damaged Soviet relief sculpture and piano. Pripiat, Ukraine, 2007
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bricked up windows of a ruined façade in an abandoned building. Cordoba, Spain, 1993
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  • Gymnasium, 21 years after the Chernobyl disaster. Pripiat, Ukraine, 2007
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  • Sandstone and laterite blind window in Beng Mealea Temple, built in the early 12th century. Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2003
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  • A Japanese lacquer shop. Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais meaning "The Church of the Place of the Foreigners") is believed to be an early Christian church built between the 6th and 9th centuries. It has a corbelled roof and is built with stones laid at a slight angle - lower on the outside than on the inside - to allow rainwater to run off and thus keep the interior relatively dry despite the lack of mortaring. The building has remained in excellent condition for 1300 years. Dingle Peninsula, Ireland, 1991
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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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  • Workers' camp on the Interoceanic Highway. Peruvian Andes, 2008
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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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  • Office tower and apartments. Hong Kong, China, 2004
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Terracotta rooftops in Bologna seen from the top of the medieval tower Asinelli. The city is the capital of Emilia-Romagna region and has a population of 370,000. Bologna, Italy, 2000
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  • A house surrounded by banana plants in Jardim São Marcos favela. Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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  • Lead covered domes on the Mihrimah Camii Mosque complex, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993
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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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  • 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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  • A man ascending an arch of Lupu Bridge over the Huangpu River. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire (550-330 BC) during the Achaemenid dynasty. Persepolis, Iran, 2008
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  • Rock-cut dwellings in Cappadocia. Turkey, 1994
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  • Aerial view of the centre of Oxford, which has a population of 165,000. Many of the buildings are part of Oxford University, the oldest university in the Englishspeaking.world. They are recognisable by the golden Cotswold limestone and private Quads (an abbreviation of quadrangle), used to describe a college court completely surrounded by buildings and approached through a gateway. Oxford, UK, 2004
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  • An area of Yongsan-gu, south-west of Namsan Park seen from the Seoul Tower..Seoul, South Korea, 2007
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  • Downtown São Paulo seen from the top of the Edificio Italiano. With a population of eleven million residents São Paulo is the most populous city in the Southern hemisphere. São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
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  • Seated viewers in front of Formal Session of the StateCouncil on May 7, 1901, in honour of the 100th Anniversary of Its Founding by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1903, oil on canvas, State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia, 2007
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  • Posing for a photograph in front of the ruins of the gatehouse. Persepolis, Iran, 2008
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  • A silver birch tree growing through the floor on the terrace of the Hotel Polissia 21 years after the Chernobyl disaster. Pripiat, Ukraine, 2007
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  • A doorway in Ta Prohm to a temple built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as a monastery and university. The door is surrounded by silk cotton tree roots encased by strangler figs roots, which develop their own underground root system. They then grow quickly, often strangling the host tree, which in time dies and rots away. The strangler fig continues to exist as a hollow tubular lattice that provides shelter for many forest animals. Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2003
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  • Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with apartments above. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Alpine hay barn. South Tyrol, Italy, 2002
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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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  • Two caravans on Akerman Road, Camberwell. London, UK, 2009
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  • Path through an overgrown lawn. Stockwell, London, UK, 2009
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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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  • Statue of Lenin at Sculpture Park (Fallen Monument Park), Moscow, Russia, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Ancient Roman drain constructed from interlocking ceramic pipe sections. Pompeii, Italy, 2001
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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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  • 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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  • Highway in downtown São Paulo. Brazil, 2008
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  • A favela developed horizontally into the jungle along the route of the old road used for constructing the highway. Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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  • Chicago looking south from Sears Tower in winter. Chicago, USA, 1999
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  • Dubrovnik, located on the Adriatic Coast, has a population of 44,000. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2005
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  • With a population of over 10 million Seoul is home to a quarter of South Korea's population and is bordered by eight mountains. Seoul, South Korea, 2007
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  • Granada, the capital of the province of Granada, has a population of 230,000. It is seen here from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain, 1993
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  • Tehran seen from Bam-e-Tehran (the roof of Tehran). Tehran is the largest city in the Middle East and the most populated city in south-west Asia with a population of 7.5 million (approximately 15 million in Greater Tehran). Tehran, Iran, 2008
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  • Huangpu River seen from Jin Mao Tower observation deck. Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million inhabitants. Shanghai, China, 2007
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  • Tailani Souza during the filming of Holidays in Cubatão, directed by Rubens Azevedo. Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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  • The Finnish Parliament Building (Eduskuntatalo) built in 1931. Architect: Johan Sigfrid Sirén. Helsinki, Finland, 2007
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  • Façade of the Stalinist-style Great Hall of the People, which functions as the People's Republic of China's parliament building. It was one of the Ten Great Constructions completed for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic in September 1959 . It was built in ten months by volunteers. Architect: Zhang Bo. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 2007
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  • Rodadero, a huge glacially striated diorite rock opposite Saqsayhuaman, the Inca complex, during Inti Raymi (the festival of the sun). Cuzco, Peru, 2008
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  • This rapidly decaying rock painting, which may be up to 2000 years old, depicts two elands (antelopes) and two half-animal, half-human shaman figures. Recorded during the Lesotho Rock Art Survey, 2000. Lesobeng Valley, Lesotho, 2000
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  • Billboard with posters removed at Green Park Underground Station. London, UK, 2009
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  • Grave stone, Tende cemetery. Tende, France, 1992
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  • Town house with Japanese black pine tree which also may act as a barrier to prevent people climbing over the outer wall. The curved structure is an inuyarai (a lightweight removable bamboo screen) to prevent rain splashes from the ground hitting the wall and causing the timber to rot. Kyoto, Japan, 2004
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  • Chastleton House dovecote built of Cotswold stone in the 17th century. Chastleton, UK, 2007
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  • General Store Acrijur. Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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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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  • 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 home of D. Maninha, aged 94, one of the oldest inhabitants. Pylons, Cubatão, Brazil, 2008
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  • Raised concrete road at dawn. Shanghai, China, 2007
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