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  • Detail of the Sydney Harbour Bridge steel truss Structure Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular and pedestrian traffic between theSydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic image of both Sydney and Australia. The bridge is locally nicknamed "The Coathanger" because of its arch-based design...The bridge was designed and built by Dorman Long and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough Teesside and Cleveland Bridge, Darlington, County Durham and opened in 1932. Until 1967 it was the city's tallest structure.[citation needed] According to Guinness World Records, it is the world's widest long-span bridge and it is the tallest steel arch bridge, measuring 134 metres (440 ft) from top to water level. It is also the fifth-longest spanning-arch bridge in the world.
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  • BridgeClimb guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular and pedestrian traffic between theSydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic image of both Sydney and Australia. The bridge is locally nicknamed "The Coathanger" because of its arch-based design...The bridge was designed and built by Dorman Long and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough Teesside and Cleveland Bridge, Darlington, County Durham and opened in 1932. Until 1967 it was the city's tallest structure.[citation needed] According to Guinness World Records, it is the world's widest long-span bridge and it is the tallest steel arch bridge, measuring 134 metres (440 ft) from top to water level. It is also the fifth-longest spanning-arch bridge in the world.
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  • BridgeClimb participants and guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia.The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular and pedestrian traffic between theSydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic image of both Sydney and Australia. The bridge is locally nicknamed "The Coathanger" because of its arch-based design...The bridge was designed and built by Dorman Long and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough Teesside and Cleveland Bridge, Darlington, County Durham and opened in 1932. Until 1967 it was the city's tallest structure.[citation needed] According to Guinness World Records, it is the world's widest long-span bridge and it is the tallest steel arch bridge, measuring 134 metres (440 ft) from top to water level. It is also the fifth-longest spanning-arch bridge in the world.
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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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  • Lightweight metal-mesh screens cover part of the façade of the building to provide a visual representation of the scale and form of the site's original buildings in a two-dimensional form. The screens are located at Cumberland and Gloucester Streets and along both sides of Cribbs and Carahers Lanes. There are openings in the screens where original window and door openings were located to assist visitors' interpretation of the site..Signs provide historical interpretation of findings discovered on the site and direct visitors' eyes to significant and interesting site remains...The Dig Site', located in The Rocks between Cumberland and Gloucester Streets, is a parcel of land containing remains from the late 18th century, the time of Australia's first European settlement..The site was discovered in 1994, attracting enormous media and public attention. Some 400 volunteers and a team of 20 archaeologists were involved in the excavation of the site, which uncovered the foundations of 30 homes and shops (the earliest of which was built prior to 1795) and some 750,000 artefacts.
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  • Despite the massive scale of the engineering operations there is clearly much work yet to be done to get the highway operational
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  • An example of the scale of rock terracing and deforestation required to enlarge the Interoceanic Highway as the Andes meets  the Amazon basin
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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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  • Children's benches, Sculpture Park, also known by the expatriate name Fallen.Monument Park, Moscow, Russia, 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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  • 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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  • Lead covered domes on the Mihrimah Camii Mosque complex, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993
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