Think of your favorite building. Its vibrant colors, graceful curves, and unique shapes define its character. Reflect on the emotions it evokes when you stand in its presence.

Unlike books and cinema, architecture enthusiasts can't simply browse online or visit their local bookstores to indulge in the captivating visual pleasures offered by architectural wonders like Casa Batlló in Spain or an imposing, windowless skyscraper. Often, one would need to embark on a journey across different corners of the globe to satisfy their craving for more architectural marvels.

However, this is where this thriving online community of over 1.4 million members comes into play, providing architecture lovers with the opportunity to admire intricate historical structures and exquisitely complex buildings from the comfort of their homes. So go ahead, marvel at these intricate structures and get inspired to seek your favorite ones out outside the screen.

#1 Art Nouveau: Casa Batlló In Passeig De Gràcia By Antoni Gaudí

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#2 The Rose Cottage, An 18th-Century Thatched Roof Cottage In The Small Village Of Honington, Stratford-On-Avon District Of Warwickshire, England

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#3 The 18th Century Gothic Revival Inveraray Castle Near The Town Of Inveraray, Argyll And Bute, Western Scotland

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#4 Hoechst Technical Administration Building, Frankfurt-Hochst, Designed By Peter Behrens

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#5 Anthony Chapel, Univ. Arkansas - Designed By E. Fay Jones

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#6 Does This Lightrail Station Entrance By My Neighborhood Count? I Love It

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#7 Asamkirche Is A Baroque Church In Munich Built From 1733 To 1746 By A Pair Of Brothers As Their Private Church

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#8 Gruntvig's Church, Copenhagen

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#9 Tennis Court Inside 16th Century Milan Church

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#10 Roman Aqueduct Overshadowing The Old Town Of Segovia, Spain

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#11 Anmyeonam Temple Shrouded In Sea Fog Facing Cheonsu Bay, Anmyeon Island, Taean County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea

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#12 Double-Fronted Victorian House With Bay Windows Facing The Garden, Hampstead, Camden, London, UK

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#13 Entrance Hall Of Antwerp Central Station, Belgium. Designed By Louis Delacenserie. 1905

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#14 Fisherman’s Bastion Budapest, Hungary

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#15 Alwyn Court, New York City

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#16 Paris Court (A/K/A Párizsi Udvar And Brudern House), Budapest, Hungary. Built In 1910, It Underwent A Major Renovation And Conversion Into A Five-Star Hotel In 2019; Interior Design Kroki, Architecture Studio Archikon. [667x1000]

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#17 Patrika Gate, Jaipur, India

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#18 Victorian House In Matawan, New Jersey

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#19 Museum Of The Future, Dubai

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#20 Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India [611 X 919]

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#21 A Traditionally Built Century Old House In Kashmir. The Technique Used In Construction Is A Mughal Style Called 'Uroosi' Which Saves The House In Case Of Earthquakes In The Quake Prone Region

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#22 Puente Nuevo, Spain

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#23 Kew Greenhouse - London, UK

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#24 Have You Heard About The First Skyscrapers In The World? It Was Built 600 Years Ago In Yemen From Mud

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#25 Osaka Castle, Japan

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#26 Stone Cottage In Elterwater, A Small Village Of The Lake District, Cumbria, England

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#27 Empire State Building

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#28 Stair At A Private Residence In Sierra Madre, California By John Andre Gougeon - Architect (1975)

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#29 The Windowless Skyscraper At 33 Thomas Street In New York City Is An Example Of Brutalist Architecture

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#30 Prague Castle, Czech Republic

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#31 Wollaton Hall, England

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#32 House Made Inside A Rocky Cave. Serifos Island, Greece

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#33 Looking Up At The Doge Palace, Venezia

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#34 Jaisalmer Fort In Rajasthan, India

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#35 Old House In The City Of Ribe, Denmark

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#36 The Facade Of Casa Malagrida, A Modernista Style Building Built Between 1906 And 1908 And Designed By Architect Joaquim Codina I Matalí In Barcelona, Spain

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#37 So Japan Is A Cool Place

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#38 The Ceiling Of Shah Mosque, Esfahan, Iran

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#39 A Helical Stepwell With 8 Entries. Maharashtra, India

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#40 The Library Of French National Assembly

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#41 St Mary & St Finnan Church, Scotland

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#42 Bgz Bnp Paribas Bank In Wroclaw, Poland

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#43 Singapore Changi Airport

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#44 Sainte-Chapelle, Paris - Commissioned By King Louis Ix And Consecrated In 1248

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#45 House Lis Art Nouveau Entrance, Salamanca, Spain, 1905 [1080x924]

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#46 Atlanta Marquis Marriott Lobby

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#47 Dresden's Frauenkirche

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#48 Double Spiral Staircase - Landgericht Halle (Regional Court), Halle, Germany (1905). Extensively Restored In 2013. [2048x1366]

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#49 St. Stephen Cathedral In Vienna

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#50 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy

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#51 Tower Of Church Of Our Saviour. Copenhagen, Denmark [os][3456x5184]

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#52 Antoni Gaudí's Hanging Model Made Of Weighted Strings - Gaudi Used Models Like This One To Make Graphical Calculations For Catenary Arch Designs. Exhibited At La Sagrada Familia Museum In Barcelona, Spain

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#53 Temple Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus, Barcelona, Spain

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#54 Hospital De Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

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#55 Palais Des Congres De Montreal (Montreal Convention Center)

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#56 Supertree Grove, Singapore

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#57 Istanbul, Turkey

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#58 Schloss Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany - One Of The Hidden Gems Of Northern Germany

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#59 The Exchange, Darling Square, Sydney, Australia - Kengo Kuma (2016). The Ribbons Of Wood Encircling The Building Are Meant To Resemble Thread Wrapping Around A Spool. [2364x2364]

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#60 Government Building In Hawaii

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#61 The Jameh Mosque Of Isfahan, Iran

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#62 That Tower In The French Village…

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#63 Grundtvig's Church. Copenhagen, Denmark [os][3390x5086]

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#64 Îlot Balmoral | Montreal, Canada | Provencher_roy

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#65 Ribbon Farm, Belgium

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#66 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Ma

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#67 Hawaiian Royal Palace

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#68 Alhambra Palace, Islamic Architecture In Granada, Spain. Built By The Nasrid Dynasty (1232–1492),

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#69 Woljeong Bridge, A Wooden Bridge Originally Built In The 8th Century That Was Restored Recently In The Historic City Of Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

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#70 Hungarian Parliament, Budapest

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#71 Lobby Of The Renaissance Center, Detroit

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#72 Unknown Building Of NYC

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#73 Looking Up In The Pantheon, Roma

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#74 Glorious Cathedral Bath, England

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#75 Palacio Postal, Mexico City. It's An Eclectic Mix Of Architectural Styles, Including Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Baroque, And Art Nouveau, Early 1900’s

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#76 Steinway Tower: World's Skinniest Skyscraper

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#77 Spiegel Publishing Headquarters In Hamburg

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#78 Anyone Elso Just Genualy Like The Design Of The 1950s?

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#79 People's Federal Savings And Loan Association, Sidney, Oh, Louis Sullivan (1917)

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#80 Public Library In Stuttgart, Germany

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#81 Kansas City International Airport New Terminal (2023). Designed By Som

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#82 Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Ma

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#83 Hong Kong Apartments

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#84 A Starkly Brutalist Subway Station In San Francisco, Ca

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#85 Amer Stepwell, Amer, Rajasthan, India

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#86 Traditional Architecture, Mykonos, Greece

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#87 The Millau Viaduct In France, The Tallest Bridge In The World. On A Drive South In France, We Made Sure To Go This Way, So I Could Stop Before The Viaduct, Climb A Hill And Get This Photo. Hope You Like It!

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#88 The Aqua Tower, Lakeshore East - Chicago

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#89 Brandeis-Bardin Campus Of American Jewish University, Finished In 1947 In Simi Valley, California

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#90 The Water Tower - Wroclaw, Poland

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#91 Brisbane's Most Beautiful Beton Brut Stairs At The University Of Qld. Oc

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#92 Chateau De Chenonceau, Probably The Most Peculiar And Beautiful Castle Of The Loire. It Was Devised And Protected By Women. Diane De Poitiers Commissioned The Building Of The Bridge And Gardens In 1555. It Was Later Modified And Owned By Catherine De Medici And Louise De Lorraine [1920x1889]

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#93 Tamashagah-E Zaman, Tehran, Iran

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#94 Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque Entrance Ceiling, Esfahan Iran

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#95 The New York State Capitol, In Albany

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#96 Balcony In The Shape Of A Wine Glass

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#97 University Of Glasgow

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#98 One Of The Three Roman Pools Of Gafsa, In Tunisia, Two Of Which Are Open. Built In The 2nd Century Bce, They Are About Five Meters Deep And Are Fed By Hot Water Springs

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#99 The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida

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#100 Paris Court, Budapest, Hungary

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#101 Torre Mata Atlântica - Sao Paulo, Brazil

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#102 Saint-Petersburg, 59.859704, 30.392848

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#103 Art Deco, New York City [oc] General Electric Building/570 Lexington Avenue And The Chrysler Building

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#104 Capitaspring Tower, Singapore

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#105 Interior View Of Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri's Experimental Desert Town In Arizona

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#106 The John Rylands Library

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#107 The 49-Story Residential Tower, Vancouver, Canada??

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#108 Elevator In Vienna, Designed By Otto Wagner In 1898

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#109 Chuvash State Opera And Ballet Theater, Soviet Brutalism

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#110 One Of My Favorite Buildings In The World: The "Canoe" Building In Osaka, Japan

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#111 Starfield Library, Seoul ???

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#112 Interior Of Rocchetta Mattei, A 19th Century Moorish Style Fortress Built In Italy

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#113 Palazzo Borromeo, Italy

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#114 The Magnificent Palazzina Di Caccia In The Park Of Chignolo Po Castle. It Was Built In The Baroque Style In The 18th Century And Was Used For Parties And Banquets

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#115 Kyoto Station, Japan

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#116 Agra Fort, India: A 16th-Century Red Sandstone Mughal Fortress, Blending Hindu And Islamic Architecture

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#117 The Félix Potin Building, Paris, France

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#118 Red Mosque, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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#119 Small English Country House

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#120 Parkroyal Hotel, Singapore

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#121 600 Year Old Clock In Prague Is The World's Oldest Astrological Clock Still In Operation

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#122 The Oceanographic Museum Of Monaco

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#123 Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Quebec, Canada

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#124 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Ct

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#125 Tree House, Singapore

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#126 The Shambles In York, England

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#127 Waterfront Hotel, Lusial

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#128 Basket Building, Ohio

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#129 St. Peter's Basilica From Under The Cupola

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#130 Gothic Arches Of Two World Trade Center

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#131 Antilia, The Most Expensive House In The World, Mumbai, India

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#132 High-Resolution Image Of The Guardian Building In Detroit [oc][3666x5500]

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#133 During The Transfer Of The Abu Simbel Temple To Save It From Sinking In The Water Of The Dam In Egypt It Was Built In 1274 Bc And Moved In 1964 Ad

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#134 100 Ft Deep Chand Baori Is A 7th Century Stepwell Situated In The Indian State Of Rajasthan

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#135 The 16th Century Optical Illusion Of Florence Cathedral's Marble Tiles On Flat Floor

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#136 Capitol Records Building, Los Angeles, California. Designed By Welton Becket, The 13-Story Tower Resembles A Stack Of Records. When Completed In April 1956, It Was The World’s First Circular Office Building. The Blinking Light Atop The Tower Spells Out The Word "Hollywood" In Morse Code. [745x1023]

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#137 The Main Hall Inside Kyoto International Conference Center

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#138 Big Ben, India

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#139 Tianjin Binhai New Area Library - Tianjin, China

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#140 British Museum

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#141 Shrine Of Our Lady Of Las Lajas - Gothic Revival - Ipiales, Colombia

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#142 Schofield Building, Cleveland, USA. Built In 1902, Facade Panelled Over In The 60s And Restored In 2017 To Its Original Design

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#143 Tiffany Glass Ceiling, Gran Hotel Ciudad De Mexico. Art-Nouveau, Built Between 1895 And 1899

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#144 Art Deco Church In Oklahoma

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#145 This Building In Brussels, Belgium

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