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Buildings and the built environment — facades, interiors, ruins, bridges.

Storefronts with signs line a street in daylight. A striped pyramid-shaped building rises above a Japanese street lined with smaller buildings and trees. A pergola with concrete pillars and dark roof creates a shaded walkway over geometric stone paving. A brick clock tower with a peaked roof and clock face stands against clear blue sky. An arched bridge spans a forested valley with steep hillsides densely covered in green trees. White buildings cluster on a distant hilltop above a forested valley. Red fabric banners with white characters hanging from a wooden shrine eave. A red temple building with a sweeping curved roof topped in green metal. A white pillared gate structure standing in bright sunlight against clear blue sky. Red lanterns and banners line a covered shrine passageway with a wooden building visible beyond. A shrine street lined with red lanterns and shopfronts under overhead trees. A golden shrine gateway with ornate wooden posts and ornamental railings. Stone-walled passage with moss-covered walls and plants hanging overhead. A church spire rises beyond mature trees framing a grassy park with figures resting on the lawn. A moss-covered Japanese garden features a wooden platform, a tiered pagoda, and still pond surrounded by dense vegetation. A red and gold shopfront with Japanese architectural details stands above a crosswalk where pedestrians gather. A busy intersection lined with colorful commercial building facades and a bus crossing at a crosswalk. A dense commercial street with tall buildings covered in Japanese signage and pedestrians at a crosswalk. A narrow urban street flanked by tall buildings plastered with commercial signage at multiple levels. Street intersection with residential apartments above ground-floor shops, power lines crossing above. Large red-lit commercial building with Japanese signage glowing above crowds at night. Quiet nighttime side street with traditional lantern-style lighting and storefronts, sparsely populated compared to main shopping streets. A busy shopping street lined with tall buildings and colorful storefront signs, with pedestrians crossing. A crowded shopping district with people walking among tall buildings and illuminated signs. A lawn edged with palm trunks leaning at an angle, a white plantation-style house with a red roof behind them. A thatched A-frame hale standing on a stone platform in a mown clearing, forested ridges rising behind. White observatory domes on a bare volcanic summit, a road curving up to them under a blue sky. Bernini's marble elephant carrying an obelisk on its back, in front of an ochre facade hung with Italian and EU flags. The excavated temple ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome, broken columns and stone platforms below modern street level. The coffered dome of the Pantheon with a shaft of sunlight coming through the open oculus. The Trevi Fountain seen from below, its marble figures and rearing horses under a deep blue sky. Piazza Navona in Rome, the obelisk and Sant'Agnese in Agone above the square, people crossing the paving in bright sun. The Tiber curving between tree-lined embankments, a bridge crossing it and St Peter's dome on the skyline. An arched stone bridge over the green Tiber, the rooftops and towers of Rome rising behind it. Castel Sant'Angelo across the river with a marble sculptural group on the bridge parapet in the foreground. The outer wall of the Colosseum, two tiers of arches curving away against a clear blue sky. The Colosseum from close below with the sun flaring over its upper cornice. A view over the Roman Forum from above, ruined columns and foundations among trees with the Colosseum beyond. The Roman Forum seen along its length, standing columns and paved ruins with domes and towers of the city behind. Rooftops and terraces of central Rome from above, ochre and cream buildings running back toward the Vittoriano. The columned portico of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Forum, its architrave inscription still legible. The white marble Vittoriano monument with Italian flags flying at either end against a deep blue sky. A high view down Via del Corso, straight between rooftops and palazzi, with the hills beyond the city on the horizon. A bronze quadriga on the roof of the Vittoriano, winged Victory driving four horses against an empty blue sky. Castel Sant'Angelo across the Tiber, framed by plane tree leaves, with graffiti along the embankment wall below. The Palace of Justice in Rome seen through a frame of leaves, its sculpted facade above the river embankment. The Fountain of Neptune in Piazza Navona, the god raising his trident over a sea creature, cherubs and a lion mask on the basin below. The interior of the Colosseum from the upper tier, the exposed hypogeum passages and tiered seating curving away. A narrow Venetian canal between tall stuccoed houses, small boats moored along it and the buildings mirrored in still green water. A canal in Venice seen through a stone archway, a further bridge visible down the waterway beyond. A Venetian canal with a gold and red banner hanging from a balcony, a blue wooden boat moored below. A moored gondola under its blue cover beside striped mooring poles, San Giorgio Maggiore across the water behind. A large oleander in pink flower filling a small sunlit square on Burano, coloured houses on either side. The ruined brick buildings of an abandoned lagoon island standing among trees, seen across flat pale green water. A row of Burano houses in ochre, red, blue and green along a canal, small boats moored in front and people walking the quay. Two adjoining house fronts on Burano, one scarlet and one turquoise, with grey shutters and a window box of pink flowers. A bright yellow house front meeting a green one, a blue curtain hanging in the yellow doorway. A bronze centaur sculpture with a raised spear standing among the excavated ruins of Pompeii. A cliff-side building and stone arch built into the rock above the sea, a lens flare across the frame. A broad Copenhagen street with cable-car gondolas strung overhead on wires, the city hall tower and ornate facades along the far side. A cobbled Copenhagen square with a fountain, market stalls and cafe awnings along a terrace of tall brick and stucco buildings. Rosenborg Castle with its green copper spires seen across the clipped lawns and hedges of the King's Garden. A close view of an old brick wall, the bricks varying from orange to near-black between pale mortar joints. A gravel path running beside a building whose facade is completely covered in ivy, its white window frames showing through. The white Moorish-style pavilion at Tivoli with its green onion domes, seen across a fountain pool and flower beds. The Moorish pavilion at Tivoli outlined in hundreds of bulbs at dusk, its lawn and reflecting pool in front. The Nyhavn canal under a grey sky, wooden sailing boats moored along the quay in front of a terrace of narrow red, yellow and ochre townhouses. A coffered ceiling of repeating square panels, each with a gilded rosette at its centre. Christiansborg Palace behind a bronze equestrian statue on a stone plinth, under a bright sky with scattered cloud. The BLOX building on the Copenhagen waterfront, a glass and dark-panelled block above a flight of wide public steps where people are sitting. Virginia creeper turning red and gold across a brick wall beside a tall arched window, with a green street lamp and parked bicycles below. A red-brick museum building with twin towers and a decorated gable, seen across a sunlit public garden with a reflecting pool. Ivy climbing the corner of an old brick building, seen from below against a bright sky. A long red-brick building with a red tiled roof behind a mown lawn and a weeping willow, under a clear blue sky. A wide cobbled square in front of a red-brick civic building with a green spire and clock, under heavy grey cloud. Frederiksborg Castle seen across the lake, its copper-green spires above the treeline, bare seedheads in the foreground. Frederiksborg Castle above its formal baroque garden, low box hedges laid out in scrolling parterres in the foreground. A black cannon on a red carriage on a leaf-strewn lawn, with a dark-capped windmill on a red base behind it. A still canal reflecting trees, a red-brick mansion visible through the foliage and rosehips along the near bank. A five-storey red-brick apartment building on a corner, its windows picked out in white stone, cars parked along the street below. A lakeside beer garden at Berg on the Starnberger See, wooden jetties running out into clear green water under a bright sky. A white house with a red roof among mature trees in a park, a bronze equestrian statue on the lawn and a gravel path curving past. A stone fountain playing in a round basin in the Hofgarten, the domed Diana temple and clipped hedges beyond. The Bavarian State Chancellery, its glass wings either side of a domed stone centre, above formal hedges and a lily pond.