St Mary's Beddington / church & lychgate

C14/C15 origins with Victorian additions and restorations by architect Joseph Clarke. Dormers, designed by H P Burke Downing, added c.1914 [info. source: Grade II* listing]. Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, London Borough of Sutton.

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Mid-C19 lychgate with gablet roof supported by a timber frame with curved braces. Grade II listed. At west entrance of church.

Y:Cube / 3 more pics

Architects: RSHP (Ivan Harbour, Andrew Partridge), 2015. Low-cost residential pre-fabs that were shortlisted for the RIBA Journal MacEwen Award. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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BFI IMAX / Entrance

Avery Associates Architects, 1999. Entrance below street level, accessed via pedestrian subways. Waterloo, London Borough of Lambeth.

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Dorfman Theatre / sign

Sign for the Dorfman Theatre and Clore Learning Centre, at the refurbished National Theatre. In background, the IBM Southbank building. London Borough of Lambeth.

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National Theatre / hanging lamps

NT architect: Sir Denys Lasdun, 1976. Refurbishment architects: Haworth Tompkins, 2015, including the new Understudy bar and terrace. Lighting: Atelier Ten. Showing one of the red frames, incorporating hanging fluorescent tubes, outside the new bar. Behind, the raked concrete struts of the north-east corner of the National Theatre. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

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IBM South Bank / Batter wall

Architects: Denys Lasdun et al, 1978-84, next to the NT and of complementary design, although using pre-cast concrete panels. Locally listed. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

National Theatre / Pizza Van

"Pizza made to order in a wood-fired oven, in a vintage Citroen van. Located on the South Bank outside the Understudy." There for the summer. London Borough of Lambeth. 

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National Theatre / Terrace Restaurant

Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun, 1976. Steps, under coffered concrete soffit, to the Terrace Restaurant. Grade II* listed building. At the South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

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Mühlendammschleuse / Berlin

(Mills Dam lock) Twin locks on the river Spree completed 1942, said to be the busiest in Germany. Central Berlin, Germany. 

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Haus des Reisens / Berlin

(House of Travel) Architects: Collective Roland Korn, Johannes Briske and Roland Steiger, 1971, in the International style. 17 storeys on a 2-storey podium with unusual scallop-shell mouldings. Top floors now occupied by renowned Club Weekend whose roof garden is visible. Alexanderstr. 7, 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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Alexa / Alexanderplatz

Architects: Studio Ortner & Ortner (Austria) and RTKL (Baltimore), 2007. Vast shopping mall with uncompromising exterior, said to be art-deco influenced. Might look more suitable in Guéliz, Marrakech. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Galeria Kaufhof / Alexanderplatz

Original architects: Collective Josef Kaiser and Günter Kunert, 1970, then with a honeycomb facade which has now been replaced by more sober Travertine panels and glass (renovation architect: Josef Paul Kleihues, 2006). Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.

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Karl-Liebknecht-Straße / Vista

Photographed from the viewing deck of the Park Inn hotel. Buildings include the neo-Gothic St Mary's Church and the Renaissance-Revival 'Berlin Cathedral' church. Mitte, Berlin, Germany. 

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Haus des Lehrers / 2 images

Architect: Hermann Henselmann, 1964, in the Modernist style with a huge frieze facade across floors 3 and 4. Frieze artist: Walter Womacka, mosaic using glass enamel, ceramics and lead. At 7 metres in height and 125 metres in length, the whole 800,000-tile mosaic is Europe's largest artwork. Haus des Lehrers (Teachers' House), Alexanderstraße 9, 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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Advertising Column / Berlin

Concept first deployed in Berlin by printer Ernst Litfaß in 1854, the cylindrical column thereby known as a Litfaßsäule (Litfaß pillar). Berlin, Germany. 

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Cafe Moskau / Mosaic detail

Artist: Bert Heller (1912-70). Mosaic 'Scenes from the Life of the Peoples of the Soviet Union', in the Socialist Realist style, installed 1964 at Cafe Moskau. 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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Restaurant Moskau / Corner detail

Architect: Josef Strauss, 1964, in the Modern style. Showing corner with Sputnik finial, and a mosaic wall titled “From the life of the people of the Soviet Union” by Bert Heller. Now Cafe Moskau GmbH., Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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Karl-Marx-Allee / Vista

Looking down on part of Karl Marx Boulevard, seen from the west. Showing the Modern architecture of the final section to be completed, and the earlier Stalin-period style beyond. The twin, stepped towers were designed by Henselmann, Göpfert & Leibold, 1953. Viewed from floor 34 of the Park Inn hotel. Berlin, Germany.

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Karl-Marx-Allee 14-20 / 2 images

Architects: Collective Josef Kaiser and Klaus Deutschmann, c.1962. Erected during the final stage of construction of the flagship boulevard, large apartment block in the Modern style, now listed. Karl-Marx-Allee 14-20, Berlin-Mitte, Germany.

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Frankfurter Tor / Berlin (2 pics)

Architect: Hermann Henselmann (1905-95) in the Stalinist-Baroque style, built late 1950s. The gate marks the eastern start of Karl-Marx-Allee, the grand 'Socialist Boulevard' of the old GDR. After this period of building there was a reorientation towards Modernism, including by the Architects Collective Hermann Henselmann. Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany.

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According to the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, the cupolas were an historical reference to the Gendarmenmarkt (1780-5) designed by Gontard. 

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U-Bahn / Klosterstraße (2 images)

U-Bahn arch / Klosterstraße

With the Fernsehturm in distance. Ortsteil Mitte, Berlin, Germany.

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Ghost train / Klosterstraße station

An old "Schöneberg" railcar 12 (A-I) from 1910 appears to be emerging from a wall of the Klosterstraße U-Bahn station. This listed underground station, decorated with ceramics and cast columns, also displays paintings of historical interest. Ortsteil Mitte, Berlin, Germany.

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Watch-tower / Bernauer Straße

Wall and watch-tower retained after unification as part of the Berlin Wall Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer). Bernauer Straße, 13355 Berlin, Germany.

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Ackerstraße / 1961

Architects: Kohlhoff & Kohlhoff. Part of the Berlin Wall Memorial where Ackerstraße meets Bernauer Straße. The mural shows children watching the construction of the wall in 1961, and the posts indicate the route this section of the wall took. This is now a protected landmark. Berlin, Germany.

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Saturn Store / Alexanderplatz

Electronics goods emporium at Alex., with yellow tram passing by. 10178 Berlin, Germany.

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People's Friendship Fountain / Alexanderplatz

A.k.a. Fountain of International Friendship, designed in the Socialist Realist style by Walter Womacka (1925-2010), installed at Alexander Square in 1970. Berlin-Mitte, Germany.

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Berliner Zeitung Building / Berlin

Architects: Karl-Ernst Swora, Rainer Hanslik, Günter Derdau et al, 1973, in the Modern style with some modifications post-unification. A.k.a. Haus des Berliner Verlages, the home of the once-GDR newspaper which continues publication to this day. Building listed in 2015. Berlin, Germany.

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Volksbühne (People's Theatre) / Berlin

Original architect: Oskar Kaufmann, 1914, rebuilt post-WW2. At Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany.

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Serpentine Summer House 2016 / Asif Khan

Summer House designed by Asif Khan (London) for the Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016. Polished metal platform and roof, surrounded by timber staves. Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London.

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