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 Cross section of the Thames in London . The shield serves as a temporary support structure for the tunnel while it is being excavated and lined.
 Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社) is a shinto jinja (shrine) dedicated to the spirit Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is especially well known for the thousands of vermilion torii lining the paths on the hill on which the shrine is located. The torii gates are all donations from individuals, families or companies.  Photo credit:User:Daderot MIT, designed by architect Steven Holl and dedicated in 2002. It is nicknamed "the Sponge" due to the combination of its exterior appearance and the ten multistory atria which were, in fact, inspired by a sponge. Student culture often elects SpongeBob SquarePants as an unofficial mascot. The dormitory is also seen by students as the "space waffle".The  Photo credit:User:diliff  Photo credit:User:Malaga  Montage of the meeting pod within Peckham Library, London by Will Alsop. Winner of the 2000 Stirling Prize.  Garden of the Vaux-le-Vicomte designed by André Le Nôtre, Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun c.1660.  View of Schlaich Bergermann & Partner. The building opened in 2000 .Photo credit:Chris 73  Broadway Tower, England. An example of a building built originally as a Folly  Interior of the United States' Library of Congress  Husaby Church, Sweden Project for the Narkomtiazhprom building, Moscowby Ivan Leonidov in 1934. Steel pinnacles repeat the motifs of Saint Basil's Cathedral below  Passy highbridge in Paris, France.  Egeskov Castle  Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto. Kiev Photo credit: Andriy Makukha Richardson Romanesque) Photo credit: Mulad
 Schematic diagram of an arch,  San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid,  Antoine Desgodetz, "Elevation de la face du Pantheon, a Rome,"  Communal Club for Working Children, by Alexander Zelenko, 1907. 
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