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Reconstruction of the Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster, London, following war damage
RIBA2720-18
NOTES: The House of Commons chamber was destroyed by bombing on 10 May 1941. The chamber was rebuilt by Giles Gilbert Scott and was completed in 1950.
Forth Rail Bridge, South Queensferry
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NOTES: This cantilever railway bridge crosses the Firth of the Forth connecting the city of Edinburgh at Queensferry to Fife.
Pont Neuf, seen from the Ile de la Cite, Paris
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NOTES: This stone 12-arched bridge, which connects the Rive Gauche and the Rive Droite with the Ile de la Cite, was begun in 1578 and was inaugurated in 1607.
Ponte Vecchio over the River Arno, Florence
RIBA2747-19
NOTES: This is a closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge.
Iron Bridge over the River Severn, Ironbridge, Shropshire
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NOTES: This bridge was designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard in 1775 and executed by Abraham Darby III in Coalbrookedale in 1777-1779. It was the first arch bridge of completely iron construction in the world.
Forth Rail Bridge, South Queensferry
RIBA2754-19
NOTES: This cantilever railway bridge crosses the Firth of the Forth connecting the city of Edinburgh at Queensferry to Fife.
One Canada Square and 20 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf with, in front, Heron Quays, London
RIBA2781-21
NOTES: Pelli's tower, One Canada Square, is the centrepiece of the Canary Wharf development. The architects of the curved 20 Cabot Square were Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Heron Quays, in the foreground and not part of Canary Wharf, was by Nicholas Lacey Jobst & Partners.
