Manchester, UK
Beetham Tower, Manchester and the Roman Fort at Castlefield.
Manchester's tallest building, and the highest. at 169m tall, in the UK outside London, towers over the reconstructed Roman Fort in Castlefield.
Prague, Czech Republic
Zizkov Tower
The tv tower in Prague 3 is not the most beautiful structure in the city, that's for sure. Locals called it the Prague penis at one time. Now, it's just part of the scenery.
Hong Kong
Adelaide, Australia
New built round and over the old.
Nice little street scene in Adelaide, Australia.
Sheffield, UK
Sheffield city centre pub
Dwarfed by surrounding development, pubs seem able to hang on where everything else has been replaced.
Boston, US
Boston's Old State House
The Old State House in Boston, the one of the oldest public service buildings in the USA, now surrounded by tall office blocks and modern buildings.
Gloucester, UK
Pub Sandwich; Northend Vaults in Gloucester
To the left of the pub was a rather splendid church until Tesco knocked it down (of course they moved out to the edge of town in the 80s). The building on the right is now a charity shop.
Ghent, Belgium
A rose amid thorns
Ghent, Belgium
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Early 20th century dwarfed by today's highrise buildings
on the Kop van Zuid Rotterdam, Holland America Line's management offices used to be here, nowadays it has been converted into a hotel - Hotel New York
Aberdeen, UK
Marischal Square
Aberdeen residents rejoiced when the Brutalist abomination that was St Nicholas House was demolished. Any celebrations were short lived however as plans were soon revealed for a replacement development: Marischal Square. Once again tiny Provost Skene's House - a 4 star historic attraction dating from 1545 - would be swallowed up by a concrete, steel and glass behemoth. As seen in the image construction is now well underway, and unobstructed views of the medieval building are once again a thing of the past.
Zagreb, Croatia
Shopping hall in Zagreb surrounding a small house
Apperently the investor did not suceed in buying the plot. Compliments on local urban policy.
London, UK
Glass tide rising in 2006
Church in London engulfed by a wave of glass and steel. Now has the infamous Walkie Talkie as a neighbour too.
New York, US
What happens in New York when you sell your air rights.
Landlords sell the air rights above their buildings and developers of adjoining plots usually use these rights to build higher. In this case the developer literally built above the older buildings. Taken 2014 by Barry Miles.
With the glass buildings everywhere.
Creeping up town not so subtly in NYC
Belfast, UK
Former Rotterdam Bar, Sailortown
Closed and overshadowed by new apartment complex.
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