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Some of the photo's were taken from [url]www.archinomy.com[/url]. So the photo credits go to them Please also note I have added my own description for all of the pictures and have also got some better pictures to make it more interesting for you guys.







1. The Crooked House]

1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.

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2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building]

2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)

The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral” was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.

The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.

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. The Torre Galatea Figueras]

The first thing you notice are the giant egg sculptures along the roofline. Then it hits you that the Salvador Dali Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, is no ordinary building. The museum’s tower, Torre Galatea, was named for the surrealist artist’s deceased wife, and Dali himself lived there until his death in 1989. Interestingly, the museum sits next to the parish church where Dali was baptized in 1904; he is buried in an unmarked crypt in the museum’s main exhibition hall.

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4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace]

Ferdinand Cheval aka Facteur Cheval (1836-1924) was a postman who built his dream : Le Palais Idéal. An amazing and imaginary castle.
Stone by stone, he imposed this harsh discipline on himself to show that willpower could triumph over all manner of physical and mental difficulties, and also achieve a more perfect understanding of the nature of things and the nature itself.

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5. The Basket Building]

5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

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6. Kansas City Public Library]

6. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)

This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown.

The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.

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7. Wonderworks]

Wonderworks in Orlando, Florida literally turns Classical architecture upside down. The three-story, 82-foot tall building is flipped over with its triangular pediment squashed into the pavement. One corner of the Wonderworks building appears to flatten a 20th century brick warehouse. Palm trees and lamp posts hang suspended.

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8. Habitat 67]

Expo 67, one of the world’s largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67.

The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization.

354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.

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9. Cubic Houses]

The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.

The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.

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10. Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam)]

The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.

It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.

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11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)]

Designed by Marguerite Brunswig Staude, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Chapel of the Holy Cross was completed in 1956 and is a favorite tourist attraction for many of those who visit Sedona. The Chapel of the Holy Cross was nestled beautifully into a red rock roost that has breathtaking views of the majestic Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, Courthouse Butte and much of the eastern rim of Sedona.
You'll find the Chapel is just off of Route 179, at the end of Chapel Road. It is open from 9 AM to 5 PM daily and is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.

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12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)]

The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům) is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha. It was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot (where the previous building had been destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945). The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.

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13. Calakmul building a.k.a La Lavadora a.k.a The Washing Mashine (Mexico, Mexico)]

A modern neighborhood of Mexico City called, "Santa Fe".
This building is nicknamed, "The Washing Machine Building" (or "Lavandería").

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14. Kettle House (Texas, United States)]

The Kettle house designed and made in Texas in the mid 1900's. It was designed by a man with the name of Peter Sileberg and took very little time to make and was a massive hit with the architects around the world.

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15. Manchester Civil Justice Centre (Manchester, UK)]

The Manchester Civil Justice Centre is a building in Manchester, England. It houses the Manchester County Court and the Manchester District Registry of the High Court, as well as Manchester City Magistrates’ Family Courts, the District Probate Registry and the Regional and Area Offices of the Court Service.

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16. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)]

Completed in 1972, the building is a rare built example of Japanese Metabolism, a movement that became emblematic of Japan's postwar cultural resurgence. The building was the world's first example of capsule architecture built for actual use. The building is still in use as of 2010, but has fallen into disrepair.

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17. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)]

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18. Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)]
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19. Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)]

The Haines Shoe House is a shoe-shaped house in Hallam, Pennsylvania, along the Lincoln Highway. It was built by shoe salesman Mahlon Haines in 1948 as a form of advertisement. The house, which is 25 feet tall and contains five stories, was once rented out to couples, and is now open for public tours. It is located on Shoe House Road.
The Shoe House was visited in the eighth season of the reality television series The Amazing Race.

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20. Weird House in Alps]

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21. The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)]

It is not quite known who the UFO house was designed by nor' when it was created. but the house has been abandoned for quite some time now. And is only situated in Taiwan for purposes of money and tourism.

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22. The Hole House (Texas, United States)]

This was an art project in Houston about 2005. It was some art group's house that was going to be torn down, so they turned it into an exhibit. You could actually walk through the hole in the house... it is long gone now and there is a new gallery and coffee shop built in its place...

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23. Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)]

The Ryugyong Hotel (sometimes anglicized as Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel) is a 105-floor skyscraper under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name comes from one of the historic names for the city of Pyongyang, and means "capital of willows"; the building is also known as the 105 building, a reference to its number of floors. Construction began in 1987, but was halted in 1992 due to the economic disruptions that afflicted the country. The hotel stood topped out but without windows or interior fittings for the next sixteen years, until construction resumed in April 2008, under the supervision of the Orascom Group of Egypt, which has invested heavily in the North Korean mobile telephony and construction industries.

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24. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)]

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25. Grand Lisboa (Macao)]

Grand Lisboa , owned by Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau and designed by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man, is a 58-floor 261 metres (856 ft) tall hotel in Macau. The casino and restaurants within Grand Lisboa were opened on February 11, 2007, while the hotel was opened in December 2008. The casino offers 268 mass gaming tables and 786 slot machines. The hotel contains 430 hotel rooms and suites. The casino is the first in Macau to offer Texas hold 'em poker ring games. It was also the first to offer craps, though several other casinos in Macau now offer the game.

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26. Wall House (Groningen, Netherlands)]

This extraordinary building has been designed by American architect John Hejduk. It is the only design from his earlier era that actually has been built.

Originally is was designed as a home for Ed Bye, which never did get shape. After Hejduk passed away in 2000 the Groningen council and some private parties realised the building in the Hoornse Meer district next to the lake.

Twice a year international artists, architects or writers are invited to live and work in the house for three months. They can not only live there but also cooperate with other artists, architects or institutions ni the city. For example giving Master Classes, or set up a special project. When nobody lives in the house, it can be viewed with an appointment.

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27. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)]

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.

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28. Bahá’í House of Worship a.k.a Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)]

A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by its Arabic name of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Arabic: مشرق اﻻذكار‎, "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God"), is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith. The teachings of the religion envisage Houses of Worship being surrounded by a number of dependencies dedicated to social, humanitarian, educational, and scientific pursuits, although none has yet been built to such an extent

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29. Container City (London, UK)]

Container City™ is a highly versatile system of providing stylish but affordable accommodation for a range of uses made from shipping containers. The concept was devised by Urban Space Management.

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30. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)]

The idea for House Attack emerged while planning the MUMOK retrospective. House Attack is a single-family house that crashes into the roof of the museum, a house like one that might be built at Blaue Laguene (Blue Lagoon), a prefab housing development in southern Vienna. A symbol for conservative, small-minded longings, the single-family house collides into the museum as an temple to the muses, and the museum itself now also becomes part of the sculpture. House Attack confuses our perception of art and everyday reality and in its striking appearance and humorous, dramatic staging of the banal is a perfect example of current developments in the artist’s work.

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31. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)]

For the one-time gangster who built it, it is nothing less than "the eighth wonder of the world". The less charitably disposed dismiss it as a glorified barn, fire hazard and eyesore.
But on one thing everyone agrees: Nikolai Sutyagin's home is certainly different.
Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far north-west, it is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring 13 floors to reach 144ft - about half the size of the tower of Big Ben.

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32. Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, United States)]

Institution for the training of commissioned officers for the U.S. Air Force, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Created by an act of Congress in 1954, it opened in 1955. Graduates receive a bachelor's degree and a second lieutenant's commission. Most physically qualified graduates go on to Air Force pilot-training schools. Candidates may come from the ranks of the U.S. Army or Air Force, may be children of deceased veterans of the armed forces, or may be nominated by U.S. senators or representatives or by the president or vice president. All applicants must take a competitive entrance examination.

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33. Solar Furnace (Odeillo, France)]

A solar furnace is a structure used to harness the rays of the sun in order to produce high temperatures, usually for industry. This is achieved using a curved mirror (or an array of mirrors) that acts as a parabolic reflector, concentrating light (Insolation) onto a focal point. The temperature at the focal point may reach 3,500 °C (6,330 °F), and this heat can be used to generate electricity, melt steel, make hydrogen fuel or nanomaterials.


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34. Dome House (Florida, United States)]

Dome houses are known as the eco houses of the world. They trap heat and don't need as many materials to build as the typical square house. This is obviously due to the curves.

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35. Beijing National Stadium (Beijing, China)]

Located in the Olympic Green, the stadium cost US$423 million. The design was awarded to a submission from the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in April 2003, after a bidding process that included 13 final submissions. The design, which originated from the study of Chinese ceramics, implemented steel beams in order to hide supports for the retractable roof; giving the stadium the appearance of a "Bird's nest". Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was the artistic consultant on the project. The retractable roof was later removed from the design after inspiring the stadium's most recognizable aspect. Ground was broken in December 2003 and the stadium officially opened in June 2008. A shopping mall and a hotel are planned to be constructed to increase use of the stadium, which has had trouble attracting events, football and otherwise, after the Olympics.

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36. Fashion Show Mall (Las Vegas, United States)]

Fashion Show Mall is a shopping mall located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Fashion Show Mall is owned by the General Growth Properties Inc. With 1,888,151 sq ft (175,415.0 m2) of space, this is one of the largest enclosed malls in the world. The mall has over 250 stores, 7 anchors, an elevated stage, a fashion runway and "The Cloud."

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37. Luxor Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, United States)]

The Luxor Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Ground was broken for the Luxor in 1991, that same year construction began on the Treasure Island. It has a new highly modernized and contemporary design and contains a total of 4,407 rooms lining the interior walls of a pyramid style tower and contained within twin ziggurat towers that were built as later additions. The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt. The Luxor is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International.

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38. Zenith Europe (Strasbourg, France]

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39. Civic Center (Santa Monica)]

A civic center or civic centre (see "American and British English spelling differences") is a prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or center. It usually contains one or more dominant public buildings, which may also include a government building. Recently, the term "civic center" has been used in reference to an entire central business district of a community or a major shopping center in the middle of a community. In this type of civic center, special attention is paid to the way public structures are grouped and landscaped.

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40. Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)]

The Mammy archetype is the portrayal within a narrative framework or other imagery of a domestic servant of African descent, generally good-natured, often overweight, and loud.


"Mammy's Cupboard," 1940 novelty architecture restaurant in Adams County, Mississippi
The word "mammy" is a variant of "mother," formerly common in North America but now rarely used and typically considered an ethnic slur. In Ireland, Wales and parts of England however, "Mammy" is widely used as a synonym for "mother" by young people, without any racial connotation.

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41. Pickle Barrel House (Grand Marais, Michigan, United States)]

The Pickle Barrel House is a two-story cabin built of two barrels. The house design is based on cartoon characters that were two inches tall and lived under a rose bush in a pickle barrel. It is currently located in Grand Marais, Michigan on Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Superior. It is near the intersection of Michigan Hwy-77 and County Highway 58 of this gateway town to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The main part is a 16-foot (4.88 m) tall barrel and has two stories. The main floor is for the living area and the upstairs is a bedroom. A smaller barrel serves as the kitchen and the two barrels are connected by a pantry. There is an outdoor garden and also a seating area with a garden path between these two

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42. The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, United States)]

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43. Gherkin Building (London, UK)]

30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London's main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004. With 40 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, and stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, which was severely damaged on 10 April 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.
After the plans to build the Millennium Tower were dropped, the current building was designed by Norman Foster, his then business partner Ken Shuttleworth and Arup engineers, and was erected by Skanska in 2001–2003.

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44. Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)]

Nord/LB Building
Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner's futuristic 40,000m2 headquarters for the German bank Nord/LB has only recently been completed and is still baffling the neighbours. Essentially lots of glass and steel boxes stacked on top of each other, the building was designed to house the company's 1,500 Hanover staff in a comfortable and eco-friendly environment, reducing carbon dioxide emissions and optimising the use of natural daylight. Highlights include a staff restaurant with a roof in the shape of butterfly wings and a 20m tower made from material that changes colour according to the position of the sun. The architect's goal was in their own words to create a transition zone between the 19th century residential area to the south and the historical area directly to the north. How a modern structure like this can achieve such a lofty goal is impossible to say, but the building is certainly eye-catching and a welcome addition to the city's skyline.

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45. Lloyd’s building (London, UK)]

It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme.[2] Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK. It is important to note that (like this Centre Pompidou) this building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950's and 60's (see Plug-in City by Archigram for an example).

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46. “ruzhba Holiday Center Hall (Yalta, Ukraine)]

“ruzhba Holiday Center Hall” designed by Igor Vasilevsky (Yalta, Ukraine, 1984)
Frederic Chaubin, who was born in Cambodia of a French father and Spanish mother, is chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, and also a photographer who has been attracted by strange architecture in the former Soviet Union. The photos he takes in countries like Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia, reveal an extraordinary, almost sci-fi world.

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47. Fuji television building (Tokyo, Japan)]

An innovative design divides building space into an office tower and a media tower linked by three enclosed pedestrian bridges, which strengthen the structure and make it highly earthquake resistant.
Next to the media tower is a spherical observation platform, which was built on the roof of the 7th floor and then raised to the 25th floor with a hydraulic jack.

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48. UCSD Geisel Library (San Diego, California, United States)]

The Geisel Library is the main library building on the University of California, San Diego campus and contains four of the nine libraries located on campus. It is home to the Arts Library (newly merged in July 2008 from the Art & Architecture and Music, Film & Video Libraries) (ARTS), the Mandeville Special Collections Library (SPEC), the Science & Engineering Library (S&E), and the Social Sciences & Humanities Library (SSHL).

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Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)

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50. The Bank of Asia a.k.a Robot Building (Bangkok, Thailand)

The Robot Building, located in the Sathorn business district of Bangkok, Thailand, houses United Overseas Bank's Bangkok headquarters. It was designed for the Bank of Asia by Sumet Jumsai to reflect the computerization of banking; its architecture is a reaction against neoclassical and high-tech postmodern architecture. The building's features, such as progressively receding walls, antennas, and eyes, contribute to its robotic appearance and to its practical function. Completed in 1986, the building is one of the last examples of modern architecture in Bangkok.

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at 1st glance I thought number 10 was a transformer lmao...

Awesome pics man ^_^

You should still at least credit the source. I copied a description and pasted it into Google, that's how I found the other site. It doesn't matter if you know the creator or not. With ripping, someone doesn't usually know the creator anyway.You've not copied all of the pictures but a substantial number are the same. Just, credit the source and try and add a description to all pictures.

Im currently working on adding a description to all of the pictures
Will credit it

But you can't be plagiarized for this, why would you need a source for all the photos??

Lol..... =D

Im outa thanks for today. This thread is freakin awesome! =D

Thank you ! Was hoping it would get more coverage than it is though :L

I got my thanks back! =D

Some are epicly done, others just look normalish, like the penis, I mean, Gherkin building.