This page features some famous sites around the world. For navigation, click on the items listed below. To view a larger version of a photo in a new window, click on the desired picture.  

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Atlanta (GA), USA (2011)

Atlanta 2010
 
Prominent skyscrapers: Hyatt Regency, 191 Peachtree Tower and Georgia-Pacific Center

Atlanta 2010
 
The Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta’s tallest building (back) – Children’s Museum in the front (right)

Atlanta 2010
 
A statue in the Centennial Olympic Park representing a symbolic olympic torch

Atlanta 2010
 
Cobb Galeria Center located in Cobb County in northwest Atlanta

Atlanta 2010
 
Centennial Olympic Park, built for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics

Atlanta 2010
 
Pierre Baron de Coubertin, "father" of the modern Olympic Games

Atlanta 2010
 
Computer-controlled waterplay area in the Olympic Park

Atlanta 2010
 
The Georgia World Congress Center: Fourth-largest convention center in the US

Atlanta 2010
 
Philips Arena (left) and the Georgia Dome (background, right)

Atlanta 2010
 
The CNN Center with the world’s longest freestanding escalator

Atlanta 2010
 
Appears like a Dali scene: The World of Coca-Cola museum and the Georgia Aquarium (world’s largest aquarium)

Atlanta 2010
 
The Structural Engineering and Materials Research Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology

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Washington (DC), USA (2010)

DC 2010
 
The U.S. Treasury building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Ammi Burnham Young

DC 2010
 
The White House – view from the South

DC 2010
 
The Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC, is located in 812 Seventh Street

DC 2010
 
The prominent Washington Monument, built in honor of George Washington and finished in 1884

DC 2010
 
The Freedom Plaza, formerly "Western Plaza", renamed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

DC 2010
 
The National Portrait Gallery

DC 2010
 
Chinatown’s "Friendship Archway"

DC 2010
 
The National Archives Building ("Archives I")

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010)

DC 2010
 
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol: Heavy snow and freezing temperatures…

DC 2010
 
…caused extensive flight and train cancellations in Europe in December 2010

DC 2010
 
Church of St. Nicholas with impressive neo-Baroque and neo-Renaissance elements

DC 2010
 
The Amsterdam Centraal railway station building, designed by Pierre Cuypers

DC 2010
 
Amsterdam Centraal railway station seen from the side

DC 2010
 
Hilversum railway station with holographic glass in the circular window

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Ann Arbor (MI) & Bay Area (CA), USA (2009)

Silicon Valley 2009
 
Discovered at a Boeing 767-300ER wing

Silicon Valley 2009
 Burton Tower, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Silicon Valley 2009
 
Michigan Stadium – formerly the largest one in the United States (capacity today: 106,201)

Silicon Valley 2009
 
San Francisco bay area seen from Conzelman road

Silicon Valley 2009
 
Confusing?

Silicon Valley 2009
 
View on Silicon Valley in the background

Silicon Valley 2009
 
…and a closer view on Silicon Valley

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Berlin, Germany (2009)

Berlin 2009
 
Bellevue Palace, the official residence of the President of Germany

Berlin 2009
 
TV tower, seen from the famous "Unter den Linden" boulevard

Berlin 2009
 
The "Berliner Philharmonie" concert hall – home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Berlin 2009
 
Victory Column (inaugurated in 1873 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian war)

Berlin 2009
 
Open-air exhibition "Topography of Terror"

Berlin 2009
 The Brandenburg Gate on July 17, 2009 at 15.31PM…

Berlin 2009
 
…and at 15.32PM

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London, UK (2008)

London 2008
 
The Tower Bridge

London 2008
 
Corrosion at the bridge

London 2008
 
Rehabilitation work at Tower Bridge

London 2008
 
Alternative bridge designs

London 2008
 
Buckingham Palace
London 2008
 
The Clock Tower
London 2008
 
Professor Einstein and Dr. Smarsly meeting at Madame Tussauds
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Dr.-Ing. Kay Smarsly
Stanford University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305-4020
USA

Email: smarsly[at]stanford.edu

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