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Images of Buildings around the World – Architectural Photography

post updated 3 November 2021

Architectural Photographs

We have building photos for all major cities across the globe. Below we’ve made a selection from a handful of the key cities. We aim to select images of good quality and interesting architecture. We cover completed buildings – both new and old – across the globe.

Architecture Images by – City Selections

Architectural Photos, listed by City, alphabetical:

Barcelona Architecture

Pictures © Adrian Welch – new buildings in the Catalan capital city:

A selection of the major Barcelona buildings, Barcelona Pavilion, Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila and Diagonal Mar:

Forum Barcelona, Frank Gehry’s Fish scuplture, Barcelona Tower and a traditional public space – Placa Reial:

Cambridge Architecture – famous university city in south East England

Images © Adrian Welch:

Queens College, Emmanuel College, a typical old college alley, and a view of modern buildings on ‘The Backs’, notably James Stirling‘s controversial Faculty of History building:

Copenhagen Architecture – architectural images around the Danish capital city

Pictures © Adrian Welch:

Tuborg Building ; Plot housing in Ørestad ; Gemini Housing by MVRDV on Islandsbrygge in a pair of old silo buildings ; clean styling of a stairway at Nordhavnen Tiscali:

Edinburgh Architecture – pictures from the beautiful Scottish capital city

Photos © Adrian Welch:

Scottish Parliament MSP Foyer interior ; Canongate Kirk gable facing the Royal Mile ; another photo of the Scottish Parliament Building ; and Ramsay Gardens – a Victorian set of properties romantically perched on the edge of the Castle Esplanade facing over Princes Street Gardens to the Firth of Forth:

Frankfurt Building images from the German financial powerhouse

Photos © Adrian Welch:

The Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, part of the Museumsufer, designed by famous New York architecture practice Richard Meier & Partners Architects ; Schirnhalle ; Deutsches Architekturmuseum: DAM ; and another view of Richard Meier’s Frankfurt Museum für Kunsthandwerk – Museum of Arts and Crafts, since renamed:

Glasgow Architecture + Highlands – building pictures from Scotland’s largest city

Photos © Adrian Welch:

An Turas on Tiree, western isles, by Sutherland Hussey, I was lucky to attend the opening, on the day it got shortlisted for the Stirling Prize ; Spectrum Building in Glasgow by gm+ad architects ; another view of An Turas ; ill-fated revolving/not-revolving Glasgow Tower by BDP on the River Clyde: