2012 in 30 Photographs

London old and new. At left: St Stephen Walbrook Church built 1672-9 by architect Sir Christopher Wren. At right: Walbrook Office Building, built 2010. Architect: Foster and Partners. Engineer: Arup

Contrasting old and new architecture in London. Detail of facades on Oxford Street, London. Left: Late 19th century facade now Radcliffe College Language School. Right: 187-195 Oxford Street faceted glass facade by architect’s Future Systems, built 2008

M Shed, Bristol at Dusk. Architect: LAB Architecture Studio

Cedar wood ceiling inside the National Assembly for Wales Senedd (Senate) Building. Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership, 2006. Cardiff Bay, Wales.

Detail of tensile fabric facade, The Wave Car park, Cardiff Bay, Wales. Architects: Scott Brownrigg

Larch House at dusk, Horsley, Gloucestershire. Architect: Millar+Howard Workshop

Gravesend Library new entrance at dusk. Architect: Clay Architecture

Coloured glass fins of Oxford University Biochemistry Building in evening light

Vanishing Shanghai II. The writing on the wall reads, “Overusage of Electricity Prohibited”. 2007

Achaemenid Tombs at Naqsh-e Rustam

At the front door, the house opens up to provide clear views through to the garden and staircase

Detail of Boiler Suit, Guy’€™s Hospital, London designed by Heatherwick Studio

Ian Davenport “Poured Lines: Southwark”, Liquid enamel on steel, 2006. Southwark Bridge, London

Detail of apartments at 171 Tower Bridge Road, Southwark, London

Shadows on a wooden house from Naruja, Vrancea, Romania. Built C19

2012 Steel lattice in front of the 1852 station booking hall.

A graffiti mural on Megaro Hotel opposite St Pancras station, London, 2012.

Aleppo Streets at night, Syria

An Iranian girl looks out from the trunk of Sarv-e Abar-Kuh “cypress of Abar-Kuh”, also called the Zoroastrian Sarv, is a Cupressus sempervirens tree in Abarkuh, Yazd Iran. It is estimated to be over four thousand years old and may be the oldest living thing in Asia.

Interior of Octagonal Pavilion Tomb of the Sheikh Abdolsamad, Natanz, Iran.

Glass reception desk and hidden meeting room in Portland stone

Thames Waters X
100 miles downstream, dawn near Shiplake

Fireworks during conclusion of Paralympic closing ceremony 9th September

Multi-Function Sports Hall at Magdalen College School, Oxford

A silver birch tree grows through the floor on the terrace of Hotel Polissia.

Terrace overlooking rural Cotswold landscape

View of the structure at dusk. C.F. Moller & Søren Jensen

Main circulation space at the heart of the building. Cubo Arkitekter & Søren Jensen

The sky lights glowing at dusk

Selfridges, Oxford Street