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| A hotel in Brussels city centre built around a historic tower from the old city wall. Photo: Global_Nomad/GuardianWitness |
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| 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. Photo: Devon11 /GuardianWitness |
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| A rose amid thorns. Ghent, Belgium Photo: Doedelzak/GuardianWitness |
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| 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. Photo: Benway1/GuardianWitness |
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| 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 Photo: comerainorshine/GuardianWitness |
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| Manchester's tallest building, and the highest. at 169m tall, in the UK outside London, towers over the reconstructed Roman Fort in Castlefield. Photo: buryboy /GuardianWitness |
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| With the glass buildings everywhere. Creeping up town not so subtly in NYC Photo: ID8843724/GuardianWitness |
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| 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. Photo: Robert F. Stokes/GuardianWitness |
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| 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. Photo: klokan/GuardianWitness |
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| Church in London engulfed by a wave of glass and steel. Now has the infamous Walkie Talkie as a neighbour too. Photo: simonarogers/GuardianWitness |
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