Under the Eiffel Tower

Paris, 2019. Tourists in line for the ticket office inside the Eiffel Tower compound.

Strahov Stadion

Abadoned and closed down stadium in Prague

Lifted walkscapes

Elevated pedestrian infrastructure in Tokyo.

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Doel derelict

Delftse Poort Rotterdam

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Vatican city tourists

Living statues at the Vatican have been replaced by the similarly weird poses of photographing tourists

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Shinjuku Station

Shinjuku station is often cited as the world's busiest train station. It is probably also the most complex infrastructural node in Japan, with over 200 exits and over ten floors at any given location. The train station is fully accessible through Google streetview, inside and out.

Overpass in Prague

Soviet hallway

The hallways in the former parliament of the Federal Assmebly of the former Czechoslovakia take you back to a time of dark wood veneer, marble, drop ceilings and square clocks.

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Florence tourists

Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve

Super market souvenirs

Every centimeter of this store presents either alcohol or miniature scenes of Czech tourist attractions.

At the Louvre

Flower stand on Piazza di Spagna

Žižkov Television Tower babified

Since 2000 the Prague tower has been inhabited by Černý's babies.

Under the Eiffel tower

Paris, 2019. Tourists in line for the ticket office inside the Eiffel Tower compound.

Doel derelict

De Nieuwe Delftse Poort in Rotterdam

Tagebau Hambach

Milan subway

Gyoko-dori Underground Square

Underneath the plaza in front of Tokyo Central Station is located this vibrant pedestrian infrastructure.

Underground pedestrian networks

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At the Louvre

Fukuoka Airport

Billboards in sharp contrast with surrounding apartment buildings, aimed at passengers aboard flights arriving and departing in Fukuoka.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Consolidation of the 45 degree angle between the Galleria and the Via Tommaso Marino is found in creating a symmetrical entry bay. The right flank provides entry to yet another museum about Da Vinci.

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At the Trevi Fountain

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Doel derelict

Europoint Rotterdam

Dimensioned to stand out in Rotterdam's port landscape, the Marconi towers represent the corporate identity of the port. The American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill created an ensemble of blocks that exists on the scale of the city, resulting in a stark contrast between it and the relatively small scale early twentieth century neighborhoods of Spangen and Bospolder.

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Clutter

Under the Van Brienenoordbrug

Monumental columns provide the backdrop to everyday life in Oud-IJsselmonde.

Nuns selling souvenirs

The souvenir store at the Vatican Museum, monetizing its religious artefacts, is run by nuns.

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Verona Tourists

Tourists photographing the balcony that allegedly inspired Romeo and Juliet

Doel derelict

Piazza del Popolo

Peeling flag

Found in a derelict glass factory in the Czech town of Lenora.

Tour group at the Vatican Museum

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Tokyo streets

Wedged between layers of railroad and car infrastructure, the food sector of Tokyo finds use in every available centimeter of the city.

Sunbathing on the Maasvlakte

If one drives all the way to the end of the Port of Rotterdam, one will encounter these awkward contrasts between the recreational use of the artificial beach and a back ground of awe-inspiring container terminals and ships.

Louvain-la-Neuve

Bright lights

Souvenirs in Prague

Tokyo store fronts

Tokyo escalators

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At the Louvre

Souvenir stand

Souvenirs near the Vatican.

Subway passage in Milan

Pachinko

Possibly the loudest space you will ever enter. A brightly lit room, with twenty roaring airconditioners, every surface plastered with anime girls in extreme colors, five hundred pachinko machines blasting their sounds into the ears of the addicted players.

Boxed in

Walking through Prague at night, tiny minimarts that occupy minimal openings in façades light up and illuminate the streets. Upon entering one steps into an over-stimulating world where everything demands your attention.

Souvenir cave

Souvenir store in Rome inhabiting a space carved out of an crumbling, ancient façade.

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Souvenir store in Prague

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Tokyo pedestrian tunnel

Vienna asphalt

Parts of central Vienna, internationally famous for its architecture and culture, seem solely inhabited by cars, materialized in asphalt.

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Ghost houses venturi

Ghost houses venturi

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Tokyo textures

The urban fabric of Tokyo is a seemingly infinite carpet of low-rise buildings, as opposed to the more common notion that it is actually a city of skyscrapers. In fact, Japanese cities are fine-grained and small-scale, showing for example in Shibuya Crossing: the Japanese equivalent of Times Square, but only a fraction of its size.

Tokyo street corner

Scale contrasts

In Tokyo, small scale streets are intertwined with skyscraping office towers.

Trevi Fountain crowds

Rome tourists

The Pantheon found a new function as instagram backdrop.

Bright lights

Minimarkets illuminate the streets of Prague at night.

Piazza del Popolo

Rome anno 2019. Originally constructed during the renaissance for easy passage and patrolling, passage through the Via del Corso is now once again obstructed by the military.

They are waiting for you

The souvenir vendors so common in the streets of Paris have been exiled from the Eiffel Tower compound. They eagerly await the stream of tourists at the exit.

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Selfie at the Forum Romanum

Navigating underground Tokyo

Souvenir stores in Vatican City

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Tourist tunnel

Coming from the famous Charles bridge, the lack of a sidewalk along the Smetanovo Nábřeží forces you through this passage. Looking and feeling the the former underground streets in infamous Kowloon Walled city, every element of this passage tries its best to extract money from you.

At the Louvre

Concrete overpass in Prague

The misalignment between de direction of the road and the overhead lights results in an eery and slightly confusing scene under the train tracks.

Meme by Lucien Kroll