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Guess the Architecture! for 1/20/2013

Posted January 20, 2013 12:00 AM

Do you know what this is and where it is? I'm talking about the thing over on the left side of the image. Share your answer in the comments!

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01/20/2013 12:19 AM

You mean the bridge-like stucture with the arc-shaped streetlight poles?

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01/20/2013 6:54 AM

It's a bridge over troubled water in the windmills of my mind.....

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01/20/2013 9:31 AM

A pontoon bridge of sorts. In Holland perhaps?

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01/20/2013 9:42 AM

Condos: big boxes built out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

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01/20/2013 9:56 AM

Except for the one with the idiotic post-modern notch cut into the faux gable end.

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01/20/2013 2:32 PM

It is somewhere bland and unimaginative.
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01/20/2013 8:35 PM

You've been watching too much Balamory.

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01/20/2013 2:55 PM

Queen Emma pontoon bridge, Willemstad harbour, Curacao, Dutch Antilles.

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