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A view of the Singapore skyline from a bar on the top floor of the Marina Bay Sand in Singapore, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013.
Spectacular view of Singapore skyline by night
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Lightning fills stormy skies over Munich
A thunderstorm with lightning over the skyline of the southern German city of Munich on Sept. 10.
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A blanket of haze hangs over the Hong Kong skyline early on April 3. A survey released at the end of 2010 by public policy think tank Civic Exchange found one-quarter of residents would like to leave Hong Kong to escape its pollution after levels reached a record high, prompting government warnings to people to avoid going out.
Hong Kong's smog problem
According to a study cited by the New York Times, declining visibility and air pollution were linked to 1,200 deaths in Hong Kong each year from 2007 to 2010.
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Window cleaners Lee Mason (left) and Paul Wright (right) pause for a break in their cleaning gondola outside the 50th floor of the One Canada Square skyscraper on Feb. 8 in London. Currently the tallest building in Britain, it lies at the heart of Canary Wharf, the business and shopping district on the River Thames. To clean all the windows of the building takes a month, with the cleaners suspended up to 190m from the ground.
A window cleaner's view of the London skyline
The photographer used a fisheye lens to get the shot.
New museum in Singapore has intentional hole in the roof for rain to come in
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Construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master.
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Construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master.
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Tourists take photographs as construction workers complete work on the roof of the Singapore ArtScience Museum on February 8, 2011 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 50,000 sqft, lotus- inspired building, is the worlds first ArtScience Museum and will house 21 galleries. The large roof dish collects rain water which falls through the center atrium of the building as a waterfall, at night the roof then transforms into an amphitheatre displaying a light and laser show with the Singapore skyline as a backdrop. The museum is set to open to the public on the 17th of February at 1.18 pm, the time chosen by the projects Feng Shui master. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)