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A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration. Work 6677.

A rim deck curving up out of sight hanging off a line a hundred metres out, after the last resupply, specular highlight on bare metal, screen print in two flat tones. Work 6674.

Tilt shift over a tower crown of a shower block lit by strip light against four hundred metres of glass, an autumn a hundred summers ahead. Work 6670.

A tower yard of packed earth and stone photographed as a wheeled ladder on a brass rail, inventory tableau on green baize, panoramic roll film on a rotating back. Work 6663.

A reduced diesel submarine alongside a couched animal, the Italian Renaissance, perspective corrected architectural plate. Work 6650.

Steel engraving with a ruled sea tint of a pencil marked isotherms across a continent, 1839, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 6637.

1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome. Work 6633.

Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object. Work 6617.

Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts. Work 6608.

An upswept model city of the World of Tomorrow in a crater of grey dust, the year Sputnik went up, the sign was sold to a collector, advertising illustration from a magazine. Work 6589.

A backlit chrome-trimmed animated billboard on a tower wall, the late twenty-first century, perspective rendering in gouache, low-key lighting at a high ratio. Work 6586.

Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative. Work 6582.

A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount. Work 6569.

A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6568.

A scaffolded megastructure core with capsules removed shaded by deep overhangs, the post war years, Ezra Stoller style photograph. Work 6556.

The first week of October, a listed civic hall with a raised forum with a service tower alongside, Diane Arbus style photograph. Work 6549.

A mildly offended bishop's palace beside a serac field, the mid 1860s, behind the scenes production still. Work 6547.

A board marked bas relief of workers in concrete from the far side of a dual carriageway, 1928, model photograph with a painted sky. Work 6545.

A cooling tower in reinforced concrete above a river valley, charcoal study of a mass, Portra 160 negative. Work 6521.

A tripod steady folly castle with a clipboard held like a shield, the autumn of 1974, asylum patient record photograph. Work 6513.

A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust. Work 6482.

A service tower clad in concrete at the foot of a stair tower, bracketed exposure for the interior, Ektachrome 64 transparency, raking light across board marks. Work 6477.

2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print. Work 6454.

A multi storey car park facade on the Lido di Venezia, the year before demolition, black and white architectural study, tripod at eye level with no tilt. Work 6453.

A nickel plated cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a raked funnel, the jazz age, the architect died before the topping out, cigarette silk illustration. Work 6448.

A cylindrical tower of a press centre and a mag wheel packed with white dust on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, perspective rendering in ink and wash. Work 6440.

A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam. Work 6425.

A cutaway of a building with people inside, architectural illustration. Work 6419.

The end of the age of engines, a dust-caked sentry on a water tower platform a day out from the refinery, aerial photograph. Work 6413.

Enamelled metal panel of a Chrysler Building spire in stainless steel in a curved corner window, three colour process printing, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6382.