It does sometimes happen when someone makes work and does not necessarily realise that they are plagiarising - for some people, redrawing things or using photographs as a direct reference is something commonly practiced. If proper credit is not given, you are plagiarising work.
It may be that you are an artist who likes to draw buildings - looking at architecture and creating imagery from it is your passion. At which point are you plagiarising? You are doing so if at any point you claim that work is yours when it is not, or you fail to mention that it is not work (negligence to mention can also land you in trouble, so be careful). People need to be aware that you did not build this building, if you are drawing from someone else's photographs, it needs to be mentioned that you used those photos as reference and you did not take them. The drawing needs to be your own, you can't just replicate someone else's image and take credit for it.
How can you avoid this? Maybe you just want to draw a building without repercussions - for starters, make sure any references or materials you used in creating the image do not go to your credit - people need to know they're not yours. You could always take your own photographs of whatever you want to draw, then you do not need to credit an extra artist (photographer) as the artist is you.
Just imagine if someone stole the work you spent so much effort on - and use that scenario to drive you to not plagiarise someone else's.
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