Mini Facade
Looking down on an empty plaza, from the top of the Centre Pompidou.
Looking down on an empty plaza, from the top of the Centre Pompidou.
From the Pont des Arts, looking south, the Bibliothèque Mazarine. Established in 1643 by the physician Naudé and named for the Cardinal, France’s first public library contained nearly 40,000 items by 1652.
Gustave’s radio transmission tower on a cold January evening.
Looking up in the nave of the Bayeux Cathedral, built in 1077.
The Cherry Street Bridge, opened in 1931 and officially known as Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge. But less well-known is that it was designed by Joseph Strauss, designer…
Shoppers at Le Bon Marche in Paris.
Toward the top floor of a hotel, near the Jardin du Luxembourg.
Where parking garage meets apartments. The Marina City buildings in downtown Chicago circa 1997, processed from an old film scan. These are the buildings on the cover of…
A residential tower on Younge Street, near College.
My first attempt at a kaliedoscopic technique of a cityscape, using the view from the courtyard of the São Paulo Museum of Art.
On a walking tour of a trendy neighborhood near Avenue Paulista and the impressive São Paulo Museum of Art.
On an overcast February morning in 2012, after two weeks in Malawi and a serendipitous travel diversion, it was great to be back in Amsterdam. Before I left…
Originally dating from 1904, the Arts et Métiers (Arts and Crafts) station was redesigned to look like something out of a Jules Verne novel.
A vertical panorama, assembled from individual 2.5-second exposures. One of those images became Tower Segment, posted a month ago.
From beneath the Eiffel Tower.
A bank building in southeast Paris, near Gare d’Austerlitz.
With today’s news of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), home of iconic architect Richard Rogers, being awarded the design for a new terminal for the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, I thought it fitting to showcase the first amazing piece of work at the airport, Santiago Calatrava’s Satolas TGV station. A photo from the inside is what kicked off the relaunch of this blog back in April.
The sign says “The most important collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.” That both says it all, and is merely a beginning — a portal to…
Air conditioning units alternate up the side of this building along the High Line Park. Reflected in the bottom window are the windows of the building from a…
A building evoking architect Frank Gehry and his curved cladding, on West 23rd Street along the High Line Park. Update: This building is architect Neil Denari’s first multistory…
A busy street’s facade on an afternoon in SoHo.
Looking down on the city from Notre Dame.
Taken from the High Line Park at 10th Ave and 25th St.
A sculpture looks to the southwest from its perch atop Notre Dame.
Wintertime construction on Toronto’s harbourfront skyline, as seen from the Toronto Island Ferry.
A wall reminiscent of 8-bit graphics, in the Sheppard-Younge station.
Taken in 2011, this building was going up in the Queen Street east area of Toronto.
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