The Palace of Fine Arts located in the Marina District of San Francisco was one of several structures constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition which commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal and also served to demonstrate the recovery of the city following the great earthquake and fire of 1906. The buildings constructed for the Expo weren’t intended to last long term and so were built from flimsy materials such as timber, plaster and burlap. Most of the […]
the Guggenheim Museum, as notable for the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture with its fabulous sweeping geometric lines and curves as for its art collection.
Looking directly upwards from a public space in Hong Kong to capture the towers as they reach skyward.
a quiet image, almost abstract. Simple, graphic, with one boldly coloured element in an otherwise (almost) monochrome scene.
Quwwatul-Islam (might of Islam) Masjid is part of a complex of mosques, cloisters and courtyards built in what is now Delhi between the 12th and 14th centuries
The city of Xian in China is best known for its amazing terracotta warriors, however there are other interesting things to see there including the bell tower
The town of Antigua in Guatemala, has many old buildings and cobblestone streets, some of which have hardly changed in hundreds of years.
