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Photo: Mansions and towers, Hong Kong
Photo: Old College sky
Threatening sky over the Old College of the University of Edinburgh.
While it is well known that the building is by Robert Adam, the dome is not and is a much later addition: the observant will notice that it is a rather disparate addition and not in harmony with the rest of the building.
Photo: Hidden colours, Brussels
Multi-coloured window jambs on an office building in central Brussels. From head on the building looks fairly normal: its only when you look up and along the walls that the hidden colours become visible.
Photo: Bicycle on a street
Photo: The Whittle Arch
The Whittle Arch in Coventry, England is a memorial to Sir Frank Whittle, the inventer of the turbo jet engine. The arch is made of a pair of aerofoil sections, with perforated stainless steel sheathing covering a tubular frame and steel lattice.
Photo: Albaicin street diptych
An Albaicin street diptych from Grenada, Spain.
Props to Patrick La Roque for his ‘Rock the Grid’ blog post on laying out multiple images in Aperture.
Photo: Albaycin street diptych
An Albaycin street diptych from Grenada, Spain.
Props to Patrick La Roque for his ‘Rock the Grid’ blog post on laying out multiple images in Aperture.
Photo: Malaga streetscapes - old and new
Photo: Dappled wooden door
Dappled old wooden door in a back street in Moorish Granada.
Photo: An unexpected juxtaposition
There’s nothing more Spanish than flamenco dancing, and there’s nothing more American than Coca-Cola signs. I might have expected to see the two together in Mexico, but not in Spain.
Photo: Albaicin steps
Cobblestone steps on the Carril de San Agustin in the Albaicín, Granada.
Photo: Urban angst
The face of a crying man – urban graffiti from Granada in Spain.
Photo: Somebody's always watching you
Black and white photo of a spray painted stencil of young boy’s head on Bristo Place, just down from the much missed Forest Cafe, Edinburgh. Did you notice the man in the doorway?
Photo: The power of Scotland
Designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles, the Scottish Parliament has won a number of architectural awards, including the 2005 Stirling Prize.
The Scottish Parliament is (by some degree) the most incoherent building I have ever seen. Renowned postmodernist Charles Jencks described it as “quite a meal” – faint praise indeed. A very strange mix of post-modernism, brutalism and vernacular architecture, individual bits of the building are spectacular, but the whole is little more than a regurgitated mass of juxtapositions and alien iconographies.
Photo: Don't stop carry straight on to the weekend
Don’t stop for anything that gets in the way of your dreams.