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: An unexpected juxtaposition
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.
Photo: Modern office building, Copenhagen
Aller Huset – the headquarters of the Danish publishing company Aller, Havneholmen, Copenhagen
Photo: Unbearable graffiti
Graffiti bear on the famous Werregaren Straat, Ghent. Also colloquially known as ‘Graffiti Street’, this is apparently the only place in Ghent where street art (i.e. graffiti) is legal.
Photo: Spirals and concrete
A spiral staircase sneaks up between two cast concrete tanks, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photo: Industrial sunset
The sun sets over the factories and windmills at Zaanse Schans, a world heritage site in the Netherlands just outside of Amsterdam.
Photo: It wasn't hot, it was freezing
Neon hotel sign detail, Mahattan, New York
Photo: Queen Victoria's Initials
Queen Victoria’s initials in gold on a red Royal Mail postbox, Sheffield, England
Photo: Maxies, New York
Lightbulbs and neon tubes make up the brightly lit sign for Maxie’s Restaurant, Times Square, Manhattan.
Photo: Reflections in the windows are not from the direction they appear to be.
The Empire State Building in downtown Manhattan, juxtaposed against reflections from other skyscrapers against black mirrored glass, Manhattan, New York.
Photo: Neon restaurant sign, Manhattan.
Water drips over Tao’s Restaurant neon sign, Manhattan