The Musée d'Orsay in Paris is one of my favorite galleries. The building dates from around 1900 but, as a mainline train station, it had become obsolete by 1939. In…
The Galleries Lafayette dome is just something you don't expect to see in a department store. I think only the French have the audacity to pull off this type of…
Back in the fall of 1995 I spent an afternoon wandering around San Francisco. Today, I'd call that photo walking. Back then, I was wandering with a camera. One of…
You can't miss I.M. Pei's pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place with it's surroundings. To have made…
I've always been fascinated by tall buildings. Today's daily photo is of 811 Main St. Houston, TX at night, taken during a photowalk a couple of years back. With some…
Which building in China has withstood over 70 earthquakes? That would be the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China, built in 707 A.D.