I’ve always loved photographing spiral staircases but Copenhagen had two spiral steeples which I found very unique! A wrought-iron spiral staircase on the outside of a building in Aalborg, Denmark. […]
A small plaque reads: “En este sitio estuvo el Hospital Real de Terceros, demolido para construir el Palacio Postal, o Quinta Casa de Correos, en 1902, siendo una obra arquitectónica […]
Completed in 1934, the Palacio de Bellas Artes is the result of having two different architects, Adamo Boari who designed the initial Neoclassical exterior in 1904, and Federico Mariscal who took […]
The primary restriction on Islamic architecture in this part of India is that there be no images of people or animals. That leaves floral motifs, Arabic script and geometric patterns. […]
In India of the late 1500s, Akbar the Great* commissioned three magnificent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture: the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, his father Humayun’s tomb in Delhi and finally […]
This is the paradox of India, buildings so beautiful, and shit everywhere.” I am quoting a conversation I had with a woman who came into the washroom of the Baby […]
After an early morning at the Taj Mahal we negotiated for a tuk-tuk (as we called the three-wheeled vehicles) to take us around to a few other sites in Agra. […]
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