Le Weekend en Noir et Blanc

I don't know exactly when this building was built,
but these ladies have probably been holding 
that balcony up for a couple of centuries.  First rule of
strolling around Paris with a camera: Remember to look up!

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Thursday Challenge: "architecture"

I dug deep into the archives for this shot of the Parthenon
(I took it 26 years ago, with Kodachrome—remember that?).
As I recall, we weren't allowed to get much closer than this.
Even so, I was lucky to capture it without any people in the frame.
  Or maybe everyone else was smart enough not to be out 
in the blazing sun, on a treeless Greek hill, in July, at noon.

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Uptown

I snapped this from a bus as I was riding through
Harlem early one morning.  This building has
lost some of its original architectural details
(the boarded-up rectangular window tops used to
be filled with stained glass), but I love the
little terrace and the turret.  Wouldn't it be nice
to see it brought back to its former glory?

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Thursday Challenge—architecture

I live in NYC, where there is so much amazing
architecture.  But I was also recently in Paris,
where I snapped this shot of M. Eiffel's masterpiece
(and my all-time fave piece of architecture).

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Thursday Challenge–"rippled"

I've shown you this newest Frank Gehry
building before. Now it's completed and
a good choice, I think, for this challenge for
something curved, bent, rippled . . .
I think the design is brilliant. How about you?

[To see more things that are curved, 

bent, rippled, twisted . . . go here.]

Thursday Challenge: Metallic

This soon-to-be completed 76-story

Frank Gehry building on Spruce Street, in the 

financial district, will be New York's 

tallest residential tower. It's clad in 18-gauge

stainless steel and the shallow setbacks make it appear

to ripple in the sunlight—pretty cool.

[You can see more Thursday Challenge

photos here.]

alwyn court

That's the name of this building at
the corner of 58th Street and 7th Ave.
The terra-cotta detailing on the facade
is amazing.  (In fact, it would make a
great painting.)  This place used to have
huge (14 room) apartments; of course,
now the interior has been renovated
and the building is a coop.  I can remember
when the facade was almost black, but
it got a cleanup job too, and I am glad
about that.

pointy-topped doo-dads

That's what they are now.  Not long ago I thought they 
were just (yet) another new bank building, and 4 Times Square 
peeking out from behind. 4 Times Square is the Condé Nast Building,
home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Gourmet, and The New Yorker 
(where I was offered a job on two different occasions and had to turn
them both down because they paid bupkis—broke my heart). 
Anyway, now I see these buildings (and lots of others) in a whole new light.