Architecture

London in Springtime

After five fairly cold weeks in Scotland and the north of England, the relative warmth of London in early June was very welcome. London was

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Plaza Mayor, Madrid

Plaza Mayor, the big enclosed square at the heart of old Madrid, is no longer the center of the city’s commerce and government as it

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Speicherstadt: A Key to Hamburg

Today, Hamburg’s Speicherstadt—the name means Warehouse City—is a mix of wholesale trading companies, tourism attractions, apartments and museums, not least of which is a museum

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Reconsidering Palau Guell

I’m writing this after my third visit over a fifteen-year period to one of Gaudi’s earliest big commissions, Palau Guell, built as the personal residence

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