Building

The Frankfurt headquarter of Commerzbank
The Eiffel Tower. Built by Gustave Eiffel & Cie between 1887 and 1889. Composition: 18,038 pieces, 2,500,000 rivetsWeight of the metal structure: 7,300 tons Total weight: 10,100 tonsHeight: 324m (height with flagpole)
Foyer of the Empire State Building
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Trinity church and John Hancock tower
Skyline in New York
 
The White House
The White House
The Pantheon is one of the great spiritual buildings of the world. It was built as a Roman temple and later consecrated as a Catholic Church. Its monumental porch originally faced a rectangular colonnaded temple courtyard and now enfronts the smaller Piazza della Rotonda. Through great bronze doors, one enters one great circular room. The interior volume is a cylinder above which rises the hemispherical dome. Opposite the door is a recessed semicircular apse, and on each side are three additional recesses, alternately rectangular and semicircular, separated from the space under the dome by paired monolithic columns. The only natural light enters through an unglazed oculus at the center of the dome and through the bronze doors to the portico. As the sun moves, striking patterns of light illuminate the walls and floors of porphyry, granite and yellow marbles. (Source: Great Buildings Online)
Half-timbered houses in the city center of Quedlinburg
Royal Exchange
The futuristic Lloyd’s of London building
Lloyd’s of London
Lloyd’s of London
Lloyd’s of London
Projekt 30 St Mary Axe by Sir Norman Foster.
Lloyd’s of London
Lloyd’s of London
Projekt 30 St Mary Axe by Sir Norman Foster.
Lloyd’s of London
Airport railway station
Federal Building nearby Ground Zero
The Bertelsmann Tower
View from my hotel room in the millenium plaza over the surrounding buildings.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York
CN Tower
The towers of Commerzbank and ECB.
Schirn Kunsthalle
Tower of the European Central Bank (ECB)
Main Tower.
Main Tower on the left; Japan Center on the right.
Skyline of Frankfurt with the Eurotower and the Commerzbank during sunset
Caste Neuschwanstein viewed from the Marienbrücke (Marie's Bridge)
Hofburg
Imperial palace Schönbrunn
View from the roof of the Commerzbank to other skyscapers in Frankfurt. You can see the Main Tower in the middle.
Guggenheim Bilbao
The fantastic exterior of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
Convention Center (CC)
Convention Center
Convention Center
Convention Center
Convention Center
Convention Center
Convention Center
Johannisburg Castle
Look-out on a small man-made hill nearby the lake in Schönbusch Park
Colourful half-timbered house in Gelnhausen
Office buildings in the city center of Toronto
George Washington's Mount Vernon State & Gardens
Timbered house in the old town of Büdingen
Timbered house in the old town of Büdingen
Timbered house in the old town of Büdingen
Entrance to the Senckenberg Museum for natural history
Duomo di Milano
Werdenberg
Werdenberg
Werdenberg
Werdenberg
This wooden building in Werdenberg is covered with religious intercessions
Main portal of the baroque Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln, goal for many pilgrims in Switzerland
Historic buildings in the city of Maria Einsiedeln
Historic buildings in the city of Maria Einsiedeln
View over Feldkirch from the top of the main tower of Schattenburg castle
Courtyard of Schloss Ludwigsburg
Baroque pleasure and hunting palace Favorite
Entrance to the Pinakothek der Moderne
Pinakothek der Moderne
Basilica of Sacré Cœur in Montmartre
Dome of the Pinakothek der Moderne
By night the Musée du Louvre is illuminated by thousands of small lights hidden in niches and protrusions of the baroque facade the magnificent
By night the Musée du Louvre is illuminated by thousands of small lights hidden in niches and protrusions of the baroque facade the magnificent. The large glass pyramid in the middle of the Louvre was designed in 1989 by Ieog Ming Pei and built on the order of President François Mitterrand. It now serves as the main entrance to the museum.
Assemblée Nationale
Half-timbered house across from the Amiens Cathedral
Department store by night
Apollo era NASA Mission Control Center in Houston
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
Harvard University
Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque in the heart of the old town
The Bosphorus Bridge, also called the First Bosphorus Bridge (Turkish: Boğaziçi Köprüsü or 1. Boğaziçi Köprüsü), is a bridge in Istanbul, Turkey spanning the Bosporus strait (Turkish: Boğaziçi). The bridge is located between Ortaköy (European side) and Beylerbeyi (Asian side). It is a gravity anchored suspension bridge with steel pylons and inclined hangers. The aerodynamic deck is hanging on zigzag steel cables. It is 1,510 m long with a deck width of 39 m. The distance between the towers (main span) is 1,074 m (World rank 2004: 12th) and their height over road level is 105 m. The clearance of the bridge from the sea level is 64 m.
Dolmabahçe Palace
Sears Tower
The ancient entrance hall of the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch, the so called "Königshalle", built in the 9th century by Emperor Louis III, is the oldest and probably the most beautiful monument of Franconian architecture.
Southern portals of Cologne Cathedral
"Post Tower", headquarter of Deutsche Post AG
"Post Tower", headquarter of Deutsche Post AG
Roof above the inner courtyard of the Berlin Sony-Center. The tent roof is supposed to symbolize the holy Japanese Mountain Fujisan.
Jewish Museum Berlin
Schönbrunn Palace
Parliament of Austria with Nationalrat and Bundesrat. In the forground, a fountain with the statue of Pallas Athena.
World of Coca Cola in Atlanta
Derelict building in downtown Atlanta
Headquarter of SunTrust Bank in Atlanta
The General Post Office (GPO) (Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist), designed by Francis Johnston and built in 1814, is located in Dublin's O'Connell Street, is the headquarters of An Post, the postal service of the Republic of Ireland. During the Easter Rising of 1916, it served as the headquarters of the uprising's leaders. The assault of the British forces extensively damaged the building and it was not repaired until the Irish Free State government took up the task some years later. The original columns outside are still pocked with bullet-marks, (although some people may say these marks were caused by weathering[citation needed]) as a testimony to this violent history and the building has remained a symbol of Irish nationalism and Irish national history.
Campanile on Parliament Square of Trinity College
Maison du Roi or Broodhuis
Coal Harbour Seawalk
Wellesley College Science Center
Newburyport
Newburyport
View from the Empire State Building over the south of Manhatten
Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building
Capitol of the United States Congress
The 33 meter tall round tower at Glendalough
Colosseum
Originally capable of seating around 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. It remained in use for nearly 500 years with the last recorded games being held there as late as the 6th century - well after the traditional date of the fall of Rome in 476.
Amphitheatrum Flavium - better known as the Colosseum
Façade of St. Peter's Basilica with the inscription IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT MAX AN MDCXII PONT VII (In honor of the prince of apostles; by Paul V Borghese, a Roman, Supreme Pontiff, in the year 1612 and the seventh year of his pontificate).
Façade of St. Peter's Basilica
The Basilica of Maxentius was the largest building in the Roman Forum
High-rise building in downtown Detroit
Compuware World Headquarters behind Campus Martius Park
Vacant David Broderick Tower on Woodward Avenue
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
General Motors World Headquarters in Renaissance Center
Golden Gate Bridge
"The Rock"
Some buildings on Alcatraz are not in a very good condition
Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM)
Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM)
Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM)
Ruins of the Limburg Benedictine abbey in Bad Dürkheim
Old Town Hall
Old Town Hall in Bamberg
  
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