Twenty-five buildings I kept coming back to — Gehry's titanium in Bilbao,
a twelfth-century brick tower in Florence, a 1906 railway bridge in
Hamburg, the Renaissance, the spires. No order, no ranking. I just
liked them.
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Pl. 01Bilbao · Spain
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.Frank Gehry · 1997
Pl. 02Paris · France
Fondation Louis Vuitton.Frank Gehry · 2014
Pl. 03Hamburg · Germany
Elbphilharmonie.Herzog & de Meuron · 2017
Pl. 04Hamburg · Germany
Elbphi, distant view.Herzog & de Meuron · 2017
Pl. 05Hamburg · Germany
Speicherstadt, Hamburg.F. A. Meyer et al. · 1883 — 1927
Pl. 06Hamburg · Germany
Speicherstadt Fleet.F. A. Meyer · 1883
Pl. 07Hamburg · Germany
Dockland.Hadi Teherani · 2005
Pl. 08Hamburg · Germany
Elbbrücken.H. A. Schwetzke · 1872
Pl. 09Hamburg · Germany
Tanzende Türme.BRT · 2012
Pl. 10Hamburg · Germany
St. Michaelis, interior.Johann Leonhard Prey · 1762
Pl. 11Hamburg · Germany
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten.Historicist · 1897
Pl. 12Florence · Italy
Ponte Vecchio.Taddeo Gaddi · 1345
Pl. 13Florence · Italy
Uffizi & Vasari Corridor.Giorgio Vasari · 1581
Pl. 14Florence · Italy
Torre San Niccolò.Medieval · 1324
Pl. 15Florence · Italy
Medieval tower, with ivy.Anonymous · 12th – 13th c.
Pl. 16Florence · Italy
Santa Maria Novella.Leon Battista Alberti · 1470
Pl. 17Hamburg · Germany
HafenCity, new and old.Various · 2003 — 2022
Pl. 18Hamburg · Germany
Old spire, new tower.1762 / 1994
Pl. 19Hamburg · Germany
Oberhafen Bridge.Railway engineering · 1906
Pl. 20Hamburg · Germany
Spires over HafenCity.1657 · 1846 · 2014
Pl. 21Hamburg · Germany
Same spires, tighter.22:10
Pl. 22Hamburg · Germany
Magellan Terrassen.Masterplan 2000 · built 2010
Pl. 23Hamburg · Germany
Speicherstadt / HafenCity.1883 · 2014
Pl. 24Hamburg · Germany
Dockland.BRT · 2005
Pl. 25Hamburg · Germany
Pair, horizontal.1762 / 1994
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Twenty-five buildings. About seven hundred years between them.