Stroll through the streets of Boston as you discover the buildings that make up the skyline like the Prudential Center, while also grabbing a great bite to eat and a wonderful museum along the way.
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Berlin is a pretty dreamy place in the summer. Find some local recommendations for things to do.
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The Flatiron Building stands as an exception to the characteristic skyscrapers of New York, with their tower shafts and iconographic tops.
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When Juan de Garay founded the city in 1580 he distributed land on a regular square grid roughly 130 by 130 meters.
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Some buildings grow, others shrink. And it's quite interesting to follow their transformations as they track cultural (social, political) and physical transformations in the city.
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You may not believe this, but as that the Casa Rosada was growing to its present dimensions, at the opposite end of the square the Cabildo of Buenos Aires was shrinking at about the same rate.
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In Buenos Aires, the National Congress is at the western end of Avenida de Mayo--the central axis of the city--with the Government House at the other end.
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Belgrano to the north and Flores to the west were still independent towns, separated from the core by a largely rural landscape and connected by road and rail.
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The names explicitly refer to the three high points around Boston.
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When the fabric of Back Bay reaches Copley Square, it turns into a city of buildings.
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By the time the figures in the drawing reached the upper terrace and can look across the Lustgarten back to the city, they have crossed the most elaborate sequence of thresholds.
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When I first saw the map of Weimar, I couldn't help seeing it as a human figure, with the historic center as the body and the green spaces as the limbs.
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Yes, even Berlin--population 4 million in 1925--appears on an outside circle of Dessau--population 70,000 the same year.
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How is urban design different from architecture?
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When it came to the city, his brand of childishness was expressed in his refusal to accept the well known English proverb admonishing that "you can't have your cake and eat it too."
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A mid-17th century map of Berlin shows what the foundational core of the city was: Berlin proper to the east and the more elongated area know as Cölln to the west.
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When Fritz Hesse, the liberal mayor of the city, invited Gropius to move the Bauhaus to Dessau, he sweetened the deal with the funds for a new building.
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The comparison may be a little funny but, in a similar vein, when Walter Gropius moves the Bauhaus to Dessau in the mid 1920s, he seems to make every effort to bring with him a lot of Weimar.
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Which one is the front façade of the Bauhaus?
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This is not serious.
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