Savannah’s riverfront has been at the center of its history since the city was founded in 1733. Now, River Street offers a pleasant promenade along the river, taking in the historic buildings and the view over the water and Hutchinson Island. Many aspects of Savannah’s history can still be seen in the buildings and monuments along River Street.
Old Building on River Street, Savannah Waterfront
The Transylvania County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Brevard, North Carolina. It was built in 1873, and is a two-story, “T”-plan Italianate-style brick building with a hipped roof. It has a rear addition built in the early 20th century.
Transylvania County Courthouse
A building on a lake at Chapultepec Park. Mexico City created an artistic reflection of the waves on the water
Building Reflections at Chapultepec Lake
Campo Marte is a venue under the administration of the Secretariat of National Defense. Named after the Campus Martius, it is used for military and government events, as well as equestrian events. Campo Marte is located next to the National Auditorium in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
Interesting to see a modern building behind the event park.
Campo Marte Sports Field Panorama
After exploring the historic center of Mexico City, we moved to the “modern” version. Here are images of the Western architecture buildings in the Polanco suburb of the city.
JW Marriott
Modern Architecture in Polanco
Protestors at an upscale department store in a converted old building near the historic center of Mexico City
Protestors Outside Upscale Department Store
Even a modern shopping mall in a past building in the historic center of Mexico City
Shopping Mall in Historic Building
It is quite a contrast to see old architecture, modern buildings, and technology in Mexico City’s historic center
Old versus New
Old versus New Architecture
Impressive, traditional architecture of buildings at the historic center in Mexico City
Impressive Architecture
Impressive Architecture at the Historic Center
Whether protestor tents or vendor umbrellas, they add color to the Government Building at Zocalo in the historic center of Mexico City
Colorful Tents at the Government Building
A protester’s tent adds a blue color to the foreground of a photo of a Government building in the historic center of Mexico City
Different Colors at the Government Building
Walking on the streets of Northside, Lexington, Kentucky, we saw buildings with pillars.
Built from 1830 to 1834, this Greek Revival-style building was designed by Gideon Shryock to serve as the main building of Transylvania University. It replaced the university’s former main building, which was destroyed by fire in 1829. Affectionately known as Old Morrison, the building has served many purposes on the Transylvania campus; it has been an administration building, academic building, and chapel.
Old Morrison
Another building with pillars and red doors.
Side View of Building with Pillars
This building, circa 1835, was once the home of Andrew Jackson Yount and his family. It has been restored at Hart Square to resemble an early 19th-century tavern.
Yount Tavern
At Hart Square, this old utility building from the mid-1800s recreates a common feature of many 19th-century homesteads: a rudimentary blacksmith shop where the essential life tools on the frontier could be made and repaired.
Blacksmith Shop
Blacksmith Tools
As the metro train in Charlotte, North Carolina passes by a very colorful building, although the red colored railing on the bottom left corner plays a small part in the composition, it still is prominent in the image.
Seeing Color on a Train Ride
A sunburst through the slats in a building is strikingly highlighted in the monochrome version. An optical phenomenon called diffraction causes the starburst effect; as light passes through a small aperture, it is diffracted (or spread out) across the lens’ aperture blades.
A Shining Light
Another view of stairs through glass of a building while walking the streets of Wilmington, Delaware
Walking on the streets of Wilmington, Delaware couldn’t resist capturing stairs inside the building with reflections of the trees and bushes on the glass.
Another view of going down the stairs of the Virginia State Capitol building reflecting the Palladian style of architecture
There is a lot of symmetry in the stairs of the State of Virginia Capitol building in Richmond adding character and class of Palladian architecture. Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. What is today recognized as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
