Glass Steel and Stone

There's a myth amongst Japanese fans in America about a mystical building in Tokyo that looks like a giant golden poop. Well, here it is.

Cascina, Vancouver, Canada: ...

Carmana Plaza, Vancouver, Canada: ...

Since the Renaissance, artists have flocked to the Low Countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg) to practice their craft. Scenes like this show the Old World at its best. An artist ...

Charleston, South Carolina is renowned for its historic architecture. The shotgun houses, the painted ladies, the gingerbread woodwork, and even those little outbuildings that were once used as kitchens.But getting to Charleston takes you across a piece of amazing modern architecture. ...

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The majority of people who read this blog are in the colder portions of the northern hemisphere. That's why this picture may be surprising to them. It turns out that in warmer cities, sometimes food stores are outside. ...

One of the great triumphs of this industrial city on the edge of America's heartland is the One PPG Place building (1 PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). It looks like a glass castle rising into the sky. ...

The Beijing building complex known as Linked Hybrid Building has been named the Best Building of 2009 by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been picked to expand downtown Beijing. You can view a video about it here. And here's the press release:

If there's one thing I've learned roaming around the world, it's that you never know when you might run across the word "Chicago." From Dan Ryan's Chicago Grill in Hong Kong to this "Chicago"-branded used clothing store in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. ...