Between the Shutter and the Silence

I noticed the corner before I noticed the tower. It was only a balcony edge turning away from the street, pale against a dark underside, but it gave the building a direction. The pavement, passing cars and neighbouring blocks were still present at th...

A white balcony band runs across Metro Tower, stops against the dark facade, then begins again higher up. I followed that interruption up the building and found the same move repeating in different forms. The tower is built from repetition, but it re...

From across the valley, Reichsburg Cochem first appears as the point where the hillside stops belonging to the town. Roofs and trees make a low, uneven foreground; then the castle begins above them, with one tower rising beyond the rest. It is not a ...

I began with an ordinary task: count the floors from the pavement. The first bands were easy. Then the glass started to interfere. Rows that seemed separate at the bottom narrowed as they rose, and the rounded edge carried them out of sight before I ...

A strip of broken render gives way to red brick along the base of Beit Maariv, while the painted reader above it opens a newspaper against the wall. I stopped there first. The mural turns the facade into a small stage: shoes rest on the ledge, a cat ...

A narrow red-brown window bay climbs the white corner before the building gives way to a much larger block of the same warm material above. That repeated strip caught me first. From the intersection, the upper addition looked almost too self-containe...

A raw crown sits above the blue glass of ToHa 2, with scaffold rails and crane lines still cutting into the Tel Aviv sky. The tower has already crossed the point where construction feels temporary. Its height now has public weight. At the same time, ...

A dark sky presses against two curved towers, and the balconies start to look less like floors than ribs. The Exchange Ramat Gan skyscrapers feel almost detached from the city below them, as if the lower streets have been removed and only the vertica...

The former town hall of Nieuwer-Amstel has enough presence to carry a straightforward architectural study, but that is not really what drew me in here. From across the Amstel, the building keeps slipping between roles. In one moment it reads like a f...

Modern architecture in Amsterdam rarely asks to be photographed quietly. Around Badhuiskade and Overhoeks, the buildings push upward, bend around corners, and repeat window grids until the whole street starts to feel like a study in rhythm. This set ...