albertochan: Building across the street from work at Flatiron Building
dazzlingagony: The Initiation Well photography by isolano
In the town of Sintra, the Quinta da Regaleira, an extremely beautiful architectural complex, includes an early twentieth century palace and a garden. Specialists consider that the estate reveals and symbolises Masonic rituals, although no-one knows whether the original owner of the estate, António Carvalho Monteiro, actually practised Masonic rituals on the site, or simply desired to perpetuate the imaginary universe of this secret cult.
The garden includes labyrinthine galleries and subterranean grottoes, which can be accessed from this dry well, 60 metres deep, 9 stairwells each with 15 steps.
(via interiordecline)
iamnot-thereforeithink: ca 1796 Thomas Girtin (English 1775-1802) ~ The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral
life: Pictured Above: The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1935.
Call it the Paris of the West, the City That Knows How, or even (shudder) Frisco — San Francisco is the city on the bay that no visitor ever forgets, whether it’s because of the sourdough bread, the heart-on-its-shoulder political activism, or that big ol’ red bridge. But the San Francisco you may know today wasn’t always the iconic city of the liberal literati, mighty spans, and Gold Rush memorabilia. See more here
llbwwb: Golden Gate Bridge Breaking Dawn by Hark Lee Photography
booksnbuildings: 1570 Palladio’s influential and famous “Four Books on Architecture”; illustrated here is the Pantheon in Rome.
