Architecture

Spring in four colours: camellia, plum and wintersweet against painted walls.

The glasshouse of the Conservatory and Botanical Garden.

Tall tenements on a North Point side street.

A church spire above lit windows in central Reykjavík at night.

The gateway of Oxford University Press.

A college gatehouse in Cambridge.

A lightbulb painted on a corner house in the Creative Quarter.

The old Taichung Station, lit at night.

The harbour on Xiaoliuqiu, a temple above the boats.

Houses above the jungle valley in Ubud.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A Semana Grande moment in Donostia.

Yau Ma Tei, in the mosaic tiles of the MTR station.

A side street climbing between the towers to the green hill.

A corrugated-iron house under a Reykjavík street lamp.

The curve of Regent Street at Piccadilly Circus.

The pinnacles of King’s College Chapel.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre beneath a wall of windows.

Skólavörðustígur’s rainbow street and Christmas lights, Hallgrímskirkja at its end.

The Meadow Building of Christ Church.

A footbridge leading to a school near Yuanshan.

A pause among Madrid’s art, parks and bookstalls.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

The Chinese Goods Centre on King’s Road, North Point.

Ivy and a lamp on an Oxford college wall.

A quiet college court and its tree.

A tide of scooters at dusk in front of an old colonial building.

The villa pool lit up on the first night.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

Compañía de Jesús, Plaza de Armas

Broken Chair in front of the Palais des Nations.

Hallgrímskirkja’s basalt-column façade at nine in the morning — still night.

Búðakirkja, the black church at Búðir, alone on the lava field.

A Union Jack over a Soho street.

The lantern-lit staircase up to the Christ Church hall.

The fountain in Trinity’s Great Court.

Morning light on the pool and the frangipani.

Aerial-yoga hammocks in an open shala at Udara Bali.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

One of Cusco's colonial church domes

The avenue of flags at the United Nations.

The fruit market’s low roofs beneath a school and the towers.

Floodlit concrete columns of Hallgrímskirkja before dawn.

Long tables and lamps in the Christ Church hall.

The path across a court to the Great Gate.

The National Palace Museum under a grey January sky.

Rooftops and temple towers in the evening.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

Portraits and table lamps in the Christ Church hall.

A lamplit passage glimpsed through a dark doorway.

A temple tower lettered with a prayer to Guanyin.

Carved temple roofs over the sea.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

The Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei.

The black-and-white Tudor front of Liberty.

The Christ Church hall, dinner tables laid.

The cloisters of Nevile’s Court.

The Taichung Literature Museum, once Japanese-era police dormitories.

Terracotta roofs over the villa walls.

Orange roofs and a pagoda over Canggu.

The gate of the Ubud Palace.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

Plaza de Armas at night

The old Yau Ma Tei Police Station on Canton Road.

Palms and a thatched roof under a blue sky.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Cusco's historic center, seen from above

The Ring Road bridge over the Jökulsárlón outflow, ice drifting out to sea.

The Royal Albert Hall under a heavy sky.

Red ivy on the Meadow Building.

A lane between college walls.

Hayashi Department Store (林百貨) lit up at night.

The garden and pool of the villa.

A lantern in a carved stone grotto.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

Mong Kok from a footbridge: double-deckers, taxis and towers.

Terracotta and brick of the Royal Albert Hall.

Autumn ivy climbing the Gothic windows.

The pale-blue record shop from the Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day (想見你), in the Blueprint Culture & Creative Park.

Brick and carved stone of the palace gates.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

The Sheldonian Theatre.

A temple gate against the evening sky.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Yen Dack Building, between the market stalls.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

Market awnings at the bottom of a canyon of towers.

The Radcliffe Camera.

Yoga under a woven bamboo roof.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

King’s College Chapel across the lawn.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A curved corner tenement above a wallpaper shop.

Harrods lighting up as the traffic thickens.

King’s College Chapel from the Backs.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

The old town along the water, the Salève behind.

The rounded corner of an old tenement, painted mint and blue.

A curved wall of flats along King’s Road, Quarry Bay, with the hill behind.

The Gothic clock tower of St Pancras against a clear blue sky.

A temple gate in the old city.

A tram rounding the curve.

A thatched meditation pavilion with red cushions.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

A bus and a tram beneath the curve of windows.

The portico of the National Gallery.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Ollantaytambo, in the Sacred Valley

Thousands of windows over King’s Road.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Traffic waiting at the foot of the building.

A red timber house on a snowy downtown street.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

A lone tram at the foot of the façade.

A small village on the northern tip of Snæfellsnes.

The white lookout tower of Anping Old Fort.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

The spiralling atrium ceiling of K11 MUSEA.

Banyan roots swallowing the old warehouse at the Anping Tree House.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Fountains in the Place des Nations, Broken Chair beyond.

K11 MUSEA lit up on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront.

The courtyard of the Monster Building, Quarry Bay.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

Victoria Harbour at night, the island’s skyline across the water.

A slit of sky between the walls.

A street running down to the bay, Mount Esja across the water.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

K11 MUSEA in lights on the waterfront.

Windows, air-conditioners and laundry, floor upon floor.

Painted houses on a slope above Faxaflói.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

The curved face of the building from below.

Reykjavík’s coloured roofs from the tower of Hallgrímskirkja.

A white Victorian corner building off Trafalgar Square.

An old corner shophouse hung with red lanterns.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Chungking Mansions, where Chungking Express begins.

Mount Esja across the bay, seen from Hallgrímskirkja.

The London Eye through the plane trees.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

The tall Gothic nave of Saint-Pierre Cathedral.

Snow on the rooftops of the old town.

A flag on a Whitehall façade.

Inside the Anping Tree House, roots over the old walls.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

A pause among Madrid’s art, parks and bookstalls.

The Palais des Nations under a deep blue sky.

Reykjavík to the sea, from the church tower.

Big Ben in the last golden light.

The Tainan Confucius Temple.

The Twin Pagodas rising out of cherry blossom.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

A tiled street sign and the warm pulse of Madrid.

Kengo Kuma’s Grand Morillon catching the last light.

Red, yellow and green roofs under snow.

Victoria Tower above the trees.

Cherry blossom and two lit lanterns on Shizi Street at dusk.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

A summer walk between plane trees and old façades.

Flags outside the UNHCR headquarters.

A storm front over the city’s coloured houses.

Elizabeth Tower against a deepening blue.

A street lamp lit early, the blossom leaning toward it.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

The glass-roofed atrium of the UNHCR, a Nansen Award banner hanging down.

Skólavörðustígur straight down to the harbour.

The Palace of Westminster glowing at sundown.

A tree so full of blossom it hides the pagoda.

Gaudí’s Barcelona, where structure turns into ornament.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

The gilded ceiling of Victoria Hall, waiting for Lang Lang.

Hallgrímskirkja in daylight.

Victoria Tower and the Houses of Parliament at sunset.

A pagoda finial and a curled roof ridge, blossom in between.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

Pintxos-hour light in the old city.

Big Ben and the London Eye framed between two shadows.

Wintersweet in focus, the pagoda melting behind it.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

Flags of the cantons down a narrow old-town street.

The clock face of Big Ben, a contrail behind it.

The pagoda rising over blossom and a curled roof ridge.

A Basque detail from Bilbao’s streets.

The London Eye over the Thames.

Magnolia climbing past the pagoda's red storeys.

A white house trimmed in blue.

Blossom in a dark window frame, the pagoda's tip just visible.

A red house with a steep white roof.

Baker Street station.

Xiyuan Temple's ochre wall and a dragon on the ridge.

Hôtel Les Armures, its flags out for winter.

Blossom spilling out from under the dark eaves.

The final light over Barcelona after a crowded day.

Saint-Pierre Cathedral's columns on a snowy December day.

Pink magnolia lit against the blue hour on Shizi Street.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

Snow on the old town's slate roofs.

A lantern switching on above white magnolia.

A Catalan summer detail between the old city and the sea.

A half-timbered house squeezed into an old-town alley.

Half blossom, half shadow: a wall cuts the picture in two.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

The pagoda's spire above a sea of white blossom and old tiles.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

The Japanese-era houses of the Taipei Literature Base.

White magnolia against a clear sky in the Master of the Nets Garden.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

Taipei 101 in the winter overcast.

The pagoda’s spire beside a trunk heavy with blossom.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Blossom seen from inside, through a dark window frame.

The oak galleries and skylight of Daunt Books.

The pagoda's eaves, close up, wearing spring.

Blossom framing every storey of the pagoda.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Magnolia glowing under a street lamp after dark.

Pastel terraces in Notting Hill.

The pagoda glimpsed through a canopy of blossom.

The pagoda’s eaves through a veil of white blossom.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Two blossoming trees, and the pagoda between them.

Leaves pressed against a tall museum window.

Yipu Garden's pond, white magnolia doubled in still water.

Magnolia buds opening over the garden pond.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Tate Britain carved in stone.

White magnolia against a dark lattice window.

Columns and banner at Tate Britain.

A white gable and new green leaves at Yipu.

The Houses of Parliament from across the Thames.

Late sun on a lattice window.

Big Ben above the river boats.

Magnolia above the curve of a garden roof.

Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster.

Blossom framed by a carved garden window.

A garden seen through an octagonal window.

Cream magnolia petals against a soft blue sky.

Pink magnolia leaning out from behind the eaves.

Dark branches and pink magnolia, drawn like ink.

A magnolia in full bloom above a whitewashed wall.

A flying roof corner and plum blossom at the Master of the Nets Garden.

The spokes of the London Eye against a clear sky.

The London Eye above the plane trees of Jubilee Gardens.

Plum blossom so thick the sky turns pink.

The Palace of Westminster in morning light.

A magnolia in full bloom above a white wall.

Parliament and a barge on the Thames.

CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation under the flags.

Camellias opening one after another in the garden shade.

Big Ben and the river traffic.

Curved gables and a pond holding the evening still.

A Westminster Bridge lamp and Big Ben.

Magnolia leaning over the eaves of the Master of the Nets Garden.

The Gherkin among the towers of the City.

A crown of white magnolia over Yipu's tiled roof.

Old façades on a narrow street, looking up into the blue.

Magnolia and a white gable cutting the blue sky.

Tower Bridge from the river.

Saint-Pierre Cathedral's portico on an autumn morning.

A few buds of wintersweet, almost lost in the blue.

Benches and a golden tree before the cathedral.

A Polaroid of the wall, held up inside the magnolia.

Old-town roofs and towers above the autumn trees.

Late sun on magnolia beside a dark pavilion.

Looking down the spiral staircase at the Courtauld.

The Jet d'Eau seen over the rooftops of the Rues Basses.

Pink magnolia seen through a carved stone window.

An old bell tower rising out of copper leaves.

White magnolia piled up like cloud above the roof.

Under the glass roof of Covent Garden Market.

A spired roof against a clear October sky.

A web of dark branches carrying pink blossom.

A gilded ceiling rising to a glass dome.

Magnolia framed by a dark roof angle, like a window cut in the sky.

Two magnolia trees rising above a long dark wall.

Magnolia, white walls and old tiles in late light.

Looking up through magnolia from beneath the eaves.

Bare vines tracing a weathered garden gable.

Magnolia petals scattered across the blue like stars.

White magnolia over a wall carved with lattice.

A curved gable in warm light, magnolia in silhouette.

A young magnolia reaching up from behind the wall.

Old rooftops below, the Gate of the Orient far on the horizon.

The Suzhou Museum’s white rooflines in late sun, against a deep blue sky.

The Suzhou Museum’s white geometry against a blue sky.

The Suzhou Museum's geometry glowing pink at dusk.

Museum rooflines stacked like a mountain painting.

Red lanterns scattered through the dark like embers.

One big red lantern among many small ones.

The Gate of the Orient across Jinji Lake, after dark.

Years written in tall red banners down a stairway.

Sacsayhuamán above the city.

Terracotta Cusco, rooftop to rooftop.

The old capital under passing cloud.

A lodge in the cloud forest.

Moray’s circles, on film.

Two llamas in a colonial courtyard.

The citadel and its mountain.

Stone and cloud.

A white line at the Suzhou Museum, drawn against the weather.

At the Suzhou Museum, geometry softens into a mountain range.

Suzhou Museum, a memory of old roofs translated into white geometry.

The Gate of the Orient wears Van Gogh’s Starry Night in light, and the lake gives it back as a second sky.