Inside the 1000-year-old Roman Catholic Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral (German: Mainzer Dom, Martinsdom or, officially, Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz) is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany.

Awards Received/Special Recognition:

May 2022-Northern Virginia Photographic Society, Honorable Mention, Digital Color, Intermediate Class

May 2022 Photo Contest in Flickr Group: Flickrology: First Place

Nov 2022-Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (MAPV), Juried entrant into Photo Art Category - Architecture

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Could not resist to all the burst of colors at first. But after refexion I prefer The B&W version .

And You ?

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The adjacent Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is reflected in polished discs on the façade of Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Casino & Hotel.

Dallas’ Bank of America Plaza stretches into the North Texas sky.

Ghosts of Amsterdam just before the black fog arrived . Same test holding Lens close in steps with the black paper , unstable table , and ashtray to direct lens .

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The reproduction of St. Mark's Campanile reaches into the Nevada sky at The Venetian, Las Vegas.

Clouds reflect in the mirrored glass façade of the Hyatt Regency Dallas.

La Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine.

Architectes: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group + FREAKS freearchitects

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Quickly after its installation (2006) in Millenium Park the "Cloud Gate" sculpture by Sir Anish Kapoor became a Chicago icon. Due to it shape it was soon nicknamed "The Bean".

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An abstract view of the arch and cables of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas.

Abstract architectural detail of the Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Arts District.

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National Gallery - Color House - Amersfoort

A colored crystal house! It exists and it is a real house in Amersfoort on the Heiligenbergerweg. A modern four-story building with a house, a studio and exhibition space. It is a new artwork by the Chinese-Dutch painter Juane Xue, which she has created for art, for the Amersfoort and Dutch public and for herself.

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Closer look of the West Side Pyramid building.

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The visitors’ center at Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska, resembles a UFO that has landed atop a rocky outcropping.

The many corners of Rudder Tower on the campus of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

An abstraction of the aluminum facade of the 1954 Republic Center in Downtown Dallas.

Architectural detail of the exterior of San Francisco’s TransAmerica Pyramid as it rises into the overcast sky.

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Sleepy Port Clyde, Maine will soon awaken to an overcast day. Even the fishermen are slow to join the pre-dawn morning.

Hess Tower rises into the clear sky over Downtown Houston.

Art Nouveau Architecture in A Coruña.

Labaca Schools 3.

- VERJA DE HIERRO DE ORNAMENTACIÓN GEOMÉTRICA.

- IRON FENCE WITH GEOMETRIC ORNAMENTATION.

- La presencia de abundantes motivos ornamentales de hierro, en el Modernísmo Coruñes, tiene mucho que ver con la localización, en la ciudad, de la importante Fundación Wonemburger, de origen belga.

En ella se supo plasmar en hierro una gran cantidad de diseños Centro Europeos de este estilo arquitectónico.

- The presence of iron ornaments is very frequent in the Art Nouveau of A Coruña. One of the reason was the location, in the city, of important Wonemburger Foundation of Belgian origin.

In it, numerous Central European designs of this architectural style, werw transferred to iron.

- Más información en comentario 1.

- Further information in comment 1.

En / In:

Galiza. Galicia. España. Spain.

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Olympiades Paris XIII Rue Tolbiac +

The unique architecture of Fort Worth, Texas' West 7th Street Bridge.

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The arch of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge swoops through the sky over Dallas, Texas.

NH Hotel Bolanden, Filderstadt, Germany

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Holländischer Brook Fleet

Uptown Dallas’ 2000 McKinney Avenue rises into the North Texas sky.