LaSalle Street, Chicago

Garment District, New York City

Chrysler building in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, facing GM headquarters across the river in Detroit.

FiatChrysler

at Crown-Zellerbach Plaza, 1 Bush Street, San Francisco.

I was waiting in line at customer service at Barneys NYC and I thought this re-usable inter-office envelope was charming if quaint. Was someone sending sales slips in it? Shipping & Receiving records? I like the fact that old work-horses like the Inter-Departmental envelope and its contemporaries never die out completely, even with e-mail and electronic interchange at everyone's fingertips. Sometimes you have to send things physically. [see also "Newspapers"]

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Looking down from the 10th floor of the Delano hotel, South Beach (Much better viewed large)

collecting the mail in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

This is the day before Inauguration Day... plenty of private jets were parked out in the "back 40" of Dulles Airport.

He was playing the third movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata.

Ginza district, Tokyo

Baltimore, Md.

United Airlines terminal

Washington, D.C.

27-floor modernist skyscraper completed in 1964, once called the Alcoa Building. Uses external trusses and X-braces. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill.

best viewed large

aboard a cessna citation excel

next to Union Station

LaSalle Street, Chicago. It appears from the billboard that this building will be converted to a J.W. Marriott hotel.

The Strand book store, street level as viewed from upstairs. (best viewed large)

Peninsula Hotel, Chicago

now Macy's, State Street, Chicago.

View out of the cockpit

San Francisco

Spotted on Lincoln Blvd., West L.A.

This is GM's "new" corporate headquarters sign atop the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. (2011)