To our left, three softly curving peaks disappeared behind the clouds and then reappeared gradually.
It showed a buyer flying into London on a private jet, driving to the skyscraper in a Bentley and buying an apartment as a surprise gift for his girlfriend as if it was a piece of "curving glass sculpture".
Running along the curving promenade with the shimmering expanse of the Arabian Sea on one side and the red sun rising above the waking city on the other was simply spectacular.
The coastline around Cape Town is heaving with excellent (and affordable) restaurants, most with great views - mountains behind, bays curving around you, long beaches and wildlife seemingly unbothered by your presence.
Who else would make a 160km return trip just to see a university canteen?In Karlsruhe, the recently completed dining hall (pictured), designed by Jürgen Mayer H., is a low-lying cube with a slanting, curving, elastic yellow exterior made of a curious laminated wood.
In November 2014, officials working on a federally-funded study investigating replacement options for the B&P narrowed their potential choices to four: rehabilitate the existing tunnel, build a deeper one curving underneath a different part of the city, build a new tunnel along a straighter route that would cut through part of a dilapidated neighbourhood, or do nothing.
The Kramlichs' entrance is through a garage the size of an arthouse cinema, designed to screen Gary Hill's "Viewer" on the far wall and to lead, by way of a glass staircase, to the glass living space above.In the design, there are no corridors as such, and no separate service spaces: nothing in other words to harden an organic whole and break up its curving films of glass.
The setting for the union rally was magnificent, an amphitheatre designed by Frank Gehry, with licks of steel curving from the stage.
The pure white of the curving porcelain represented the concept of space; on to this surface these geometric motifs, in blocks of bright colour, were carefully hand-painted.Before long, new shapes were introduced into the former imperial repertoire.
In murky conditions, the building's structure of angled white planes glows from within, offering glimpses through huge windows of an "imagined landscape" inside.The museum, newly built at a cost of €15m ($21m), runs around a central atrium formed of curving walls in bold colours, pierced by high metal walkways.
