The windows are old and lovely, like the rest of the landmark building at West 135th Street and Convent Avenue, a gray edifice with the tower and gargoyles of a Gothic cathedral.
From on-high the city is a swell of organised chaos, the winding River Thames and swathes of railway lines dissecting an otherwise refreshingly green metropolis with a happy jumble of historic landmarks and modern edifices.
And every edifice and geographic landmark in their paths (save for a few sacred sites) is submerged, scorched or altogether shredded.
A group of town houses hidden behind a unified facade of concrete and glass in formerly industrial Dumbo has some calling the edifice a future landmark — and others saying it's reminiscent of a 1970s-era office building.
While classification rules bar Bormann from revealing what the agency did to Bin Attash during his years in its secret prisons, the release of the Senate intelligence committee's landmark report into torture chips away at an edifice of secrecy – an erosion that has major implications for the viability of the government's long-desired prosecution.
Their five-sided, diamond-faceted, nib-shaped edifice with "bubblewrap" windows has become a landmark in Tokyo's Aoyama district, and Hodge includes it with two other starred attractions on a shopping tour of that city: Toyo Ito's Mikimoto Tower and his retail space for Tod's — a lyrical trellis of concrete and glass on Omotesando Avenue that mirrors the Japanese elms on the sidewalk.
Their five-sided, diamond-faceted, nib-shaped edifice with "bubblewrap" windows has become a landmark in Tokyo's Aoyama district, and Hodge includes it with two other starred attractions on a shopping tour of that city: Toyo Ito's Mikimoto Tower and his retail space for Tod's a lyrical trellis of concrete and glass on Omotesando Avenue that mirrors the Japanese elms on the sidewalk.
Marlins Park is built on the site of the Orange Bowl, the green-steel edifice that was one of Rodriguez's favorite landmarks.
Fans, meanwhile, are waiting to see which Tokyo landmark the monster will crush and blast with his radioactive breath: the soaring edifice, Tokyo Skytree, or Tokyo Tower, perhaps.
