Black and white photo of the façade of a three story structure. The façade - constructed in the Baroque style - is composed of finely dressed stone with stucco infill. At its base, it features a trio of arched entryways, each enclosing a pair of doors topped by an elaborate transom. Above the central entryway is a balustraded balcony and, directly above that, there is a large escutcheon flanked by supporting figures and surmounted by a crown. Multi-paned windows are set into the second and third stories to either side of the balcony.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

The entrance to the Mittelbau as viewed from the expansive Ehrenhof at the Barockschloss Mannheim (Mannheim Baroque Palace, 1720-60), Mannheim, Germany.

#Mannheim #Germany #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Color photo looking up at the fractured image of a skyscraper as reflected in the mirrored glass windows of a nearby office building

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Willis Tower (originally Sears Tower by SOM, 1974) reflected in the glassy façade of 300 South Riverside Plaza (originally Gateway Center IV by SOM, 1983), Chicago, IL.

#Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Black and white photo of the exterior of a glass and metal clad building. The building is composed of a set of stacked rectangular volumes topped by a single cylinder. Each of the rectangular volumes is enclosed in a screen made up of interlocking light and dark metal circles.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

The stacked screens of the Library of Birmingham (Mecanoo, 2013), Birmingham, England.

#Birmingham #England #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Color photo looking up at an ornate ceiling which features a polychromatic design - composed of geometric shapes and abstract plant forms - executed in cast plaster. A three-tiered chandelier hangs from a large roundel at the center of the design.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

Looking up at the resplendent ceiling of the Grand Hall at Union Station (Jarvis Hunt, 1914), Kansas City, MO.

#KansasCity #Missouri #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Black and white photo of a museum interior which features a canted glass wall which extends up from a wooden floor to a curved roof that is composed of alternating laminated wood beams and strips of glass. An abstract sculpture can been seen sitting on a pedestal in the foreground to the left.

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An interior view of the Modern Art Gallery at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Safdie Architects, 2011), Bentonville, AR.

#Bentonville #Arkansas #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Color photo of a cast iron manhole cover which features a detailed city map encircled by descriptive text

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

A "destination marker" outside the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, one of the 23 site-specific manhole covers located in downtown Oklahoma City, OK.

#OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Black and white photo looking up at limestone buttress which supports a tall, cylindrical tower, also composed of limestone. Paired arched windows - situated under a shallow gable - can be seen to either side of the buttress.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

A corner buttress at the North Point Water Tower (Charles A. Gombert, 1874), Milwaukee, WI.

#Milwaukee #Wisconsin #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Color photo of a collection of dusty wooden chairs - stacked in a rather disorderly fashion - in front of a light green, clapboard sided building. Immediately behind the chairs, a stack of bankers boxes can be seen through a dirty, double hung window.

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Spring cleaning in Fredericksburg, TX.

#Fredericksburg #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Black and white close-up of the surface of a large metal door. The door is painted black and features a design which includes a fine leaf pattern, diagonal straps, and regularly spaced studs.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

A close-up of the highly textured surface of a courtyard door at Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (Wawel Royal Castle), Kraków, Poland.

#Kraków #Poland #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Color photo looking up at the interior of a large dome. The surface of the dome has been painted a vivid blue and features an elaborately decorated circular vent - from which gilded rays emanate - at its center. A pair of gilded structural elements curve up - one on each side - to meet the vent.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

An interior detail of the dome at the Basilica of Saint Mary (originally the Church of the Immaculate Conception by Emmanuel Masqueray, 1915), Minneapolis, MN.

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Black and white photo of a section of the façade of a single story, brick masonry commercial building. Just to the right of a plain metal door is a large metal framed window. The window has been fitted with 14 panes of glass, as well as a rectangular metal panel. The surrounding wall - which is stepped along its top edge - has been completely painted white.

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A vacant storefront soaks up the August light in the Near Southside neighborhood of Fort Worth, TX.

#FortWorth #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Color close-up of a portion of an exterior wall composed of dark blue manganese ironspot bricks. Regularly spaced header bricks protrude from the wall plane, giving the surface added texture.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

A close-up of the brick façade of Paul and Linda DeBruce Hall (Hufft, 2020) at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.

#KansasCity #Missouri #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Black and white photo looking up at the curving façade of a Beaux-Arts style office tower. A tall, arched entranceway - featuring a wide, bronze relief plaque set above a large, metal framed window - is flanked by pair of engaged columns which support a cornice. Above this, windows - separated by piers - continue all the way up to the roofline.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

Looking skyward from the entrance to the LondonHouse Chicago hotel (originally the London Guarantee & Accident Building by Alfred S. Alschuler, 1923), Chicago, IL.

#Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Color close-up of a section of a large, sloping window consisting of a metal latticework fitted with diamond-shaped panes of glass

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An interior detail of the canted curtain walls of the Seattle Central Library (OMA/LMN, 2004), Seattle, WA.

#Seattle #Washington #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Black and white photo looking up at the façade of a tall office building, the exterior of which is composed of hundreds of identical, darkly tinted windows set into precast concrete frames

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

The sheer face of 230 Peachtree (originally the Peachtree Center Tower by John Portman & Associates,1965), Atlanta, GA.

#Atlanta #Georgia #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Color photo looking up at a coffered ceiling which features a polychromatic design - executed in cast plaster - of alternating octagons and squares. Each of these elements is further embellished with a combination of geometric and abstract plant forms.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

The coffered ceiling of the Great Hall at the Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau (Pierre & Wright, 1934), Indianapolis, IN.

#Indianapolis #Indiana #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Black and white photo of the glass exterior of an office building.in which the reflections of a diagonal, ribbed roof structure and the faceted façade of a skyscraper can be seen

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Broken reflections of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Santiago Calatrava, 2016) and One World Trade Center (David Childs of SOM, 2014), New York City, NY.

#NewYorkCity #NewYork #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Color photo of a section of ornamental quoining - executed in orange and blue terra cotta - set into a pink stucco wall. The left edge of the quoining features a raised spiral design which is illuminated by bright sunlight coming from the right.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

Sunlit terra cotta on the gatehouse of the Ca' d’Zan (Dwight James Baum, 1926) at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.

#Sarasota #Florida #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Black and white close-up of the edge of an aluminum canopy. The cast design - regularly divided by vertical elements - features a zigzag surrounded by abstract plant forms.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

A close-up of an entrance canopy at the T&P Station (originally the Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal by Wyatt C. Hedrick, 1931), Fort Worth, TX.

#FortWorth #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Color photo looking up at the corner of an office building, which is entirely clad in finely sculpted, yellow-orange architectural terra cotta. The bottom edge of a tall bay window can be seen to the right. In the background, to the left, is another office building, clad in dark brick and terra cotta.

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A brightly illuminated corner of the Fisher Building (Charles B. Atwood of D.H. Burnham and Company, 1896), Chicago, IL.

#Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

On the left, gold text on a black background reads "May the coming year bring to you a renewed sense of the possible, as well as the fortitude to pursue it!" To the right of this is a color close-up of an elaborately decorated interior arch.

May the coming year bring to you a renewed sense of the possible, as well as the fortitude to pursue it!

#NewYear #NewYear2026 #NewYearWishes #FORAPhotography

Black and white photo looking up at the curved underside of a large vaulted structure. The structure is composed of tubular steel elements - all painted white - which have been joined together to form a diagonal grid. Part of a semicircular glass skylight can be seen on the left, just above and in front of a traditional brick masonry façade.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

Gazing up at the diagrid roof structure of the Western Concourse (John McAslan + Partners, 2012) at King’s Cross Station, London, England.

#London #England #Architecture #Engineering #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Color photo looking up at a bronze latticework canopy that is framed by a cornice which, in turn, rests upon black marble columns. A pair of bronze angels flank the canopy. Above the structure can be seen the ornate interior of a large dome ringed with arched windows.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

A view of the bronze latticework canopy atop the baldachin (Whitney Warren) at the Cathedral of Saint Paul (Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, 1915), St. Paul, MN.

#SaintPaul #Minnesota #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Black and white photo of the glass curtain wall of a Modernist skyscraper in which the towers of a large, granite church - executed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style - are reflected

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Trinity Church (H.H. Richardson, 1877) reflected in the exterior of 200 Clarendon Street (originally the John Hancock Tower by Henry N. Cobb, 1976), Boston, MA.

#Boston #Massachusetts #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Color photo of the point at which five painted steel tri-chord trusses meet to form the superstructure of a pedestrian bridge. Each of the trusses tapers to a point and all five have at least one face covered with a series of rectangular stainless steel plates. The sky beyond the structure is a deep blue, streaked by just a few wispy white clouds.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

Looking up at the Skydance Bridge (Butzer Design Partnership, 2012) over I-40 in Oklahoma City, OK.

#OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Engineering #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Black and white close-up of a vertical band of light colored architectural terra cotta which feature a strapwork and button design

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

A detail of the terra cotta ornamentation on the Marott's Shoes Building (1900), Indianapolis, IN.

#Indianapolis #Indiana #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Color photo of a window which extends out at an angle from the wall plane. To enhance privacy, the single square pane of glass has been etched with a series of wide, horizontal stripes. The masonry wall in which the window is set is composed of blocks of pink stone (lower section) and orange bricks (upper section). There is shrubbery beneath the window.

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An office window at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (Legorreta + Legorreta, 2009), Fort Worth, TX.

#FortWorth #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Black and white photo looking up at the surface of a large cast bronze door which features a series of tableaux - each sculpted in deep relief - depicting episodes in the life of the Virgin Mary

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷

A detail of the massive bronze Porta Centrale (Lodovico Pogliaghi, 1906) at the Duomo di Milano, Milan, Italy.

#Milan #Italy #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Color photo of a pair of square columns which share a single capital. The columns are composed of a light colored stone which has veins of brown and dark red running through it. The stylized capital is made of black stone. All of the surfaces are polished.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

Paired columns in the Billing-Bau (Hermann Billing, 1907) at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

#Mannheim #Germany #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Black and white photo looking up at a corner of a flat roofed greenhouse which features walls - arranged in a series of setbacks - made up of copper framed glass panes

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A stepped corner on the “Jewel Box” greenhouse (William C.E. Becker, 1936) in Forest Park, St. Louis, MO.

#StLouis #Missouri #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday