mies town

if you have a couple of hours to kill in chicago, i can heartily recommend the architecture boat tour.

how's that for a collage? deco, beaux-arts, modern, international, fascist (well, civic), post-modern, weird 80s futurism, you name it, chicago's got it.

lady liberty

after the game we caught the subway all the way downtown to catch the staten island ferry.

for her.

most of chicago

one of the great things in chicago are the cleaners' windows. always with some kind of neon and a descriptive installation of a suit, or a sewing machine or something.

every time i went past this bookstore it was shut (even when it said it would be open).

"the bean" (is it really called that?) by anish kapoor in millennium park.

i, like every other human with a camera, was hypnotised into taking far too many pictures of it.

pritzker pavilion by the other frank. so delightfully nautical from this angle.

is it wrong that i find the concrete back-ends of his buildings so much more interesting?

crown hall. (more iit stuff on the film that's still in my camera.)

misc edinburgh

mr j.

not sure who belongs to this but the gallery had a very extensive paolozzi collection, so it could be by him.

richard long.

rail bridge over the firth of the forth.

and a small town/hamlet called south queensferry.

some ducks. apparently i can't help myself.

the lake (singular) district

i caught the train up to windermere to meet up with the parents. it's pretty stupid; you just walk around all day going "it's so beautiful! it's so english!", because it is.

the air is so clear and crisp.

and there's a rather large age-gap between the ages of 12 and 65.

i like boats.

and crusty, yet informative, sea captains.

ridiculous.