Bus and Cyclist

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Bus and cyclist
Baker Street at Marylebone Road
London, September 2015

Cafe

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Quite simple “Cafe” sign
Piazza Re Enzo
Bologna, June 2015

Newlyweds on Quai Branly

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Newlyweds on quai Branly
Quartier du Gros-Caillou, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2010

Bettino Ricasoli

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Bettino Ricasoli by Augusto Rivalta, 1897
Piazza dell'Indipendenza
Florence, May 2016

Bar Blue

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Bar Blue wine bar, Vinopolis
Bank End, Southwark
London, September 2015

“Bar Blue is a trendy, contemporary, blue wine bar, the first style bar of its kind in the London Bridge area. Tucked neatly into the dramatic archways at Vinopolis, it is the perfect complement to Cantina Vinopolis restaurant.” (View)

Via San Lorenzo

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Wrought iron public light
Via San Lorenzo
Genoa, April 2016

Hinterm Horizont

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Blue Man Group and Hinterm Horizont (Beyond the Horizon)
Advertising on pedicabs
Panoramastraße
Berlin, September 2011

Wooden Crucifix

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15th-century wooden crucifix
High altar, Basilica of San Petronio
Piazza Maggiore
Bologna, June 2015

Young Turenne

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Turenne enfant (Young Turenne) by Benoît Lucien Hercule
(Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne)
Rue de Turenne / rue Debelleyme
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges, 3rd arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

Biosfera

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Biosfera (Biosphere) by Renzo Piano, 2001
Acquario di Genova (Aquarium of Genoa)
Ponte Spinola, Porto Antico
Genoa, April 2016

Stanhope Terrace

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Horse riders
Stanhope Terrace / Sussex Square
London, September 2015

The Italic Venus

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“La Venere italica” (The Italic Venus) by Antonio Canova, 1812
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti
Florence, May 2016

Filming by the Seine

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Shooting a video by the Seine
Port de Suffren
Quarter due Gros-Caillou, 7e arrondissement
Paris, July 2014

Via dei Baullari

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18th Century mosaic of the Madonna
Campo de' Fiori / Via dei Baullari
Rome, April 2013

Monument to the Women of World War II

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Monument to the Women of World War II by by John W. Mills, 2005
Whitehall
London, January 2008

“The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing Street. The sculpture represents the wartime contributions of over seven million women, including 650,000 who joined military services. It is a 6.7-metre (22 ft) tall hollow bronze resembling a coat rack representing Winston Churchill's call ‘Let the Women Come Forward’, the idea being that women left their normal lives to fight for survival in any role necessary. The monument was sculpted by John W. Mills, himself a wartime evacuee when his mother joined the fire service.” (Monument to the Women of World War II, Wikipedia)

Pierluigi Penzo

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Bust of the Venetian aviator Pierluigi Penzo (1896-1928)
Riva dei Partigiani, Castello
Venice, September 2012

Welcome to Camden

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“Welcome to Camden”
Regent's Canal, Camden Lock
London, September 2015

Front Door Handle

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Elaborate front door handle
Via dell'Indipendenza
Bologna, June 2015

Maternity

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“Maternité” (Maternity) by Georges Vacossin, 1931
Rue Lafayette / rue du Château-Landon
Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 10th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

Piazzetta Mauro Rostagno

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Plaque and wall decoration
Piazzetta Mauro Rostagno
“Symbol of the fight against the Mafia”
Genoa, April 2016

The gates

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The gates
Empire Square
Long Lane, Southwark
London, January 2008

“Basically what you get at The Empire Square is a massive series of housing blocks that surround a totally bland and useless ‘public’ square. This square features some of the most dullest and uninviting features yet to be dreamt up by architects and landscape planners. A series of grassy enclosures with some trees straight out of an architects drawing seem to add up to the kind of landscape more akin to a model railway than a dynamic urban place of living. Entrances to the Square are guarded by large and overly ornate artistic metal gates which are closed at night to keep any night people out or to maintain what is described as ‘a secure environment’.” (Empire Square, Southwark Notes)

Wow

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“Wow. The Windmill for energy” by Simone D'Auria
Gallery Hotel Art, Vicolo dell’Oro
Florence, May 2016

“The project is completed, in the Vicolo Dell’Oro square, with two huge pots and sprouting windmills, as well as a three dimensional WOW in red stimulating the exclamation of happiness and wonder that seizes the spectator in front of the artwork, at the same time, strengthening the awareness toward a theme so important and decisive for the future of the planet.” (Wow. The Windmill for energy, Gallery Hotel Art)

See also: Spoon, I Eat Earth - Personal/Unpersonal - Mirror - Cycling Up

Queen's Guard

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Sentry of The Grenadier Guards
Buckingham Palace
London, September 2015

“The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to The Life Guards. Although The Coldstream Guards were formed before The Grenadier Guards, the regiment is ranked after the Grenadiers in seniority as, having been a regiment of the New Model Army, the Coldstream served the Crown for four fewer years than the Grenadiers (the Grenadiers having formed as a Royalist regiment in exile in 1656 and the Coldstream having sworn allegiance to the Crown upon the Restoration in 1660).” (Grenadier Guards, Wikipedia)

Mural on a Shutter

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Rolling shutter painted with a mural
Porticoes of Via Galliera
Bologna, June 2015

Tourists and Police

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Tourists and police officers
Place Vendôme
Quartier de la Place-Vendôme, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2009

Umberto I

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Monumento to Umberto I of Italy by Davide Calandra and Edoardo Rubino, 1926
Viale della Pineta, Villa Borghese gardens
Rome, April 2013

Empire Square

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The Pavillion
Empire Square
Long Lane, Southwark
London, January 2008

“Prominent in the Square is a large supposedly funky building called The Pavillion that has failed to find any use as either offices, a restaurant or as a business rental. It was designed to provide a restaurant but clients looking to rent it found it entirely unsuitable. Described thus ‘dramatically sculptural, free standing building located off centre, whose curved rendered block walls, sweeping roof and low corner tower are reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel, will accommodate a bar and restaurant‘ – CABE, ‘Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment’, Case Study of Empire Sq.” (Empire Square, Southwark Notes)

Casa Mazzini

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The birth house of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
Palazzo Adorno
Via Lomellini
Genoa, April 2016

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

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Court 1 in the Supreme Court building
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Middlesex Guildhall
Parliament Square
London, September 2015

“The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English and Welsh law, Northern Ireland law and Scottish civil law. It is the court of last resort and the highest appellate court in the United Kingdom, although the High Court of Justiciary remains the court of last resort for criminal law in Scotland. The Supreme Court also has jurisdiction to resolve disputes relating to devolution in the United Kingdom and concerning the legal powers of the three devolved governments (in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) or laws made by the devolved legislatures.” (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Wikipedia)

Putto with Dolphin

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Copy of “Putto con delfino” (Putto with Dolphin) by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1479
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
Florence, May 2016

“The ‘Putto with Dolphin’ (c. 1479; formerly in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, but now replaced by a copy) is at once an exquisite fountain decoration, an antique motif restated in Renaissance terms, and the clearest statement of Verrocchio’s interest in suggested movement. The child in the piece is turning; the movement is reinforced by the fish, and the suggestion of motion culminates in the actual movement of the water spouting from the dolphin’s mouth. Verrocchio also reveals his indebtedness to Desiderio in his refined treatment of the surfaces.” (The Renaissance, Encyclopædia Britannica)

Mythical Poem

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“Poeme mythique” (Mythical Poem) by Jorge Jiménez Deredia, 1992
Square de l'Amérique-Latine
Place de la Porte-de-Champerret
Quartier des Ternes, 17th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012