Entrance to the Union Stock Yards, Chicago
The vestigial entrance to what was once the smelly, squealing, frenetic square mile that ushered in modern mechanized mass production.
Absalons Statue, Copenhagen
Commemorating the septicentennial of the death of the man who, it turns out, did not found Copenhagen.
A Wabash Avenue Mid-Winter Fire, Chicago
A fire, a century, a facadectomy.
Fountain of Time, Chicago
A stretch calling this a fountain, but it's still an extraordinary piece of public sculpture and a testament to thwarted ambition and groundbreaking decay.
St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
Ecclesiastical modernism, structural expressionism, urban renewal, Vatican II, plagiarism and...parking minimums?!