Not Exactly About Architecture...

I just woke up, and am still a little groggy this sunday morning. I came in to the office and saw Mari posting and remembered that I took this picture in the City of LA Building Department men's bathroom... relax.

Buildings, buildings, buildings

I realized that the first subject listed about our blog is ARCHITECTURE. Which we haven't written about at all. Or maybe just one entry. So this Flashback Friday is dedicated to architecture. Or how I see it. Which isn't how Rob sees it.


I'm so strong! I can't let the tower fall!
There were so many people trying to take this photo it was hilarious. But how can you go there and not take it??


This is the original Unki (a long story which we'll do a photo essay about someday) at Neuschwanstein. I promise, Rob did not Photoshop that photo! He was really there! We took the photo on this bridge overlooking the castle with hundreds of other people. My favorite quote on the bridge was one woman yelling to her family, "We're on vacation! Now have fun!"


What is this strange house? Why, it's where Elvis and Priscilla had their honeymoon in Palm Springs! We were just driving around and I knew I recognized it. Of course, that leads to the ultimate Elvis destination...


Graceland! Rob and I were driving cross country, moving from LA to DC. We had to stop here. I absolutely loved it.

For Rob, I will include one sort of real architecture photo.

This is the underground garage to the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava. We went there when we were moving back to LA from DC and we were the first ones in the parking lot. We were both impressed with the attention to detail they put in a parking garage!

Well, that's my take on architecture. Maybe Rob will be motivated to post about stuff he likes.

So, you're the architect!

(Rob's favorite movie line relating to architecture - watch the awesome Kirk Douglas/Kim Novak melodrama Strangers When We Meet if interested.)

I thought since we promised architecture among our subjects, this will be my comment on it for now.

We took a quick trip downtown the other day to take care of some work business for Rob. Along the way, we stopped (literally for 5 minutes - no parking!) by the new Caltrans building by Morphosis. It's definitely an interesting addition to downtown. I'll let Rob talk about it in "archispeak" when he feels like it.