Elizabetes iela 10b (Eisenstein Facade), Riga
Two enormous faces stare down the street. Behind them is an ordinary apartment block, and that is the trick.
Two enormous faces stare down the street. Behind them is an ordinary apartment block, and that is the trick.
One man, one short street, a dozen facades. Alberta iela is Eisenstein’s gallery, and No. 13 is among its loudest works.
Round the corner from Alberta iela, Eisenstein went taller and bolder still.
When the merchants of Nancy built their headquarters, they hired the same artists who built the villas.
Everyone photographs the Majolica House next door. Wagner put the angels on this one.
Not a building but a street made vertical. The city turned a slope into a stage.
A church built for the most vulnerable congregation in Vienna. Wagner rounded every corner for them.
An insecticide fortune paid for it. Plečnik repaid the joke with an insect-shaped lamp in the stairwell.