COPENHAGEN & MALMO

These are photos I took during a trip to Copenhagen in 2018 and during an Interrailing stop in Malmo in 2022. Calatrava's Turning Torso is particularly eye-catching along with Kim Utzon's Maritime University (Bottom Right). I don’t know the designer of the stairs (Top Left), but I thought it was a very elegant design.

I went on a family holiday to New York in 2019. It’s a place I have always been fascinated by. The scale of the buildings is immense. There is an incredible mixture between old and new in New York. Seen here is the Art-Deco Chrysler building, an example of something old-style. F.L. Wright's Guggenheim an example of early modern style and Calatrava's Oculus exemplifies neo modernism and high-tech modern architecture. These three buildings really stuck out to me during the trip.

I have been to London twice. In 2016 and 2021. What struck me about some of London's' architecture was the exceptional facades and exteriors on display. Shown are favourites of mine that I photographed on my trips. The steelwork on the exterior of the Brunel Building and the unique brickwork on the Tate Modern by Herzog & De Meuron really struck me as beautiful. Renzo Piano's shard uses its glazing to imitate a shard of glass penetrating the sky which I think is a wonderful concept.

Dublin is my home, so over the years I have had time to notice what elements of buildings and structure I like or dislike. I have included some of my favourites like Liebskind's Bord Gais Theatre and Calatrava's Samuel Beckett bridge. Shown above is a view of Dublin's Modern Docklands through the hole In the Samuel Beckett bridge. This shows a view of a modern and prosperous Dublin. Bottom left show the old Central Bank which was Dublin's first truly modern building. It was controversial at the time but I think it has aged excellently.