This building in Taborstrasse,  Vienna,  illustrates the forgotten 'principle number one' of the design of classical cities and buildings:  buildings and cities were created in the image of Man. They had eyes, heads, noses, feet, hair, nails, skin, eyelids, mouths, shoulders, lips, arms and legs.
​Accordingly, the education of an architect included drawing the human figure and learning its anatomy. 

 I saw a sign in a street in Vienna that apparently translates as  "this street is art". If so, its message epitomizes what a street can be: a gallery of objects, people, events. 

I took this picture of a now disactivated workshop of picture frames in Jerusalem.
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If every window of the street says a word, the street is a phrase and the city becomes a story told by many actors.

​This building in Buenos Aires exemplifies one of the basic principles of 'classic' architecture: each floor is treated differently so that in each of the seven floors- including the mansard, various stratagems are used in order to avoid repetition on the vertical axis: changing balconies, different balustrades, handrails, cornices, moldings, arches, blinders, geometry, proportions and textures.

The urban tracé of Copacabana, my home neighborhood, squeezed between the sea and the hills. displays a kind of clear thinking we seem to have consigned to oblivion: it is made of roads parallel to the sea and roads perpendicular to the seashore, heading either to the sea or to the hills. 
The result is a full connection to the site. 

Another interesting detail is that the urban plan is pre-modern, but it was filled with mostly modern architecture, an experiment relatively unnoticed.

While modern architecture has its advantages and disadvantages, modern urban design is a perfect disaster.
​Maybe this model could be a way to accommodate the positive side of modern architecture? 
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This old gate in the town of  Taormina, Sicilia, frames a dome at a distance and a mountain on the background.
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​The street experience is thus composed of the near surroundings and the faraway areas as well, all scales coexisting simultaneously.

The gate, the dome and the street facades seem to have been built at different periods,  all layers of time coexisting simultaneously.

Coexistence seems to enhance each of the parts.