Architecture Archives - Page 9 of 10 - BFH Studios

. . . as ideal as the restaurant at Hotel El Meson is, this afternoon's attendance would be cut slightly short for I had an eagerly anticipated afternoon date with Valladolid. However, there would be no walking, no touring, no history lessons and no cultural or culinary exploration aside from…

Boston is a odd place for adding new appreciation to one of my already favorite buildings in Ohio. I had learned of the high esteem of which Trinity Church had been praised and was desperate to see it. As I studied the architecture, I discovered that among many civic and…

For thirty years the world had no idea that hidden under The Greenbrier resort in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia was a bunker that would to be the seat of government for the United States Congress in the case of a crisis, specifically nuclear war. However, just as interesting, for…

Climbing the first staircase of the absurdly named Codz Poop, "Palace of the Masks," we were presented with a second consecutive and even intensified jaw-dropping sight. Before us stood a twenty-foot tall, 150 foot wide building covered with 250 large stone masks of the frankly terrifying lord Chaak. Now Chaak…

After about two and a half hours in mid-evening, not a soul crossed my path and the silence was only broken by the faint hum of a distant car and the occasional moaning meow of the mansion's only other residents. The well-worn woods, plush upholstery with its sagging springs, the fading…

Some of the most intriguing and inspiring locations in all of the Mayan empire are those that haven't yet been discovered. This arched passage is in Uxmal (oosh-mall), smack-dab in the middle of the jungles of the Yucatan. The structure is referred to as the Dovecote and from the other…

This photo is a kind of adjunct to the previous post Bridge to a Room. This is a morning view of a sitting room in the Casa Mexilio hotel in Merida, Mexico. It really isn't as grimy as it looks in this photo. It's actually quite splendid. But after I applied a light…

The entrance to the world's second largest atrium (the first is at the Vatican) is off the main square in a remote Yucatan colonial town called Izamal. The atrium belongs to the less exceptional Convento de San Antonio de Padua. The angle of the photo is a little deceiving as we were climbing…

Finally, I'm getting around to posting about our spectacular and thorough tour of the Yucatan. Ten days, a no-name Chevy and no roads left unexplored! This photo is of El Mirador at the ancient Maya city of Labná. Labná is one of the Puuc cities and is really pretty remote…