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US: Seattle, WA – Inside Seattle Public Library
Even the rides on the escalators inside the Seattle Public Library have artistically beautiful views.
US: Seattle, WA – Window View in Seattle Public Library
Geometrically fun squared looking at the sky from inside the Seattle Public Library.
US: Seattle, WA – Seattle’s Space Needle from the Highway
That first glimpse of the Space Needle is always exciting when you are driving in to Seattle.
US: Seattle, WA – Seattle Cityscape
A slice of the architecture through the decades in Seattle.
Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Two Views of Toronto’s CN Tower
The CN Tower and a reflection of the Tower in an office building nearby, The tower held the record for the world’s tallest free-standing structure for 32 years until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa. It still remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere.
Canada: Toronto, Ontario: Views from the CN Tower Toronto
Until 2009, The CN Tower was the world’s tallest tower but in that year the Canton Tower was built and surpassed it. It’s still in the top 10 free-standing structures in the world, coming in at #9.
Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Telephone in Casa Loma, Toronto
High tech telephones can be found in most of the rooms (even his bathroom) of Sir Henry Pellatt’s castle-like home, Casa Loma – and this was in 1913! 
Italy, Rome: Inside St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest church in the world with the tallest dome in the world. This Renaissance architecture was designed over the centuries by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
On 1 January 1547, Michelangelo, then in his seventies, was Pope Paul III’s 3rd choice to be the superintendent of the building program. So way beyond the Sistine Chapel, he was the principal designer of most of the building as you see it today.
Michelangelo, who did not want this job, wrote “I undertake this only for the love of God and in honour of the Apostle.” In order to take the assignment, he insisted he be given a free hand to achieve his ultimate design by whatever means he saw fit.
The Basilica is supposedly the burial site of Saint Peter, first Bishop of Rome whose tomb is supposedly directly below high altar.
