Here is a neat little link for anyone who plans on travelling soon or just wants a closer look at the architectual highlights in your own city.

Basically you get an overview of architectual landmarks sorted by city that come with a bunch of photos and some description. You can most likely find some of this info in any decent travel guide, but this site gives you both recent and historical images and a good amount of historical background info more than would fit in most guides. I find it well composed and researched. For instance, did you know that Angkor Wat in Cambodia was built on a square island? I didn't...

so, if you're planning to travel soon, go ahead and have a browse here...

Only one huge but nevertheless really impressive image of Alexander Preuss' view of future cities.

Very cool!

check it out here...

"The Soviet Roadside Bus-stop:

Departure from the common and boring , Next stop the wild and crazy.

For the most part Soviet architecture and design is remembered for its heavy block buildings and functionally Spartan designs. Its overpowering desire for conformity left little room for individual creative freedom. A notable exceptions to this is in the transportation sector. One can admire this creativity in the Metro stations of cities like Moscow and Tashkent where the coldness and sterility of typical soviet urban architecture is abandoned and costs are not spared as creative freedom is unleashed. While many of us are aware of the elaborate splendor of the Moscow underground, it is easy to overlook the phenomenon of the common roadside bus stop as an example of soviet art and design letting loose and becoming a little weird and crazy."

Christopher Herwig photographed great examples of individual creativity on such a mundane structure.

have a look here...