Urban

Suspended

Suspended

— it once tore through the sky, now it's caught in history

Colour Splash

— in case of emergency, bring out the colour

Double Dutch

— the puddle had a better view of the bike than anyone walking past

Play that f*ckin Music

— the blue one is judging you for not playing more

Pretzels for Sale

— the smell hit first, the camera came second

Sneak Peek

— sixteen different stories, all of them ending with a sugar rush

Still Life

— this Dutch master painted a coke and a bierkaart instead of fruit and flowers

Admiralbrücke

— once a wooden bridge connecting neighbourhoods, now a cast iron connection between party people

Ampelmännchen

the little man says go, and the world follows

Bigger than it Looks

— it looked quite manageable from the ground

Blue and Yellow

— opposing colours forming a united front

Creative on the Inside

— although these repetetive windows don’t seem to be creative, the sign begs to differ

Im Bahnhof

— wir müssen über Hass sprechen but first, find a place to park your bike

Lovely Locks

— hearts locked together forever, but are these promises still being kept?

Mirror City

— one frame, three eras ... the glass reflects on them

Remnants of a Wall

— fallen but still upright (East Side Gallery, Berlin)

Story Tiles

— each one drawing you into its own adventure

U-Bahn

— a yellow bolt cutting through an impossibly blue sky

You’ve got Mail

— Dystopian Music & Art, Many Tentacles, and Lina Smith ... must be fun to be a mailman in Berlin

Aladdin’s Cave

— rubbing a lamp and finding treasures

Bagged

— the oldest handbag in town, and nobody's stealing it

Çemberlitaş

the square of stones was illuminated by a thousand-and-one lights

Duckies

— silently observing every tourist that walks by

Dump

— every toilet has its own story but they all end on this dumping ground

Evening Vibes

— evening fell, the fountains lit up, and nobody wanted to go home

Exstra Gemlik

— forty varieties of olive, each with its own name and opinion

For Sale!

— everything the rainbow cooked up for this market

Fresh Dates

— forty lira for a date … that’s cheaper than dinner and sweeter than most

Have a Seat

— oh, and by the way: colour is mandatory here

Holy Tap

— German engineering meets Ottoman excess meets Islamic ritual... all in one tap

Ray of Sunshine

— in a sea of blue and red, yellow simply refused to blend in

Slippery when Wet

— imagine packing these up in the pouring rain

Spicy

— somewhere between the fish spice and the meatball mix, someone had a score to settle

The Grand Entrance

— opening this door leads to an unknown future

Time for a Tune

— when the clock strikes the leprechauns run upstairs to play us a tingling tune

Tower Bridge

— bridging both water and time

Two of a Kind

— this odd couple has the same job: to shine a light on you

Uninvited

— every color of the rainbow, in a city that banned the parade

What’s the Time?

— this display decided it's time for colour!

Radio Station

— art deco sentinels, guarding signals sent to the other side of the world

007 was here

— licensed to rust, but still looking sharp

Abandoned in White

— yet the light makes it feel alive

Bon Vivant

— he sure knew how to party, if only he could tell us his magnificent stories

Phoning Home

— every cable a conversation, every plug a secret nobody remembers anymore

The Green Protocole

— the kind of clean that doesn't ask questions

Vigilant

— sixty years on standby, and still dressed for the occasion

Neighbours

— fifty years apart, both asking for coins; some things never change

Red, Yellow and Blue

— primary colours, industrial application, accidental Mondrian

Reflection of History

— the longer you look, the more the layers of history unfold

Switches

— NSA, OBC, ALB … somewhere a manual explains this, probably (Bunker bij Het Zendstation)

Teufelsberg

— once spies listened here in silence, now the walls scream colourful edgy opinions

Waiting to be Sent

— all files were ready to go... but 50 years on, are still waiting to be sent

Christmas Leftovers

— shiny balls of hope, hanging like golden memories of better days in this place in between times

From another Era

— it’s shape so alien, you cannot decide whether it’s from the past or the future

Left Behind

— whoever owned these books is gone however their stories remain

World History

— Spanner's Weltgeschichte, volume six ... still open, a history still waiting to be finished

Al Fresco Ruins

— someone framed a ruin with flowers, just to soften the blow

Bloody Tower

— 800+ years old and still the most cheerfully named building on the block

Courtyard of the Favorites

— the favorites left, the gold stayed

Feathered Turban

— rank, faith and a single feather were all that remained

Into the Harem

— a door that opened for a select few, and closed behind them forever

Royal Soak

— the most ornate plumbing in the history of personal hygiene

Weathered

— the sculptor's work was finished in a day, time spent the next few hundred years improving it

Eye to the Sky

— one small window to heaven, surrounded by everything humans could offer in return (Basiliek van de H.H. Agatha en Barbara, Oudenbosch)

Judgement

— it's busy up there (God the Father, Johann Michael Rottmayr, 1714, Karlskirche, Vienna)

Vaulted

— did they capture faith, or did faith imprison you in this cage of stone and light (Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian the Martyr, Warsaw)

I’m still standing 🎶

— sang the facade of the Gedächtniskirche loud and clear

Send me an Angel

— he arrived in gold and although time cracked him, he never left (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Gedächtniskirche, Berlin)

Angel or mala’ikah?

— the name depends on who you ask

Different Worlds

— two worlds, one ceiling, and a crack that tells the whole story

Holy Trinity

— Christianity, quietly holding its ground in a city of minarets

Looking Up

— in the Blue Mosque, even the supporting act steals the show

Mesmerising

— in this sea of candles, every flame remembers a name

Pendentive

— where two arches meet, someone filled the silence with the word of Allah

Reaching for Allah

— as many ways up as there are names for the one at the top

Representation of Heaven

— the architect's answer to the question: what does infinity look like from the inside

Riwaq

— shelter from the rain, the sun, and everything else life throws at you

Serenity

— in a city of minarets, someone built this house of God where the light does all the talking

St. Anthony

— he staged a gothic revival in Istanbul, cause why should he blend in?

Thousand Years of Gold

— has seen everything but still questioning your life choices

Touch of Heaven

— built to reach out to heaven but on this day, heaven came down to meet it

Two Emperors

— instead of three kings, paying their respect in eternity

Waiting for …

— they've been waiting since the Byzantine era and a little longer won't hurt

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