Mosaics on Highland View in Virginia Highlands

A few blocks from the Barnette Street Mosaic is this wonderful house. New mosaics pop up from time to time. They start at the street and continue to the roof. There are more that I can show in these pictures.

Red Adorondak chairs in Sherwood Forrest.

I love corner houses. They have 2 sides to present to the street. This one is a charmer. It has loads of details but doesn't shout. The red chairs - orangy red I guess - give a nice pop to the white on white.

Tudor high style in a small house

In Druid Hills, not on the way anywhere, it's a neck-snappin good.

Zen View - Atlantic Center from Peachtree and Ellis Streets

Atlantic Center is what we used to call the IBM building at 14th and West Peachtree. It's beautiful but the key point for Architecture Tourists is viewing while driving north on West Peachtree Street. I think the sighted the building for that view even at the price of height. The lot is at lower evelvation that one on Peachtree Street.

But that's not what this post is about. You are driving north on Peachtree from Little Five Points. You pass the Georgia Pacific Building on your right, finnally cresting the highest point in downtown Atlanta: Peachtree at Ellis Street at the old Davison's department store. Dead ahead is your Zen view of Atlantic Center. The view only lasts a few blocks.


Did you know that Atlantic Center is on the site of the first Mellow Mushroom Pizza joint?

Greek revival: an Emory Theater and a Brookhaven dry cleaner.

The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University is a showpiece at the corner of North Decatur and Clifton Roads. It has a lot to live up to. Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church anchors the west street front of Emory. The Schwartz center anchors the east end. It's a very high style block where Emory shows it best. If you can find a parking place, tour the center on foot. It's special.


But why shouldn't a dry cleaner on Dresden share the classic glory?

The university gothic baseball statdium at Oglethorpe

It's right on Peachtree Road. You can't tell it's a baseball field from the road.

Curvy, red-roofed beauty in Morninside

You'll have to find it yourself. The roof imitates medieval thatched roofs. Tall windows, hips, gables, dormers, and copula / finial make me stop every time I pass. It's unique in the neighborhood. High style design in a modest package.

Pershing Point Park as a park and destination?

The trash cans were full but I've never seen any people there. I felt like a pioneer. My friend Jerry Phillips (R.I.P) used the live in some apartments there. Not in the Pershing Point apartments but just south of them in the same block. I'd love to find a picture.

It's a park


with free parking.


Quite well landscaped and cozy.




The leaning tree is charming.


Folks don't think much about WW1 these days.




The benches list the battlefields.




The Pershing Point Apartments were once here.


Looking north to the curvy Ivesco Building. Buck Crook's Rhodes Center is the modest white building on the left. Rhodes Hall is just behind.


The silhouette has a silhouette.


I guess he's looking at the Mastermind thinker dude.


The Winnwood Apartments is a reminder of the classic days of Pershing Point architecture.


South on Peachtree towards Colony Square and the Reid House.


South on West Peachtree towards Atlantic Center.

Zen Views - Colony Square from the inside out.

Colony Square has a sky lit courtyard, without the yard of course. It has great views bot do with your sandwhich. Ride the escalator to the 2nd floor and go out on the roof and balcony to extend yor views.


One Atlantic Center peeks though


The Campanile


This side of the W Hotel never gets any sun.


1180 Peachtree peeks through from between 100 and 400 Colony Square.


The Proscenium never looked better than from inside Colony Square.


Promenade II roofline is a modern gothic cathedral.

Bill Harrison homes in the neighborhood

Harrison Design Associates don't just do Buckhead mansions. There are quite a few custom and spec homes in northeast Atlanta.

This beauty in Virginia Highlands has pent roofs. It's like her gorgious petticoats are just showing.




This is a spec house in Lenox Park has 2 great chimneys.


It has 2 great chimneys



Another Lenox Park spec house is modest but elegant. It features a Harrison trademark, through the eve dormers.


The spec house next door is a bit more in your face.


Ths Lenox Park estate house has limestone surrounds. It's a custom design from the early 90's. In a neighborhood with homes by Philip Trammell Shutze, Neel Reid, and Buck Crook, it's worthy. Impressive and elegant, it doesn't shout.




This is another custom home in Lenox Park




Can you spot the teardown, or rather, the house that replaced the teardown?


Here is its. I was fortunate to visit an open house here. It's amazing inside.

The Buckhead skyline from Lenox Square

I think the purpose of the Buckhead skyline is to further improve the view from the parking lot Atlanta's Lenox Square. Lenox is a people's palace. I'm not crazy about all the buildings but they are impressive. Enjoy the view next time you are at the mall.

Robert A. M. Stern's "The Mansion" is the belle of the ball. I can't tell which side is the front.


The Sovereign is the tallest in Buckhead and the strangest.


Terminus anchors the west.




The view from the Pink Pig is dramatic.