Buildings, Buildings, Buildings ...

As I may have mentioned before, the architecture and streetscapes here in Budapest are fascinating. I don't know a lot about the styles yet, except that much of it is 'Historicist' architecture meaning that the designs of many bldgs. reflected earlier periods than the time they were created.

These photos are in no particular order, just buildings and images, and contrasts that caught my eye. I'm taken with seeing some ornate building, next to a non-descript one, or a spotless one next to a filthy one, etc. ...

Two very different buildings joined at the hip near Vaci ut ...
Pest's beautiful outdoor shopping area.

I thought this was a residential building at first, but then I realized it was a parking garage.

The old reflected, literally, in the new. This is around the block from our flat.
Lots of new construction going on around us.

I turned a corner and was sort of mesemerized by these incredible buidlings near the Astoria Metro stop that seemed oddly thrown together like someone had randomly thrown the buildings of Pest up in the air and came down in this unlikely combination.

Even some of the McDonalds' here are in classy, historic buildings.