Orlando is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. As such, it is home to some of the newest buildings, and thus some of the the newest ideas and designs in architecture.

These are images of some of the the buildings and cityscapes of downtown Orlando. Orlando is a sprawling city, and there are many other centers of growth and building; but downtown remains a showcase, marked by efforts by architects and city to achieve harmony in design among both old and new. The styles of the buildings vary from the first images, of homes and buildings dating from the 1920s and 1930s, to glass slabs built in the 1970s and 1980s, to new postmodern architecture, which combines the glass slab with neoclassical elements.

Notes on the images:

-- In many images, I corrected for vertical perspective, using Photoshop transformations. In doing so, I have tried to remain faithful to the actual proportions of the buildings.
--Several of the wide-angle images, both vertically and horizontally, are assemblages of several images.

This is a preliminary essay. I will soon include narrative details on each of the structures and cityscapes shown here.

Antemodern 2 Antemodern 3 Antemodern 4 Antemodern 5 Antemodern 5a Antemodern 6 Bank - AmSouth Building
Building in Building 2 Chamber of Commerce Chamber of Commerce 2 Construction Deconstructed Corner of Orange and South Corner of South and Orange Diptych
Glass Slab Grand Bohemian Hotel Grid Keyboard Lake View 1 Lake View 2 Long Kick
Looking Up Monolith Monolith 2 Orange County Courthouse 1 Orange County Courthouse 2 Orange County Courthouse Complex Parking Garage, with Bouganvillia
Regions Bank Building Supercondo TCB Statuary - Four Views TCB Statuary 2 Tower of Glass Two Cylinder Building Two Cylinder Building 2

Copyright (C) 2007 by Ken Ailsworth.