The Windsor Castle

How is human success evaluated or rather a nation's accomplishment? In my opinion, architectural structures represents success and accomplishment to human civilization. It's something that is made to last and for people to see and marvel at. From caves to houses to castles to palaces to pyramids to bridges to skyscrapers, it all shows accomplishment of human civilization and progress with the creation of elevators, allowing higher structures to be built. We go to school in Manhattan, and we go to school in a beautifully designed architectural structure, the Vertical Campus. Going into the building everyday, I marvel at the structure and the buildings surrounding it. When I look up it gives me a sense of triumph and inspiration like skies the limit. (It might sound cliche, however, its true.) Art is around us and readily available to us, just look up and look at the buildings around in detail to see what I see.

This is why the majority of the Seven Wonders of the world, whether it be the ancient, medieval, or modern ones are made up of achitectural structures, such as The Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the Colloseum in Rome. These are all beautiful structures that many, if not all, marvel at. I pass by one of the most beautiful, tall, and strong structures everyday, the Empire State Building, where you could see on 23rd and Broadway from afar. These are truly magnificent accomplishments.

 I named some of the most renowned structures ever constructed, which I love and glorify due to their detail designs enlarged; however, the most prized structure is simply my home in Staten Island. My home is not as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza, tall as the Empire State Building, wide as the Golden Gate Bridge, or recognized as much as the Colloseum in Rome, but my home represents family and love. I believe that structures are interpreted by people and its meaning differently from person to person. The structures are not truly valued at its cost to construct or the price for each material, so to speak, rather its the feeling conveyed to the individual like a home, in my perspective. the saying a house is not a home applies here.

Below are photos of structures I love and marvel at:

The Birds Nest in Beijing

The Matsumoto Castle

The Neuschwanstein Castle, also popularly known as the Cinderella Castle

The front view of the castle above