Brooklyn Bridge, with solid, cathedral towers & webs of steel rope : the world's best bridge
Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao - an impossible building and a work of incomparable genius
Ryouanji 竜安寺 (Kyoto) Zen Garden textures : line and surface
Gaudi's Casa Batlo - the most obsessively detailed, most beautiful interiors ever built
not an inspiration, but the most deeply moving monument anywhere - ground zero Hiroshima
colour, shape, texture : all the raw design elements (+ great scent) Dubai spice souks