Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

We have to begin this week's Shelterporn with a disclaimer: Manhattan, Randall Davis' odd residential concoction across the street from the Water Wall, doesn't really suit our taste. But we'll freely admit that, if someone came to us and offered the keys to this penthouse in the building, we'd find it hard to turn down. Just saying. Access to the eighth-floor unit is through a 38-foot gallery that's perfect for hanging your art collection......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor The Bald Heretic. We've all seen the Williams Tower in our glorious Uptown area but we just love the lighting and magnificent-ness that is this building in this photo. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 315 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The......

Good morning, Houston. We're happy to report that we've found out the AIA and Google have combined two of our favorite things: architecture and Google Earth. Now there's a Google Earth layer featuring 3-D models of some of the structures on the AIA's list of America's favorite architecture, which brings desktop tourism to a whole new level. Among the buildings on the AIA layer: Pennzoil Place, the Astrodome and the Williams Tower, the three......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Highway6 who used multiple imaging techniques to create a stunning image of The Waterwall and Williams Tower located uptown near the Galleria. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 250 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more great......

Via Austinist, the American Institute of Architects celebrated its 150th birthday last month by surveying 1,800 randomly chosen Americans on what their favorite U.S. works of architecture were. An AIA panel then narrowed those choices down to come up with America's Favorite Architecture, a list of the 150 most popular structures in the country. As you'd expect, at the top of the list are a bunch of national icons: the Empire State Building, the......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor andiesmith who caught the sharp angles and lovely blues of The Williams Tower as it appears through the fog. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 200 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here.......

No matter what image problems Houston suffers, its architecture, caught in the right light, can be beautiful. Today Brazos Bookstore is hosting a book signing by world-renowned photographer Dr. Valentin Gertsman of his new book, Philip Johnson in Houston: Image and Imagination: To call Dr. Valentin Gertsman remarkable would be an understatement. Born in Moscow in 1925, Gertsman endured the repression of Communism, the brutality of war and the estrangement of his family. In 1974,......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor aggiechristine. Houstonist loves this image of an astonished man finding the man-made waterfall at Williams Tower fascinating. Maybe he's fascinated at the fact that it's 64 feet tall and 11,000 gallons of water flow down the wall every minute. Maybe he's fascinated because The Water Wall and Tower were both designed by famed architect Philip Johnson. If you'd liked to be......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor inkoluv. Trying to give everyone a break from the Anna Nicole/Crazy Astronaut news, here's a lucky (and skillful) shot taken at the Williams Tower. Besides the nice contrast of blue sky and green of the folliage, there's something lurking in the background. Can anyone guess what it is? If you've got a camera, and you love Houston, consider joining Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist......

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor groovehouse. This was too cool not to include, even if we're a day late: On January 25th, 2005 famed architect Philip Johnson passed away, he was 98 years old. Houston is fortunate to be graced with several wonderful buildings designed by Philip Johnson. Two of these are picture above, The University of St. Thomas and The Chapel of St. Thomas. He also designed two amazing......

The shot from flickr user and houstonist photo contributor rfinn. The coloration on this shot, or the "nebula" as the photographer calls it, is fantastic. The story that goes along with it is also great: "This is The Waterwall in Houston adn the spot where I proposed to my wife. The Waterwall sits at the end of a small park that is really the backyard for the Tower-Formerly-Known-As-Transco (now Williams Tower). It's a well......