The Doric Museum: Pediment, Steps, and Central Dome

Architectural photography of an early twentieth-century museum in Taipei, Taiwan, in the manner of Nomura Ichirō. A strictly symmetrical neoclassical building in pale grey stone, fronted by a portico of six massive fluted Doric columns carrying a plain entablature and a triangular pediment, approached by a broad flight of steps. A shallow copper dome on a drum rises behind the pediment at the centre. Plain ashlar walls with tall rectangular windows either side. Set at the head of a formal park with palms and clipped lawns, bright morning sun raking the columns, frontal view on the axis, ultra-realistic, 8k. --ar 16:9 --v 6.0