The Anxious Journey vs Door To The River

Giorgio de Chirico's The Anxious Journey at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2023:

Willem de Kooning's Door To The River at Whitney Museum, New York 2023:

De Chirico + Paolini

From the exhibition Invisible Cities: Architecture Of Line currently at Waddington Custot, London ...

Giorgio de Chirico:

Giulio Paolini:

Piazzas of nostalgia and melancholy

Giorgio de Chirico's Piazza d'Italia at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2013:

De Chirico's The Philosopher's Conquest at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013:

Near Hauptbahnhof, Dessau 2012:

Spirals and towers

Man Ray at Museum Ludwig, Köln 2012:

I.M. Pei's 2003 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin:

Giorgio de Chirico at K20, Düsseldorf 2012:

Metaphysical town squares

I'm a big fan of Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical Town Square series of paintings from the 1910s.  Mostly uninhabited architectural spaces with long deep shadows and much emphasized perspectives, they are full of haunting isolation and melancholy.

De Chirico at K20, Düsseldorf 2012:

Glimpses of townscapes that remind me of de Chirico ...

Outside Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin 2012:

Outside Starbucks near Heinrich-Heine-Allee, Düsseldorf 2012:

Outside Kai 10, Düsseldorf 2009: