From gilded palace gates and formidable city entrances to pretty portals into sacred places, we take a look at the most ...

Herman Schreven leans back in his chair and swings his gaze outside — past green lawns and through a thicket of tall, swaying trees — toward a set of black iron gates. “I put myself in my customer’s ...

OAKLAND — In Rome, Paris, Florence and other cosmopolitan cities, the clanking of metal sliding doors, like the revving of motorbikes on cobblestones, heralds dawn’s arrival. The metal doors here, ...