From the Earth to Heaven and back.
It’s good to have a day off, and it will be good to have another one tomorrow. Today we hopped a bus and rode over to Vicenza, a city famous its architecture designed by the renaissance maste…
tower
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Architecture
On a toujours tendance à réduire le Portugal à une terre de fortes traditions, coincée entre fado et azulejo. Que nenni ! Le pays sait aussi produire le meilleur de la contemporanéité, à commencer par l’architecture. Et qui posé les fondements de cette modernité ? Tout le monde, ici, s’accorde sur un nom : Fernando Tavora (1923-2005). Mais celui qui, le premier, hissa la renommée de l’architecture portugaise au-delà des frontières lusitaniennes est son « cadet », pour ne pas dire son fils…
Craving Color - Homey Oh My
Color inspiration for Spring and Summer
Marienburg Castle – from birthday present to tourism highlight. | Tourism in Germany – travel, breaks, holidays
When King George V of Hannover gave his Queen a 'castle' as a present in 1857, it was actually just a blank canvas – a hill to the south of Hannover offering panoramic views. In the same year, the royal couple began to build a summer residence, today's Marienburg Castle.
Mondadori Building (1968-1975), Oscar Niemeyer.
MIlan, May 2011. View On White
art deco
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Paris Views: Voyeuristic Portraits of Parisians Captured Through Apartment Windows
Photographer Gail Albert Halaban calls herself a 'friendly window watcher.' In 2009, this manifested itself in the much-lauded photographs of her New York
Gallery of Reconstructed Past / MABIRE REICH Architectes - 11
Image 11 of 27 from gallery of Reconstructed Past / MABIRE REICH Architectes. Photograph by Guillaume Satre
allaboutportugal
travelingcolors: “ Casa da Música, Porto | Portugal (by Natalia Romay) ”
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and United States and attempted to create a new style far from historicism and traditional values. The term Art Nouveau was introduced…
Wall House, Hoornsemeer, Groningen, Netherlands. Architect: John Hejduk.