Fluvi’s Zaragoza
It is already late in the afternoon, you are on vacations, but, of course, on a run. “What a beautiful place. No problem, I’ll come here again before I leave and take a better look at it”, you think. Well… That is a lie. Something that I learned but that I couldn’t really master the technique yet is to take “all the look” I want right here, right now. The following photographs are all I could capture from... Read More
Here that there once was
Yesterday we spent 1 day at Logroño – Spain, a city that is in the itinerary of one of the routes of the Camino de Santiago. I will soon post more information and some other pictures from there, but what really caught my attention was the enormous amount of houses ripped out of buildings due, I guess, to the Spanish Real Estate Boom. When I see those blueprint-like scars I can’t avoid trying to Identify the different rooms, environments,... Read More
Spittelauer Lände 10
The 2004′s Pritzker Architecture Prize award winner Zaha Hadid and her team are responsible for this sharp edged structure that interacts with Otto Wagner‘s protected arched viaduct. Mainly, the buildings were projected to host social housing, though studios and offices are mixed in. It took around 11 years for the whole thing to be accomplished (from 1994 to 2005). You can see some project’s details here. Zaha was born in Baghdad... Read More
three shots from the Danube tower
The Domenig Haus
We were shopping at Favoritenstrasse when this unusual construction hit me in the face, at number 118. “It is a bit scary”, Martina said to me, as if she was avoiding to look too much. I agree. “And do you like it?”, she asks me. Well… I don’t know, but it is for sure something extraordinary! The building known today as Domenig-Haus, hosted in the past a branch of the Zentralsparkasse Bank and was built between... Read More
Safe European Home
Roma, Romani, Gypsies. 10 to 12 million living in Europe, but still, Europe’s largest minority’s Integration is a challenging task. It was a sunny day and the exhibition “Safe European Home?”, by Delaine Le Bas, was standing right by Vienna’s Parliament house. I didn’t go through the whole thing, I was in a hurry, but there are some photographs of interesting environments of the installation, as it follows. . . For more information,... Read More
