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
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
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
The Morning Line – Vienna
Riding the Straßenbahn on my way to the Belvedere Museum I got pretty curious about a huge fractal structure I saw standing at Schwarzenbergplatz. On the way back I felt like having a closer look on what would be the Viennese edition of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary’s (T-B A21) “The Morning Line“. Described as a A sonic pavilion by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU, this collaborative work between artists, architects,... Read More
What thrilled me at the Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum is located in Vienna, Austria, at MuseumsQuartier. This place is new, it was established in 2001 on the basis of the former private art collection of Rudolph and Elisabeth Leopold. It houses the world’s largest Schiele collection and many works from Gustav Klimt. The museum’s marketing material has such a modern appeal and Schiele’s self portraits on it’s folder, in it’s facade and on it’s ticket... 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
