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Casa Mila, Barcelona
This picture shows an unusual angle on La Pedrera, or Casa Mila, in Barcelona. The building was designed by the city's most famous architect Antoni Gaudi and built between 1906 and 1910. Even though the term 'biomorphic' was only coined in the 1930's, this building shows one of its earliest examples by using organic shapes and forms.
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Soldier, engulfed
Beijing is a city undergoing rapid change. Galleries are springing up in the most unlikely of places like abandoned warehouses and down residential lanes in old courtyards. Visiting them though is a pleasure since the local interest does not seem to have kept up with the amount of exhibition spaces opening, and a lot of spaces are blatantly empty. Maybe that is why this soldier thought of it as a good place to have an undisturbed lunchtime read.
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Pedal boats, Tavira Island, Portugal
Why travel by speedboat when a trip on a pedal boat not only lets you take in more of the scenery, makes you feel every little wave against its hull but also keeps you fit. All at the same time!
Some even come with an added bonus of a slide, so take a break and enjoy a swim!
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Chicago
If you love architecture then you will find more than you bargained for during a weekend in Chicago.
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Rebirth of a communist weapons factory into gallery space
798 Art Space, Beijing, China
Originally built by the East Germans for the Chinese as an electronics and weapons factory in the 1950's.
The 640,000 square meters complex lay abandoned for many years before artists moved in to revive the area and create their studios here. It now houses scores of studios, art galleries and hip restaurants and is one of the up and coming tourist attractions in Beijing.
Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/798_Art_Zone
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Hotel East, Hamburg, Germany
Designed by Chicago-based architect Jordan Mozer and Associates.
According to the architect “East has been an amazing opportunity to invent a magical reality, a Westerner’s dream of an enchanted foundry set in an indefinite city that is at once ancient and modern. For me it evokes images of endless party ebbs and flows, visions of couples dancing in vast halls, others sipping drinks in oversized wingback chairs that are also beds, while others nibble on delicacies amidst the shadows of intimate cellar corners of rotting brick, perched on softly curved elements”.
It is truly in the right spot at the right time!
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L Sottorf has been a member since 10 January 2008 and goes by Cordeiro.
Currently in the USA.
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I am a photographer turned designer turned photographer, in love with architecture, geometry and details in photography. I mostly shoot on a Nikon D80 but still use old Rolleiflex and Lomos.
