Moments of Venice

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."

– Oscar Wilde

"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes."

–  Marcel Proust

     

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."

– Blaise Pascal

       

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

– Plato

"Simplicity is complexity resolved."

– Constantin Brancusi, sculptor

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Vienna Moments

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Der TagTraumer

Graben Street. Vienna

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St Patrick's Cathedral

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Top of The Rock

Chrysler & MetLife Buildings

Empire State Building

From The GE Building, which is the focal point of the entire Rockefeller Center complex.

The building looks dramatically different when viewing its narrow and wide facades. From 5th Avenue it is an elegant, narrow shaft while looking down 6th Avenue it forms an enormous slab.

The vertical and Gothic-inspired detailing of the austere Art Deco facade is integrated with a slim, functionally expressive form. Inside, this modern skyscraper features an open floor plan.

The lobby's rich materials and reduced black and beige ornamental scheme are enhanced by dramatic lighting.

Granite covers the base to a height of 1.2 meters (four feet), and the shaft has a refined facade of Indiana limestone with aluminum spandrel panels.

An escalator - a striking feature for its time - provides access to the shopping concourse below.

Nicknames include "The Slab" and "30 Rock".

The building was awarded landmark status in 1985.

The "Top of the Rock" rooftop observation deck closed in May 1986, and reopened on November 1, 2005. Its elevators have glass ceilings facing into illuminated shafts.

Whilst under construction in 1932, this building is where the famous photo "Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper" was taken by the photographer Charles C. Ebbets. The photo shows 11 construction workers eating whilst sitting on a steel beam seemingly suspended in mid-air. [Emporis.com]

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The Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City. The building sits on a triangular island block at 23rd street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway anchoring the south (downtown) end of Madison Square.

The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building (1902–1908), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade is divided into a base, shaft and capital.
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Fifth Avenue 2

For Your Eyes Only

… Finalmente, una condicion importante para el desarrollo de la biofilia (Amor a la Vida) es la libertad. Pero no es condicion suficiente “la libertad respecto de” trabas politicas. Si ha de desarrollarse el amor a la vida, tiene que haber libertad “para”, libertad para crear y construir, para admirar y aventurarse. Tal libertad requiere que el individuo sea activo y responsable, no un esclavo ni una pieza bien alimentada de la maquina.

Resumiendo, el amor a la vida se desarrollara mas en una sociedad en que haya: seguridad en el sentido de que no estan amenazadas las condiciones materiales basicas para una vida digna, justicia en el sentido de que nadie puede ser un fin para los propositos de otro, y libertad en el sentido de que todo individuo tiene la posibilidad de ser un miembro activo y responsable de la sociedad. Este ultimo punto es de particular importancia. Hasta una sociedad en que existen seguridad y justicia puede no ser conducente al amor a la vida si no se estimula la actividad creadora del individuo. No basta que los hombres no sean esclavos, si las condiciones sociales fomentan la existencia de automatas, el resultado no sera Amor a la Vida, sino Amor a la Muerte.
From: The Heart of Man by Erich Fromm.

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Views from Central Park

Time Warner Center Towers. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 750 ft (229 m) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail shops. The building surrounds half of Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
The building drew publicity in 2003 when Mexican financier David Martinez paid $54.7 million dollars for a penthouse condo, then a record for New York residential sales.

Future of Change

Lexington Ave. under the stars.

Ver.2

Cheers for a better tomorrow.

Moonlight in Queens

Lofts building on Court Sq. & 45 Av.

Near 44 Dr. in Queens.