Many old brick factories have been turned into concert halls, galleries or workshops. If high anxiety doesn't affect you, climb this gasometer at the border of Schöneberg and Kreuzberg. Great view from the top !
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Alvar Aalto, Jacob Bakema, Paul Baumgarten, Luciano Baldessari, Le Corbusier, Werner Düttmann, Wils Ebert, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Fritz Jaenicke and Sten Samuelson, Gustav Hassenpflug, Günter Hönow, Ludwig Lemmer, Wassili Luckhardt, Oscar Niemeyer, Godber Nissen, Sepp Ruf, Otto Senn, Hans Scharoun, Franz Schuster, Max Taut, Pierre Vago, Jo van den Broek were the architect of the 1954 Interbau project in Berlin
Berlin was heavily bombed during the second world war. Trees grow between ruins... Or houses are built between trees...
The Sant Estve church in Vilaür was built between the 12th and the 16th century. Obviously, the car are more recent.
Don't be puzzled by this kaleidoscopic glass puzzle, it's only what one sees when looking up the Torre Mare Nostrum near la Barceloneta.
Water, cranes, docks,no doubt, it's a harbour. It's one of Barcelona's harbour. In the middle is the World Trade Center, designed by Pei.
Domaine Sauvète produces delicious organic wine in Monthou sur Cher. 10 hectares of the wineyard are harvested by hand. The vintner and his familly live in a small house looking over the hills.
This bridge was built in 1849. With its towers and medieval architecture, it tries as much as possible to look like the château de Langeais. Through times, It has been bombed and mined but it is still standing there, proud and happy, with its wet feet.
On the river bank of the Loire, a house built with the tender and white traditional stones, tuffeau.
On the 30th of april, the Queen of Holland greets her people from this balcony. The rest of the time, pigeons look after the Royal Palace.
The wider the facade, the higher the taxes, so they built a thin house.
In Amsterdam. Are the walls bent, or is the house crooked? Maybe the ground is undulating...
Ile de ré. L'île blanche. The white island.
Richelieu, the Red Eminence, was a bishop, a cardinal and a minister. He was also a someone with a lot of ideas, some good, some terrible. This is what you get when you have so much power in your hands. He was sure he knew what the ideal city should be. It is called Richelieu and lays behind these gates. If you want to make your own opinion you'll have to travel to the Loire Valley.
Seen from Tiergarten, Potsdamer Platz is much quieter and greener. And cloudy.
These metalic balls are a part of Pol Bury's "Les fontaines à boules". Two fountains that the belgian artist placed in Palais Royal, near Buren's Columns. Sadly, they are not moving anymore and I couldn't find any water animating them.
Passeig Gracia is famous for its modernist buildings, La Pedrera and Casa Batlló by Anton Gaudi, Casa Amatller by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and others, but the avenue has more then that with buildings signed by lesser known architects but worth more then a look.
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