parque Ibirapuera

8.00 am

museu afro-brasil

http://www.museuafrobrasil.org.br/

largest wooden Cathedral of Latin America

The Saints Peters and Pauls Cathedral in the city of Paramaribo in Suriname is named to be the biggest wooden construction of Latin America. After a big restauration it opened his doors again after 22 years.

Build at the end of the 19th century its interior is made of unpainted cedar wood.

http://nos.nl/video/197882-restauratie-kathedraal-paramaribo-bijna-af.html

fietsenstalling

This bycicle storage in front of the Central Station of Amsterdam is a very nice solution to store a lot of bycicles using little space. Designed by VMX architects it was built in 2001 as a temporary storage with his feet in the water. The skateboarders do like it as well, great urban feature.

Gregori Warchavchik

Casa Modernista da Rua Santa Cruz, São Paulo, built in 1927/1928 and designed by Gregori Warchavchik was the first building of the modern movement in Brazil. Gregori Warchavchik, an Ucrainian architect, arrived in Brazil in the year 1923 and later naturalized himself Brazilian.

His wife, Mina Klabin, designed the garden landscape, another sign of Brazilian modernity.

SP METRO First Project

In 1954, the first project for the METRO system of São Paulo was presented. Originally with 100.789 meters, the project was based on the systems of London, New York, Madrid and Paris. The first idea was to have only 23% of the network with underground lines.

chair exhibition

Tomorrow, 5th of october, will open a permanent chair exhibition at the faculty of architecture of the University of Delft. Some 300 chairs who were saved from the fire that destroyed the old faculty can now be seen by the public.

Great news!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LFCiF1wTQ

Parking lots instead of lots of parks!

As we can see, regrettably, it is still quite affordable to park your car in the middle of the city in SP. Parking lots instead of lots of parks!!

Rebecca Horn

Great exhibition of artist Rebecca Horn in the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

The prophecy

It looks like the prophecy was right, one day everybody will have to leave the cars and come back home walking. Cars will be abandon and become a contemporaneous ruins.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/08/24/VI2010082402152.html

Barceloneta

Our project for Barceloneta neighbourhood for an urban renewal keeping the same density and creating a new waterfront landscape, in 1997.

Eletric city

sky

sense of freedom in crazy dense São Paulo

puxadinho

In Guaruja we built this ´puxadinho´ of 22 m. by 6m. The material was already bought before we could start the project.

Athos Bulcão

Athos Bulcão is an artist who lived and worked in Brasilia. He designed inumerous tiles for buildings most of them in Brasilia like this little church called Igrejinha da nossa senhora da Fatima with the beautifull pigeons.

Here the tiles he designed for the patio of the congress building and the interior of a sportsclub. More information can be found on http://www.fundathos.org.br/

Brasilia 50 years

50 years ago in this landscape Brasilia was constructed and ready to receive it´s 500.000 inhabitants (now with 2,6 million). It took 5 years to construct the city in the geographical center of Brazil.

The urban plan was made by Lucio Costa and the buildings were designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

Here some images of the interior of the ministry of foreign affairs, staircase and roofgarden.

The nature around Brasilia is amazing and within the city pedestrian space is well designed with trees who give shade.

audi versus tree

In front of our house this tree fell on top of the car of Fred´s uncle who was passing by.

Strange coincedence.

Nobody is hurt fortunately, we were only out of electricity and had to walk the eleven stairs up and down.

vectors

Gordon Matta-Clark: Desfazer o espaço MAM-SP Wonderful exhibition at MAM.

TimeMachine

7 TeV

This is a representation of a 2.36 TeV Collision. And, 7 TeV now!!

typical dutch

This hotel in Zaandam (a city with windmills, typical green houses, typical cheese and cookies) just opened.

Typical dutch architecture?

foto: Roel Backaert

architect in red

architect Mike Davies definitely prefers red!

tampinhas

treme treme

Brás

men in black

Who are these modern men in black?

They are dutch architects!

From left to right; Herman Zeinstra(DOK), Felix Claus(Claus en Kaan), Jacob van Rijs(MVRDV), Koen van Velsen en Marijn Schenk(NEXT)

photo H.Vroege, site Archined

São Paulo

Memorial da America latina

100 objects to represent the world

After seeing the opera-prop of Peter Greenaway I made this collage with some objects that represent São Paulo for me. Here an impression of 2 pages with traffic-jams, evangelic cults with thousands participating, great actress, a parody about assaults but also social inequality!

SPFW

São Paulo Fashion Week......