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Barcelona Master Plan >A man wanted his layout of Barcelona to be accepted >Wide boulevards, controlled density for the sun to bless spacious interior courtyards What happened instead was buildings got thicker and taller all the time. His boulevard layout got f----- up too >What's left of the courtyards are engulfed by the city Agostiniane >Was a convent central to a Swiss village. It was abandoned and then renovated into an elementary school >Multi-Floor classrooms to take advantage of height. Postmodern design and craftsmanship combine Antico Convento delle MUDEC Art Gallery >Experiental musuem piece around light and color. Traditional museum exhibits are built around this >l legit teared up at the quality of education shown there. They really care about their kids over there >First art center we visited... we visited so many in retrospect + >Notable uses of verticality and monolithic interiors, and good lighting SALIS Marc Kissoczy Falte >Pales in comparison to later places Lugano Arte e Cultura Feltrinelli Foundation spettacel William Wegman Biglettera mostra >Rents out the empty cells to visitors to fund their activities Air of quiet contemplation, deliberate control of light >If you look it up make sure you check the interior, where the monks actually live Ancient Roman Foot- Bridge >Built in the before times with the intent to last slabs of bedrock forever. Seated on 2 >2000 years later the sleepy Swiss village built around it still uses it to cross the river The Swiss Alps >Formed by continental collision. Glacial drift carved the passes and the lakes La Tourrette Villa Moderni >Modernist style monastary for a dying order >Facility on a special agreement between the Swiss of Dominican monks government and the University since foreigners can't own land Museo La Congiunta >Looked like someone's rockite model but scaled up for human life >Offer a natural serenity that I could never have >And it felt very much like one while inside too in a city. A big reason I'd love to move there >I'm sure acts of God can count as Architecture >Cold and isolated. Small gallery of metal sculptures HODL4EVER >Makes a point of contemporary art as less of an exhibit and more of a supportive ambience >Built out of a former factory complex >Narrow, angular, glassy. Contemporary in design >Works because it serves as a border between neighboring Milanese districts >Was originally the home of a Ticino secessionist. Declared independence for 27 days der for 2 >On the 28th day the Swiss showed up, burned all his documents, and went home Feltrinelli Foundation Traditional Villages >Library of knowledge and seminar space The French Farmland >There is no place greener than the fields of France >...I haven't been to Ireland so I can't compare the two I wish I could spend more time in the rural areas >Architecture is the wrong word for this... but its left Ta firm impression still Mountain Log Cabin >Quiet Respite at the top of a mountain >Rustic, traditional, welcoming COEXIST >Spare snacks and drinks provided (there's a box to leave money) Bunkers >We got the chance to visit one of the Swiss bunkers >It's not lonely. It's... something more >Giant vault doors, enough space to house a village >These guys aint f------ around Riva San Vitale Town Center >Half a millenium old. Seriously they take care of their buildings over there >Can see contemporary rectangular beams replace some of the ancient round logs 15 >Thoughtful integration of traditional structure and modern reno. >Houses are plain but colorful and bunched together with local business >Euro >Naturally-occuring paths and walkways around the villages >Dense enough but open enough. a balance >You won't get this experience in America Vitra Fire Station >Designed by Zaha Hadid. A modern building so structurally intricate and improbable the structural engineer initially refused to verify her (correct) calculations >Unfortunately, firemen don't like being in a building they don't innately understand and cleared out as soon as a second station was built >A tragic failure, but it got her foot in the door Art District Barcelona >Neat to look at individually, but have zero cohesion whatsoever >Built from the money influx from hosting the World Cup >Contemporary flea market built to accomodate native displaced markets Graffiti Art >Viewed as a professional thing over there >Owners will often hire an artist to grafitti the side of their building >Colorful, makes the the area feel lived in Milan Central Station >Largest Railway Terminus in Europe 예 >Amazing blend of classical and proto- modern >Fascist influences in design. Mussolini wanted the giant steel canopies and different railway platforms >Functions well to this day 30s Germany Bridges >Only got to see them in a dusty book in our facility's library >Quiet style and superb engineering, a mix of geometry and elegance >They all got blown up in the war >What a shame St. Abbondio Cemetary >Euro cemetaries are like walking into a miniature rock and stone city that could double as a paintball arena >The one we visited included Herman Hesse, a naturalist philosopher and artist "A >The cemetary had an issue with women laying their p---- on his grave for fertility or something Media ICT Building HIDR >More of a feat of precision engineering than an architectural marvel >Building's floors 'hang' from above. Ground floor has no interior columns to speak of >Exterior steel frame triangles form support and hold inflatable insulation for the climate >People think its ugly but the interior quality of life and the engineering is a beauty of its own Penis Tower >Real name is the Torre Glories, but it looks like a penis >Corporate tower adjacent to the Art District >Lights up at night Els Encants >Permanent installation for the flea market there >Contemporary flowinesss CERNEER >Pillars hold up a giant glorified canopy for shade >Does its job, actually pretty nice to have in that azimuth St. Anton Roman Catholic Church chur >1920s church made out of concrete del Laveggio Bike >Surprised this was Catholic tbh Van Der Rohe's Pavillion >Germany's limited contribution to the International Exposition in Barcelona U HOLY BIBLE AN >Industrial inspiration to the design. wwww >Stained glass windows absolutely wash the interior in color CO (LCC・ TI >Dressing area for the Spanish Monarch >Stone, water, and interrupted space, was clearly designed from an elevation sketch >Ditches built by the Romans long ago >Wacky prop >Swiss alps used to be a swamp. It's why the old towns are on the hills and not along the ground >The Catalans liked it enough to reconstruct the exhibit The Swiss Canals Galleria Milano >Tall shopping gallery under an immense iron and glass roof >Fun fact: was a resort area for rich Romans >#Draintheswamp >We felt sheltered yet insignificant under its glorious canopy >The shops there were over my paygrade >Progenitor of modern shopping malls Prada Foundation Gold Building >Part of a larger rather impressive art museum campus, which was a former industrial park >This building was conceived by accident. The architects ran out of time building the model and simply spray painted the last structure gold >The client loved this and demanded the building be painted in gold Casino di Campione >Fascinating monolithic structure I saw every time I took the train >No windows, complex blocky shapes, center slit, looks like an evil lair ino, 301 >... It's a casino, so I guess it is. 201 SINO MUNICIPALE >Never got to see it up close Sagrada Familia >Incomprehensibly large proportions >Gaudi's Magnus Opus >Impressive washes of color and scale >You have to see this one in person to understand + Bellinzona Castles >Three well-preserved medieval castles in the Alps 1 and >Used to be the Swiss- Milanese border before the Swiss invaded 17 >Immediately outside was the strip of Americar Fast Food places >On the hills, so tall and above everything. Got good use of my long lens for the camera TTTT Gaudi Mansion >Wacky proportions and curvy lines >A legit Scooby Doo lair, or Luigi's Mansion but in real >Gotta give Gaudi credit though, it's a fine ass building Labia Plaza >Corporate Open-Air complex with a massive ETFE (bio-dome fabric) canopy and designed for natural airflow >Real name is Palazzo Lombardia. Look it up from top-down and tell me it doesn't look like a labia >I'd work there tbh Radisson Hotel >Classy modern interior. Glass and colored lights and ambience >Half the rooms were pointing inside to the large glass courtyarc doubling as the reception (I >Only reason we were there was to get the hell out of the country the next da Malpensa Airport >Capitalism at its finest >There's no distinction between a hallway and a shop. Feels random (or dementia-like), but its deliberate and overwhelming >Delirium is the word. for these spaces that overload your senses

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