Grand Canal Square, Dublin, Irlanda

Grand Canal Square, Dublin, Irlanda

Videos of arquitecture

If you want to see some videos related to arquitecture, you have to visit:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWWIi6DZt5I
Miralles-Tagliabue Arquitects


http://youtube.com/watch?v=sSm1aG4zwlA
Av. Bolivar of Caracas


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGZZtWB17g
Urban Space Apreciation


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Seatle

this entry is about some Seattle points of interest:



MYRTLE EDWARDS PARK


Myrtle Edwards Park has a 1.25-mile winding bike and pedestrian paths along Elliott Bay, fantastic views of the Olympics Mountains, Mount Rainier, and Puget Sound, easy access from downtown and easy connection to bike paths to Magnolia.



VOLUNTEER PARK

The volunteer park is located in the heart of Seattle, it is home the Volunteer Park Conservatory and the Seattle Asian Art Museum This historic Olmsted Park is beloved by residents and visitors alike.


For more than a century Volunteer Park has been the center of Seattle's park system. Though the city began purchasing this site along the crown of Capitol Hill in 1876, more than 15 years passed before the municipal government began to clear the land.

Improvements accelerated after the turn of the century, when Seattle joined many other American cities in creating extensive networks of parks. In 1903, the Olmsted Brothers, America's most famous landscape architects, issued a comprehensive plan for parks, boulevards and playgrounds throughout Seattle. Named to honor the men who had enlisted to fight in the Spanish-American War, Volunteer Park featured classic examples of Olmsted design: adaptations to and reflections of the land's natural features, plantings added so cleverly they seemed native to the site, curving paths that provided ever-changing vistas and the inclusion of recreation facilities such as playgrounds.


Their proposal that the park include an observation tower was fulfilled in 1906, when the city built a water tower whose deck, open to the public, provided panoramic views of downtown, the harbor and the Cascade and Olympic Ranges.

LINCOLN PARK


Lincoln Park is the oldest and one of the larger Seattle City parks. The park is located in West Seattle a short distance north of the Fauntleroy ferry dock and it occupies most of Williams Point.
The beach is about a mile long and is stabilized by a sea wall for the entire length.



SPACE NEEDLE




The 605 foot (184 meter) Space Needle was designed by Edward E. Carlson for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. The futuristic structure has become a symbol for the city, and is home to festive events such as the annual New Year's Eve fireworks display.


The structure has gone through many transformations. Early plans called for a tethered balloon. Carlson's plan called for a soaring needle topped by a disk reminiscent of a flying saucer. The structure required a 120-foot-square underground foundation. 467 cement trucks spent an entire day filling the hole. The completed foundation weighs as much as the Needle.




The Space Needle was completed in December 1961, and officially opened four months later on the first day of the World's Fair, April 21, 1962. The Space Needle is in the midst of a $20 million revitalization effort.



Seattle is a very interesting city, it has some atracctions like parks and the most popular and it simbol: the SPACE NEEDLE.

Concert halls

Symphony Hall (Boston, USA)

One of the best concert halls, not just in the USA but also in the world, Boston Symphony Hall is located near the Prudential Center, at the heart of city of Boston.

With the cutting edge technology of those times, Boston Symphony Hall is the oldest of what are generally agreed to be the three best concert halls in similar style (the other two are the Musikverein Goldensaal, Vienna and Concertgebou, Amsterdam). Opened on 15th of October 1900, the hall has 1.9 seconds of reverberation time, which is considered as ideal for orchestral music. The Italian Renaissance design of gold and brass is very beautiful and worth visiting. Unfortunately the seats may be too small for today's larger American.

This concert hall is the home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Adam Fischer had conducted here in 1984 and 1985.

Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, Germany)

Locate on top of the hill in the beautiful park; it is called "The Green Hill". In the opening day of the summer Wagner festival, many celebrities visit here from all over Europe. It is almost a German version of Academy Award Presentation. The building itself, however, is very plain and built only for music. Seats in the auditorium, with the capacity of more than 2000 are very hard like wooden benches and not suitable for long Wagner operas. Therefore formally dressed audiences bring ill-matched cushions to the Festspielhaus.

The famous orchestra pit covered with the hood makes it possible for singers to be heard regardless of the fortissimo of the orchestra. The musicians are not seen from auditorium, so they perform in regular clothes instead of tail coats.

Stephaniensaal ( Graz, Austria)



The capital of Steiermark province, Graz is a beautiful city in the south east of Austria. With a population of 240,000 it is the second biggest city in Austria.

In the center of the city, near the city hall, the congress and casino stands. Together with the famous casino, there is a beautiful concert hall in this building. The Stephaniensaal was named after the princess Stephanie, the wife of crown princess Rudolf.

With the capacity of 1054, the concert hall is very beautiful and known for its clear acoustics. This hall is used as a home of Steiriche Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and Musikverein fuer Steiermark.

In the beginning of his career, Adam Fischer worked in Graz as a coach/pianist and many members of the Haydn Orchestra visits this concert hall. This year immediately after the Haydntage, they came to this concert hall and played Haydn’s Symphony No. 92 and 94, and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with Peter Schmiedl of the Vienna Philharmonic. They made a recording and it will be released next year

The city of Montreal

The city of Montreal is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec.

At the 2001 Canadian Census, there were 1,583,590 people living on the current territory of the city of Montreal proper, the population of the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area is estimated at 3,635,700 in 2005 making it the second largest French-speaking metropolitan area in the world.

Montreal is ranked as the 30th largest metropolitan area in the Americas and 77th in the world

The tallest leaning tower in Montreal hovering at an angle of 45-degree over the Olympic stadium in the city.



Originally the tower that was built in 1987 was designed simply to be a mast for the cables holding up the roof of the stadium. The idea now is to turn the tower into an office building with 2-storey observation desk at the top and ground-level sport center and pools. Observatory will provide an excellent 50-miles view and together with the sport facilities they will be opened to the general public and to the expected 1,500 people that will work at the leaning tower. Some of the sport facilities are really impressive - 250-meter-long pool, diving pool and children's pool.



The stadium and the tower are among Montreal's most popular attractions. They are also on the walking distance from the nearby Botanic Gardens, which are considered to be among the best in Canada and also from the local Insectarium and Biodome, other two Montreal landmarks.

Montreal's Underground City (French: La ville souterraine) is the well-known underground city complex in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is also known as the indoor city (ville intérieure) as not all of it is underground.
In 2004 the underground city was rebranded and given the name RÉSO,the name RÉSO is based on the French word réseau, or network (as in a network of tunnels).


The first link of the underground city arose with the construction of the Place Ville-Marie office tower and underground shopping mall, built in 1962 to cover an unsightly pit of railway tracks north of the Gare Centrale. A tunnel joined it to Gare Centrale and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.



Directional panels to buildings accessible through the underground city, in Bonaventure metro stationThe advent of the Montreal metro in 1966 brought tunnels joining Bonaventure station to the Château Champlain hotel, the Place du Canada office tower, Place Bonaventure, Gare Centrale, and Gare Windsor, forming the core of the Underground City. Square-Victoria station connected to the Tour de la Bourse, Montreal's stock exchange building.

Mount Royal is a very special part of Montréal’s heritage. Its landscapes, flora, fauna and history make it an exceptional place to visit. Many services are available to help you explore this natural monument in the city’s centre.

The mountain is the site of Mount Royal Park (officially Parc du Mont-Royal), one of Montreal's largest greenspaces. The park, most of which is wooded, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York's Central Park, and inaugurated in 1876.



The park contains two belvederes, the more prominent of which is the Kondiaronk Belvedere, a semicircular plaza with a chalet, overlooking downtown Montreal. Other features of the park are Lac aux Castors (Beaver Lake), a small man-made lake; a short ski slope; a sculpture garden; Maison Smith, an interpretive centre; and a well-known monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier


I think that montreal is a very nice city, it has very interesting places to visit and to live. It has a combination between neoclasical and victorian style of architecture, for example there is a big skycraper and a very old church.

One thing that i liked it is the leaning tower and the underground city too, because it is one of the bigest subterranean cities in the world because the xtreme weather of Montreal.