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Guggenheim in Bilbao by Frank Gehry - photos by Cinzia Susca
Quite possibly my favorite building of all time - RP
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Musée Condé – Château – exterior
Boasting much of the grandeur of Versailles, but without the hordes*, Chantilly is a 30-minute train ride north from Paris’ Gare du Nord. The estate and its grounds have a history extending back to the late 1400s, with the Grand Canal designed by André Le Nȏtre, “future gardener of Versailles,” in 1671-1673.
Watch this space for a future posting with photos of the interior.
* … yet. Chantilly is beginning to see an uptick in tourism, especially with a lot of fairly recent restoration to the château and the grounds, and with the recently completed Auberge du Jeu de Paume, a luxury hotel just inside the medieval town gate.
photos by markcareaga, April 2013
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Brad Pitt photographed by Max Vadukul for Esquire, June/July 2013
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Swedish Folk Tales Illustrated by John Bauer
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Community Services Building, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960s
(Douglas Orr, DeCossy Winder and Associates)
Villa Tugendhat | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Brno, Czech Republic | 1928-1930
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4eternity-and-beyondtheheavens:
A beautiful view on New York City at night, c. 1936
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Meet Sygmond The Grey, a truly majestic cat from the northern lands of Legendary Maine.
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In the civilizations I have created there is a weight in the day to day cycles that hold the mind steady. It gives form to systems and the concepts of consistency. This repetition must be shared as it wears in ways slow and silent. Rejuvenation is required and so respites are devised. Excursions are taken and as the distance from these patterns increases a kind of opening occurs. Vistas emerge from without and within giving birth to new ways of wondering and rise to visions held in forgotten secrets waiting to be reborn.
