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Cempaka Eco Green (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Reuters , by John Acher, Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:18am EST Greenpeace activists hang banners at the Sagrada Familia Temple, designed by Antoni Gaudi, in Barcelona November 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Albert Gea) COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Sixty-five world leaders have confirmed they will attend a U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December that will try to clinch a new global climate deal, and many more are considering,...
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Joy in the Journey (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Carin over at "Forever in Blue Jeans" has given the challenge of moms finally getting in front of the camera. It has been fun participating in it, and I dare say it's been a challenge. Last weekend, Shawn and I had the opportunity to go to Barcelona for 3 WHOLE days, all by ourselves, to explore the city, sip some sangrias, and just relax. It was amazing. I've only put a few pictures in this...
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France Holiday Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It’s peak tanning hour on a distinctive weekend: the public beach is lined with outstretched locals, and in among the sandy towels, a statuesque drag queen is strutting as if on a runway. Like Barcelona itself, she is determined and fearless, sexy and mysterious, a constant work in progress. But no one pays any consideration [...]
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Barcelona is not only the financial capital of Spain but it is also a city affluent in art. Take a walk down to Port Olympic and admire the many sculptures that whimsically adorn your stroll. It is a ciiy teeming with young artists from many countries drawing upon their particular cultures and infusing this Mediterranean land with a unique blend of African South American and Asian motifs. Th
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
GLASGOW.- Modernista: Gaudí and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona, a personal photographic essay by Michael Thomas Jones, will open in The Lighthouse building, Glasgow, on November 14, 2009 running until February 28, 2010. Commissioned in the context of Scotland’s developing cultural links with Catalonia and marking the centenary of Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of...
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~Brought up 2 SharE~ (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Continued from Barcelona Part 1 & Part 2... Hola again! We spent approximately 3 days in Barcelona enjoying sunshine and touring around on the Bus Turistic mentioned in my previous posts. Very convenient. We spent our final day channeling towards a higher side of the city, via the RED route . View our tour route HERE . We would just love to reinforce a statement. "Architectures and the construction...
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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Greeenpeace activists hang a banner against climate change at the Sagrada Familia Temple designed by Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, November 2, 2009. Climate negotiators from 175 nations are meeting in the city. After falling for decades, the number of hungry people in the world is rising again, and melting glaciers and falling water tables [...]
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Girl Meets NYC (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The first of September was spent in an aluminum capsule, fleeting towards the upper atmosphere. The components of the landscape blurred, as the runway vanished, and the rush, the resistance of air, compressed me into the shoulders of my seat, like a stringent shove. In the trembling turbulence, of ascent, my insides churned, sloshed, like pancake batter in a mixing bowl . Hands crossed, e yes closed,...
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My agnostic views & images I like (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Image via Wikipedia Since I was born in Barcelona Oct 8, 1935 I could not resist clipping this image of that lovely city: Maybe it’s the grey cloud fragments, or the mystical image of the sun setting but this image evokes the spirit and art of Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona’s most famous architect! Image via Wikipedia Related articles by Zemanta Modern [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
My W Barcelona experience began the minute I stepped off the plane. After touching down at the swish new Terminal 1 of El Prat airport, I emerged into the world of Ricardo Bofill, the Barcelona-born post-modern architect responsible for the 850 football fields-size terminal. It opened three months ago, is shaped like a sword and bulges with curvilinear glass and steel.
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ifoAppleStore (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
On the heels of a report by Apple that sales of Apple products in Spain was up 40 percent during the latest quarter, a Spain-based Web site reports that Apple plans to open a retail store along Paseo de Gracia in the center of Barcelona, the country’s first. The Noticiasdot.com site cites multiple sources to [...]
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The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Spanish city known for the surreal designs of Antoni Gaudí and Joan Miró has a new avant-garde masterpiece with the opening of the W Barcelona. Designed by Spanish Catalan post-modernist architect Ricardo Bofill, the striking glass tower cuts a...
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quest (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The shape of the Gaudi Stool was created in the same way that Antoní Gaudi designed the structure of his churches, by making a model of hanging chains, so letting gravity determine the strongest and most logical shape for withstanding forces. Cache-Control: max-age=0 -family:times new roman;"> The Gaudi-stool was part of the furnistructure project. In the Furnistructures project was...
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Ancient Digger (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Peru's Machu Picchu ancient ruins, Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona and a New Orleans elementary school are among the cultural heritage sites threatened by neglect or overdevelopment, a preservationist group said Tuesday. The World Monuments Fund 's watch list for 2010 includes 93 sites in 47 countries, ranging from Phajoding, a remote monastery in Bhutan, to the bridges along Connecticut's...
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Splat! (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Am I the only person experiencing some kind of binary division of the moral universe when it come to Roman Polanski and his thirty-something year…
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liz level | 08/06/2009
Discover an unparalleled architectural gem, a unique creation that has become Barcelona's most universal symbol. Come and get to know the Sagrada Familia, the pinnacle of Antoni Gaudi's creation, a monumental church comprised of shapes, towers, curves and complex, unique sculptures.