Last week we finished off a road trip that started off in Leon, went to Las Medulas, A Coruna, Santiago, some other spots and fantastic Porto. Here's a few fragments along the way:
We admired Pirate emblems and the egde of the coast of death, at A Coruna, an unexpected town
Museum of Man, designed as a rather eccentric urban object by MrArata Isozaki
atnight you can enter and enjoy the almost camera obscura shadowplay
and by the day the view just takes over
the next morning,
an interesting looking
elementary school
and an incredible Menir sculpture, right no the cliffs of the la Costa del Morte
a few kilometers away, at the religious disneyland of Santiago de Compostela, we lit electronic candles
next day at Porto, we notice the amazing stairs all around the city
diner with Ricardo at La Cunha
Christ getting married to a guy? looking good indeed
great Fundacao Serralves gardens
with electric green waters
later on, grass covered favelas
Cute Mercado de Sebastido
and interesting brutalist vegetable market, with little pyramid skylights and a grass roof, all of which Ricardo Nicolau has promised to preserve
more Serralves
fantastic Casa da Musica by OMA+RE
looking good outside and in
more great steps
and even Bunker steps by the river
a useful beach ruin
and a fragment of the walls of Porto, left there so we could dub this Bunker Beach
We admired Pirate emblems and the egde of the coast of death, at A Coruna, an unexpected town
Museum of Man, designed as a rather eccentric urban object by MrArata Isozaki
more great steps
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures of our city as well. It is a curious use of the term Favela, originally from Brazil. It is curious that, while we start to learn from the interventions in the slums of Brazil, Peru, Mexico, etc.., There is still no acceptance of a Favela term in Portugal, although dealing with certain types of structures of very similar nature.