…seen from above this morning are a surprising grid of spinning fans swimming in the sea under the flight path out of Schiphol on my way back to the US for a first visit in..
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…is the first thing I am noticing all over the city – with all manner of plant life crawling, branching, hanging down and growing up the cliff-like facades on this springy Saturday – while in town for a talk and conversation at the Domus pavilion in Zona Tortona for their Urban Futures series ..
…is the hilltop Asciano-adjacent Tuscan Benedictine monastery dating from 1313 we are visiting today, which features a very cool 1553 fish pond that would feed the monks during periods when Benedictine rule forbade consumptio..
…(for strawberries?) are the cool shocking shiny surfaces wrapping parts of the rolling spring green surfaces of southern Tuscan landscapes as viewed from my very slow one car train gradually heading from Grosseto to Siena – making every little stop on the way – with each quiet sun-bathed stuccoed station seeming to feature a single ..
…with a seemingly endless Turkish flag flowing down İstiklal Caddesi greeted me out the window this morning and here is what I could glean from Skyturk.com (through the veil of Google translate): Turkish National Police, the public is at the disposal of the public peace and security continues to express to the Governor canıyla mesaisini ..
…the public gardens of the royal palace, is where I find the happiest people in town today, sitting in a circle on the ground among their bikes playing guitars and singing about things I don’t understand – but the low point of the day was a visit to the nearby bustling soul-sucking supermarket of truly ..
…shipping headquarters and migrant housing for the thousands of Dutch headed to New York’s Ellis Island used to occupy this stately 1901 building, which survived wartime bombing, at the tip of a peninsula in the Port of Rotterdam – now occupied by Hotel New York where I am comfortably staying for a couple of nights ..
…is what I am noticing around springy Amsterdam today – after an early arrival to Schiphol for a few days around the Netherlands for meetings about upcoming projects – as parents are moving their kids around town side-by-side, one pushing the other, resulting in very fast moving children, which must be super fun for them. ..
…feels like coming home now (with Alitalia yesterday afternoon) – approaching from the north over fields and farms of Lazio is especially welcoming – making me want to play out my fantasies of a future urban/rural-commune/village-life next door to th..
…the medieval tower dating from 1348 located in the center of the Galata district provides a dramatic overview of the city on my last night – but looking forward to coming back very soon to start work on a new rooftop hothouse proj..
…are an integral part of the urban streetscape dating back to Byzantium when street dogs served the sanitation service of street garbage disposal; with the dog population exploding in 1908, 40,000 were shipped to Island of Oxia to fend for themselves where few survived; later in 1937 it was reported in Time Magazine that 20,000 ..
…for a first visit about a new project, after waking up in Rotterdam, lunch meeting in Den Haag, flying out of Amsterdam, stopping over in Rome for a few hours…and now..
…in Rotterdam is mostly closed for renovations (at least their bookstore is still open in the form of a trailer out front) with the vast reflecting pool now a muddy construction site, but an attractive duck couple seemed to be making the most of it this afternoon, looking very much at home – or maybe ..
…like all great medieval Italian hilltowns (we are in the Maremma of Southwest Tuscany), provides that brilliant vivid contrast between the feeling of dense urbanism on the inside, and the seemingly infinite expanse of rolling rural cultivated countryside on outside, just on the other side of the fortified walls – reminding me of my romantic ..
…just South of the Lago di Burano wildlife preserve, is where we have come this groggy afternoon to honor this first day of 2011, recover from a late night, soak up the few hours of winter sun, take naps on driftwood logs, gather shells, play games in the sand, go running, and for one brave ..
…is what I find myself assembling from the the wild landscape I find right out the door this afternoon as I settle in for a long cozy New Years weekend with ten Italian friends at a family weekend house near Capalbio in the Maremma region of southwest Tuscany – and tonight I am very proud ..
…is the view that I am enjoying as we prepare to land at the remote Roman airport of Ciampino this morning, especially a view of the suburb Centocelle which developed around the site of the first Italian airport – where Charles Lindbergh payed a visit, Wilbur Wright gave a flying demonstration in 1909, and Hitler ..
…is a massive Corbusian housing block designed by a team of Italian architects and built in 1972 in the southwestern outskirts of Rome – and I have recently become fascinated by stories of how residents have been gradually customizing and occupying it in unexpected ways – but departing from Fiumicino today I actually flew right ..
…and their welcome colors are something I am admiring on the rails from Chiusi to Roma Trastevere this rainy ..
…an account of his hastily planned 1786-87 trip south to escape his humdrum daily obligations in Germany and luxuriate in the Italian culture he had been dreaming about – is what I had the pleasure of reading while making a much speedier trip south yesterday, flying from Schiphol to Fiumicino in about 2 hours, where ..
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