Uploads from Luiz Pires, tagged white, with geodata

Daisy with dew

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:45:01 -0800

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Ipomeia Alba

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:47:00 -0800

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Guggenheim triangular staircase

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:18:59 -0700

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The Guggenheim is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical museum building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a "temple of the spirit" and is one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. Its unique ramp gallery extends from just under the skylight in the ceiling in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building until it reaches the ground level. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations from 1992 to 1993 (when an adjoining tower was built) and from 2005 to 2008.

The Guggenheim is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.

Stairway up

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:10:04 -0800

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Casa Batlló - arches on the top floor

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:24:35 -0700

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Catenary arches on the top floor of Casa Batlló - a building designed by Gaudí in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

Neuschwanstein Castle

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:52:14 -0700

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Best viewed large on a black background

Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Bavarian palace on a rugged hill near Hohenschwangau and Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany

Vigna Caracala (corkscrew vine)

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:38:06 -0800

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Vigna caracalla is a leguminous vine from the family Fabaceae, originating in tropical South America and Central America. The species is named caracalla, a corruption of the Portuguese caracol, meaning snail. This perennial vine (when grown in a climate without frost) has fragrant flowers said to be reminiscent of hyacinths - with a distinctive curled shape, giving rise to the common names corkscrew vine, snail vine, snail creeper, or snail bean.

Ceiling of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich - another angle

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:49:34 -0700

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The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in the Munich city cente. Together with its two predecessors Alte Pinakothek and Neue Pinakothek as well as the Museum Brandhorst, the Antikensammlungen, the Glyptothek, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the new joint building of the Ägyptisches Museum it is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art district").

Designed by the German Architect Stephan Braunfels, the Pinakothek der Moderne was inaugurated in September 2002 after seven years of construction. The rectilinear facade, dominated by white and grey concrete, is interrupted by large windows and highrising columns, the latter supporting the extensive canopied roof. Each of the four corners of the building, connected by a central rotunda, is dedicated to a special collection. The Museum is divided into Art (Kunst), Architecture (Architektur), Design (Design) and Works on Paper (Graphik).

Stairway down

nobody@flickr.com (Luiz Pires) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:07:26 -0800

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