Narrow streets, Athenian houses, and cats are part of the city’s distinct personality. Sometimes, I feel that Athenian cats are way more cooler than people.
August 23rd, 2020
Tag: architecture
Physiognomy
The many faces of Athens; complex and multi-layered as only one of the world’s oldest cities can be.
Views from the National Museum of Contemporary Art.
August 22nd, 2020
Old Athens
Neighbourhood || Neighbours
August 15th, 2020
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Ten years in the making, covering an area of more than 200,000 square metres, a complex that has given a new home to the Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera, as well as a public park that can host a variety of events, amongst olive trees, evergreen shrubs, carob trees, laurels, cypress trees, and an extensive selection of indigenous Greek aromatic plants.
The entire complex was donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the Greek State, in 2017.
We are not worthy!
The complex is one of the most elaborate works by Architect Renzo Piano.
Kallithea, Athens
August 14th, 2020
McGraw-Hill
Together the Chrysler, it is the most beautiful building in New York City.
And it stands right outside my window.
Hell’s Kitchen, NY
July 21st, 2020
Provincetown’s charm
I looked at these houses and it was as if they were part of a movie set.
Provincetown, MA
July 6th, 2020
The Huguenot Houses of New Paltz
”In 1677, leaders of seven prominent families from present-day France and Belgium, collectively known as the Patentees, purchased 40,000 acres of land from the Esopus Indians on the west side of the Hudson River. The contract for the sale — whose purchase price included domestic supplies, farming tools, clothing, blankets, wine, horses, tobacco, and gunpowder — was signed by five Esopus chiefs, and 21 Esopus braves approved the property deed. Governor Edmund Andros gave the settlers a patent grant for the land on September 29, 1677, about five years before William Penn negotiated his treaty with the Native Americans to found Pennsylvania.
In 1678, 12 members of the Bevier, Crispell, Deyo, DuBois, Freer, Hasbrouck, and LeFevre families — who collectively became known as the Duzine — settled the 40,000 acres. They named their settlement “die Pfalz” in honor of Pfalz-am-Rhein, the German state where they had temporarily found refuge on their way to the New World. Their village was set up like a commune: the Duzine owned some land in common, and shared their products and labor; the rest of the property was eventually divided among their descendants up until 1803. The Duzine held power over the community in various governmental forms until 1826.
Did you know?: According to the National Huguenot Society, the word Huguenot may be a combination of Flemish and German, and describes Protestants who met to study the Bible in secret; they were called Huis Genooten, meaning ‘house fellows’.” [source]
Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY
June 16th, 2020
Saturday Evening In Manhattan
Empty spaces, eerily quiet. Lincoln Center was sparkling as usual, as if the bright lights could chase away the loneliness.
Earlier that day, Governor Cuomo had reported the first two deaths related to coronavirus.
March 14th, 2020
Avoiding densely populated places
An impossible feat in Manhattan but, for a few days at the start of the pandemic – before New Yorkers were ordered to stay at home – Hudson River Greenway between Hell’s Kitchen and Lincoln Center, normally as busy as it gets, fell strangely quiet.
March 8th, 2020
Dwarfed
Yet always stunning
The Chrysler – Midtown Manhattan
February 24th, 2020
The Humble Fabulist 