l’Umbracle del Parc de la Ciutadella (Barcelona)
This building is not on very many tourist bucket lists, I’m sure, but it is a really peaceful, green oasis in the midst of the pandemonium that is Barcelona if you happen to be strolling the area…
Cityscapes, Urban & Street
More Barcelona Structures… and the Sony RX100
Back to portability, the Sony RX100…
Random…? Or Related?
What do contrails, umbrellas, and cigarette butts have in common? Anything at all???
Urban Art at La Plaça de les Tres Xemeneies (Barcelona)
The Three Chimney’s Plaza/Park/Garden, just off of l’Avinguda del Paral.lel, is arguably the most well-known of Barcelona’s urban art and graffiti hot spots. But, what’s in store for its future?
The “Owl Building”, A Barcelona Pop Icon
How did they ever get approval from the Ajuntament (city government) to erect this strange neon creature with the glowing eyes? Surely it was controversial at the time…
Archaeological Find In Barcelona City Center
There are old Roman ruins under the modern Barcelona streets… and now they have found something else. This find, though not quite as ancient, is nonetheless interesting…
Happy Urban Art On A Sad Prison Wall
Three new art panels at the La Modelo prison in Barcelona…
Another Walk Through Vallcarca (Barcelona)
Vallcarca, a neighborhood up in the foothills behind Barcelona, and not far from Park Güell, has, in the past, been the target of “development” by folks with deep pockets and not necessarily the purest of intentions (Núñez y Navarro, is one infamous example). So what has been the reaction to this conflict of the people who live and work there?
Looking Up At High Key
High key photography and architectural subjects? Can it work?
Barcelona Structures Continue…
Always looking up to the sky, us humans–although it might be good to remember that those relatively harmless birds who trapse about up above for our amusement also once dominated the Earth (in the form of now extinct dinosaurs)…