Some North-American architecture vol.1

This week I share some architecture photos from US and Canada. 

Love vol. 5

 

Song festival's light

Once in five years this light shines brighter.

Happy Anniversary Dear Parents!

Mosquito having it!

Not much to say, really.

La Citadelle

Little piece of nature closer to the heaven at La Citadelle in Quebec City. Earth and sky are one.

Justin Trudeau

What an amazing prime minister Canada has. Wow, so handsome, so lively and so respectable. 

Seen here while having fun at Toronto Pride 2016. I am glad I was able even to get a clear view on him, as he was followed with a huge crowd of photo- and vdieographers!

Check other photos I took at the event HERE.

Habitat 67

Have been waiting to post this, a bit different look on Habitat 67 in Montreal. I think it gives the house a whole different feel. See more photos of the building and read more HERE.

Happy birthday, Nele!

This caterpillar is as colorful as would be any bouquet of flowers. Happy birthday to you! Hope you are enjoying your day!

Office building

There is some great architecture in Montreal. I really love this shot with a touch of nature and the prominent heavy structure behind it. The colors just work nice together.

Montreal

Montreal is looking like that from the top pf Mount Royal, which gave the city its name.

Montreal

I think Montreal didn't leave me such a good impression because of the time I was visiting - in the end of February - cold and gloomy time. I felt that the city had more to offer than I was able to grab. I chose to see Habitat, the Olympic Stadium and the biosphere, therefore old town and the harbor didn't get so much of my attention. Probably it was meant like that, as I was left with this shot facing the city, which in my opinion has a little glow of hope and warmth to it.

Calm vol. 28

Love the reflections in water on a sunny day.

"Light so blinded"

I took photos at a lovely wedding. Got a ride back home with nice people and two other passengers. One of them was really drunk and singing a line from the song over and over again: "Light so blinded." Inspired by.

Go figure.

Hare with porcupine needles on its back

While volunteering in the forest I came across to many interesting animals, birds, plants and insects, but this hare beat them all, as I saw it cleaning its fur while I could see many quills of a porcupine covering hare's back. They are impossible to get out without an extra help, so I wonder what was the destiny of this hare...

Habitat 67

For a long time I have wanted to post the photos of a wonderful Habitat 67, which is a model community and housing complex in Montreal, Canada, designed by Israeli–Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. I visited it not on a nice time, as the cruel Canadian winter is pretty tough in the end of February.

If you do not know anything about the Habotat, then you should know that it was originally conceived as the architects master's thesis in architecture at McGill University and then built as a pavilion for Expo 67, the World's Fair held from April to October 1967. It is located at 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy on the Marc-Drouin Quay next to the Saint Lawrence River and therefore not very easy to visit. I think we saw nobody at that moment checking out the wonderful building.

Habitat 67 is widely considered an architectural landmark and one of the most recognizable and significant buildings in both Montreal and Canada. It doesn't look the best on these days, as you can see from the photos, but still the look and the idea of it is 

Check out a cool panorama of Habitat HERE.

Thirsty groundhog

I have a feeling that I have posted at least one of these shots once, but anyway here they are - of a groundhog who had been locked in a cargo container for a week. First thing the poor animal did, was to chew some green leaves. Must have been soooo thirsty!

Montreal Biosphère

There is quite an interesting story with The Biosphère museum in Montreal, which is dedicated to the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Île Sainte-Hélène in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair Expo 67.

The architect of the geodesic dome was Buckminster Fuller. The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 metres (250 ft) in diameter and 62 metres (200 ft) high. The dome is a Class 1, Frequency 16 Icosahedron. A complex system of shades was used to control its internal temperature.

Architects from Golden Metak Productions designed the interior exhibition space. Visitors had access to four themed platforms divided into seven levels. The building included a 37-metre-long escalator, the longest ever built at the time. The Minirail monorail ran through the pavilion

In the afternoon of 20 May 1976, during structural renovations, a fire burned away the building's transparent acrylic bubble, but the hard steel truss structure remained. The site remained closed until 1990, when it was once again opened to public as The Biosphère museum.

Death

I am not wrong when I title my post like that while presenting abandoned houses, because most likely they are to die, as they will not get life in them anymore. All over US and Canada small villages are becoming empty, as older generations pass and cities are attracting more people.

Here are some examples of abandoned houses in province of Quebec. They have been left to die.

Cheeks full!

There is still a lot of room left for more goodies.

Lea