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Dec14
by misha in Adventure, Events, North America, Photos, Resorts, Sightseeings, Skiing, Snowboarding, Travel Stories, United States of America

Mount Snow is situated in southern Vermont and less than a four-hour drive from New Jersey and New York suburbs, with a reputation as a busy place. However, it is a bit like being in New York, the Mount Snow, which averaged 500,000 skier visits a year, had a loyal following and improved its lodging.
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Dec14
by misha in Arts, Asia, Cultural, Israel, Museums, Photos, Travel Tips, Urban Tourism

Holon Design Museum is a wonderful project with external spaces where you can walk under the building by a semi-covered patio, and have the choice of taking the path of the air conditioning or other exposed to the elements of weather. The coating of the building is not only a sculptural space, but also a structure. The concept for the museum in the Middle Eastern sun is to generate a single instance.
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Dec14
by misha in Arts, Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Denmark, Europe, Events, Parks, Photos, Travel Stories, Urban Tourism

The Danfoss Universe Park provides spaces which articulate the fusion of outdoor landscape and indoor exhibition. The final stages of the structure blur the line between building and park by ensuring inside-out spaces as display areas and projection surfaces related to the temporary exhibitions inside. Silhouettes, as groups of land formations, define the unique newly programmed horizon line of Danfoss Universe.
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Dec14
by misha in Adventure, Costa Rica, Hiking, Hotels, Parks, Photos, Relaxing, Resorts, Romantic, Sightseeings, Swimming, Travel Stories

If you have fantasies of living like the characters in Lost, this rainforest resort near Quepos, Costa Rica may be just the ticket. Sited on the edge of the Manuel Antonio National Park, the Costa Verde Resort features an incredible hotel suite set inside a 1965 Boeing 727 airplane. In its present life the airplane transported globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines, and today performs as a two bedroom suite perched on the edge of the rainforest overlooking the beach and ocean.
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Dec14
by misha in Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Europe, Events, Photos, Spain, Travel Tips, Urban Tourism

The MS Lounge is an awesome green spot for celebrations and parties. It is sited in Navarra, Spain. The whole concept is has patterns of micro-structures, more in line with geometric patterns of liquid and / or aerosols that Cartesian structures.
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Dec14
by misha in Asia, Cities, Cultural, Eating, Indonesia, Photos, Restaurants, Romantic, Travel Stories, Urban Tourism

This restaurant is a small scale of mix use building, located within the heart of Jakarta, Indonesia. The main function is to house the famous BEBEK BENGIL restaurant from Ubud, Bali. The original Bebek Bengil restaurant is very famous with it’s specialty of crispy fried duck menu and have a unique location, which sit on the exotic rice or padi field.
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Dec14
by misha in Cultural, Eating, Museums, North America, Photos, Restaurants, Romantic, Travel Stories, United States of America, Urban Tourism

The Wright is a stylish restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, that gives to visitors a geometric dining experience. The place is both contemporary and complementary. The 487 sq m restaurant offers a playfulness of form as a curvilinear wall of walnut layered with illuminated fiber-optics accentuates the main wall and sculptural forms embellish a flared ceiling. The forms are rooted in Wright’s underlying geometries to create a relationship between the main museum and this new addition.
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Dec14
by misha in Eating, North America, Photos, Relaxing, Resorts, Restaurants, Romantic, Shopping, Sightseeings, Skiing, Snowboarding, Spa, Travel Stories, United States of America

Stowe is a Vermont ski town with soaring church steeple, covered bridges, and no chain stores in sight. Ii is a ski resort, with a Main Street that is as folksy as a yellowed New England postcard. All of these could explained Stowe’s recent $400 million upgrade, with a shiny gondola and a new pedestrian village with a private club and outdoor fire pits galore. But beneath all the modern glitz, Stowe still feels like an old-fashioned town where no one locks the door and folks still dress like The Beatles.
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Dec14
by misha in Arts, Cities, Cultural, History, North America, Photos, Sightseeings, United States of America, Urban Tourism

The Bacardi Building is one of Havana‘s principal landmarks, standing on the western edge of the city’s historical center. Its architect originally won the international competition for its construction with a Neo-Renaissance proposal, but after visiting the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris he completely reworked his design into an extravaganza of Art Deco style. The facade of the twelve-story building is lavishly decorated with red Bavarian granite. The upper part of the building is faced with glazed terra-cotta reliefs of geometric patterns, flowers and female nudes. Photo by: Almonddew
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Dec12
by misha in Arts, Belgium, Cities, Cultural, Europe, Photos, Romantic, Travel Stories

The Royal Greenhouses in Laeken are city on the edge of city. They are where the heady scents of the colonial Congo are transported to everyday Brussels. Entranced visitors drift past orchids, azaleas, and camellias, breathing in the steamy fragrances of bitter oranges and damp ferns. The lines reveal shifting perspectives and sudden glimpses of green canopies, cupolas, turrets, and vaulted tunnels of glass. Photo by: Photographe de rue
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