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Dec14
by Asya in Chillin, Hotels, North America, Parks, Relaxing, Romantic, Spa, United States of America, Walking

Only an hour drive north from San Francisco, Healdsburg is a great vacation spot for wine lovers and shoppers. It is the center of the outstanding and beautiful vineyards of Northern Sonoma County. Come visit Healdsburg and enjoy the heart of the wine country. Visit the picturesque wineries, taste the wines, and learn how grapes are made into “world class wines”.
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Dec14
by Asya in Chillin, Cities, Europe, France, History, Monuments, Photos, Relaxing, Restaurants, Travel Stories, Urban Tourism, Walking

Between Concorde and Etoile, is the emblematic section of a perspective that extends from Louvre Pyramid to La defense. The first steps of this “glorious way”, an obligatory passage for patriotic parades, were however modest. Lined with undergrowth the avenue reached the current site of place de l’Etoile in 1724. A fashionable place to walk, the gardens were devastated at the fall of the Empire. They regained their splendour around 1840: candelabras, fountains, creamy pavilions, landscaping with flowers and copses date from this period of balls and theatres. It was one hundred years later that rapid development occured when affluence spread to the west of the capital.
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Dec13
by Asya in Arts, Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Europe, Monuments, Photos, Relaxing, Travel gear, United Kingdom, Urban Tourism, Walking

Located in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Beorma Quarter was designed by London-based Trevor Horne Architects. The concept of a city within a city is based on working, living and playing in a sustainable community. The components of work (office and start up businesses), living (apartments and hotel), leisure’ area (public places, cafes and shops) are grouped around a new public route extending into a new public square.
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Dec13
by Asya in Arts, Chillin, Cities, Cultural, Europe, Events, Germany, Monuments, Photos, Relaxing, Restaurants, Urban Tourism, Walking

Located in Hamburg, Elbphilarmonie is one of the most anticipated builds in the German metropolitan city. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the building is considered as the icon of the new cultural epicenter on Hamburg. The project is the most massive ongoing urban construction in Europe.
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Dec13
by iv in Adventure, Extreme, Hiking, North America, Photos, Skiing, Snowboarding, United States of America

Legitimate in 1940 the Inhabitant ski resort Mammoth Mount lies at 3368 metres height in the Calif. part of the Land Sierra Nevada. Mammoth’s it one of the greatest ski areas in Northbound USA, along endorse Vail and the multi-mountain resorts of Whistler.You could be in Mammoth skiing anytime between November and as past as July. There is a minuscule selection of around 50 restaurants in Mammoth Lakes town, catering for most tastes and pockets, numerous of which score smouldering euphony.
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Dec13
by Asya in Cities, Europe, Fitness&Gym, Hotels, Relaxing, Restaurants, Spa, Spain, Swimming, Urban Tourism

The Hotel Arts is located in second largest city in Spain – Barcelona. It is one km from the Picasso Museum and two km from Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia church. The Mediterranean Sea is just in front of the hotel. There are beaches where a range of watersports are available in summer months. From world-renowned structures to the dazzling waters of the Mediterranean, inventive masterpieces to award-winning dining, this Barcelona luxury hotel’s accommodations offers its guests beautiful urban destination.
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Dec13
by Asya in Chillin, Cities, Europe, Germany, Shopping, Urban Tourism, Walking

Located in Munich, Germany, the shopping center was designed by Chapman Taylor and won the facade competition in 2006. Mira Munchen center was awarded by German Sustainable Building Council for its modern design at the Expo Real show in Munich. The energy efficiency of the center was a priority. The focus on energy efficiency was not to the detriment of the buildings’ aesthetics.
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Dec13
by iv in Adventure, Europe, Extreme, Italy, Photos, Shopping, Skiing, Snowboarding

Livigno is an Italian utilize with a fantastic European-following. Livigno is a higher alt ski hotel situated at 1820m thus ensuring honorable snow conditions. Livigno is scatter out across 3km of the valley control and there is a unloose bus tableware around the ski hotel. Famous for state obligation aweigh, due to its arts distance. There are over 200 shops, mostly merchandising drink, cigarettes and groom. A worthy action for beginners wanting to get fun, active half of Livigno’s lifts are cover drags lengthwise alter to one added along the length of the community over the sunny meadows. Today there are more than 100 hotels and 115km (66 miles) of piste.
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Dec13
by Asya in Arts, Asia, Chillin, Cities, India, Photos, Urban Tourism

Located in Mumbai, India, Cybertecture Egg was designed by James Law Cybertecture International. The form of the architecture symbolizes take cover euphoria about the unborn of the 21st Century. The symbolic “planet” form is supplementary elongate to cater seeing 13 levels of nine-to-five accommodation. The construction is sleek and computer designed, with engineering that creates a building of acutely high disposition and geometric sophistication. By using this “Egg” shape, compared to a prosaic building, this domicile has approximately 10-20% less surface area.
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Dec13
by Asya in Arts, Chillin, Cities, North America, Shopping, United States of America, Urban Tourism

Located in Los Angeles, Alexander McQueen Flagship store was designed by Pentagram Architect William Russell. Over a seven year period Pentagram’s has designed six Alexander McQueen flagship stores: in London, Tokyo, Milan, NY, LA and Las Vegas. The spot of difference is the initiation of a large sculpture by Robert Bryce Muir. Visitors to the handout are greeted by the feet and legs of the piece, entitled “Angel of the Americas”, suspended seeing a skylight above the path.
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