architecture

Cardiff Bay

A panorama of he Bay from the walk mentioned in yesterday’s post and a picture (below) of the Norwegian Church Arts Centre at the bay.

Triangle, Streets

The triangle juts out from the corners of Principality (formerly Millennium) Stadium. A couple of other contrasty Cardiff street views I converted to black and white below.

The domed roof over the entrance rotunda of the National Museum + a couple of other architectural images. The “Keep Left” one might go with my “keep right” one from the Metropolitan in NY, or it might be a recommendation to the recently elected Labour party here in the UK who have tried so relentlessly not to frighten anyone with their leftism.

Museum of Cardiff

We walked into the city centre and gawked like tourists (see below).

Old Buildings

Some more of the beautiful older buildings in Salisbury that we noted on our walk back to the coach.

Salisbury Cathedral

After our 6½-mile walk, we had lunch at a pub and proceeded through the Harnham Water Meadows (shown in previous posts) to the Salisbury Cathedral. Lots of postcard-type images inside the cathedral, below (click any of the images to see them full-sized – if you’re seeing this on the web, not in email).

Both Sides Now

Musée Réattu

Hunting for the Transcendence show at Vague, I came upon the Réattu Museum, its courtyard and windows on the river (Rhône). I came upon a well-known French photographer with whom I was not familiar, Jean-Claude Gautrand, who documented many important stories for the latter half of the 2oth century and into the 21st. Click on images below to see them larger.

Par-ty!

There are lots of late night parties at Arles. At this one I noted the colour of the sky against the colour of the lighting.

Glass Cube

I’m not sure what this structure was exactly. It’s a reflective cube built over a pond or marsh that one reaches via the short footbridge in the lower left quadrant of this image. I couldn’t resist walking across to see and, of course, take a reflective self-portrait, below.

Arles Reflections

École National Supérieure do la Photographie, Arles, France

Vista

École National Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France

La Tour

The heart of Luma is Gehry’s La Tour (the Tower). An interesting structure on the outside, it boasts more entertainments and interest on the inside. It was here that I saw Joel Coen’s curation of Lee Friedlander’s work. The images below are all interior shots (click on them to enlarge).

Arles Street Scenes

Arles is lovely and quaint. I don’t know what it feels like to live in any of these buildings but they possess an ancient , very European charm and a certain grandeur to look at. Click any of the images below to see them full sized.

Lawn Road Flats / ISOKON

On our way back from Hampstead Heath to the Belsize Park tube station we visited the Lawn Road Flats, home, at various times, to such luminaries as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, László Moholy-Nagy, Agatha Christie and various NKVD spies and recruiters. It’s famous ISOBar played host, additionally, to Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Julian Huxley among many others.

Warsaw Rising

We visited a museum dedicated to the Warsaw Rising of 1944 (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, when the segregated Jews revolted). In this case, as the Germans retreated westward and the Russians advanced from the East, the people of Warsaw rose up. As usual, rather than photograph the objects in the museum, I focused my camera on the space and, of course, found a reflection of myself to photograph as well.