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Wed, 07 May 2008 08:27:32 -0300

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Wed, 07 May 2008 07:59:58 -0300

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Wed, 07 May 2008 07:58:15 -0300

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Wed, 07 May 2008 07:53:41 -0300

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Wed, 07 May 2008 07:45:36 -0300

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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:49:29 -0300

Shadwell Basin on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:24:10 -0300

Shadwell Basin on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Another view.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:03:00 -0200

Another view.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:55:00 -0200

Another view.

Night

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:24:00 -0200

Yesterday happened that I was in London.

I decided to go and have a look at the site during the night. Got off at Limehouse station, and made my way to Shadwell Basin. Lots of traffic on the main road (“The Highway”) (it was about 19:00) and I noticed ambulances since there’s a hospital near by.

Turn on Glamis Road and arrived at the site. Deserted is the word to describe it. The only thing you could see was the lights from the windows of the surrounding flats.

The occasional person passed by using the bridge in order to get to the flats, mainly people coming from the bus stop or as I did, coming from the train station. Only a few walked all the way bordering the basin in order to get to the flats backing Garnet Street. And I spotted 2 people walking their dogs.

I don’t know if it was the weather that retained people inside (it was quite cold and windy) or if the site behaves like this every night. Seems like it. I have to say it was quite a view to See the Gherkin to one side, and the Canary Wharf to the other, all illuminated. The site feels like it was squashed between the city and the main road, and fights its way to remain like a small oasis with a taint of spookiness - the general light (street light) is quite dim - and an invisible sign saying “leave us alone!!!” Maybe no one goes to the wharf because there’s nowhere to seat apart from the cold stone.

Anyway, I made my way back to Limehouse Station this time using the riverside path, again no people to be seen but the view of the canary wharf was just breathtaking.

As I was making my way back to St. Pancras I considered that maybe the wharf was so empty and quiet because it was Monday night and probably all the people who lives surrounding the site are just coming back from work , getting their dinners ready and just relaxing after work. Maybe the weather and the time of the year did not help at all.

But it was worth the effort. (Just to see the skyline illuminated)

Site Plan Ladies and Gents! Note, the black dots are actually,...

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:15:00 -0200

Site Plan Ladies and Gents!

Note, the black dots are actually, the trees on the site.

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation,..."

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:03:00 -0200

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius”

- This goes along with all the troubles I had to finally put the right weightlines into autocad.

Damn!!!

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche"

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:01:13 -0200

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche”

Photo

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:53:00 -0200

Shadwell Basin

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:03:00 -0200

London, 06 March 2008 AD.

Arrived to the new site for the last project of the year.

Gray day, does not help at all for good photography. Means another visit to the site, hopefully a sunny day with less wind and maybe more people about.

It is, at first glance, a working neighbourhood. People who disappears into the city in the morning only to comeback in the evening. The place is populated during lunch time, people jogging to relieve the stress of the first half of the day. Time’s up and about 13:30 the place is deserted again. The flats look empty, the place feels empty.

Suddenly dog and owner appear on the scene for a brief walk. Seems to me that the OAP wants to know what is going on, why suddenly so many people are gathering round his place.

A couple of benches , and an anonymous person reading the newspaper.

Cold wind from the Thames, gray clouds and the silence broke with a lorry or a bus. The site is an oasis , a tranquil place without the noise from the main road, actually the houses surrounding the basin works as a buffer, as if they were protecting it.

Near Lille Europe Train Station, Lille, France, 2007

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:51:00 -0200

Near Lille Europe Train Station, Lille, France, 2007

Tutorial

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:37:00 -0200

n1944: New York

Learning to See

It is noon and James Baldwin is walking with a friend through the streets of downtown Manhattan. A red light stops them.

“Look,” says the friend, pointing at the ground.

Baldwin looks. He sees nothing.

“Look, look.”

Nothing. There is nothing to look at but a filthy little puddle

of water against the curb.

His friend insists: “See? Are you seeing?”

And then Baldwin takes a good look and this time he sees, sees a spot of oil spreading in the puddle. Then, in the spot of oil, a rainbow, and even deeper down in the puddle, the street moving, and people moving in the street: the shipwrecked, the madmen, the magicians, the whole world moving, an astounding world full of worlds that glow in the world. Baldwin sees. For the first time in his life, he sees.

From the Book “Memory of Fire: Part Three: Century of the Wind”

By Eduardo Galeano - 1988

——————x———————————x——————————————x————————-xThe day started gray. And I was late.

Miracles still happen though, Tutor came and tutored (as they do) and so far there is light at the end of the tunnel!

There is a massive list of “To Do” things. Better get started, time is running and I do not have long legs.