Cypress Soldiers

click image to enlarge

Early morning has a quality of its own. The mind is not loaded already with all the associations and patterns of the day, and the thoughts can run freely. This new built house seemed to be guarded by the cypress soldiers, whilst an officer in yellow is in charge of the guardsmen.

In maybe two or three years these Thuja bushes will have grown to a veritable wall, completing the repelling expression of this house.

this photo on flickr

Some rights reserved.

gloss and paint

click image to enlarge

beijing airport was impressive, to say the least. dimension-wise as well as in puncto tidiness, and at least from the latter those pictures should give an impression.

in europe it is common wisdom that societies with a socialist background usually have an enormous amount of hidden unemployment by entertaining low paid support jobs that would not exist in a pure capitalistic environment (don't deduce from this statement that i would rate our capitalistic society higher - the last months have shown on which bubbles we have built). in beijing airport as well as on the streets of nanjing numerous amount of cleaning staff was re-cleaning clean things, to maintain the high gloss as here in beijing, or spotless clean motoways as in nanjing. impressive, but probably not a useful model for other parts of the world.

but as a billboard to the world, showcasing chinas prosperity and well-organisedness it presumably served the purpose.

this photo on flickr

Some rights reserved.

expo moon

click image to enlarge

participating in a trade fair late in the year, the scenery above is what you usally get at the end of the day. no daylight, little photography - not only because of the light but the feet and the eyes are sore and the nee for a shower and some food is just overwhelming.

chinese representative architecture is first of all BIG. architectonically at least not completely boring, the expo halls in nanjing however had no distinctive chinese elements. it was more smoothened international, global and therefore exchangeable steel and glass style.

this photo on flickr

Some rights reserved.

city lights - go yellow

click image to enlarge

I had looked at this facade quite often during day- and nighttimes as the offer a rich play of effects - just see onion spire, reloaded

Whilst the moving body parts in the gym windows of the first floor don't really lend themselves for a (static) photograph, the reflections do so quite well.

this photo on flickr.

Some rights reserved.

vista

so this title might attract some traffic (makes me grin, as I will go to great efforts in order to avoid having to use this), but it's just the correct translation for the german "durchblick". i found this view in the bavarian chamber of industry and commerce in munich. their building has a really nice patio, and from the round windows of the stairway i had this look down to the ground floor.

this photo on flickr.

Some rights reserved.

new synagogue in Munich (II)

Detail from the basis. I like the contrast between this very strict sober style

and some of the old houses in the surroundings.

new synagogue in Munich

The outside pretty much emphatises the Wailing wall. The building is discussed

controversely here in Munich, but for me it evokes positive emotions, and it is

a challenge to cope with it's aesthetics.