Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The old Hotel "Paradiso" in the Martell Valley
This hotel was built in 1936 at the bottom of the Val Martello valley at an altitude of 2,160 metres in front of Mount Cevedale. It was a facility designed to take customers belonging to different social classes with a careful hierarchy of communal and private services which gave rise to much criticism and debate at the time. The body of the building was partly linear and partly curved in shape, rising to three storeys with the main rooms located in the convex curve of the front. One distinctive feature of the interiors was the use of colour (Ponti developed his study of this in that period), which identified spatial fields and suggested visual lines and directions. In the years after the war the hotel was purchased by a Venetian shipowner Benati, who added two floors and partially enlarged it. It operated for a few years and has been closed down since 1955. Today it is in a serious state of disrepair, although the structure is still standing.
Font: Franco Angeli Editions.More informations about the Architect Giò Ponti:
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Mural Art - Bolzano 2011 - 5/5
These photos were taken at the International Meeting of Graffiti - Bolzano - May 17-22, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Mural Art - Bolzano 2011 - 4/5
These photos were taken at the International Meeting of Graffiti - Bolzano - May 17-22, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Mural Art - Bolzano 2011 - 3/5
These photos were taken at the International Meeting of Graffiti - Bolzano - May 17-22, 2011
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