Did the dishes, went for a run, and fixed an excel graph...now to post more pictures from Spain.
First, this is an urban park in Madrid. Most urban greenspaces seemed very civic - fountains, uniform patterns, statues, and sculpted bushes - but this beautiful shot reminds me of a marsh in Ontario.
Next, this stained glass is in the Sagrada Familia Cathedral designed by Gaudi in Barcelona. The columns on the inside were a pure white and they split into several branches - like a tree - as they went up to the ceiling, which resembled foliage.
Here's Marta in Park Guell also designed by Gaudi. Lots of peices of colourful tile arranged in patterns that remind of Australian Aboriginal art. The park's built on the side of a mountain. From a distance, the scenery looks quite lush. Up close, the park has a lot of structures and pathways, some of which reminded me of an enchanted kingdom from Disney World.
2 comments:
It's cool that they get famous artists to design their city parks in Europe as opposed to a city bureaucrat or at best a landscape architect hired by the city like we do.
I still don't agree with putting Gaudi and Disney World in the same sentence!
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