Vintage Series 4, China, Yangtze River 1984
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©2019 Valerio Griffa
Categorie: mountains, nature, Uncategorized • Tags: battello, china, chongqing, cina, crociera, cruising, fiume, gole gorges, hubei, river, yangtze river
Peek into heaven trough geometry
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©2019 Valerio Griffa
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Turin Architecture 1
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©2019 Valerio Griffa
Categorie: architecture, art, design, lifestyle • Tags: architecture, architettura, carlo alberto college, collegio carlo alberto, gualino, italia, italy, palaca, palazzo, reale mutua group, torino, turin
Monsieur de Dolomieu
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©2019 Valerio Griffa – Dolomiti a S.Martino di Castrozza, Trento, Pale di S.Martino “Su un genere di pietre calcaree molto poco effervescente con gli acidi e fosforescente per collisione“. Lo scienziato Déodat de Dolomieu pubblicò questo articolo nel 1791 e mandò campioni di quella roccia a De Saussure, un’autorità. Quest’ultimo chiamò la roccia ‘dolomia’ e la cosa poteva finire lì, uno scambio di favori tra scienziati. Nel 1864, due viaggiatori inglesi pubblicarono a Londra ‘The Dolomite Mountains’. Quando il territorio […]
Categorie: landscape, mountains, nature, stories, travel • Tags: alpi, alps, dolomia, dolomieu, dolomite, dolomites, dolomiti, geologia, geology, italia, italy, montagne, mountains, s.martino, saussure, trentino
Turin Rivers Memo
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©2019 Valerio Griffa
Categorie: architecture, art, urban • Tags: dora riparia river, fontana, fountain, po river, torino, turin
Turin skills
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©2019 Valerio Griffa Palazzo del Lavoro in Turin is one of the most important and ingenious of Pier Luigi Nervi projects. One of the most innovative sites in post war years in Italy. Built in 1961, with the collaboration of the architects Giò Ponti and Gino Covre.
Categorie: architecture, art, design, urban • Tags: architect, architecture, Giò Ponti, italy, palace, palazzo del lavoro, Pier Luigi Nervi, torino, turin, urbanism
Vintage Series, 3, Cambodia
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Valerio Griffa©2018 “When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages…here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.” ― Kim Fay, The Map of Lost Memories
Categorie: architecture, art, handicraft, lifestyle, people, Uncategorized • Tags: cambodia, cambogia, giallo, palazzo reale, phnom penh, pietre preziose, precious stones, royal palace, sarte, seamstress, yellow
Vintage Series, 2, Germany
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©2018-Valerio Griffa Dessau, in Saxony Anhalt, is wellknown for its College of Architecture, that moved here from Weimar in 1925 and has been forced to close by Nazis in 1931. It has been home for Gropius, Klee, Kandinskij, among others.
Categorie: architecture, design • Tags: anhalt, architecture, architettura, design, dessau, germania, germany, gropius, kandinskij, klee, nazis, nazisti, sassonia, saxony
