Wein (Vienna) June 2003
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My second trip to Wein (you will call it what the people who live there call it!). Went with my friend John, an architecture student, because Patrick had just hurt his knee and we didn't know if site seeing was a good idea, but everything was already paid for... Very cool having an architecture student walk around a city with you. You learn a lot of cool stuff. |
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Aren't those just the most beautiful window shades? Why can't the Germans have beautiful one's like that? Why must the window shades in Germany be ugly metal? |
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This is a building near the post office (or maybe it is the post office, can't remember). Very cool dots on the outside holding the facade on... |
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Now we know where the Beastie Boys got the idea for their song...a bar in Wein. |
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My colleague and friend Jan, has the last name of Augustin. Basically, this is his love hide-a way. (Liebe means love in German) |
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Translation...'Institure for Conflict Formation - Beginning' (no really I swear that is what it says...) |
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Some lovely candle sticks in the Austrian Museum of Design (MAK). I took so cool pictures of vases as well, but they were fuzzy. Guess I had too much of that wonderful Viennese Coffee. |
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How cool is a museum that has a room dedicated to cool chairs? They had a shoe exhibit last time I visited but it was gone this time. Damn. |
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The top photo is the stairs that you can sit on in the back court yard at MAK. The picture on bottom is of a semi-functional door done by a totally crazy artist who eventually committed suicide. When I say crazy I mean, among other things, hating women and thinking they should be only held as slaves, or some such. John was telling me about the guy. |
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Now is this a cool post office, or what? |
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Looks more like a theatre. |
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This inlay was at knee level. Just above the cellar windows. Talk about attention to detail. |
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This is a door near the cellar windows. Why can't American architecture be so fluid yet expressive? |
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This was just a really cool record/art gallery. At least the outside was cool. It was closed. |
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Another moment of American humiliation in Europe. Here you see in the foreground, the Starbucks sign. In the background you see the top of the Succession building. Oh the horror... |
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See, it isn't just a sign. Honestly though, it was really hot so I had a frappachino and it was heavenly... |
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