South Africa – Cape Town

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I’ve just started work in a new architecture practice and suddenly I travelled to South Africa for a short period of work!

The mission was discover how the FIFA WORLD CUP is organized, how the city is transformed just for 4 weeks…why the South Africans had been so proud to host this big event…

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This new architecture practice is involved in some stadium projects for 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL, so nothing better than visit a previous host country to learn!

We went to South Africa to visit three cities: Cape Town, Durban and Jo’burg.

Cape Town is an amazing city. We Brazilians say that CT is an Rio de Janeiro that who worked!

The city is guarded by imposing Table Mountain.

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As a foreigner view, the city is perfect, but is known that the recent past is still present in everyday society.

The Cape Town Stadium is located in a place called Green Point, where before the WC, was a Golf field and the old Green Point Stadium.

It’s almost 2500m far from the city centre.

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Despite of The Fan Fest area organized in the city centre, the point for tourists was the Waterfront, a place where there are lots of good restaurants and shops, but in this place, you feel that you are in London, Paris, or other European country, not in South Africa.

Let’s go back to the main interest in this trip…the stadiums.

The Cape Town Stadium – Green Point -”African Reinassence Stadium – is an amazing structure!

Designed for almost 66000 spectators, the stadium was the main stage for important games, as the semi-final…

Unfortunately…the stadium pictures were in my stolen memory card…so have a look in a few city pictures.

Let me keep some more information for the next posts…Wine Valley…

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See you soon!

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Chapter 3 – Republic of La Boca [Part 1]

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Whenever you see a touristic brochure about Buenos Aires, Caminito, in the La Boca Neighborhood, is a classic. And like with every classic place, either you love it or you hate it. It’s one of those places you have to see with your own eyes and probably the place everyone will expect to see on your travel photos.

When many inmigrants came from Italy, most of them from Genoa, they settled in this part of the city, where the port would gave them the chance to start a new life in the American continent [Important fact: America is not a country but a whole continent so we argentines are also Americans. Just to let you know ;)]. They built their homes with whatever they found, from wood to metal sheet. Painting was done almost in the same way using what they had, resulting in very colorful homes.

The following photos are from Caminito, which is a little colorful museum street. It was the artist Benito Quinquela Martin Chinchella [in 1959] who decided to paint it walls with different pastel colors to give this place the brightness it had before, when a train used to go through it streets until it was abandoned.

The name, Caminito [little path] was taken from the lyrics of a tango written by Juan de Dios Filiberto in 1926.

Both most relevant teams of argentine fútbol were born in La Boca: River Plate and Boca Juniors. Being myself a fan of River I find it hard to recommend you people to go to La Bombonera, the famous Boca stadium, but I do strongly recommend you to visit the best argentine stadium, El monumental, River’s stadium and where the national team always play ;-)

One last thing to mention is that, whether you like it or not, this is a very very photogenic spot. Though is not my favorite neighborhood I highly recommend it to those in the search of beautiful and colorful photos.

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República de La Boca. Sounds like a separatist neighborhood but it isn´t ;)

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1,2,3 Tango! This two were posing for a photographer and I “stole” this picture.

Oh, let me tell you I had to wake up very very early so that it could be possible to take photos without having one thousand tourists appearing on them.

 

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Caminito and it colours.

 

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Reading the newspaper surrounded by color.

 

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A Cat.

 

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Some pretty windows.

 
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Some houses and a very modern car :P

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That’s me trying to jump and reach the basket. Of course I couldn’t accomplish it. But hey, there was a time when I could play good basketball [I’m too bad at fútbol].

 

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Argentine icons [from left to right]: Diego Maradona, Eva Perón and Carlos Gardel.

 

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Tacky stuff for sale. Ewwwww

 

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Fútbol t-shirts even for babies.

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Tango dancers for sale. This looks much better than those ugly bags :P

 

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A very gentle guy who sells art on the caminito streets.

 
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A Diego Maradona’s clon. Oh my god, he really looks like him and he is not even family related. He is always there with a photographer who sells the” photo with Diego”. When I told the clon about the blog and I asked him for his permission to take a photo he accepted immediately, but the photographer was not happy with the idea of me stealing his model and not paying anything. So… this is an exclusive photo for all of you samsungimaging followers!!! ;)

 

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And to finish for now, this is another view of the Barrio de La Boca.

Well, I hope this was not too boring. Later I will upload a second part of this “La Boca Special”.

Thanx for reading and have a nice day, month, year and life. Chauuuuu :)

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