Travel Freak

I know that purists of photography dislike this kind of techniques, but this picture, although full of color, I liked.

The picture, drawn up with a software HDR and resumed the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, better known by his nickname Tokyo Big Sight (a bit like Rome where if you want to get to the Palazzo della Civilta Italiana is good that ask the Colosseum square).

The Big Sight, a conference centre active since 1996 which is located on the island of Odaiba, a large artificial island in the Bay of Tokyo, has become an icon of this part of the city, so as to attract visitors beyond the institutional functions .

In Benidorm, Costa Blanca, born the residential skyscraper highest in Europe. The construction includes two towers, each consisting of 52 storeys, joined at the top by a cone upside, for a total of no less than 200 metres in height. The prospect front reveals how the structure shows the letter M and the number 11 clear reference all’attentato in Madrid on March 11, 2004. Lovely is also the view offered by millions of windows of the structure, as the majestic skyscraper to rise on the bay of Benidorm on a charming prospect of over 5 km of beach.

The project, which will be ready in 2010 and cost 45 million euros, it must be all ‘architect Robert Perez-Guerra already author of 3 more skyscrapers of the bay.

Alcatraz, the prison’s most famous in the world, which lies on the bay of San Francisco, could soon become a prestigious luxury hotel. The project, labelled National Park Service, was created with the idea, but even more by, to take advantage of the growing demand of tourists and curious that every day crowd the bay, counts that each year the prison closed from ‘ 63, is the subject of visits for more than 1 million visitors.

Among other proposals, to give a new use to prison, is to transform it into casinos or in a restaurant or cafeteria to use and consumption of tourists, but are also considering other possible proposals. You do you think? I use give the historic Alcatraz? We are curious to hear yours.

Reinterpretare places now abused by mass tourism through travel notebooks, illustrations, notes and drawings. This is what he does, among other things, Stefano Faravelli, itinerant artist, winner of awards for his Carnets de Voyage, some of which are published by Editions EDT, the Italian publisher of guides Lonley Planet.

His last missed by chicca trip to Egypt is a video, produced and implemented by Travel dell’Elefante, with the stages of the artist and the route of its magical and enchanting drawings on notebooks.

To be sure if they will do a book, indeed a carnet travel and a film: it is precisely from this film that were learned the short trailers presented in this week, a daily blog-magazine Donneconlavaligia. From June 15 all videos will be visible only on YouTube channel of Donneconlavaligia. The photo is of Francis Gasparetti

The famous Hotel Royal Monceau, built in 20 years and inaugurated in 1928, is undergoing restructuring. Since its birth was the splendor of receiving hotel in Paris; among celebrities Eisenhower, Churchill, de Niro, and the youngest, was the set of videos from Madonna “Justify my love.”

The responsibility for this whole restructuring is by Philippe Stark and, with the occasion, the original furnishings are for sale at auction. You can buy from June 19 to 22, at the headquarters of the hotel, on the Avenue Hoche. Chandeliers, carpets, coffee tables, there is something for all tastes and all prices… If you love flea markets and antique shops in Paris, this certainly deserves a trip, fund can buy a piece of history of a building that was certainly a legend.