Favorite Building!

My favorite building it´s called Turning Torso, it a huge residencial building of over 190mts high.

I´ts located in Malmö, Sweden.

One of the things that I love about it is it’s shape, suppostly based on a human torso (like it’s name), the structure it’s turned like a spring, every floor has a different angle so it looks like it’s been rotated in 90 degrees.

It was made by Satiango Calatrava, a spanish architect on august 27 of 2005, it took 4 years to build (a really long time).

The style it´s totaly modern, and it´s made out of steel, glass and concrete, it has 9 turning cubes along a central structure.

I think it´s brilliant the way they capture nature in the proyect, that´s what makes it look so organic, even though it’s a heavy and hard structure. You can see the builing from many different angles and it’s never the same, a truely wok or art

BBC

I though the website was really useful, it’s just a little complicated because the FrontPage it’s filled with links and you get a little confused, but once you get used to it, you can see that there’s a lot of cool stuff to do that can help you do learn English.

One of the links that I logged in was the Watch and listen link, I liked it there where some difficult parts but nothing to complicated.

It’s kind of weird, that in the BBC website there’s a place were you can learn, the BBC to me it’s a very serious and British proud website, so it’s good that they are trying to help us jajaj learning another language it’s no a simple task.

Another good thing it’s that there’s different topics to work on, so you learn but also entertained yourself because it’s about things that you are interested in.

My Fave Website!

My favorite website, it’s facebook, that’s right, I don’t learn anything from it, but I think that reading (for example) and the things that you do in your free time are suppose to be fun.

So this website has all the fun that I want, I get to play games (and compete, the thing that I like the most) I can upload pics and check out the ones that my friends had upload, or posted. I’ve kept in touch with classmates from high school I mean, it’s a great tool to maintain relationships (the friendly ones).

When I’m happy I can post about it, I can write songs and a bunch of stuff.

I don’t know if it’s that important to my life, because you get used to stuff and when you don’t have them…well you get used to that too.

But it’s real fun, and you get to be a kid again for a while….jaja until you log in again.

VICTORY CITY

I think the city it’s pretty great, but I don’t know I that kind of perfection would be possible in this world.

The city it’s build under supposes, and people don’t often behave according to what we suppose.

I would be great that something like that could work but I don’t think it would. For example, one of the platform elevators has this little tiny barriers, any careless person can fall down from that, of course that a civilized human would not play on those barriers but little kids or even teenagers would, so those become dangerous.

I think that as architects and designers we have to think less of people, and make things “dumm proof”, I know it doesn’t sound very nice but it’s the truth, that doesn’t means that we have to do everything with signs and stuff, we have to understand the many ways that the human brain’s work and how it relates to the environment.

New to This!

Well
Since i'm new to this, (this meaning blog world and the level 3 of english class) I'll start by saying Hi to everybody and that I hope that this class won't be as hard as I imagine jaja

For obvious reasons I don't have all the posts that i'm suppoust to, so please comment on my posts as long as they appear on the website.

Thanks again, and we will be seeing eachother soon.


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