Hi Everyone!

Today I'm going to write about a country I want to visit: Egypt.

Since I was a child I have been fascinated about Ancient Egypt!! Because this civilization have many achievements like monumental pyramids, temples, writing system, agriculture projects, and very interesting culture, however, what strikes me attention is their religion.

The Egypt religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society, it centered of the Egyptians interaction with many “gods” who were believed to be present in, and in control of the forces elements of nature. (Often gods and goddesses were represented as part human and part animal), and therefore its architecture includes the most famous structures because the building or temples projects were organized and funded by state for religious and commemorative purposes, but also to reinforce the power of pharaoh, for this each city had a temple built for the god of that city and was be a cosmic center by which men had communication with the gods.

If I travel to this country, I would like to go to Nile Valley, because it is reputed to be the world’s largest outdoor museum, and contains thousands of monuments places such Luxor and Aswan!!

Hello Fau bloggers:

Today I’would to talk about my favorite building, this is called “The Spiral” by Bjarke Ingels Group and the project is under construction.

“The Spiral” will be a new office tower, and it will be located on the northern end of the High Line at Hudson Boulevard Park in New York City, and climbing 306 meters, the tower's conceptual design is named after its defining feature - an "ascending ribbon of lively green spaces" that extend the High Line "to the sky," says Bjarke Ingels. 

The spiral wraps around the tower, which becomes gradually slimmer towards the top. This create unique floor configurations that will cater to a diverse community of tenants making the building a lively place for businesses of different scales.

The first time I saw the building it was in a blog of conceptual designs, and I really liked, because combines the efficient layouts of the modern high-rise with the classic ziggurat silhouette of the premodern skyscraper, connected interior - exterior with a lively ribbon of atria and terrace, and offers sweeping views across Manhattan.

Another thing that caught my attention was the building will offer 2.87 million-square-feet of “connected and sustainable Class A”.

When the project is ready, I would to travel to New York and visit this amazing office tower!!

Hellos bloggers

Today I’ like to talk about my favorite piece of art, this is The Lovers by René Magritte, if you don’t know who is Rene, he was a famous Belgian surrealist artist and  the reason why I admire his work, is for depicting  ordinary objects in an unusual context and giving new meanings to the “familiar” things.

I saw the Magritte’s art when I study the psychoanalysis (study of the unconscious) with my class, and his work intrigues me to learn more about the pictures, (this is why The lovers as the paint I prefer), this oil from canvas was painting in 1928 in Paris, France and has many analyzes about the couple in this work, because their faces are covered, so when Magritte was 14 years old his mother committed suicide by drowning. He witnessed her body being fished from the water, and her wet nightgown wrapped around her face (as the same of the painting).

This is why the people speculated that this trauma inspired the paintings, but Magritte are disagree with such interpretations, because he denied any relation between his work and his mom death and he wrote:

“They evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself his simple question, what does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable”.

It was amazing how a simple painting can arouse most complex meaning!!!! The viewer can be impacted by it or not depending of interpretation, for this reason Rene Magritte was a genius and The Lovers was one such paintings to be inspirational, controversial and provocative, that art intrigues and provokes thought.