卡達克斯（西班牙語：Cadaqués），是西班牙加泰隆尼亞赫羅納省的一個市鎮。總面積27平方公里，2001年總人口2024人，人口密度75人/平方公里。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaqu%C3%A9s
Cadaques, seen from behind, 1921
2019年4月30日 星期二
The Cube Houses in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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🔶 The Cube Houses in Rotterdam, Netherlands are one of the city’s most iconic attractions. They were designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom in the late 1970s and resemble an abstract forest, each triangular roof representing a treetop. Would you like to live there?
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2019年4月28日 星期日
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire 聖彼得堡：權力和欲望交織、殘暴與屠殺橫行的三百年史
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
Hardcover – 29 Jun 2017
by Jonathan Miles (Author)
From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world.
St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers.
This city, in its successive incarnations – St Petersburg; Petrograd; Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg – has always been a place of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here: its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality.
In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when – once more – its fate hangs in the balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable portrait of a city and its people.
by Jonathan Miles (Author)
From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world.
St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers.
This city, in its successive incarnations – St Petersburg; Petrograd; Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg – has always been a place of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here: its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality.
In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when – once more – its fate hangs in the balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable portrait of a city and its people.
聖彼得堡：權力和欲望交織、殘暴與屠殺橫行的三百年史
- 作者： 強納森．邁爾斯
新功能介紹 - 原文作者： Jonathan Miles
- 譯者： 楊芩雯
- 出版社：馬可孛羅
- 出版日期：2019
2019年4月27日 星期六
台灣民俗村
| 台灣民俗村 | |
|---|---|
| 位置 |  臺灣彰化縣花壇鄉灣雅村三芬路360號 |
| 業主 | 日榮資產管理股份有限公司 |
| 開幕 | 1993年12月11日 |
| 休業 | 2013年7月 |
| 面積 | 52公頃 |
| 網站 | 日華大飯店 |
台灣民俗村是一個由文化面出發，結合歷史、古蹟、民俗、文化、教育、遊樂、休閒等多功能的遊樂園區，位於彰化縣花壇鄉東方、八卦台地一處山谷裡，是八卦山風景區所屬的八卦山大佛遊憩區景點之一。園區後方有縣道139號經過，但園區大門設立於三芬路，故主要交通是仰賴彰60線進出。
目前園區暫停開放，僅嘯月山莊休閒渡假飯店（已更名為日華大飯店）仍正常營運。
歷史[編輯]
- 1987年，台灣民俗村創辦人施金山成立金景山實業股份有限公司，選址於現今所在的園址興建台灣民俗村。
- 1989年正式動工，1993年12月11日正式啟用，園區總面積達52公頃，大門是仿造清代彰化縣城西門，門上匾「慶豐門」三字，整座城門是園區出入口的象徵。後來，營運期間遭受921大地震而中斷，2003年才恢復營運。
- 施金山於2007年去世後，台灣民俗村因經營不善，負債新台幣30億元，遭到法院拍賣，由大佛山股份有限公司負責人黃愛倫（妙天禪師女兒）以新台幣15億6千多萬元取得債權。2011年10月底辦理產權移轉後，台灣民俗村改由大佛山股份有限公司經營。
- 2012年3月13日起，園區除拍片劇組外，暫停開放，嘯月山莊休閒渡假飯店仍正常營運。
- 2013年4月18日，台灣民俗村產權人日榮資產管理公司將臺鐵舊有的建築站體新北投車站無償捐贈給台北市政府，2017年4月1日在台北捷運新北投車站旁的七星公園內原址重建。
- 2013年7月，北斗奠安宮25年前因重建，讓兩百多年老廟遷移到台灣民俗村；大佛山公司同意將老廟無償贈還，廟方將出資將老廟遷回奠安宮停車場。
園內文化資產[編輯]
彰化縣花壇鄉
台灣民俗村（已歇業）
電話：04-7872029
地址：花壇鄉灣雅村三芬路360號
文章來源：玩全台灣旅遊網
位於彰化縣花壇鄉的台灣民俗村佔地約52公頃，入口處的「慶豐城樓」為台灣民俗村的精神象徵，園區共分為七大區，包括遊客服務區、昨日台灣區、今日台灣區、自然教育區、山林勝蹟區、時空劇場區及休閒渡假區，為台灣第一座結合歷史、古蹟、民俗、文化、教育、遊樂、休閒等七大主題的遊樂區，遊樂區除了有許多古色古香的建築景觀，另有現代化的遊樂設施可供遊憩，目前遊樂區歇業中，僅有日華大飯店（原名嘯月山莊），提供住宿。
2019年4月25日 星期四
紐約 Penn Station 昔今對比，不勝懷念：Today’s version is humiliating and bewildering.
紐約時報的英文版和中文摘要，大異其趣：該報的建築評論員說新車站令人迷惑.....
When the Old Penn Station Was Demolished, New York Lost Its Faith ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/.../old-penn-station-pictures-new-york.html
2 days ago - There was a time when New York City had the gateway it deserved. ... When Penn Station became during the mid-1960s a subterranean rat's ...
Farewell to Penn Station - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/30/archives/farewell-to-penn-station.html
Until the first blow fell no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism ...
Opinion | Penn Station Reborn - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/30/opinion/penn-station-reborn.html
Sep 30, 2016And this week he announced a plan to revamp Penn Station. Still entombed beneath Madison Square Garden ...
Opinion | Penn Station, Now and Always - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/penn-station-now-and-always.html
Jul 10, 2017 - In 1964, Penn Station, with its soaring vaults and sunlight, was demolished and replaced by a claustrophobic labyrinth that weighs on the spirits ...
PAST TENSE
When the Old Penn Station Was Demolished, New York Lost Its Faith
Today’s version is humiliating and bewildering.
One of Penn Station’s 22 famous eagles being removed from the building’s one remaining facade. The statues ended up in far-flung places like the New Jersey Botanical Garden and on the roof of Cooper Union. July 12, 1966.CreditCreditJack Manning/The New York Times
By Michael Kimmelman
April 24, 2019
There was a time when New York City had the gateway it deserved.
Demolished more than half a century ago, the former Pennsylvania Station by McKim, Mead & White was hardly the first great building in town to face the wrecking ball. The Lenox Library by Richard Morris Hunt and the old Waldorf-Astoria by Henry Hardenbergh on Fifth Avenue also came down. For generations, New Yorkers embraced the mantra of change, assuming that what replaced a beloved building would probably be as good or better.
The Frick mansion, by Carrère and Hastings, replaced the Lenox Library. The Empire State Building replaced the old Waldorf.
Then, a lot of bad Modern architecture, amid other signs of postwar decline, flipped the optimistic narrative.
When Penn Station became during the mid-1960s a subterranean rat’smaze, the city seemed to be heading very definitely south. The historic preservation movement, which rose from the vandalized station’s ashes, was born of a new pessimism.
Looking east from Ninth Avenue, the razed blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood that would become the site of Penn Station. July 14, 1904.
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Looking east from Ninth Avenue, the razed blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood that would become the site of Penn Station. July 14, 1904.People today forget that the original station’s construction, shortly after the turn of the last century, caused its own tumult. Several midtown blocks needed to be leveled, which meant displacing thousands of residents from the largely African-American community in what was once known as the Tenderloin district in Manhattan. The emptied lot, awaiting McKim’s masterpiece, now looks almost comically vast in photographs.
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The building that opened in 1910 — its concourse longer than the nave of St. Peter’s in Rome, its creamy travertine quarried, like the ancient Colosseum’s, from Tivoli, its ceiling 138 feet high, its grand staircase nearly as wide as a basketball court — was a “beautiful Beaux Arts fortress,” as the architect Vishaan Chakrabarti has put it.
Grand Central Terminal, at Park Avenue, by the architects Warren and Wetmore, created a bustling new urban hub intricately woven into the fabric of the surrounding streets. By contrast, Penn Station had its fancy portes cochères for the railroad’s well-heeled customers, and 84 huge, somber Doric columns, with 22 roosting eagles guarding the entrances.
Inside and out, the building was meant to be uplifting and monumental — like the Parthenon on steroids — its train shed and waiting room a skylit symphony of almost overwhelming civic nobility, announcing the entrance to a modern metropolis.
The vast train shed and main waiting room of the old Penn Station, circa 1910.CreditMcKim, Mead & White
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The vast train shed and main waiting room of the old Penn Station, circa 1910. CreditMcKim, Mead & WhiteWith its swarming crowds and dust motes dancing in shafts of smoky light, the station was catnip to midcentury photographers, filmmakers, artists and architects. It was the architectural embodiment of New York’s vaulted ambition and open arms.
Alas, by the Depression, the building had already begun to decline, and by the mid-1950s, the Pennsylvania Railroad was bleeding money — a victim of cars, planes and general urban decline. Interstate highways and commercial air travel, buoyed by lavish government subsidies, were taking a toll on train ridership. Once bright and gleaming outside, the station, which cost a fortune to maintain, was now increasingly grimy, like the streets around it. Shops were shuttering where businessmen who missed the 5:45 to Trenton used to pick up chocolates for their wives.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional, with service to Washington, awaiting the “All Aboard." March 17, 1955.CreditSam Falk/The New York Times
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The Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional, with service to Washington, awaiting the “All Aboard." March 17, 1955.CreditSam Falk/The New York TimesImage
An art student capturing the station in its twilight years. Oct. 27, 1964.CreditMeyer Liebowitz/The New York TimesImage
The main waiting room of Penn Station, with demolition in progress in the background. Jan. 20, 1964.CreditEddie Hausner/The New York TimesOn top of which, as Ada Louise Huxtable, the former Times architecture critic, wrote in 1966: “Functionally, the station was considerably less than noble. The complexity and ambiguity of its train levels and entrances and exits were a constant frustration.” Except for its glass-and-iron waiting room, she added, the station “was a better expression of ancient Rome than of 20th-century America.”
So it wasn’t altogether shocking when railroad executives offered the air rights for the property for $50 million (nearly ten times that amount in today’s dollars). New York could downsize its station, stick it underground, add a new sports arena and office tower on top and reboot itself for the rest of the century. To pragmatists, that sounded like progress.
More on Penn Station
Michael Kimmelman and Vishaan Chakrabarti on an ambitious proposal to reimagine the transit hub.
Opinion
Penn Station RebornSept. 30, 2016
In retrospect, entombed beneath Madison Square Garden and a commercial building too mediocre to rise even to the level of good or bad, the new Penn Station represented a city disdainful of its gloried architectural past.
Replacing the old station involved an engineering feat: sliding a gigantic steel deck over the working tracks and platforms so the station could still function even while the drum-shaped Garden rose above it.
Sunny advertising touting the arrival of Madison Square Garden. Oct. 27, 1964.CreditMeyer Liebowitz/The New York Times
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Sunny advertising touting the arrival of Madison Square Garden. Oct. 27, 1964.CreditMeyer Liebowitz/The New York TimesImage
During the demolition, a view into Penn Station’s main waiting room, which was still in use as the building was torn down. July 6, 1965.CreditArthur Brower/The New York TimesImage
A view of the same scene, looking the opposite direction. July 6, 1965.CreditArthur Brower/The New York TimesThe gutted remnants of the building evoke the feeling of ancient ruins. June 22, 1964.CreditEddie Hausner/The New York Times
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The gutted remnants of the building evoke the feeling of ancient ruins. June 22, 1964.CreditEddie Hausner/The New York TimesSurreal photographs show crowds in the old waiting room seemingly oblivious to the wrecking crews dismembering the station around them. Moody black-and-white images of a half-demolished train shed bring to mind scenes of London during the Blitz or the crumbling ruins of ancient Babylon.
The sculpted eagles lowered by cranes from atop the giant columns look like flags at half-mast. Older salarymen with their hats on and younger ones without hats passed beneath banners hung from the columns promising a new era. A sign in one of the station’s underground hallways read, “Close It We Must To Build Your New Station.”
Madison Square Garden under construction. Oct. 25, 1966.CreditNeal Boenzi/The New York Times
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Madison Square Garden under construction. Oct. 25, 1966.CreditNeal Boenzi/The New York TimesA construction sign blocking off a walkway. Jan. 20, 1964.CreditEddie Hausner/The New York Times
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A construction sign blocking off a walkway. Jan. 20, 1964.CreditEddie Hausner/The New York TimesThe current Penn Station services some 600,000 travelers daily. Feb. 26, 1968.CreditWilliam E. Sauro/The New York Times
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The current Penn Station services some 600,000 travelers daily. Feb. 26, 1968.CreditWilliam E. Sauro/The New York TimesConceived to handle fewer than 200,000 passengers, the replacement Penn Station is today the busiest transit hub in the Western Hemisphere, through which more than 600,000 commuters pass each day — an experience as humiliating and bewildering as Grand Central remains inspiring and exalted.
Plans by Albany to paint lipstick on the pig, widening some corridors and extending the station into the old McKim-designed Post Office across Eighth Avenue are only reminders of what was lost.
New Yorkers deserve a better gateway. Half a century later, the city is still waiting.
Correction: April 24, 2019
An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to train destinations available from the old Penn Station. Trains traveled to Trenton, among other stations, but not Morristown.
Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic. He was previously The Times's chief art critic and, based in Berlin, created the Abroad column, covering cultural and political affairs across Europe and the Middle East. @kimmelman • Facebook
中文版叫你去懷舊
•圖集： 半個世紀前的紐約舊賓州車站 。上世紀六十年代，紐約舊賓夕法尼亞車站醒目的車站大樓被拆除，轉而變為一個新的全地下式現代化車站。如今，曾經的賓州車站是麥迪遜花園的所在地，但我們仍然能從歷史老照片中一瞥它當年的模樣。
2019年4月24日 星期三
Paris In Mind
See all 2 imagesParis In Mind: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes, from Saul Bellow to David Sedaris: Three Centuries of Americans Writing About Their Romance (and Frustrations) with ParisPaperback – July 8, 2003
“Paris is a moveable feast,” Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy of the Can-Can. Sylvia Beach recalls the excitement of opening Shakespeare & Company on the Rue Dupuytren. David Sedaris praises Parisians for keeping quiet at the movies. These are just a few of the writers assembled here, and each selection is as surprising and rewarding as the next.
Including essays, book excerpts, letters, articles, and journal entries, this seductive collection captures the long and passionate relationship Americans have had with Paris. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, Paris in Mind is sure to be a fascinating voyage for literary travelers.
Jennifer Allen * Deborah Baldwin * James Baldwin * Dave Barry * Sylvia Beach * Saul Bellow * Bricktop * Art Buchwald * T. S. Eliot * M.F.K. Fisher * Janet Flanner * Benjamin Franklin * Ernest Hemingway *Langston Hughes * Thomas Jefferson * Stanley Karnow * Patric Kuh * A. J. Liebling * Anaïs Nin * Grant Rosenberg * David Sedaris * Irwin Shaw *Gertrude Stein * Mark Twain * Edith Wharton * E. B. White
2019年4月23日 星期二
Bukhara 布哈拉（烏茲別克語：Buxoro）
Bukhara was known as Bokhara in 19th- and early-20th-century English publications and as Buhe/Puhe（捕喝) in Tang Chinese.[5]
According to the Encyclopædia Iranica the name Bukhara is possibly derived from the Sogdian βuxārak ("Place of Good Fortune")[6]
Bukhara
Buxoro / Бухоро
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Bukhara
Location in Uzbekistan
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| Coordinates: 39°46′N 64°26′E | |
| Country |  Uzbekistan |
| Region | Bukhara Region |
| Founded | 6th Century BC |
| First mention | 500 |
| Government | |
| • Type | City Administration |
| • Hakim (Mayor) | Karim Djamalovich Kamalov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 73.0 km2 (28.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 225 m (738 ft) |
| Population
(2017)
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| • Total | 272,000 |
| • Density | 2,702/km2 (7,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | GMT +5 |
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