Great Buildings

There are many buidings I like. It would be unfair to choose just one and in the oder hand it's hard to decide the facts you are going to consider, to finally choose your favourite building. I'll name two.

The first one is the "Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona. This is un unfinished church in the middle of the city. It's curious that it has been under construction more than hundread years. I dont' know if it is a political touristic issue or, they really build that slow. When I came in, it was amazing, because it's like the tipical old church, huge, made of stone, big columns, etc. BUT with the great Gaudi style. Everithing well decorated and beautyfull facades. It's awesome.

And the second one is "The Dancing Building" by Gehry. This one is located in Prague, in the downtown near the river. I pick this one, because I consider it mix in a very good way, old buildings with his own style, that crazy one you can see in the Guggenheim in Bilbao, but with control. He continues the formal, regular facade with, but little dizzy. However, it stil play the same game. The new building doesn't crush with the old style.

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

Dancing Building, Prague, Czech Republic

BBC initiative

Last semester, when I was in Germany, I met a mexican whose german was very good. But really good. He surprised me when he spoke. I asked him and he told me he learnt in a website, an online course. I didn't realise before that this kind of courses exist, and even less, that with such courses you would be able to speak so well a foreign language.
Then I said, I'll do the same thing!! ... of course I didn't, but I joined this grate course with an awesome teacher, Simon, do you know him? :P ... where was I? Well, I think these sites are very usefull if you want to learn by yourself. I acces to the "phrasals" link. In that section you hear/read a sentence, where appears a new vocabulary or "phrasals"(expressions). Then I went to a Listening section.
I like the initiative, but I would make it a little more atractive, I mean the website. I found it boring. Usefull but boring.

Favourite Website

How did I met my favourite website? I guess it was "one time, in band camp..." haha noup, just a joke. Let me think.. I'm not from those guys who enjoy spending a lot of time surfing different websites and stuff. But if I had to specify my favourite website I'll name two. My e-mail and Emol. I normally check my e-mail to see if there is something new, and then I check the news to see what is happening in the world. But, to be honest, emol is not the best way to read the news. It is much better to take the real "El Mercurio" and read it. When I'm bored, I also read Lun , and there I read all the crap the TV showed the day before. As an Information media, it sucks, but really, the worst newspaper I've ever seen and read. It is a Gossip newspaper (and website by the way). Luckily, to save some money, you can find in these websites the complete electronic version of the papers online.
Another website that I like, but I am not really a fun of it, is Youtube. This site is the best one to Procrastinate. If you don't really understand what this word means, please visit this link, I'm sure you'll feel familiar whit it. Check it an comment here if you are a preocrastinater or not.
bye bye

Victory Cities??

I like this kind of utopic speeches. Because you realize that someone is trying or at least thinking of creating a better place to live. But, like every other utopia of a perfect city, it looks so unnatural. A big building for 300 000 people? it would maybe work, if te population were all the sme, if everyone had the same prioritites, wishes and life goals. But it is not like that. We, as architect, know well that diversity is the first need in a project or city(at least I think that way). If we had lived in berlin,when there was the wall, we could say now how awfull it was to live in a place where you do not have the freedom to decide your own acts and ways of living. In this utopic cities, the city kind of force you the way you have to live. And that is not the way it works, just look at the past or think about yourself. Would you like to live in a place like that? maybe for holiday,beacause it is interesting.. but living your whole live in those conditions? I dont think so.
Good for trying to safe mankind, but i don't buy it.