MetroSQ

NYC Subway Colors and Names

2018-08-13T07:20:00.001+02:00

How to Ride the Subway in New York

2018-08-13T07:12:00.001+02:00

Diller Scofidio + Renfro - The Shed / Hudson Yards

2018-08-13T06:52:00.001+02:00

Herzog & de Meuron - 1111 Lincoln Road

2018-08-13T06:35:00.001+02:00

Monterey, California

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Santiago, Chile

2015-12-13T12:58:00.000+01:00

Plaza de la Ciudadanía

Plaza de la Ciudadanía, Citizenry Square) is a public square located in the southern façade of the Palacio de La Moneda (Chile's presidential palace) in Santiago. It used to be part of the grass garden and parking area of the Palace.
Construction began in November 2004, as part of the Bicentennial Projects (a series of public works initiated by the executive branch all over the country for the purpose of celebrating the nation's 200 years of independence). The first stage of the works, inaugurated in January 2006, featured as centerpiece the Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda ("La Moneda Palace Culture Centre"), a large underground cultural facility, as well as two water mirrors, two lines of fountains, a new underground parking area and the relocation of the statue of former-president Alessandri.

Water fountains and the statue of the President Alessandri

In the future, the nearby Alameda Avenue will go underground, allowing to connect the Plaza directly with the Paseo Bulnes (Bulnes Boulevard), respecting the original design of the Barrio Cívico de Santiago ("Civic Quarter"), with a grand perspective from the Palace and other government buildings down the Boulevard. This third phase of the project is still pending final approval.

Centre Gabriela Mistral

The Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) is a cultural center located on 227 Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins, in Santiago de Chile. The complex was originally built to serve as the headquarters for the third UNCTAD conference, which was held in Santiago in 1972, and consisted of a convention center and an adjoining 22-stories building. The building was finished in only 275 days in a significant effort supported by several thousand volunteers. This effort was part of a major propaganda initiative performed by the socialist government of Salvador Allende, in power between the end of 1970 and September 1973 .After the conference, the building was used as a cultural center until the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. After the end of the Pinochet regime, it hosted a number of conventions and the adjacent tower became the main building for the Ministry of National Defense. The complex was damaged by a fire in 2006 and later remodeled to serve as a cultural center.

The Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral was inaugurated in September 2010 and is named after Gabriela Mistral.

Plaza Ercilla

Ministerío de Justicia

BIG and Thomas Heatherwick - Google's Proposal for North Bayshore

2015-03-28T07:46:00.001+01:00

Cromatic45 - MAD//13 - Madrid Aerial Demo-Reel

2015-03-07T15:54:00.001+01:00

Juan Rayos - Madrid Surfboard

2015-03-07T15:49:00.001+01:00

Surfing the city.

Riders:
Ra (ralongboard.blogspot.com)
Nacho (caribbeansportshop.blogspot.com)
Marketes

Music:
Ten Thousand Lines - Electric President
Bathtime - Tinderstick

Paris / Parc des Buttes Chaumont on Street View

2013-11-17T13:48:00.000+01:00

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The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a public park situated in northeast of Paris, in the 19th arrondissement. Occupying 24.7 hectares, it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, the Bois de Boulogne, the Parc de la Villette, and the Tuileries Garden. It was opened in 1867, late in the regime of Emperor Napoleon III, and was built by Jean-Charles Alphand, who created all the major parks of Napoleon III. The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy, perched at the top of a cliff thirty metres above the waters of the artificial lake.

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The park took its name from the bleak hill which occupied the site, which, because of the chemical composition of its soil, was almost bare of vegetation- it was called Chauve-mont, or bare hill. The area, just outside the limits of Paris until the mid-19th century, had a sinister reputation; it was close to the site of the Gibbet of Montfaucon, the notorious place where the bodies of hanged criminals were displayed after their executions fom the 13th century until 1760.After the 1789 Revolution, it became a refuse dump, and then a place for cutting up horse carcasses and a depository for sewage. The director of public works of Paris and builder of the Park, Jean-Charles Alphand, reported that "the site spread infectious emanations not only to the neighboring areas, but, following the direction of the wind, over the entire city." Another part of the site was a former gypsum and limestone quarry mined for the construction of buildings in Paris and in the United States. This not-very-promising site was chosen by Baron Haussmann, the Prefet of Paris, for the site of a new public park for the recreation and pleasure of the rapidly-growing population of the new 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris, which had been annexed to the city in 1860.

The work on the park began in 1864, under the direction of Alphand, who used all the experience and lessons he had learned in making the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. Two years were required simply to terrace the land. Then a railroad track was laid to bring in cars carrying two hundred thousand cubic meters of topsoil. A thousand workers remade the landscape, digging a lake and shaping the lawns and hillsides. Explosives were used to sculpt the buttes themselves and the former quarry into a picturesque mountain fifty meters high with cliffs, an interior grotto, pinacles and arches. Hydraulic pumps were installed to lift the water from the canal of the Ourcq River up the highest point on the promontory, to create a dramatic waterfall.

The chief gardener of Paris, horticulturist Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, then went to work, planting thousands of trees, shrubs and flowers, along with sloping lawns. At the same time, the city's chief architect, Gabriel Davioud, designed the miniature Roman temple on the top of the promontory, modeled after that at Tivoli near Rome, as well as belvederes, restaurants modeled after Swiss chalets, and gatehouses like rustic cottages, completing the imaginary landscape.

The park was finally opened on April 1, 1867, coinciding with the opening of the Paris Universal Exposition, and instantly became a popular success with the Parisians.

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The heart of the park is an artificial lake of 1.5 hectares surrounding the Île de la Belvédère, a rocky island with steep cliffs made from the old gypsum quarry. On the top is the Temple de la Sibylle, thirty meters above the lake. An artificial waterfall plunges from the top of the belvedere through an underground grotto down the lake. The island is connected by two bridges with the rest of the park, the island is surrounded by paths, and a steep stairway of 173 steps leads from the top of the belvedere down through the grotto to the edge of the lake..

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The grotto is a vestige of the old gypsum and limestone quarry that occupied part of the park site. It is fourteen meters wide and twenty meters high, and has been sculpted and decorated with artificial stalactites as long as eight meters to make it resemble a natural grotto, in the style of the romantic English landscape garden of the 18th and 19th century. An artificial waterfall, fed by pumps, cascades from the top of the island and down through the grotto to the lake.

A 63-meter-long suspension bridge, eight meters above the lake, allows access to the belvedere. The bridge was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the Eiffel Tower.
A twelve meter long masonry bridge, twenty-two meters above the lake, known as the "suicide bridge", allows access to the belvedere from the south side of the park. After a series of well-publicized suicides, the bridge is now fenced with wire mesh.

The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, a miniature version of the famous ancient Roman Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy. The original temple was the subject of many romantic landscape paintings from the 17th to the 19th century, and inspired simiar architectural follies in the English landscape garden of the 18th century. The temple was designed by Gabriel Davioud, the city architect for Paris, who designed picturesque monuments for the Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes, Parc Monceau, and other city parks. He also designed some of the most famous fountains of Paris, including the Fontaine Saint-Michel. The temple was finished in 1867.

New York City Bridges in Street View

2013-11-17T13:24:00.000+01:00

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.

Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[7] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.

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Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension). It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. The bridge was opened to traffic on December 31, 1909 and was designed by Leon Moisseiff,[1] who later designed the infamous original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that opened and collapsed in 1940. It has four vehicle lanes on the upper level (split between two roadways). The lower level has three lanes, four subway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The upper level, originally used for streetcars, has two lanes in each direction, and the lower level is one-way and has three lanes in peak direction. It once carried New York State Route 27 and later was planned to carry Interstate 478. No tolls are charged for motor vehicles to use the Manhattan Bridge.

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Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278). It once carried New York State Route 27A and was planned to carry Interstate 78, though these plans were aborted by the cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway and Bushwick Expressway.
This is one of four toll-free crossings between Manhattan and Brooklyn or Queens.

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Queensboro Bridge

The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island. It carries New York State Route 25 and is the westernmost of the four East River spans that carry a route number: NY 25 terminates at the west (Manhattan) side of the bridge, which once carried NY 24 and NY 25A as well. The bridge is flanked on its northern side by the freestanding Roosevelt Island Tramway. In December 2010, the bridge was renamed in honor of former New York City mayor Ed Koch.

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Roosevelt Island Bridge

The Roosevelt Island Bridge is a lift bridge that connects Roosevelt Island in Manhattan to Astoria in Queens, crossing the East Channel of the East River. It is the sole route to the island for vehicular and foot traffic (without using public transportation). Construction of the bridge began on March 17, 1952, at a cost of $6.5 million. It opened on May 18, 1955, as the Welfare Island Bridge.The name was changed to the Roosevelt Island Bridge in 1973. When the bridge is open it provides ships with 100 feet (30 m) of vertical clearance. It is 40 feet (12 m) wide, and its total length, including approaches, is 2,877 feet (877 m). The main span is 418 feet (127 m).
Before the bridge was constructed, the only way vehicles could access Roosevelt Island was via an elevator on the Queensboro Bridge. The Roosevelt Island Bridge provides direct access to the Motorgate Parking Garage, which was designed to minimize vehicular traffic on the island. The garage was completed in 1974 and later expanded in 1990.

In 2001, the New York City Department of Transportation considered converting the Roosevelt Island Bridge into a fixed bridge to reduce the cost of its maintenance. The bridge is rarely opened, because most vessels passing by Roosevelt Island use the West Channel of the East River. Most of the bridge openings occur in September during the General Assembly at the United Nations when the West Channel is closed for security reasons

Sagrada Familia - 2026 We build tomorrow

2013-09-29T16:05:00.002+02:00

The video, embedded above, visualizes the various additions that will be made to the church in the coming years, as architect Jordi Faulí and his team continue their march skyward. It also puts the scale of the project in breathtaking perspective. The Sagrada Familia's central tower, when completed, will stand 566 feet above the ground, making it the tallest church in the world.

Stroo - Metro de Paris

2013-09-29T12:26:00.002+02:00

Metro de Paris from Stroo

Images by Daniele Vella - vimeo.com/velladaniele
Songs: Everything Everything - Cough Cough / Everything Everything - Cough Cough (Xaphoon Remix)

Paul Trillo and Landon Van Soest - Brooklyn Brewery Mash

2013-09-29T12:22:00.003+02:00

Brooklyn Brewery Mash - A trip through BK in 3000 photos from Paul Trillo

To promote the Brooklyn Brewery's MASH tour, filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Paul Trillo, created a stop motion tour of the borough using over 3000 still photos.
View the shot breakdown here: vimeo.com/62716085
More info at brooklynbrewerymash.com/

Didier Viode - City In Motion

2013-09-29T12:18:00.004+02:00

CITY IN MOTION from viodé

« CITY IN MOTION » est une balade au cœur de la ville ou plutôt les villes.En France les villes choisies et photographiées pour cette première expérience sont : Besançon, Montbéliard, Dijon et Ronchamp... D’autres villes à venir…
Ce hyperlapse composé de quelques milliers de photographies de jour et de nuit stabilisé en post-production. plusieurs jours de tournage ont été nécessaires pour arriver au résultat souhaité. Bonne balade.

Music: Muse - The 2nd Law: Unsustainable itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-2nd-law/id551989940

Claire & Max - Projet Hypocentre

2013-09-29T12:05:00.002+02:00

hypocentre -short film- from Claire&Max on Vimeo.

Discoverlust - Paris by Bicycle

2013-06-23T14:08:00.003+02:00

Dicoverlust has an interesting video channel on You Tube that i can highly recommend. One of the sets is bicycle ride trough Paris streets with 3 cameras that in the right pace bring to you the feel of the city.

Serveurperso - Paris Flight TINY Hexacopter Drone

2013-06-10T19:28:00.001+02:00

Los Angeles / Nightfall

2013-04-07T08:57:00.003+02:00

'Nightfall' is a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels.

More videos and licensing/shooting information can be seen at deer-dog.com
Music: M83, "Echoes of Mine" off of 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.' Available from Mute Records, EMI Music
Download the song/album here here: itunes.apple.com/us/album/midnight-city
Cinematography, Direction, and Editing by: Colin Rich: facebook.com/colinrich1

Amsterdam on Electric Scooter

2012-11-26T23:02:00.001+01:00

Alessandro Della Bella - Frentic Zurich

2012-11-10T14:43:00.000+01:00

Frenetic Zurich from Alessandro Della Bella on Vimeo.
Lesen Sie auf deutsch bitte weiter unten weiter...

Zurich is Switzerland’s biggest city and worldwide known for its high quality of living (and just happens to be one of the most expensive cities worldwide too!). A picturesque old town, great shopping facilities, a large variety of cultural attractions, a beautiful lakeside and lots of green areas make a visit to Zurich a multifaceted experience. With its international airport the city is a good base to start discovering the country.

Besides that, it’s a cool playground for time-lapse photography. Footage has mostly been shot for testing purposes and shows impressions of a pulsating and electrifying city in winter time. Enjoy!

For the "making of" information and photo gallery check out the project website www.helvetiabynight.com.

About:
‘Helvetia by Night’ is a time-lapse project about Switzerland by night. Short videos of long nights present you the stunning beauty of the Swiss Alps and show you the magic of a spectacular nighttime sky. Imagine watching a slide-show at fast speed or looking at a flip book. It is photography turning into a movie. Everything in the videos is real and happening out there while most of us are sleeping.

The three videos ‘Helvetia’s Dream’, ‘Frenetic Zurich’ and ‘Nuclear Power (and Cows)’ are my first footsteps on the road of time-lapse photography. It is a most exciting road to follow with lots of testing, trying and learning every night I spend photographing in the Swiss mountains. Right now, 3D motion control is my biggest challenge. More time-lapse videos of existing footage will be published soon.

Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest. Identification of the Swiss as ‘Helvetians’ became common in the 18th century and Helvetia appears on official federal coins and stamps (Source: Wikipedia).

Alessandro Della Bella grew up in Arosa, a small paradise in the mountains of eastern Switzerland located 1800m above sea level. Inspired by such great scenery, photography has become his passion early in life. Since 2005 Alessandro work as press photographer for the Swiss press photo agency KEYSTONE in Zurich. Time-lapse photography became a favorite hobby of his in the year 2011. Besides that he is doing some other private work which can be found here: www.dellabella.ch

Zürich, die grösste Stadt der Schweiz und weltweit an vorderster Stelle in Bezug auf Lebensqualität (und -kosten), beeindruckt auf vielfältige Weise.

Eine malerische Altstadt, grossartige Einkaufsmöglichkeiten, ein breites kulturelles Angebot, sowie eine wunderschöne Seepromenade, viele Parks und Grünflächen garantieren einen abwechslungsreichen Aufenthalt. Mit dem internationalen Flughafen in unmittelbarer Nähe bietet Zürich eine gute Basis, um die Schweiz zu entdecken.

Zudem ist die Stadt ein optimaler Spielplatz für Time-Lapse. Die Bilder für diesen Film sind mehrheitlich zu Testzwecken entstanden. Geniessen Sie winterliche Impressionen aus der pulsierenden und elektrisierenden Stadt an der Limmat.

Eine Fotogalerie und mehr Informationen über das "making of" gibt es auf www.helvetiabynight.com

‚Helvatia by Night‘ ist ein Zeitraffer-Projekt (Time-Lapse) über die Schweiz bei Nacht. Kurzfilme zeigen die atemberaubende Schönheit der Schweizer Bergwelt und einen spektakulären Sternenhimmel, wie Sie vielleicht erst davon geträumt haben. Alles was hier präsentiert wird, ist jedoch absolut real. Schnell aneinander gereihte Fotos werden zu einem Film, wie in einem Daumenkino.

Helvetias Traum, Frenetisches Zürich und Atomkraft (mit Kühen) sind meine ersten Time-Lapse Filme und damit der Anfang eines spannenden Projektes. Mit jeder Nacht in den Bergen gewinne ich neue Erfahrungen und lerne Wertvolles dazu. Bald werden weitere Kurzfilme aus bestehendem Material hier aufgeschaltet.

Helvetia ist die vom Volksstamm der Helvetier abgeleitete neulateinische Bezeichnung für die Schweiz und eine allegorische Frauenfigur, welche die Schweiz versinnbildlicht. Auf Briefmarken und Münzen wird bis heute ‚Helvetia‘ als Landesbezeichnung verwendet (Quelle: Wikipedia).

Einige Worte zu meiner Person:
Ich bin in Arosa aufgewachsen, einem kleinen Paradies in der Bündner Bergwelt auf 1800 Metern über Meer. Inspiriert durch die beeindruckende Berglandschaft habe ich schon früh die Fotografie als meine Passion entdeckt. Seit 2005 arbeite ich als Pressefotograf bei der Schweizer Bildagentur KEYSTONE in Zürich. Die Time-Lapse Fotografie ist seit 2011 mein Lieblingshobby. Weitere private Arbeiten gibt es auf www.dellabella.ch

Viel Vergnügen beim Schauen der Time-Lapse Filme!
Alessandro Della Bella

Mayeul Akpovi - Besançon and Franche-Comté, France

2012-11-10T14:35:00.003+01:00

Besançon In Motion from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

Besançon By Night from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

Franche-Comté in Timelapse (Trailer) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Mayeul Akpovi - Paris in Motion

2012-11-10T14:03:00.000+01:00

Paris In Motion (Part I) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
Timelapse and Stopmotion Photography. 3000 pictures in 5 days.

Music: Massive Attack / Angel

Paris In Motion (Part II) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
Facebook: http://facebook.com/mayeul.akpovi

Paris In Motion (Part II) - Timelapse Photography - 3500 pictures & You can realy enjoy it !

Music: Massive Attack / Teardrop : http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/mezzanine/id17641181
Massive Attack website : http://massiveattack.com

Mayeul Akpovi Photographies - http://mayeul.com

Making Of - Paris In Motion from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

Héctor Fernández Elorza - Genetics Laboratory

2012-11-10T13:28:00.004+01:00

Genetics Laboratory / Héctor Fernández Elorza from Montse Zamorano on Vimeo.
Music: Kim Hiorthøy

Already Alive - NYC Dark

2012-11-10T08:05:00.002+01:00

NYC Dark from Already Alive on Vimeo.

Seeing lower Manhattan without power is a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.

See all of Jared's photos here: http://www.jaredlevy.me/gallery/hurricane-sandy-lower-manhattan/

Stills / Voice: Jared Levy http://jaredlevy.me
Timelapse / Music: Michael Marantz http://michaelmarantz.com
Creative Direction: Jason Oppliger http://jasonoppliger.com

Produced by Already Alive http://alreadyalive.com
Original Music by Michael Marantz: http://soundcloud.com/michaelmarantz/nyc-dark