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605 New blooms this week. Always daffodils. This time very built or deconstructed. Trumpets and trombones. Yellow, orange, white and pink. After all, this is also architecture. Botanical architecture. #narcissus #daffodils #wildgarden #selfcaregarden #naturework #springcolors #garden #bulb #bulbous #botanicarchitecture (presso Casarsa, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJHyBnszlQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

604 Spring has broken out in my self-care garden and the bulbous plants give their best. And to think that years ago I considered daffodils boring #muscari #narcissus #wildgarden #bulbous #spring #springflowers #springbulbs #autonomousgarden #selfcaregarden #lazygardener #lazygardening #naturework (presso Casarsa, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8FnmnMWB1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

602 Always beautiful. (presso Torre Velasca) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3bKkGsWdR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

601 Today the tenth edition of my course on Milan and the history of its urban green areas is starting within the ATHENS Network Programme that unites 14 prestigious European technical universities. For a week 20 students, mainly engineers, will learn something about Milan and the history of its greenery through lectures and guided tours of the city and its parks. Today visit to the Botanical Garden of Brera and the Via Marina and the Public Gardens, the second public park in Europe (1784). @polimi @dastu_polimi @athens.network @ortobotanicodibrera @pinacotecabrera @accademiadibrera #polimo #dastu #athensnetwork #athensprogramme #internationalization #internationalstudents #milano #milan #urbangreen #historicpark #publicgarden #candogliamarble #aldorossi #antoniocanova #brera #felicecavallotti #ernestobazzaro #bollard 1. -2. Course Poster 3. Participants portraited in front of the iconic #aldorossi Pertini Monument in marble from #candoglia 4. Narcissus at the #ortobotanicobrera 5. Felice Cavallotti Monument by Ernesto Bazzaro (1896) at the entry of Via Marina, polished during the pandemic. A discover! 6. Students in front of #canova #napoleon bronze statue (1810) in #brera 7-8. How is it possible to destroy a #panettone bollard? 👀👀👀 (presso Orto Botanico di Brera) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpvn08NMboM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

600 Here is finally published the collective volume dedicated to Planning with Landscape. Thanks to @santannacamilag for the invitation to participate in this project that has developed during the pandemic. Thanks to my friend and colleague @limengyixin with whom I have been carrying on for some time a discussion of comparison between Milan and Beijing, cities so distant and in some ways so similar. Thanks to all the editors and @springernature for the implementation of this interesting scientific book. #landscape #planning #landscapeplanning #greeninfrastructure #climateadaptation #cities #springernature #scientificdissemination #collectivework #book #green #milan #beijing #milano #collaboration https://www.instagram.com/p/CpesjzPMhnq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

599 On the new issue 144 of @theplanmag, the first of 2023, I had the honor of writing about a museum by TJAD Rurban Studio, the branch of Tongji Architectural Design (Group) directed by prof. LI Li. The Sui-Tang Grand Canal Museum is not only beautiful, but is rich in elaborate structural technologies that disappear to make room for form. Very very interesting. #sui-tangdinasty #grandcanal #china #grandcanalmuseum #luoyang #henan #tongjiuniversity #tongjiarchitecturaldesign #li_li #rurbanstudio #tjad_rurbanstudio #theplan #theplanmagazine #architecture #museum #structure (presso The Plan - Architecture Magazine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpSKZTescMQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

598 Last Day in Ontario. Day Dedicated to Water in All Its Shapes. 1. Yellow Hydrant in Toronto 2 - 4. Niagara Falls on Feb 28th 5. Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake 6. Hope You See the Polar Bear! :-) 7. The Pleistocene Man in Storming Toronto Pitc 7 thanks to @erremmebi #niagara #niagarafalls #niagaraonthelake #niagarawinecountry #icewine #water #falls #toronto #snowstorm #snow #pleistocene #raylewis #polarbear #pareidolia (presso Niagara Falls, Canadian Side) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpPzbwLDjTz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

597 Nothing beats when your students make you proud. Today grand final at Brookfield Sustainability Charrette at George Brown College and @polimi Architecture and Design students were the protagonists. Many good ideas have become answers to specific requests with multidisciplinary solutions developed with a great sense of collaboration together with @gbcollege and @keacph students. The best youth, the one that gives hope. @brookfield_si @dastu_polimi @polidesign #toronto #charrette #workshop #sustainability #students #international #fullimmersion #multidisciplinary #ontario #canada #italy #danmark (presso Brookfield Sustainability Institute) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMZ5p4OkMA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

596 Toronto - Cobourg and Back. A Train Adventure. 1. CN Tower kissed by morning sun 2. Toronto East Outskirts. 3. GO Station in Oshawa. Why the suburban railway of Toronto is so few developed is a mystery no European can understand. 4-5. Lake Ontario shore at Cobourg. This, for an Italian, is a great sea shore.... 6. When art portraits reality, detail of a Group of Seven's painting present at AGO, Toronto. 7. VIA diesel locomotive. Why still use diesel tractors instead of Electromotrives is another great mystery. To not talking about the slow commercial speed and the supercostly ticket prices... 8. Farmland nearby Cobourg 9. Lake Ontario shore heading to Toronto. 10. The starting of Gardiner Expressway, Toronto East. @cntower @viarailcanada @agotoronto #toronto #commuterstories #commuter #cntower #oshawa #cobourg #railways #gardinerexpressway #gardinerexpresswayviews #groupofseven #farmland #lakeontario (presso Wicklow Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpJn5QiOV4n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

595 Toronto Day 4. All Can Be Cinema. 1. Lift with matelassé cover very very fashionable 2. Workshop at @brookfield_si ongoing 1 3. In the dean's office @designgbc - very inspiring indeed 4. Workshop at @brookfield_si ongoing 2 5. CN Tower by night 6. @tiff_net ticket 7. @tiff_net waiting for the show #torontolife #toronto #georgebrowncollege #gbcschoolofdesign #designgbc #workshop #polimi #polimiarchitecture #cntower #tiff #tiffbelllightbox #cinema (presso TIFF Bell Lightbox) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHTsUCufTk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

594 Toronto, Day 3. 1. Yonge Street with @torontomet building by @snohetta in the background 2. Arthur Erickson's Roy Thompson Hall 3. Donuts misadventures 4. View from @designgbc CN Tower and @daniellibeskind Tower on the right 5. Workshop @brookfield_si ongoing 6. Heritage Preservation on Yonge Street 7. Traffic under Gardiner Expressway 8. Late Richard Rogers at St. Lawrence Market @rshparchitects 9. Signal on Yonge Street #architecture #canadianarchitecture #canadianarchitect #arthurerickson #snohettaarchitects #yongestreet #gardinerexpressway #gardinerexpresswayviews #daniellibeskind #richardrogers #construction #canadianconstruction #stlawrencemarket #cntower #torontometropolitanuniversity #roythompsonhall #donuts #canadianheritage #torontoheritage (presso George Brown College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpE0tZDuZ99/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

593 2 Days in Toronto. Jet Lag Accordingly. 1. South Shore, Bylot Island (detail) by Lawren S. Harris (1930 ca) at @agotoronto 2. ClibZanzibar vintage golden tiles and plaster covered facade detail (on Yonge Street) @zanzibartavern 3. Pink benches on King Street West. 4. Stormy view from @kpmbarch office 5. Detail of The Deluge, by Kent Monkman (2019) at @agotoronto 6. Stormy evening at Dundas/Yonge 7. Bloor Metro Station @takethettc underground network 8. Zanzibar Club a heritage value on Yonge Street @zanzibartavern 9. Sugar Beach Park by @ccxa.landscape 10. Raptors Vs New Orleans at @rogersarena. @raptors won. Torontonians happy. (presso Scotiabank Arena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpCXAgau-XO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

592 Hello Toronto! Hello Snow! #roomwithaview #suite #toronto #torontolife #12thfloor #snow #pride (presso Town Inn Suites Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co95sBTOJVi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

591 For years I have been wondering, waiting for the metro, who did this. A poor work of art unknown, conceptual art without preconceptions, an emulation of Mimmo Rotella confused with Alberto Burri passing through Enrico Baj or simply nobody rents this advertising space? Photo two, model material brought by students... But it's pretty much Peter Savillle's cover for New Order's Brotherhood. Just want, art is everywhere! #mimmorotella #albertoburri #enricobaj #unknownartist #petersaville #neworder #neworderofficial #metrostation #maquette #architecturestudents #commuter #commuterstories @designpetersaville @petersavillearchive @neworderofficial #artepovera #conceptualart #advertising (presso Sesto 1º Maggio FS) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cos98ZKr7BW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

590 After three years of pandemic, contacts with China resume in presence. Today a dear friend came to visit us, Professor Du Qian, director of the Master of Science in Architecture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School.of Design, with whom we are instructing a double degree in Landscape Architecture Polimi-SJTU. Prof Du also brought me a gift, a woodcut depicting the old library at Xuhui Campus in Shanghai. 谢谢！ Pitc 1 by @smpgrd @agazzicristina @marcobovati68 #andreacampioli #duqian @ilariav1958 @polimi @polimi_exchange @dastu_polimi @shanghai_jiao_tong_uni #architecture #landacapearchitecture #doubledegree #agreements #polimiarchitecture #polimi #sjtu #milano #shanghai #internationalization #teachers #teaching #exchange #exchangeprogram #auic #schoolofdesignsjtu (presso Politecnico di Milano - Facoltà di Architettura) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cocwc8EMvVw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

589 Sometimes they ask me why I studied in Milan and why I work in Milan. In fact, Milan has always been my second home. My maternal grandfather at the age of 16 worked suspended in the air to build the steel vault of the Central Station (about 1928) then in the early sixties he returned as a manager of the State Railways. So Milan is the eternal return, with an obligatory stop in Mestre or, like today, Venice. In short, not bad as a long-distance commuting road, isn't it? #familyhistory #commuterstories #longdistance #shortdistance #railwaystation #railways #station #centralstationmilan #stazionecentralemilano #ferroviedellostato #trenitalia #frecciarossa #milanovenezia #milano #venezia #mestre #highspeedtrain #commuter #canalgrande #vaporetto #ilovetrains (presso Stazione Centrale Milano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIHLu2MCSA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

588 Thanks to @ateliergratia for the beautiful letter, her touching words, and for this foldable model (actually a kind of pop-up origami) representing her Star House that I reviewed on @theplanmag issue 143 and presented here on post 572. Dear Grace Ming-En Chang, now your incredible building is part of my little "hall of fame" in my university office! @dastu_polimi Grazie // 谢谢 // Thank you [Those little great things that make your day series] #theplanmagazine #ateliergratia #concretearchitecture #architecture #architecturaldesign #architecturemagazine #taiwan #taiwanesearchitecture #starhouse #housedesign #concrete #concretedesign #concreteconstruction #concretefacade #foldingfacade #letter #surprise #stamps #veryhappy #writingonarchitecture #office #halloffame (presso DAStU - Politecnico di Milano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFoTLmsOlS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=