mac/val, one of many great new museums I visited during my recent trip to Paris, featured a rather amusing video installation. Here’s some footage of me and two friends putting it through its paces.

Here’s a short piece I wrote on Fouquet’s Barrière, Edouard François’ stunning Parisian hôtel from 2006. It’s in swedish — but don’t let any language barrières stop you! Since a couple of weeks Google Language Tools includes swedish support, and this may be the perfect excuse to get a taste of machine-translated north-european lingo.

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Having gone through a lot of my photos during this past week, all taken with a relatively crappy compact point-and-shoot, the urge to go buy a new proper camera has risen considerably. The Canon 450D seems to be a great choice—but after digging through some promotional material I’m not sure if, why or how this random rollergirl has left me craving a Canon digital SLR. But I do want one. And I love that they’re still doing these classy cutaway drawings.

The final photo gallery in the Chalmers Architecture Excursions trilogy; Berlin. Probably the most dynamic major city of Europe, a city in constant transformation, of constantly clashing ideas and cultures. Furthermore it arguably has the most turbulent and fascinating recent history of any metropolitan area in the world, which is indeed very evident on the architecture and structure of the city.

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I’ll dedicate a couple of posts here to the architecture trips we’ve been having during the three years I’ve been studying at the Chalmers School of Architecture. Last summer we went to Rome on an excursion mainly focusing on the classical eras of architecture; antique roman, renaissance and baroque. Good stuff! Francesco Borromini in particular is a great inspiration and idol of mine. Contrary to Paris, Rome can be characterized by a pronounced lack of forward-looking developments (and an abundance of lousy restaurants), but what’s there is indeed a beautiful place to keep. Let’s just hope the non-tourist population and businesses will continue to out-number the often tacky touristy face of Rome, but being a capital city that shouldn’t be a concern.

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I spent the last week of mars on an architecture pilgrimage to Paris, together with the better part of the 3rd year Chalmers architecture students. Bluntly put, Paris contained unexpected amounts of awesome; I was blown away!  With the expected lavish monumental structures of the 17th to 19th centuries and early modern masterpieces to the more recent grands projets and lovely concrete labyrinths of Jean Renaudie’s Centre Jeanne-Hachette (pictured above) and Ricardo Bofill’s Les Espaces d’Abraxas — how can you not be?

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