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 Cime Bianche I - Stazione intermedia /7 months agoIn 1939, world war II had just begun, avid italian engneers built a ropeway reaching a peak nearly 3500m high. Location: Cervina, the italian side of the Matterhorn. After the cable car was shut down at the end of the last century, time seemed halted. A fotographic documentation in 75 images about the intermediate terminal "Cime Bianche". »...  (1 comment) |
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 Passo Tonale /14 months agoObservations - A pre-christmas day on Passo Tonale. »... |
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 Cult of autogrill - Ahead of time /15 months agoAn introductive analysis about the avantgardist cult of italian highway restaurant architecture from 1947 to 1980. »... (1 comment) |
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 La Superstrada di Scampia /15 months agoA Google Earth analysis of a highway having defects directly affecting traffic flows, making it act like a proxy for structural and social behaviours of that region. In the middle of the area the now well known "Le Vele" housings, protagonists in the film "Gomorra" from Roberto Saviano.(in German) »... |
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 Pylon 3 - An arerial tramway mast at the foot of the Matterhorn in disuse /18 months agoThe third and last pylon of the first section of the aerial cable car in Cervinia, once linking Plan Maison (2825m) with Pl. Rosa I (3478m). The 1961 built pylon looks around to its high altitude mountain scene. (Italian / German) »... |
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 Furggen - A step too far. /18 months agoA step too far for a ropeway project climbing the 3457m high Furggen on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Built but never completed as its ambitious plans proposed during the sanguine fifties. Operating until 1995, when a humid and cold night embraced the cable with heavy hoarfrost ripping it off, thus leaving the hardly reachable upper terminal nearly unchanged for now 13 years. >>> Plan Maison - Furggen (in italian) |
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