nice pics. I must agree that most of the architecture doesn't appeal to me, but that's the reality of most modern architecture I think.

Heh... so am I alone? Most of that 'modern architecture' buildings has been built about 10+ years ago. The West Gate of Belgrade has been projected about 28 years ago.

Anyway, I like even more modern stuff.

by modern I mean the grab blocks of concrete and steel that were very popular during the 70s and 80s. And 90s, I guess. I dunno. Some of it can be really cool...most of it is drab, grab and square.

This is cool

It's hard to build new and 'modern' things when you're under constant bombings. Just Belgrade has taken much more bombs than all cities of USA together. I dare wondering how would New York look like after that. Err... that's why I wondered about why you used phrase 'modern architecture'.

Alright, this is where I wouldn't live (robot building, modern architecture):

I quite like the look of the sava centar, block 23 and west gate.

I know dick about good architecture, but I think it's expensive. Some times they get it very wrong too, like the gherkin i london or the millennium dome. People responsible for that shit deserve a slap.

I hate anything from like... after the 50s. lol. But I'm a country girl so all this concrete, square blocks and mirrored glass really doesn't appeal to me. I want nice little brick houses, with gardens front and back.

Oh and yeah, tell me about the frigging millenium dome. "zomg we can't afford NHS wages... ah wtf lets just build some giant, ugly dome thing and throw a party"

I like anything in Art Nouveau (or Jugendstil) style, but that is so fancy and expensive that chances are I'll never live in such a building.

Double post but I like the Antwerp Central Station a lot. Sometimes go there for luch, just sit there and enjoy the people hopping on and off trains.

Front:



Inside:










Notice the huge glass dome:

I can't say the station appeals much to me. A lot of the rest are pretty cool, though. Well, other than the hotel or whatever with the huge jesus portrait or whatever that was.

Tell me about that. In my youth I spent lots of time in a typical "early 1900s / late 1800s"-looking Serbian village. Everything is green, no streets (just village roads), the first neighbor lives about 1km far from you. The next one 0,5km far from him. You live from growing up plants and cattle. Architecture... of all sorts. Materials.. wood, stone, steel, and a weaker imitation of concrete (available about 100+ years ago). Windows on some houses look just like in RtCW.

And animals. I remember ambushing and chasing a fox several times. It has always escaped me through, slippy bastard. Now, since the village is almost totally abandoned today, people speak of bears coming from the mountains. That one would, say, chase me if we met. Wolves I won't mention. In general they move away from people, you can throw them a beef to distract them from yourself, or shoot at them. Nobody will ask if you had proper papers for the gun.

To the point... I can't say I wouldn't like that life either. Still there I'd lack in money and conditions needed to do the IT stuff I want to do till my dying breath. Unlike most of you, I do programming since my 6th year.

Lack of IT conditions? As in, no internet at all?

Gotta love the countryside. In Belgium pretty much the entire country has become one stretch from city to city (too many people on too little space), with very few actual countryside remaining. Maybe a little down South in the Ardennes (where they fought the Battle of the Bulge).

But when I was in the Czech Republic things were the other way around. From the moment you went outside the cities (Prague in my case) you were lost in endless landscapes of meadows, forests and hick towns.

No weapons though. What with no civil wars and all. Only pretty farmer girls who swoon over foreign accents (but I hear Serbian girls are cute too).

haha. Gotta love the hicks.

Texas is kinda a combination of that. Seeing as we're about as larg as Europe that's probably not too strange. The Dallas/FW area is pretty much just solid cities... the two major cities and all their outflung suburbs. But once you go far enough from the suburban sprawl you come to countryside... some small towns and lots of open fields. If you go far enough (like near El Paso) you can drive for an hour without seeing a town. Damn desolate down there, too. But a nice change from the same gray cement and black asphalt.

J, is that house of yours nearly finished? The building season is coming to a halt pretty soon, right?

Pretty much the whole year counts as building season i think. Just 3 weeks in july that are holiday. It's not like we have Siberian winters here.

Outside is finished, inside starts now. Electrician and plumber already did their job (or at least what they could do), 'plakker' is working now. Then floors i guess.

So still tons of work, but since the outside is finished, i'm not so weatherdependant.

Good to hear. I hope the indoor work progresses smoothly. So I'm guessing you're getting the real furniture in in a couple of weeks?


Don't be surprised if you find me sleeping in your shed this winter! I'm a poor man without a home.