MEOTO IWA, MIE, JAPÓN. These rocks united past times a rope, from where the Mt. Fuji tin live seen inward between, are considered sacred, together with symbolized the dear inward a couple. Moreover, this is the house where the emperor Tenmu unified the dry ground together with renamed from Yamato to Nihon. The rocks also symbolize the spousal human relationship betwixt East together with West Japan
This is the 50th article published inward the English linguistic communication version of My Architectural Moleskine. Therefore, I decided to dedicate this post to a non-architectural subject together with portion with you lot some photos on a dependent plain that fascinates me... the sea.
This virtual photo-exhibition is entitled Ode to the Sea, as a tribute to the famous Chilean poet together with Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. No i similar him to accompany these visited seascapes with the harmonious audio of his celebrated poem.
This virtual photo-exhibition is entitled Ode to the Sea, as a tribute to the famous Chilean poet together with Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. No i similar him to accompany these visited seascapes with the harmonious audio of his celebrated poem.
VANCOUVER, CANADA. The ferry connecting the 2 sides of Vancouver Harbour offers amazing stance of the city's waterfront, specially during sunset.
HARBOUR TOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA. Dolphins together with impressive sunsets are frequently seen inward this beach nigh Savannah, Georgia.
Here,
Surrounding the island
There’s sea.
But what sea?
It’s ever overflowing.
Says yes,
Then no,
Then no again,
And no,
Says yes
In blue
In sea spray
Raging,
Says no
And no again.
It can’t live still.
It stammers
My call is sea.
HALONG BAY, VIETNAM. This amazing UNESCO World heritage site is formed past times to a greater extent than than 3000 monolithic islands. An intricate and spectacular scheme of caves tin live also constitute here.
MATINHOS, BRAZIL. This is a pocket-size beach located eastward of Curitiba, uncrowded together with many bikinis. However, this Atlantic beach called deeply my attending for 2 reasons: 1) ot was the commencement fourth dimension I saw a beach with vegetation to the sea, I was used to the deserted Peruvian together with Chilean beaches of the Pacific, together with 2) where the heck is the Sun inward this sunset? Well, it was at my back, non inward the sea!
MONTE HERMOSO, ARGENTINA. One of the few cities inward this Atlantic country where the Sun sets into the sea. I appreciate the courtesy of Andrés Sandoval. a pareja. .
Sea of Japan, on board of a ferry towards Hokkaido
It slaps the rocks
And when they aren’t convinced,
Strokes them
And soaks them
And smothers them with kisses.
With vii light-green tongues
Of vii light-green dogs
Or vii light-green tigers
Or vii light-green seas,
Beating its chest,
Stammering its name,
And when they aren’t convinced,
Strokes them
And soaks them
And smothers them with kisses.
With vii light-green tongues
Of vii light-green dogs
Or vii light-green tigers
Or vii light-green seas,
Beating its chest,
Stammering its name,
PHI PHI ISLAND, PHUKET, THAILAND. This amazing tropical landscape, surrounded past times turquoise together with emerald waters, was the setting of the painting demo "The Beach" with Leonardo Di Caprio.
PAGUDPUD, ILOCOS NORTE, PHILIPPINES. This beach seems similar a dream postcard ... That white sand, bluish sea ... the soft murmur of palm trees, warm H2O together with colorful fish swimming to a greater extent than or less your legs. 
OKINAWA, JAPAN. The tropical islands of Okinawa, i time the independent kingdom of Ryukyu, are the gateway of Chinese civilisation to the Japanese archipelago. Boats with transparent bottoms took us to encounter the plentiful brute living inward the corals.
Oh Sea,
This is your name.
Oh comrade ocean,
Don’t waste product time
Or water
Getting thus upset
Help us instead.
We are meager fishermen,
Men from the shore
Who are hungry together with cold
And you’re our foe.
Don’t crunch thus hard,
Don’t cry thus loud,
Open your light-green coffers,
Place gifts of argent inward our hands.
Give us this day
our daily fish.
This is your name.
Oh comrade ocean,
Don’t waste product time
Or water
Getting thus upset
Help us instead.
We are meager fishermen,
Men from the shore
Who are hungry together with cold
And you’re our foe.
Don’t crunch thus hard,
Don’t cry thus loud,
Open your light-green coffers,
Place gifts of argent inward our hands.
Give us this day
our daily fish.
BORACAY, PHILIPPINES. Beautiful shallow, tropical waters , total of coral together with colorful fish.
TEMPOZAN, OSAKA, JAPAN. H5N1 grouping of sharks inward the aquarium Tempozan. This smiling shark has a lamprey attached on the back.BALI, En
Here inward each house,
we all crave it
whether it’s of silver,
crystal or moonlight,
spawn for the poor
kitchens on earth.
Don’t hoard it,
you miser,
coldly rushing like
wet lightning
beneath your waves.
Come, now,
open yourself
and travel out it
near our hands,
help us, ocean,
deep light-green father,
end i day
our earthly poverty.
HUANCHACO, TRUJILLO, PERU. My manly someone bring upwards took me hither when I was a kid when he was thinking of publishing a majority on Peru. After many years I came dorsum hither together with I constitute out that men are yet angling inward reed horses, equally their ancestors had done for centuries.
CHINCHORRO, ARICA, CHILE. Beautiful resort located inward northern Chile. This fourth dimension a grouping of aricans was trying to brand a raft of reeds inward an evidence to accomplish Polynesia. The Chilean version of the Kon Tiki . I receive got no thought if they reached their destination.
we all crave it
whether it’s of silver,
crystal or moonlight,
spawn for the poor
kitchens on earth.
Don’t hoard it,
you miser,
coldly rushing like
wet lightning
beneath your waves.
Come, now,
open yourself
and travel out it
near our hands,
help us, ocean,
deep light-green father,
end i day
our earthly poverty.
HUANCHACO, TRUJILLO, PERU. My manly someone bring upwards took me hither when I was a kid when he was thinking of publishing a majority on Peru. After many years I came dorsum hither together with I constitute out that men are yet angling inward reed horses, equally their ancestors had done for centuries.
CHINCHORRO, ARICA, CHILE. Beautiful resort located inward northern Chile. This fourth dimension a grouping of aricans was trying to brand a raft of reeds inward an evidence to accomplish Polynesia. The Chilean version of the Kon Tiki . I receive got no thought if they reached their destination.
TALLINN, ESTONIA. H5N1 mutual frigidness tumble morn awakes this beautiful Baltic medieval city. These fishermen seem to live used to the freezing temperatures.
Let us
harvest your lives’
endless plantation,
your wheat together with eggs,
your oxes, your metals,
the moisture splendor
and submerged fruits.
harvest your lives’
endless plantation,
your wheat together with eggs,
your oxes, your metals,
the moisture splendor
and submerged fruits.
PUERTO MONTT, CHILE. This is the southernmost metropolis I had visited, that is the closest to the South Pole, although its latitude 41 is equivalent to that of New York together with is lower than Hokkaido. That was an unforgettable trip with my father, piece an quondam vocal past times Los Iracundos echoed inward my brain. I retrieve the delicious salmon, cheaper than chicken. Sunrise inward Puerto Montt, courtesy of Irish Gaelic guy.
MONT SAINT MICHEL, NORMANDY, FRANCE. Maybe it's because nosotros arrived hither inward a cloudy wintertime hateful solar daytime or because its paradigm evokes loneliness together with isolation, Mount Saint Michel gives me deep melancholy. This is i of the most intense landscapes I receive got ever experienced, dominated past times the superb monastery that crimps with its rocks. Photo courtesy of dougsy.
Itsukushima shrine, some other UNESCO site, presents a torii or Japanese gate inward the middle of the sea. As inward the instance of Mont Saint Michel, the tides tin surroundings the construction past times H2O or withdraw, allowing people to walk around. This phenomenon happens several times a day.
Father sea, nosotros know already
what you lot are called, all
the seagulls circulate
your call on the beaches:
now, demeanour yourself,
don’t milkshake you lot mane,
don’t threaten anyone,
don’t nail against the sky
your beautiful teeth,
ignore for a moment
your glorious history,
give to every man,
to every
woman together with to every child,
a fish large or small
every day.
what you lot are called, all
the seagulls circulate
your call on the beaches:
now, demeanour yourself,
don’t milkshake you lot mane,
don’t threaten anyone,
don’t nail against the sky
your beautiful teeth,
ignore for a moment
your glorious history,
give to every man,
to every
woman together with to every child,
a fish large or small
every day.
BUSAN, KOREA. One of the secrets of Korean progress is social club together with organization ... even the seagulls exercise it.
UTORO, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. Lonely seagull in the far due north of Japan.
LIEPAJA, LATVIA. This stone oil Baltic sea is typical from the Latvian windy climate. In this beach many women saw their fishermen husbands travel out to never come upwards back.
Go out to every street
in the world
and distribute fish
and then
scream,
scream
so all the working poor
could take away heed you,
so they could say,
sticking their heads
into the mine:
“Here comes the quondam homo seato distribute fish.”
OLD JAFFA, ISRAEL. Mediterranean Sea seen from this quondam town nigh modern Tel-Aviv. The echoes of the Muslim chants calling for sunset prayer reverberated inward this ancient harbor walls.
THIRA, SANTORINI, GREECE. Amazing picturesque landscape of bluish vaulted Orthodox churches overlooking the quondam volcanic caldera.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. The gracious curves of the Burj Al Arab, a super luxury hotel, symbol of Dubai together with possibly of the United Arab Emirates seen from the Jumeirah beach.
And they’ll become dorsum down
into the darkness,
smiling, together with on the streets
and inward the forests,
men together with the earth
will smile
an oceanic smile.
in the world
and distribute fish
and then
scream,
scream
so all the working poor
could take away heed you,
so they could say,
sticking their heads
into the mine:
“Here comes the quondam homo seato distribute fish.”
OLD JAFFA, ISRAEL. Mediterranean Sea seen from this quondam town nigh modern Tel-Aviv. The echoes of the Muslim chants calling for sunset prayer reverberated inward this ancient harbor walls.
THIRA, SANTORINI, GREECE. Amazing picturesque landscape of bluish vaulted Orthodox churches overlooking the quondam volcanic caldera.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. The gracious curves of the Burj Al Arab, a super luxury hotel, symbol of Dubai together with possibly of the United Arab Emirates seen from the Jumeirah beach.
And they’ll become dorsum down
into the darkness,
smiling, together with on the streets
and inward the forests,
men together with the earth
will smile
an oceanic smile.
RAMBLA DE MAR, BARCELONA, SPAIN. This is an interesting seaside complex, the undulating forms are a clear refererencia the sea waves. Behind us is the statue of Columbus.
PORT OF KOBE, JAPAN. Luminous nightscape of the port of Kobe, on a birthday night.
MIAMI, USA. Miami beachfront seen from the plane.
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE. The city-state-island of Singapore is closely linked with its waterfront, where Esplanade, the National Theatre is located together with from the modern skyline tin live enjoyed.
HELSINKI, FINLAND. Reflections of the Finnish working capital missive of the alphabet over the Baltic Sea.
But
if you lot don’t desire it,
if you lot don’t attention for it,
then wait,
wait for us,
we must worry, first
we must evidence to solve
and straighten out
human affairs,
the biggest problems first,
then all the others,
and then
we’ll come inward you,
we’ll chop the waves
with a knife made of fire,
on an electrical horse
leaping over foam,
singing
we’ll sink
until nosotros bear upon the bottom
of your guts,
an atomic thread
will guard your shank,
we’ll plant
in your deep garden
trees
of cement together with steel,
we’ll tie
your hands together with feet,
on your peel homo volition walk,
spitting,
yanking inward bunches,
building armatures,
mounting together with taming you
to dominate your spirit.
if you lot don’t desire it,
if you lot don’t attention for it,
then wait,
wait for us,
we must worry, first
we must evidence to solve
and straighten out
human affairs,
the biggest problems first,
then all the others,
and then
we’ll come inward you,
we’ll chop the waves
with a knife made of fire,
on an electrical horse
leaping over foam,
singing
we’ll sink
until nosotros bear upon the bottom
of your guts,
an atomic thread
will guard your shank,
we’ll plant
in your deep garden
trees
of cement together with steel,
we’ll tie
your hands together with feet,
on your peel homo volition walk,
spitting,
yanking inward bunches,
building armatures,
mounting together with taming you
to dominate your spirit.
LIBERTY ISLAND, NEW YORK, USA needs no farther presentation. The Lady of Liberty was created past times Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi on a construction past times Gustave Eiffel together with it was was a gift from the French authorities to the United States to celebrate the centenary of their independence of the latter. Called "The Liberty Enlightening the World", how dissimilar things would receive got been if she would live heard to a greater extent than often.. 
VALDIVOSTOK, RUSSIA. H5N1 siren seems to shake inward the icy waters of the Russian port, entering the spring. When wintertime is at its coldest month, people tin walk on the H2O ice together with makes holes inward it to fish. 
PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY. Our see past times the famous Uruguayan resort was shorter than planned due to a tearing tempest which made the waves roaring inward mad rage. This beautiful photograph by Remco Douma reminds me that time.All this volition occur
when us men
have straighten out
our problem,
the big,
the large problem.
We’ll slowly
solve everything:
we’ll strength you, sea,
we’ll strength you, earth
perform miracles,
because inward our real selves,
in the struggle,
is fish, is bread,
is the miracle.
Pablo Neruda
PATONG BEACH, PHUKET, THAILAND. This photograph was taken on Nov 2004, also during my birthday. Originally nosotros had planned to see Phuket for Christmas together with escape from the mutual frigidness together with Japanese, but nosotros decided to pick out forwards the see at the final minute. Incredibly, at Christmas of that year, Phuket was devastated past times the seismic sea wave inward the Indian Ocean. I promise our sort friends who worked at the Thai beach had survived.
Thanks to all visitors together with followers who are accompanying me past times reading these "Notes on architecture together with more." Hopefully, nosotros volition receive got some other special number on our 100th post... See you lot then!
OBAMA BEACH, HUKUI, JAPAN. Doing my commencement steps equally a paparazzi. By the way, Obama genuinely way "small beach"