Thursday, September 27, 2007

Journal Question





Describe a well-known building in your hometown. Use details in your response.





7 comments:

martha said...

Atizapan de Zaragoza Airport,located in the exclusive emerald zone in the state named Estado de Mexico. Is a simple but modern building with just few exclusive hangars for private jets, mostly..and is the City Hall heliport, and just for the record the City Hall have a survilance small Zeppeling that has his base on the same building.The first thing you notice when you coming in is the control tower, a small white and red round tower about 20 feet tall and in the very top has a octagonal observatory all sourranded with glass ,this add an aditional 10 feet that make the control tower looks very high,and pretty .At the left side there are one level white office building for administrative purposes, and right after,you can see at both sides ,10 big hangers five at each side ..the sourranding areas are green woody mountains with a couple of beautiful meadows.

Unknown said...

I live so near of one old train station, of course now is unusefull but twenty years ago, it was the better transportation way. Now it looks so antique because only there are some bagons and the station is house from some old train workers and their families.
You still can see the rails way and the signs on the cornes, in the better time it carried some products like crops and animal, inclusive transportated people through the country, it was cheap and very fast, the people always was amazed to travel on it, and when it went on making a lot of noisy and the kids run after it, of course it caused a lot of accidents too, it crashed a lot of car that intented gaining the cruse, when the people doesn´t hear it they died pushed by the train.
I remember one year ago it began to make a lot of noise and all people left their house and see about 20 minutes how it went on for last time, they hadn´t seen it some years ago. It was very strange because I can feel amazing but at the same time feel afraid, so you always feel the need to run more faster and gain the cruse, despite you can died.

Unknown said...

Last year, I went to Rouen, the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France. There we can find the oldest building of the medieval age. It´s quite beautiful, its front is made of wood, with lots of red flowers and flags of many countries in the balcons. The building has 4 stages in beige and brown. Now, it is a typical normandy food restaurant (Normandy food is really good!!)
If you go to northfrance, do not hesitate to go to Rouen and know this beautiful building I am talking about.
If you want a photo, I can send it to you

Unknown said...

I´ve just read that the comment was of a building in my hometown. Sorry, I made a mistake

martha said...

please Cynthia, send me the photo of Rouen. my E mail is trejo.araujo@g.mail.com and thanks.

MADV said...

I live in Nicolas Romero and here is an antique ranch called "la hacienda de la encarnación" it used to de a beutiful ranch in the moment i known the place but by that time it was abandoned but with some imagination you could see what a beautiful place it was. Nowadays in that place is working as an university called "fidel velazquez university".

Lorena said...

One of the most beautiful buildings that Mexico has is El Palacio de Bellas Artes.
During Porfirio Díaz government, Mexico was influenced by european architecture style. In October, 1904, the National Theater was demolished, and in its place was built Palacio de Bellas Artes, in front of Alameda Central.
This building has a big central hall, with three domes. The theater's main room is funnel-shaped, which contributes to good acoustics and visual effects. There are also several rooms for other purposes. This beautiful building has marble from different places, the sculptures and columns are from Carrara.
It has a courtain made of cristals over a steel plate, almost one million pieces of opalescence cristals.
On the walls, you can see images painted by Diego Rivera, Clemente Orozco, Alfaro Siqueiros,Rufino Tamayo and González Camarena.
This building was renewed some years ago, with a new illumination and acoustic system.