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NYC, January 2014

Thursday, October 9, 2014

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

L-R: Sea salt chocolate caramel + café au lait donuts at Dough. Bed-Stuy.

Manhattan, as seen from Williamsburg.

A flat white at Toby's Estate Coffee. Williamsburg.

Toby's Estate Coffee. Williamsburg.

15 Union Square West. Manhattan.

The Flatiron Building. Manhattan.

Pre-war façades along Broadway. Manhattan.

Interior of Gasoline Alley Coffee. NoHo.

Cast iron façades in SoHo.

40 Bond Street. Heurzog & de Meuron, 2007.

25 Bond Street. BKSK Architects, 2007.

The gorgeous bluestone façade of 41 Bond Street. DDG Partners, 2011.

Late-night Malaysian food in Elmhurst, Queens.

Barclays Center. SHoP Architects, 2012.

Amir/Oddisee. Bed-Stuy.

Morning light in Noho, Manhattan.

Urban scene, Bensonhurst.

Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Landing back home. Los Angeles.

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Høst i Oslo by

Saturday, October 4, 2014

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Single-family house on Dops gate.

Dops gate, again.

Fredensborgveien.

A fall stroll through the lovely and expansive St. Hanshaugen Park.

Interior of Java Espresso. St. Hanshaugen.

An enjoyable latté at Java Espresso.

Looking north along Ullevålsveien, in St. Hanshaugen.

A doorway on Damestredet, a cozy, pedestrian-only lane in Fredensborg.

Damestredet.

Viewing tower at the Holmenkollen Ski Jump (JDS Architects, 2011).

The stunning, contemporary interior of BI Norwegian Business School.

Terraced flats at the new Vulkan development.

A Picasso mural in danger of demolition at the Regjeringskvartalet (Government Quarter) in Downtown Oslo. This and surrounding buildings were the target of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's July 22, 2011 attack, where 8 were killed in a bomb blast at the pictured area, before another 69, mostly teenagers, were shot and killed at an island 25mi/38km northwest of Oslo.

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Vestlandet

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Labels: landscapes, Norway, travels 1 comments

A few pictures from a quick weekend trip to Norway's "Vestlandet" region (Western Norway). I started out in Førde, Sogn og Fjordane, and ended up roughly 4 hours north in Geiranger, Mør og Romsdal. Below are a few photos few different places along the way.