{"id":635365,"date":"2010-01-19T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1049447"},"modified":"2010-01-19T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:27:06","slug":"blue-skies-11%c2%bac-and-a-density-my-hike-through-porto-alegre%c2%b4s-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/635365","title":{"rendered":"Blue skies, 11\u00baC and a density: my hike through Porto Alegre\u00b4s downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"
attention: the photos on this thread were taken in July, but it seems I had forgotten to post them here at SSC (only posted on SSP). Of course, right now its SUMMER in Porto Alegre.<\/p>\n

Well, unfortunatelly I didnt take more photos to post on the forums. The objective of me going to Porto Alegre was to take fa\u00e7ade pictures to model Porto Alegre buildings in GoogleEarth (to anyone who hasnt seen the thread: http:\/\/forum.skyscraperpage.com\/showthread.php?t=170479<\/a> )<\/p>\n

\nEven so, I was able to take a FEW pictures to post on the forums… 74 to be more exact \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The weather was aweomse… not a cloud to be seen on the skies and 11\u00baC at noon (51F).<\/p>\n

\n1 – taxi drivers on the beginning of Borges de Medeiros Avenue
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

2 – Uni\u00e3o Seguros building
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

3 – alley behind Uni\u00e3o Seguros building… at background you can see Santa Cruz building, tallest in Porto Alegre at 33 storeys \ud83d\ude41
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

4 – same alley, showing how narrow are many streets in Porto Alegre downtown.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

5 – City Hotel, at building on the side of Uni\u00e3o Seguros… 4 stars… I didnt expected to find such a nice hotel at Porto Alegre downtown. (99% of the buildings in Porto Alegre downtown were built before the 80s, most in the 50s and 60s… and all new buildings and companies are located outside downtown… sometimes, very far away)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

6
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

6,5 (imageshack messes up the upload, so I had to insert this picture later in the thread)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

7
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

8
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

9 – well, at least its a busy downtown
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

10
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

11 – some streetsellers
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

12
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

13
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

14
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

15
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

16
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

17
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

18
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

19
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

20
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

21
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

22 – POA downtown is full of dense, narrow, shadowy, claustrophobic streets… I love it! :haha:
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

23
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

24 – Uni\u00e3o Seguros and City Hotel buildings
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

25 – the "new" building of Porto Alegre City Hall (the older one is located in front of it)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

26 – same
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

27 – same again
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

28
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

29
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

30
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

31 – going up Borges de Medeiros Avenue now, but since I focused at taking fa\u00e7ades pictures for 3D modelling mainly, I didnt took any shot of the avenue itself
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

32
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

33
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

34
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

35
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

36
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

37
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

38
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

39
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

40
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

41
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

42 – at this moment, a friend from SSC who owns a Porto Alegre photos website (www.portoimagem.com)<\/a>, and its a municipality employee, called me to go meet him up the City Hall building, so I went down Borges de Medeiros Avenue again (didnt got close to the awesome viaduct (which I will show later in the thread)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

43 – Federasul building
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

44 – Borges de Medeiros Canyon
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

45 – Metro station
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

45,5 (another picture Imageshack\u00b4s uploader messed up)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

46
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

46,5
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

47
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

48
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

49
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

50
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

51
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

52 – Skywalk
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

53 – Oh yeah… these photos were not taken from a terrace or balcony. When we arrived at the library at the top of the building, we went to the balcony, and JUMPED over it to a ledge that goes around the building. Well, lucky that my friend knew the guy in the library.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

54
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

55 – back to the ground
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

56
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

57
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

58
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

59 – Metropolitan Cathedral at background
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

60
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

61
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

62 – GBOEX building
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

63 – … which sits atop the small Rua da Praia mall (Rua da Praia means Beach Street… in the 19th century, this street was the last one before the lake beach)
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

64
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

65
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

66 – old Chase Manhattan building fa\u00e7ade detail
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

67
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

68 – Subway :drool: :drool: :drool:
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

69
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

70 – Sulacap building, one of the coolest 50s building in Brazil, imho
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

71 – where mankind landed, 40 years ago
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

72 – Salgado Filho Avenue
\n\"\"<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

attention: the photos on this thread were taken in July, but it seems I had forgotten to post them here at SSC (only posted on SSP). Of course, right now its SUMMER in Porto Alegre. Well, unfortunatelly I didnt take more photos to post on the forums. The objective of me going to Porto Alegre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FhP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}