Trip1, part1--Vienna

The first trip included Vienna, Venice, Vincenza and Verona.  Here are some photos from the Vienna portion of the trip.










These first couple of photos are representative of a lot of the architecture in Vienna.

 However, Vienna is a pretty good size city and many modern buildings can be found.

Some of these are very respectful in scale to the older buildings.









And some aren't - although, to be fair, there weren't too many older buildings in this area.

Here, we see an interesting new area in the background.  The large, cylindrical buildings are old coal/factory buildings that have been renovated and now contain a mixture of residential and commercial.

The 'crooked' building on the left (and some green buildings in another pic -- below) are part of the new neighborhood.






Here is a canal/park near a train stop.












Some of the buildings were built when the idea that a straight line is just about the worst thing possible.  In a building by the same "architect" (artist really) where all of the floors are intentionally not flat.  I found them interesting as an attraction, but if I had to work or live there, it might become annoying very quickly when you can only place a chair, desk, bed, table...etc in certain locations/orientations so that they are level and don't rock. 

Here is the modern green buildings (next to the cylindrical building)  As you can see, some modern buildings still like the idea of the unusual forms, although not nearly as 'organic' as above.











I saved these two for last as I am experimenting with Photoshop's merge command where I can take two photos whose images overlap and Photoshop will combine them for you.

The first is the gigantic spire on an old gothic church--and this isn't even the main facade.



The second is from the tower looking down on the city.  You can also see part of the roof design on the church's main building.