Well, unfortunatelly I didnt take more photos to post on the forums. The objective of me going to Porto Alegre was to take façade pictures to model Porto Alegre buildings in GoogleEarth (to anyone who hasnt seen the thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170479 )
Even so, I was able to take a FEW pictures to post on the forums… 74 to be more exact 🙂
The weather was aweomse… not a cloud to be seen on the skies and 11ºC at noon (51F).
1 – taxi drivers on the beginning of Borges de Medeiros Avenue
2 – União Seguros building
3 – alley behind União Seguros building… at background you can see Santa Cruz building, tallest in Porto Alegre at 33 storeys 🙁
4 – same alley, showing how narrow are many streets in Porto Alegre downtown.
5 – City Hotel, at building on the side of União 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)
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6,5 (imageshack messes up the upload, so I had to insert this picture later in the thread)
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9 – well, at least its a busy downtown
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11 – some streetsellers
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22 – POA downtown is full of dense, narrow, shadowy, claustrophobic streets… I love it! :haha:
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25 – the "new" building of Porto Alegre City Hall (the older one is located in front of it)
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31 – going up Borges de Medeiros Avenue now, but since I focused at taking façades pictures for 3D modelling mainly, I didnt took any shot of the avenue itself
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42 – at this moment, a friend from SSC who owns a Porto Alegre photos website (www.portoimagem.com), 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)
43 – Federasul building
44 – Borges de Medeiros Canyon
45 – Metro station
45,5 (another picture Imageshack´s uploader messed up)
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52 – Skywalk
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.
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55 – back to the ground
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59 – Metropolitan Cathedral at background
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62 – GBOEX building
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)
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66 – old Chase Manhattan building façade detail
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68 – Subway :drool: :drool: :drool:
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70 – Sulacap building, one of the coolest 50s building in Brazil, imho
71 – where mankind landed, 40 years ago
72 – Salgado Filho Avenue
