https://mstdn.social/@RickGaehl/113287501000447616 RickGaehl@mstdn.social - Here's an architectural curiosity from Vienna for #FensterFreitag. This is Hundertwasserhaus, completed in 1985 and brainchild of the artist and designer Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
He was particularly keen on the idea of the forest roof, and of tenants having the right to embellish the space around their own windows...
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September 30, 2024
In Austria, the far-right Freedom Party won this weekend's parliamentary
election, edging out the ruling conservatives and sending shockwaves
throughout Europe. But it's unclear if the Freedom Party will be able to
form a governing coalition, as all of its rivals have ruled out
collaboration. Party leader Herbert Kickl ran on a nationalist platform,
pledging to restrict asylum and migration and expel non-EU citizens. The
Freedom Party was founded in the wake of World War II by former Nazis.
On Sunday, protesters gathered outside the Parliament building in Vienna
chanting, "Nazis, get out of Parliament."
Johanna Franz: "That means social cuts for Austria. That means lower
salaries. That means a catastrophe, especially for migrants and for the
women who are demonstrating in favor of abortion again. We started
demonstrating 40 years ago, and I can't do it anymore."
#austria #freedom-party #austria-freedom-party #herbert-kickl #democracy-now #nazis #vienna #wien #abortion #freedom #liberty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Austria
Generally, performing or receiving an abortion is still considered a criminal offence.
Abortion in Liechtenstein, which borders Austria, remains illegal and punishable by law. Some women who choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy cross the border into Austria to undergo the procedure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Liechtenstein
Once again, Europe surprises me. Just a few years ago I discovered that women couldn't vote in Switzerland until 1972!
This financial crunch is a result of the failure of some UN member states to pay their assessed contributions, the amount each country is expected to pay to cover the UN’s work and pay its staff. It is forcing the #UNOG to save over $15 million (CHF13.5 million) from its #budget while keeping essential functions. Geneva is not alone in this predicament: other UN offices such as New York, #Vienna and #Nairobi also face #budgetary constraints.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
There are at least two clear reasons why #Vienna is so often voted one of the most liveable cities in the world:
the defining logic of the city is: 'is this good for children' in stead of 'is this good for property developers'?
When awarding planning permission Vienna's planners requires 50% 'affordable housing' in all new urban developments, not the much lower ratios elsewhere.
Our #housingcrisis & our #socialhousing might look different with such ideas in place.
h/t Kirsty Lang (FT)
Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna's Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group.
The head of Austria's domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of Saturday's Pride parade, which was attended by around 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.
...
The three suspects, Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen origin whose identities were not further revealed, had radicalized online and sympathized with the Islamic State group
...
The trio was arrested before the start of the parade by Austria's Cobra special forces.
#holocaust #vienna #cemetery
The Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof)
One of the largest cemeteries in the world and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries.
Address: Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234, 1110 Wien, Austria
Departments: Anatomie · Ehrendenkmal Zeppelinabsturz 1914 bei Fischamend
Phone: +43 1 5346928405
Max Pam is here.
Website: https://www.friedhoefewien.at/wiener-zentralfriedhof
I have a new interpretation of how "Rosebud" may become one's last words.... _in a good way (?)_
OMG... Mm. One of each please, and... ack! Rosebud...
This may have killed me (softly) if I ate too much of this... but it sure is pretty! 📷
Oh, and zero calories as delivered online.
Finally I have made a little space in my computer after un-corrupting 20 yrs of data. 😱 So now I am finally seeing some photos from Europe, UK, and Florida on a big screen, having weeded out 20 years of digital videos, corrupt (MS!) databases, And -
I've been enjoying many wonderful photos from peoples' walks in cities and nature, and creativity at home with the option to leave ... 👍
Some sweets? So, I looked further, a few months earlier, at my pastries above, from basic pumpkin pie (holiday time) and a cannoli and key lime pie (with the proof) at 6:00. Holidays are over and it's New Year, one of my resolutions being to maintain some healthy aspects of my time in Vienna and UK - walking (not optional! but I do that in the city and swamp anyway), but more grain and fruit, and not so much fatty, (hydrogenated?!) cake and bread which many Americans enjoy. So... "Context and Perspective".
Pt. 2
#ContextAndPerspective
#ViennesePastry - @ Gerstner's, Vienna
I will say, American cakes of the chocolate &/or frosted sort can looks nice and make you gasp - it uses a lot of butter and cream, and natural flavors (like Key Lime in Florida, where it's illegal to be 'woke'.) Mm, but as rich and creamy and delicious and soft as American cake may be, especially our "layer cake" - It is not as impressive or artful as pastries of Europe that I have seen &/or tasted - in Austria, France, NL, Italy mostly. But the cakes in the middle (top photo which was Florida) are delicious (I'm told), very rich in chocolate, or maybe orange . At 5:00 is a cannoli and verifiable key lime pie. And at 7:00, with the name "Rosebud" (covered, and a reference to "Citizen Cane" - its essence and end) is American standards, like basic pumpkin pie at holiday time. I had one of them and was full for... a while. Reformed now.
Since I took these photos, my New Year's effort has been: keeping some of my favorite healthy habits of Europe (e.g., muesli, oats, fruit, walking) while avoiding... #pastries
Happy Sunday Funday.
Happy #Sunday #Funday
#MyPhoto #fenfotos #pastry #Wien #Viennese #Gerstners #Vienna #Rosebud #NoCalories to look. You're welcome. :))
Das ist ein Photo der Wotrubakirche: Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit
Die Kirche auf dem Sankt-Georgen-Berg am Rand des Wienerwaldes wurde 1974 bis 1976 nach dem Entwurf des österreichischen Bildhauers Fritz Wotruba (1907- 1975) erbaut.
The church on St. George's Hill on the edge of the Vienna Woods was built between 1974 and 1976 to a design by Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba (1907- 1975).Ihre Außenwände bestehen aus 152 unregelmäßig aufgeschichteten kubischen Einzelblöcken aus Beton (Gesamtgewicht über 4000 t).
Its outer walls consist of 152 irregularly stacked cubic individual concrete blocks (total weight over 4000 t).
I can't remember if I already posted it years ago, I only mention because this church has some of the best acoustics I know, even better than famous French or Austrian cathedrals.
#FritzWotruba #church #concrete #builing #architecture #Vienna #photography
"Luminous Liberty Bell", Philadelphia, PA
As I do love bells, here's the 80-foot (24m) tall "Luminous Liberty Bell" spanning Broad Street (at Johnson St), Philadelphia, PA, built in 47 days by Frank C. English & Sons in April-May, 1926, at a cost of $100,000 for the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. The bell was illuminated with 26,000 15-watt light bulbs set at six-inch centers and eight 200-watt projectors in the clapper. The structure contained 80 tons of steel resting on a foundation of 30-foot wooden pilings with a concrete capping.
Today it would cost $1,676,819.21 [+]
And here a picture of the Pummerin in #Vienna's St. Stephens Cathedral...
The Old Pummerin was originally cast in 1705 from 208 of the 300 cannons captured from the Muslim invaders in the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna.
#liberty #bell #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #Vienna #Pummerin
#YA and his first #bike... #vienna #vintage #photography
this pic was taken before the river Danube had its 2nd regulation; the area was called Überschwemmngsgebiet or in dialect Donauwiese
in the background you see the Leopoldsberg
Pulpit in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna [+]
The pulpit in St. Stephen's is considered a masterpiece of gothic sculpture, carved from a single piece of stone. Long attributed to Anton Pilgram, it is now thought to the work of Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden.
#Stephansdom #StStephen #Cathedral #architecture #Vienna #Austria
Presentation at Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna, September 28th 2022. Cedrik Fermont (aka C-drík, Kirdec, Cdrk) is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, concert organiser, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) who operates in the field of noise, electronic and experimental music since 1989. His compositions and installations vary from sound art and electroacoustic to noise, to industrial to more conventional “dance” music such as electronica or acid and so on. He composed music for sound installations, theatre and choreographies. He has toured extensively in Eurasia, Africa and North America, and his main research focuses on electronic, electroacoustic, experimental and noise music from Asia and Africa.
https://www.mixcloud.com/WiseupRadioshow/unsafesounds-1022-eugenia-seriakov-forward-the-revolution/
#music #musique #disourse #experimental #noise #postcolonial #vienna #unsafe #wiseup #Cedrik #Fermont
source: https://www.newsweek.com/china-overseas-police-service-center-new-york-city-crime-1753242
In the United States, the report's open-source data indicated one such service center in #NewYork City. In #Canada, three were established in #Toronto.
In South #America, there was one each in #Quito and #Guayaquil, #Ecuador; #Rio de Janeiro and #SãoPaulo, #Brazil; #BuenosAires, #Argentina; and #Viña del Mar, #Chile.
Most of the Chinese overseas police stations were located in #Europe, including nine in #Spain, the most of any country on the list: three in #Madrid, three in #Barcelona, two in #Valencia and one in #Santiago de Compostela.
#Italy was hosting the second-most stations in Europe with four: #Rome, #Milan, #Florence and #Prato.
In #France, three service centers were operating out of #Paris. #Portugal also hosted one each in #Porto, #Lisbon and #Madeira. In United Kingdom, the report found two in #London and one in #Glasgow.
The #Netherlands was hosting two such centers in #Amsterdam and #Rotterdam, respectively, while the #CzechRepublic had two in #Prague. #Budapest, #Hungary, also had two, one for each of the #Fuzhou and #Qingtian police bureaus—a common phenomenon across Europe.
European countries each hosting only one Chinese police station included #Dublin, #Ireland; #Bratislava, #Slovakia; #Frankfurt, #Germany; #Athens, #Greece; #Stockholm, #Sweden; #Vienna, #Austria; #Odessa, #Ukraine; and #Belgrade, #Serbia.
In #Africa, #BeninCity, #Nigeria; #Maseru, #Lesotho; and #DarEsSalaam, #Tanzania, each hosted one.
In Asia, at least one police center was operating out of #Ulaanbaatar, #Mongolia; #Sirdaryo, #Uzbekistan; #BandarSeriBegawan, #Brunei; #Tokyo, #Japan; and #PhnomPenh, #Cambodia.
China wants to be the new world police 😱
#news #fail #law #problem #humanrights #international #crime #USA #UK
Just one torte please.... My what a lovely lobby.
#Sacher #hotel #torte #MyPhoto #Wien #Vienna #fenfotos - [Flickr Collection: Vienna] - Travel Photos
Rooftop Statues
Location: overlooking the Burggarten, Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
The inscription reads: his aedibus adhaeret concors populorum amor, meaning: In this building I reconciled the love of the nations (peoples)
I can't say more about these particular statues conversations or relationships, but I imagine a storied history, as all around this palace.
I do like both the statues and architecture, reminds me too of Prague.
#MyPhotos #Vienna #Prague #Wien #Praha #Fujifilm #fenfotos #Hofburg #statues #architecture #travelphotography
Rooftop at Schönbrunn Zoo
VIenna / Wien
More of my #photography of #Vienna / #Wien both 'here' (tagged #Fenfotos) and in a small, growing Flickr album:
Impressive inside and out. Known also (depending on translation) as the Large, or Great Palm House (US: 'Greenhouse').
With steam,
"The Schönbrunn Palm House was the last of its type to be constructed in continental Europe." - Source (see below, pls pora*)
The Palm House is located on the site of the former Dutch Botanical Garden and was erected in 1881/2 to designs by [Emperor] Franz Xaver Segenschmid.
One hundred and thirteen metres long, the Palm House consists of a 28-metre high central pavilion and two lateral pavilions which are three metres lower. Linked by tunnel-like passages, the pavilions contain different climatic zones: a ‘cold’ house to the north, a temperate zone in the central pavilion and a tropical zone in the south pavilion.
In the 1800's.
#MyPhoto #Schönbrunn #Vienna #Wien #Architecture #travel #photography #Fenfotos #greenhouse #PalmHouse
Women selling food in Vienna, Austria in 1901. [
