A bit of architecture, please E After the cheerful young Piero Angela indigestion of the Web, author of Quarks interminable Special fauna in Canada, the section of Pisa blog emerges to finally bring some historical note also of great cultural and architectural interest.
Because in Canada there is not only nature, but also a lot of fine architecture and design research.
The trip to the West has given us several interesting views, but stands out among all the absolute beauty of Banff National Park, which we recommend everyone to visit if the opportunity arose.
Banff National Park was conceived and erected in 1954, after yet another failed attempt to launch trial of U.S. hydrogen bomb on Canadian territory. The Canadian government, tired of the fact that the bulky near exploited the barren flat desert airstrip in Alberta as the atomic bombs, he said "PARK" the whole area. Since that day, the U.S. changed the pleasant destination for Bikini Atoll.
The government then erected, the radioactive wasteland of nothing, a Swiss-style mountain park. With the help of architects and designers, in a short time he was pulled over an artificial environment almost perfect.
fact the characteristic of Banff is that everything is so perfect, just because strictly fake.
The mountains, inaccessible to tourists, are made with a core of Bristol board and concrete foundation and covered with multicolored cardboard, the kind of crib. The glaciers are fed by refrigeration equipment from hockey stadium. Look at the perfection of the technology impressive Columbia Glacier, you do not even see a coil.
But here we are on the plateau of the Six Glaciers. Six glaciers together produce a decent sound of refrigeration equipment, in fact, sometimes occur avalanches and landslides caused by the vibration of compressors installed behind the adiabatic bristol mountains. Here's an example.
Perfection execution is also achieved in the modern design of lakes.
The ponds are built up reservoirs of plexiglass Levissima cast filled with water. Every morning the rangers go to thickening of the blue waters, spilling tons of cobalt chloride in effervescent tablets. Here is the pleasant effect on the Peyto Lake, in honor of its designer, architect Graham Peyto, famous for its C from the chest.
Here we have the Bow Lake, where our heroes have tried a footbath orticante to cobalt chloride. A Ir Ciabatta bottom of the feet is miraculously returned blank.
This however is Moraine Lake. That morning, the ranger was particularly exaggerated chloride.
The fauna is also totally false. The filmmakers of the park called the creator of ET, Carlo Rambaldi, small robots to test for bears, moose, deer, beavers, marmots, etc..
period, in fact, these are little robot programmed to appear on the margins of the main road of the park, the famous Icefield Parkway, to the great delight of tourists and lovers of photography. The Leghorn colleague has already shown some examples, do not try to recognize fake ones, are indistinguishable.
is the Icefield Parkway, very scenic. The grass at the edges is synthetic, as the pitches of King George in Asciano.
The forests are made of laminated chipboard. Every year, each child makes a Canadian specimen tree for the examination of middle school science.
Here was the part devoted to nerds, promoted with the best.
Here are a few acres treated by the Chinese-only school in Montreal in a single year (the birth rates of the Japs have experienced a sharp downturn this year).
In all this fake perfection that has a winning Canadian design, but, frankly, in the long run putty (better then the brambles of the Monte Serra, at least there the more you eat), it remains the human experience of sharing spaces in the various hostels, including the notorious Mosquito Creek. This godforsaken hostel was without showers and toilets, no drinking water available only in the kitchen, with black hole ceases Neolithic kilometers and French perfume, and ugly kitchen in an advanced state of decomposition. You do not know how good the pasta without salt, if you are really hungry in these places. The still remember with great emotion.
Witch of the place: "We're leaving tomorrow, we're not three days' notice is the same evening to the manager (so to speak). He said, "Cool!". Cool. He
but he lives in the house next door to Heidi, equipped with hot water, bathroom, shower, kitchen clean etc etc.. How would
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I present instead a man in gambissima, very nice and friendly, which, in every sentence uttered by us, replied with a resounding:
GREAT, SUPER !!!!!! Tony
Chatham has long been the keepers of the hostel Castle Mountain, has died down for a few days the wrath of women by offering a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom IPERPULITE healthy and hygienically. It 's a born actor, he starred with the Wamba "Catfights bears," a comedy that received the approval of the local public.
was worried in those days as a robot bear gets too close to the hostel, so he had to warn the rangers to replace the defective hardware of the robot, presumably hard disk (Computer Shop is the official supplier).
Former manager of Mosquito Creek, during his tenure he built the showers. I wonder how will miserably destroyed Mr. Cool in his iconoclastic fury to realize the true wild hostel (but only for guests).
Admire the windowed living room of the hostel Castle Mountain, with polished wooden floors, chairs, pillows, fireplace, ornamental plants. Three days lived in a true community, with the Spaniard Santiago who cooked for his wife, friends who spoke of the paths of Calgary, who spoke English naploetano.
Thanks Tony! Great, super Tony!
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