Berny's photos with the keyword: metropole

scanned slide, Minolta X700

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs". Buenos Aires is a multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of immigrants from all over the world, making it a melting pot where several ethnic groups live together. Thus, Buenos Aires is considered one of the most diverse cities of the Americas. The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 15.6 million. - scanned slides, Minolta X700

View from Hotel Bristol to Av. 9 de Julio. I've freshly scanned around 1000 slides from the Argentina trip in January/February 2000. All scans have been postprocessed with photoshop and addons and geotagged as accurate as possible (a lot of work).

View from Empire State Building to "New York Life Building" (golden roof), "Merchandise Mart Building" (the black newer one), behind is the "Metropolitan Life North Building" (Art déco, built 1928-1950) and the "MetLife Tower" with the clock, which shows a time of 8:32 pm. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from Empire State Building to the Northeast. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from Empire State Building: The so called "Flatiron Building" was built 1902 (!), with 22 floors, 86.9 m. It's situated at the corner Broadway / 5th Avenue. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from Empire State Building along the 5th Avenue to Lower Manhattan with WTC. scanned slide, Minolta X700

View from 86th floor observation deck to the east (East River), PANAM-building, Chrysler building, Queensboro Bridge and UN building as landmarks. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

view from World Trade Center (South Tower) to Empire State Building (NW), 5th Avenue down to the right - scanned slide, Minolta X700, 210 mm, Fujichrome 100

View from World Trade Center (South Tower) southeast to East River - see notes, but leave your mouse out of the photo if you don't want to see it ;-) - scanned slide, Minolta X700 1) 70 Pine Street, 1930-1932, 67 floors, 290.2 m 2) 40 Wall Street - The Trump Building, 1929-1930, 71 floors, 282.5 m 3) 20 Exchange Place, 1929-1931, 57 floors, 257.9 m 4) 55 Water Street, 1972, 53 floors, 229.5 m 5) One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 1957-1961, 60 floors, 247.8 m 6) HSBC Bank Building, 1967, 52 floors, 209.7 m 7) Equitable Building, 1915 (!), 40 floors, 163.9 m 8) Bankers Trust Company Building, 1912 (!), 29 floors, 164 m 9) Downtown by Philippe Starck, 1927, 42 floors, 167.9 m 10) Bank of New York Building, 1928-1932, 50 floors, 199.3 m 11) One Liberty Plaza, 1968-1973, 54 floors, 226.5 m

The Royal York Hotel has been built in 1929. You find Leon's view (a little bit further down the road) here: ► Leon's view

This view goes to North-East. The two circular towers are Marina City I and II, built 1960-1962. Each has 61 floors and is 179 m high. More informations here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City scanned slide, Minolta X-700, Minolta 70-210mm

AON Center in the background, behind the Chase Tower

View from Sears Tower (now called "Willis Tower"), all interesting buildings are marked and described, search for and click on the (small) notes. scanned slide, Minolta X700

"Manhattan Municipal Building" (177 m, beaux-arts style, 1914) and "Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse" (180 m, neoclassicism, 1932-1934). HFF and a wonderful weekend, stay safe! scanned slide, Minolta X700

view from CN-Tower, see PiP's for skyscrapers "First Canadian Place" was the highest skyscraper in 1986. scanned slide, Minolta X700

seen from the roof of "Edificio Lopez Serrano"