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After missing the last bus to Tariffa, my friend and I made the quick decision to catch the last bus available to Sevilla. It was 9pm and our options for accommodations we're extremely limited, but we found a nice-looking travelers' hostel that happily accepted our late reservation. Upon further investigation, we learned that this building was several centuries old and had been home to the town's priests. The room was illuminated by candlelight, and we slept in the attic that still had the original furniture inside. Accidentally missing that bus landed us in one of the strangest AirBnBs I've had the pleasure of staying in. That night, we both had odd dreams. When I accepted the set of circumstances I found myself in, I came to really appreciate the quirky uniqueness of this historical building. This creepy-cool building added a story with plenty of character to my travels, and I only experienced it because of an accident. I choose to be grateful and happy despite the imperfections and challenges. That's how you get stronger. #spain #sevilla #artforthehome #travelgirldiary #sheexplores #candlelight #girlsabroad #gratitude #grateful #ipreview (at Seville, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoADdasgF5W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h704ijvodfoq

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Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier

Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier.

The accommodation building forms part of the campus of the Chandigarh Group of Colleges, which is situated in the Landran district of Mahali – a satellite town to the west of the city designed by the Swiss architect in the 1950s.

Above: the student housing forms part of Chandigarh Group of Colleges. Top image: it recalls the work of Le Corbusier

Charged Voids was tasked with delivering an affordable building to accommodate 500 students on the 25-acre campus.

Rather than designing for the proposed greenfield site, the architects suggested slotting an open and accessible triangular structure onto an awkward lot occupied by an existing bus yard.

It features brightly coloured surfaces and columns

"The primary idea was to design a hostel building with no boundary walls in a campus divided by gated compounds for all living spaces," said Charged Voids.

"This would also serve the purpose of creation of public spaces and amenities in a campus that has a serious shortage of covered spill-over spaces."

There is a variety of public spaces

The building has a variety of public spaces on its lower levels, including a double-height covered plaza connected to a triple-height sunken courtyard.

From the adjacent road, steps lead up to an open-air communal space, which can be used by the entire campus. Also at this level is a large reception area, with an adjoining dining and kitchen facility.

The building has a triangular plan

A gap between angled walls marks the entrance to the basement courtyard, which is open to the campus during the day but only accessible by the building's occupants at night.

The basement houses a gym looking out onto the sunken courtyard, with TV rooms, a sports area, a multipurpose hall and storage also accommodated on this level.

Rooms are arranged around a central atrium

The walls around the public spaces on the lower floors are painted in primary hues that help to distinguish their different functions.

These colours, as well as the creation of a sheltered outdoor space punctuated by supporting columns, or piloti, recall the work of Le Corbusier, who used piloti to free up circulation spaces in projects such as the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and Villa Savoye in Poissy.

The accommodation building features a simple, triangular plan with rooms arranged around a central atrium topped with skylights that allow natural light to penetrate down through this circulation space.

A reading room, administration office and warden's living space are accommodated on the building's second floor, with student housing occupying the third to the ninth levels.

Bridges cross over the atrium

The project focused on creating quality social spaces, so the atrium is crisscrossed by bridges at each level that function as additional places for students to congregate.

"These varied bridges create a great interaction between the various levels and also provide for a naturally well-lit and ventilated interior space," the architecture studio added.

Rough grey render lines the upper walls

The project features a limited palette of low-cost materials including floors made from local kota stone, white-painted surfaces and a rough grey render used for the walls.

The simple materials and finishes in varying shades of white and grey give the building a neutral, monochrome aesthetic that is enlivened by the bright pops of primary colour applied to the external walls and internal doors.

The pops of colour brighten the simple material palette

Charged Voids previously referenced the modernist principles of Le Corbusier in its design for a family home featuring a curved roof and a white turret punctured by geometric apertures.

The studio has also completed a house in Chandigarh featuring geometric, stone-clad surfaces that separate a series of living spaces arranged around a central courtyard.

Photography is by Javier Callejas Sevilla.

Project credits:

Architect: Charged Voids Lead architect: Aman Aggarwal Design team: Rahul Vij, Sugandha Wadhawan, Javed Akhtar Siddiqui Architect’ Firm: Charged Voids 3D visualiser: Haneet Khanna Structure consultant: IC Syal

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The Ever Changing Seville by Brianna Hansen

 "The Ever Changing Seville" has to do with gentrification in Sevilla. Gentrification is the process of improving and renovating an area so it can be more middle class. The title of the piece is “The Ever Changing Seville” because Seville had to change its old ways and incorporate new ways of doing thing to accommodate for the influx of tourism in the city. It will always be changing too because of the new instillations of modern artwork and architecture that are being put up that will also bring in more tourism. The pictures show the area around the Cathedral in the City Center and the hotels, hostels, and apartments in it. This shows how the city has become more of a touristic site and the traditional values of Seville are slowly diminishing. It represents the migration of people constantly moving in and out of the city and having a means of living while they come travel here. Seville overtime has become a very touristic location because of the history involved in it. There has been an increase because it is the third most known city in Spain. Since the increase in tourism, the pictures show how hostels, hotels, and apartments are located on top of businesses and their architecture shows no difference. This shows that since they had an increase in tourism and the areas were changing to adapt to the tourists, they had to find places to house them and putting apartments and hostels on top of businesses maximized the space to accommodate the influx of people.  The point of these pictures is to get a lot of them and display how vast the amount of apartments, hostels, and hotels there are in just one area of Seville.

My pictures are all in black and white. I chose to do it this way because it resembles the work of Hans Haacke and his work of the Shapolsky museum. The instillation took place in 1971 and was put at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Shapolsky et al was a Real Estate company that owned many apartment complexes in New York. The work he did displayed the apartments in New York City. It wasn’t based off of just one picture but a combination of multiple pictures to fully grasp the concept of what he was trying to portray. There were 142 pictures exactly in the instillation and it had the street name and all the other information about the building itself included in the pictures. The purpose of his artwork was to display how many apartment buildings this one company owned and it fascinated him. Like in Seville, New York experienced gentrification and an increase in population. They also had to expand upward in order to be able to hold the amount of people immigrating into the city because of the lack of space they had vertically. His pictures were of a front upward glance at the building. My pictures resemble his like that as well along with his in black and white. The reason why I personally chose black and white was because I believe it is a classier and simpler art design. Instead of focusing on all the colors and getting distracted by them in pictures, if it is in black and white, you can focus more on the purpose of the picture and the meaning behind it. His ideas were similar to what I am trying to accomplish with mine and talking about how many people can live in one specific area or in one developer’s buildings in the case of Haacke. The front upward angle of the pictures show the entire building from top to bottom to show how many rooms and how tall the one building can be. The bigger the building the more gentrification there is and can be in the city.

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After frequent price hikes, cost of visiting Cuba coming down

After frequent price hikes, cost of visiting Cuba coming down BY MIMI WHITEFIELD mwhitefield@miamiherald.com American travelers checking into Cuban hotels and dining at Havana's more upscale private restaurants since the U.S. rapprochement with Cuba have experienced more than a bit of sticker shock. Since the Obama administration's opening to Cuba allowed more Americans to travel to the island most travel-related costs have jumped 100 to 400 percent, said Tom Popper, president of insightCuba, which organizes tours to Cuba. But what goes up usually comes down. Mandated prices for state agencies and hotels are scheduled to drop for the spring and summer seasons, said Popper. Different tour operators receive their rates from the Cuban government at different times, but Popper said the new prices quoted to insightCuba will result on average in a $250 savings per traveler on a six- or seven-day trip this spring and summer. "The question was for how long were prices going to increase or stay at artificially inflated levels," he said. "This is the first time we've seen costs come down, instead of up, in three years." The trend had been up, up, up. Rates for standard rooms, which averaged around $150 a night at some popular Havana hotels before the Obama opening, climbed to more than $600 last year. A junior suite at the Hotel Saratoga is listed at $605 a night during the first week of March. And the new Kempinski luxury hotel, which is slated to open in Havana later this year, recently announced that rates at the Gran Hotel Manzana would start at $600 during the November to March high season and at $400 from April to October. Though bargains exist for the traveler willing to seek them out, many visitors are surprised to find South Beach prices when they dine at some of Havana's better paladares, or private restaurants. "Prices are still incredibly high, given the quality of the offerings. However, they have come down about 25 percent for March/April/May compared to November/December of last year," said Collin Laverty, president of Cuban Educational Travel, which organizes group travel to Cuba. At Road Scholar, a nonprofit that offers educational travel programs, demand has slowed a bit this year because of the high hotel prices, said JoAnn Bell, senior vice president of program development. But she said, "Americans continue to be fascinated by the prospect of traveling to Cuba." A Road Scholar representative is currently in Cuba, she said, renegotiating rates. "If successful, we will pass along any savings to Road Scholar participants," Bell said. There's a lot of talk about pricing among foreign hoteliers in Cuba, said Bob Guild, vice president of Marazul, which offers tours and travel arrangements to Cuba. "We see prices likely coming down in October (when the next high season begins), and we are advising our clients of that," he said. Guild said that a number of groups have canceled because of the high prices, but others have come in and made up for it. Overall, he said, Marazul hasn't experienced a drop in demand. "During the [winter] season we've been running 100 groups a month," Guild said. The price run-up began in 2015, said Popper, when the tourism minister announced that hotel costs would go up 100 percent in the face of overheating demand. "The intent of the price increases was not only to get more revenue but also to tamp down demand. They couldn't keep up with it," he said. Throughout 2015 and 2016, there were additional 15 to 20 percent price hikes. Visitors are still coming to Cuba in record numbers, but tour operators said a market correction was needed. Cuban tourism officials are predicting that the number of international visitors in 2017 will increase to 4.2 million, about 100,000 more than last year. This January, the number of international visitors was up 15 percent, and the Ministry of Tourism is forecasting Cuba will finish the high season with a 17 percent jump in international visitors. Popper said he expects demand from the United States to cool off a bit from the Obama heat wave when Americans rushed to take advantage of new regulations that made it easier to travel to Cuba. They are permitted to visit if they fall into 12 specific categories such as educational travel, but aren't supposed to take trips to simply soak up the sun on the beach. 284,937 Americans visited Cuba last year Last year, 284,937 Americans visited Cuba, a 74 percent increase from the previous year. Cuban Americans are counted in a separate category for the Cuban diaspora, and they added nearly 330,000 to the total number of visitors coming from the United States. But it's possible that President Donald Trump, who has ordered a review of all executive orders related to Cuba, could take action that would affect U.S. travel to the island. Last year, U.S. commercial airlines competed for the first regularly scheduled routes to Cuba in more than five decades. Some airlines received flight frequencies from the Department of Transportation that would make sense only if travel to Cuba from the United States were totally opened up and regular tourism permitted. JetBlue recently decided to put smaller planes on its routes to Cuba, and American Airlines cut its daily flights to Cuba from 13 to 10 in mid-February. Silver Airways, which flies out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, also has reduced frequencies on some of its Cuba routes. "The airlines had no historical data whatsoever [on the Cuba market]. They made a huge guess," Popper said. "But all of them tried to gobble up as much capacity as they could and now they are making adjustments." Although passenger tallies out of some new gateways offering flights to Cuba, such as Charlotte, are lagging, traffic to Cuba through Miami International Airport is up since the first regularly scheduled flight from MIA to Cuba took off on Sept. 7, 2016. From Sept. 1, 2016, to Feb. 21 this year, total passengers coming or going to Cuba through MIA increased from 466,213 during the previous year to 620,592. The totals also include charter passengers. 620,592 passengers traveled through MIA coming or going to Cuba The hotel price reductions are welcome. On eight people-to-people tours planned by insightCuba for May through October, prices will drop by $500 per couple, Popper said. Other tour operators also have cut prices for trips during the latter part of the year. The League of Women Voters of Florida, which is organizing its 28th people-to-people visit to Cuba since 2011, also recently reduced the price of its May 22-28 trip by $400. Former state Rep. Annie Betancourt, who will lead the trip, said the price reduction came from the tour operator and she was unsure if it was related to lower hotel prices. But she said travelers can still find accommodations in the $150 price range at hotels such as the Sevilla, Presidente, Vedado and Florida. "We usually plan these trips 6 to 8 months ahead of time," Betancourt said. But demand is still such, she said, "that the hardest thing is getting bookings for hotels." Betancourt said she plans to recommend that the League consider putting its travelers in casas particulares, private homes that offer rooms for rent, on future trips. The casas generally cost from 20 CUC to 40 CUC per night. For those exchanging U.S. dollars, that's about from $23 to $46. Hotel accommodations outside the capital also are generally far more economical than in Havana. "Demand is still high," Laverty said. "However, travelers have started to discover private homes, hostels, travel outside of Havana and other ways to save money by not staying in overpriced hotels." Private taxi drivers also jacked up prices, doubling fares for shorter rides and charging 120 CUCs ($138) for an eight-hour shift. But in early February the government imposed ceilings on fares for some of the more popular fixed routes in Havana and said those who charged more were in danger of losing their licenses. Instead of improving the situation, it created traffic chaos, with some drivers taking their cars off the road in protest and others saying they could no longer earn a living with the price caps. Gasoline is in short supply, and some of the drivers had been relying on higher-priced black market gas and passing that increase on to their customers. The result of the price caps: fewer taxis on the road and longer waits. Some drivers also have refused to pick up passengers unless they want to travel entire routes. "This doesn't really affect tourists, who don't take route taxis on a regular basis, but it has certainly made it difficult for Cubans who are accustomed to taking shared taxis," Laverty said. "Not only did they put price controls on that are below market rates, but they restricted drivers that don't have Havana addresses from working in Havana, further limiting supply." FOLLOW MIMI WHITEFIELD ON TWITTER: @HERALDMIMI Source: Overheated hotel prices in Cuba start to come down | Miami Herald - http://ift.tt/2lwFZTS via Blogger http://ift.tt/2liNTxy

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Looking for a Hostel Accommodation in Barcelona is pretty tricky as you have to select one out of the numerous options available in the market. However, this post will make your task easy because I am recommending you the best option which is Black Swan Hostel Seville Spain.

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