Beautiful houses, classy highrises and MORMON TEMPLES!! A stroll around Porto Alegre!

Trantor · #1 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 3:42 PM**

Original thread by Farrapo, from SSC

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Originally Posted by Farrapo

This weekend I had to go to Porto Alegre and I took the opportunity to take some photos. I tried to photograph some unseen places, but also took some new pics of Moinhos de Ventos neighborhood, hehe. I will not comment a lot here, even more since there are lots of pics, the thread is heavy and I already got tired of hosting the pics hehe! Thats it and I hope you enjoy the pics. AND COMMENT THEM, please! Cheers!

Chácara das Pedras neighborhood (Stones Ranch Neighborhood

1. This is a pretty house. A shame its hidden by the trees

2. Also pretty...

3. Sidewalk

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5. I liked a lot this house! I only think these chimneys were in bad taste.... maybe another "model" of chimney would be prettier.

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10. Horrible, bizarre and other similar adjectives.

11. Horizontal condominium...

12. Mormon Temple backside

13. And the frontside of the Mormon Temple

14. I liked a lot this house!!! My style of house!

15. This sidewalk was a true relief! It was VERY HOT (and humid) in Porto Alegre (its almost summer), so any shade was welcome, hehe!

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Três Figueiras Neighborhood (Three Figue Trees Neighborhood)

24. A beautiful street!

25. I love this style of house... with a kinda of "non commitment" style, with a cool paisagism and such. It transmists a sensation of confort...

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27. One of the many horizontal condominiuns in Três Figueiras. I particularly dont like them too much...

28. Another!

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Nilo Peçanha Avenue

Some stores

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31. This one is almost finished!

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Montserrat Neighborhood

Some buildings, 3 to be more exact, hehe!

36. Ah, I liked a lot this one. Not that is "another world", but has good taste and lots of glass! (note from Trantor: this is probably the most "Vancouverian" building in Brazil in style. But it seems the construction company is having some difficulty in selling the units, since residential buildings with so much glass are not popular in Brazil.)

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Moinhos de Vento Neighborhood (Windmills Neighborhood

Old Houses

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44. I like this house a lot. I think its the first time it appears here on SSC. I think it has a different style, dunno.

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Some highrises

46. I think this one is very cool because of this balconies "play".

47. Another building

Others

48. Furriel backside, at 3rd Perimetral Avenue area

49. Furriel entrance

50. A residential at Petropolis neighborhood (Ravello Park)

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bonus

downtown

eastidaho · #2 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 5:11 PM**

I like your DT pics!

pierre-laurent · #3 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 5:13 PM**

yes, very pretty city indeed

Trantor · #4 Posted **Dec 7, 2006, 1:24 AM**

some aerials

James Bond Agent 007 · #5 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 8:27 AM**

Nice pics, looks like Florida or California. Pretty cool temple, too.

Trantor · #6 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 2:26 PM**

thanks Bond! One more reply is always welcome to my threads!!

Paintballer1708 · #7 Posted **Dec 8, 2006, 2:29 PM**

One of my favorite Brazilian cities. Very nice pics.

Trantor · #8 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 2:31 PM**

Thanks Paintballer!

Its also one of my favorite brazilian cities, but I am biased towards it of course, since I was born there and live in its metro area!

Trantor · #9 Posted **Dec 11, 2006, 4:04 PM**

a cool panorama from the airplane

Bergenser · #10 Posted **Dec 11, 2006, 4:11 PM**

Looks like a nice city!

Trantor · #11 Posted **Dec 11, 2006, 8:28 PM**

Yup, its a very nice city. One of the finest in Brazil.

crisp444 · #12 Posted **Dec 11, 2006, 8:41 PM**

I must disagree about the "horizontal condiminiums" - picture #9 is absolutely gorgeous and reminds me of parts of Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West LA. I wish more residential areas of the US looked like they do in some of the "horizontal condiminiums" pics like 9,18,21 and 27.

Trantor · #13 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 1:45 AM**

hey, YOU are Crisp!

I didnt associate your nickname (I have bad memory for names) with the avatar. Looking at the avatar I remembered you hehe!

PacificNW · #14 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 2:00 AM**

Very nice...beautiful city! Thank you!

Trantor · #15 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 2:34 AM**

you are welcome!

Trantor · #16 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 4:11 PM**

some pics of Bela Vista neighborhood

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old house preserved by the highrise building company

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crisp444 · #17 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 7:20 PM**

WOW. Those highrise residential towers surrounded by beautiful landscaping are just stunning. I am truly impressed with Porto Alegre!

arbeiter · #18 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 8:20 PM**

The Bela Vista neighborhood looks a lot like Bogota.

Very nice pictures! I wasn't a fan of most of the detached houses, though, they looked very American.

Trantor · #19 Posted **Dec 12, 2006, 8:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by arbeiter

The Bela Vista neighborhood looks a lot like Bogota.

Very nice pictures! I wasn't a fan of most of the detached houses, though, they looked very American.

but they dont have hollow walls that you can jump through like in movies. All brick and concrete. And most of these houses are reinforced concrete and bricks.

Anyway, I dont think the houses are so american looking. Specially the older ones, some of which are shown here.

Trantor · #20 Posted **Dec 18, 2006, 7:57 PM**

why not?

Some more pics

Moinhos de Ventos neighborhood