The Green Room of Casco Viejo

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This is where real casco life can hide sometimes…. You see a beautiful, old and huge building from the outside, it’s all messed up, most of the doors are blocked by wooden panels and the whole structure totally needs a deep restauration… it’s hard to believe, looking from the outside, that there’s actually a “day to day life” inside those buildings, with families living there since generations… poor families that find their way to adapt to those magnificent spaces, once very elegant apartments, taking advantage of common spaces with multiple uses… those families are often forced to move somewhere else, in order to let the restaurations follow, but once the work is done, the rent raises incredibly, not to mention the selling prices….

Moving reflection in front of perfection

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In Monte Tamaro (Ticino, Switzerland), swiss architect Mario Botta leaves his sign with this Chapel, Santa Maria degli Angeli, perfectly positioned so that we can enjoy a spectacular view over the valleys and surrounding mountains… The building contrasts nicely with the landscape, as the water dispenser for the cows that usually graze on Monte Tamaro during summer time.

Un brillo particular

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I took this shot during one of those never-ending nights, where you could do as many things as if it was a whole weekend. We were 4 friends hanging out, two girls, two boys.

Smokincoffee was driving us. We would start the night hanging out, probably driving around the city or eating somewhere… then we would enter into the Casco Antiguo (Old Town), walk from one bar to another, take a look at some places with unique lighting and weird elements, take photos, posing for photos in front of old buildings, going from a special spot to another, and then just walk through the streets, to finally go back to driving around the city… where we ended up throwing water balloons to people at 2am… (I would say the boys did) and stopping at service stations to fill them up…

I came up with this silly title after taking this shot, stopping by very fast while driving around in Casco… I really loved the special lighting and it was also a special fun night to remember.