My city cheated on me! Somebody else took photos of it! (aka Novo Hamburgo by Sapox)

[Trantor]

Hello folks. Some of you might have seen my latest threads with panoramas of my city, Novo Hamburgo, as well, as the video I made of it.

Anyway, at SSC there are 2 more forumers from my city, and one of them is an excellent photographer, and posted a thread with several street level pics of Novo Hamburgo, focusing a lot on old german houses.

Enjoy

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Some general views:
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Buildings at Maurício Cardoso avenue and surroundings

Vitória Régia
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in another street, I thought this big fat palm tree on the sidewalk was interesting (Trantor´s note: this is in front of my GIRLFRIEND´s house!)
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Metropolitan
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Metropolitan - behind
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I think this building is cool
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Sunset building, tallest in the city with 34 floors.
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Four Seasons building
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I like a lot this one, called Montenegro
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And another one
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Ecletic house in the street below
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More residential buildings
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With the moon behind. (astronomy interested forumers, check it out if the moon is really inverted when seeing it from the southern hemisphere)
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Downtown and surroundings

Atlas Executive Center and Bento Gonçalves (a.k.a. Barbie Building)
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Torre Prata
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Old building
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Dont like this one, but anyway...
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Touristic Reception Center
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First "highrise" in the city, from 1950.
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Comercial building
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I like these ones
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This building is very interesting
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More buildings
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Ascension Church, neo-gothic. Its a lutheran church
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Tranquility in a neighborhood street
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First wood house of Novo Hamburgo, still well preserved... Casa Daudt (Daudt House)
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Hamburgo Velho - historical center of the city
neighborhood view
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Lutheran Church of the Mage Kings, under restauration
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Nossa Senhora da Piedade Church
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Ody House
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Fachwerk house, but in an awful conservation state
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Old and new...
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Santa Catarina School
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Klein House, a masterpiece...
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Scheffel Foundation, with shadows from Lira House.
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Small house
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street in front of the museum
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Museum House Schimitt-Presser, fachwerk preserved by IPHAN, and Foundation Scheffel
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Museum seen from the Foundation.
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Swan Tower Hotel
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Others
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80 Building from the old Frohsin Society, projected by the architect Theo Wiederspahn, the same from the MARGS museum in Porto Alegre

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Residential
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[arkhitektor]

Never heard of the place. Is it in Brazil somewhere?

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by arkhitektor

Never heard of the place. Is it in Brazil somewhere?

yes, yes, exactly. Southern Brazil to be more exact. 45km north of Porto Alegre.

check these two threads (my photos) for some panoramas of the city.

in one of the threads, I also explain to a german forumer the history of the city and german colonization in Brazil (which unlike what he thought, took place in the 19th century, long before WW2)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=157058

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=155865

[ColDayMan]

Fantastic photos. What is the weather like?

[Trantor]

with or without global warming?

cuz this seems to be the warmest winter ever. In fact, incredibly, autumn was much colder this year than the winter. I bet spring will also be colder.


the weather is kinda humid most of the year. Very hot summers, good chilly but not VERY cold winters. In winter, cold fronts come from Antartica and have dry air, so usually, the clearest days in winter will also be the coldest. Thus, very clear days when its cold, means lack of snow.

But we do have snow here (altitude only 10 meters above sea level) like once every 10 years. In higher areas of the state (like 800 meters above sea level) it snows a few times a year, and above 1500 meters you can have quite some snow accumulation.

Rain is spread equaly along the year, unlike most of tropical Brazil, where you have rainy summers and dry winters, and not much temperature difference.

There are reports by european immigrants back in the 19th century, of BLIZZARDS in my state, in the higher areas, with snow accumulation of up to 2 meters deep!!!! Well... I dont think we had such blizzards since the end of the 19th century.

[ColDayMan]

Thank you!

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Thank you!

20 days to spring and the first snow of the year fell on my state. What an weird weather.

from Mário Lima (Zero Hora newspaper)





São José dos Ausentes/RS
Jeffrson Bottega - Zerohora.com


Pinheiro Machado/RS
Fonte: Luiz Carpe - Zerohora.com