Digging the Internet for Varna

I'm so happy sites like lostbulgaria.com and retrobulgaria.com exist!

I found some old photos that include the railway station. These photos will help a lot in my investigation - what has been changed in the building during the ages.

Varna, railway station 1920s (Варна, ж.п. гарата, 20-те години на ХХ век)

view form the port (link). I see my task in the background 

Another precious net spot - Forum 

Facades are one thing, a whole other thing is the urban planning. I am surprised again how much I find when I ask good-old Google:

I also checked:

• google maps 
• bgmaps.com - for more orientation with neighbourhood names
• gisvarna.com - I'm so used to gisSofia that I can check every site for free and I'm in a difficulty that gisvarna is paid. The thing that pisses me off is there's no prices for the services and the registration itself requires my bank account. Please..
• Officials: http://agup.varna.bg
• Official Urban Plans - strategic plan (bg: ОУП)
• Old plans: taken form this blog - 10x people!

Varna Old Plans:

Map of Varna - 1854

Varna urban plan 1897

Varna urban plan 1923

map of Varna nowadays 

topographic map of Varna

Latest Strategic plan of Varna

Sites I found and will explore further:

• http://www.varnaplan.bg - 

Blogging as a diary of the graduation work/project

In in my years of studying architecture I spent lots of time researching. Research is the most fundamental step in a project. I believe in the collected information is the key to the good concept. Many times I've searched the net for specific topic, building, architect and most valuable I found the architecture students' blogs. I was surprised to find out it's a practice in some universities that the students have a blog for their semester project - step by step they do it like a diary - from research through experimentation with shapes to the final idea.

Speaking of that I finally got it to graduation work (6th year yeah). I chose a project in the field of restoration and heritage - The railway in Varna and the surrounding space.

The first step - visit the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Sofia. In the picture bellow you can see half of the papers I have to go through for the 2 railway stations.

That's enough for now

Here's the blogs that inspired me to start:

1. Student EMILIE C. who I  found helpful during the project for a Hotel  http://arch3611f12emiliec.blogspot.com/

2. Something almost random : http://underdog-arch-student.com/

3. Found thanks to 1. http://jcastillotheoreticaldesign.blogspot.com/
http://archithinker87.blogspot.com/
http://arch3611f12trungnguyen.blogspot.com/

4. Another Emilie C. blog - http://8fultonstreet.blogspot.com/

5. Ferrari museum - http://museoferrari.blogspot.com/ this is not a students blog but it was mind changing (for me).

6. This one is from the software-oriented blogs: http://formularch.blogspot.com/

And we should not forget Beehance.net !

Foggy morning in my neighbourhood

Just around the block (literally) I enter a totally different world. Suddenly I'm in the countryside and in some particular moments this is a very beautiful place.

That's Orlandovtzi - a neighborhood very near to the city center but left isolated. It's a mixed area - on one side it's an Ex-Industrial and on the other - village-inherited urban planning. But these days with these views compensate for the lack of public transport.

taken with my super-duper old phone but you can grasp the idea :)

Dogs pictures and one Akita looking for a female.

 It's summertime and dogs love it. Here's some collection from summer 2013. It starts with Hero - a very gorgeous male Akita Inu dog. Hero's 2 years old and is looking for a female. He lives in Burgas, Bulgaria. Feel free to leave a comment if you're interested :)

Some water sessions of my Pincher dogs. 

Just a square of Toshev

On the 20th of July my colleague from the University Kaloian Toshev opened his first exhibition "Desire". I was happy to finally see his work printed, and there were many I haven't seen before. Check his stuff - great digital art. Try it for inspiration! 

Hope you enjoy the photos. It took a while since I last posted here.

my personal favorite (on the right)

  

friends :)

Maria Baykova with her super-duper cool jacket! 

in front of the Hall - huge crowd visiting... great atmosphere! 

My new old dog

Roni

After some family discussions we had to separate our pincher family (3) and so Hektor goes with my parents and his father - Roni stays with me. I have mixed feelings for all of this but its more reasonable this way.
PS: Anyway he suits me better with his blondness :)

1 year of blogging!

Happy birthday, BLOG :)

With the recent events around me, I forgot about this birthday, so no Blog Birthday cake this year.

But here's a picture of two adorable creatures I love - my youngest cousin - Tsvety and the dog you know - Hektor ;)

Keep calm and have a nice end of April!