1766. Denver International Airport

Dear Ken,

"We took all the mechanicals off the roof. This freed 

us to create a super light cutting-edge structure, a 

canopy saturated with light. In doing so, it saved the 

airport thousands of tons of steel and reduced the 

construction schedule by nine months.”
(Curtis Fentress)

Respectfully,
R

1765. Marseille Unite d'habitation

Dear David,

"This is the first manifestation of an environment 

suited to modern life" (Le Corbusier)

Sincerely,
R

1764. La Coruña. Vista aérea. Plaza María Pita, Palacio Municipal y Mercado de San Agustín

Querida Cristina

Una vista aérea de La Coruña en donde se puede ver 

en la parte superior izquierda la estructura de arcos 

parabólicos del Mercado de San Agustín. Esta obra 

está inspirada en edificios centroeuropeos modernos 

de la épocas y especialmente en Les Halles Centrales 

de Reims de Eugène Freyssinet.

Besos,
R

1763. Södersjukhuset, Stockholm South General Hospital.

Dear Michael,

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is 

possessed with a desire to change his bed" 

(Charles Baudelaire)

Regards,
R

1762. Hotel Xenia, interior, Poros.

Dear Ada,

"If nature were snug, humans wouldn't have 

created architecture" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Truly,
R

1761. Idrætshøjskolen Aarhus

Dear Walter,

"Ability is what you are capable of doing. motivation 

determines what you do, and attitude determines how 

well you do it." (Lou Holtz)

Sincerely,
R

1760. Helsinki Taidehalli (Art Gallery)

Dear Louise,

"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" (Pablo Picasso)

Best,
R

1759. Löwenberg i. Schl. Rathaus

Dear Deborah,

"Through art man places himself outside nature, with technics he places himself inside nature" (Hans Poelzig)

The Löwenberg city hall was built in the XIV century,
renovated by Poelzig in 1903-1905, destroyed in 1945, and rebuilt in 1958.

Sincerely,
R

1758. Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida, Extremadura, España

Querida Cristina,

"A mí me gusta pensar que el término 

arquitectura vale tanto para la prosa 

como para la poesía" (Rafael Moneo)

Besos,
R

1757. Cultural Education Center, Albany, N.Y.

Dear Raymond,

"Architecture is the biggest unwritten document of history"
(Daniel Libeskind)

Sincerely,
R

1756. Sporvejsmuseet skjoldenæsholm, Århus, DK

Dear Mark,

"If a building becomes architecture then it is art"
(Arne Jacobsen)

Best regards,
R

1755. Bat'ovany Partizánske, Slovakia

Dear Henrieta,

The industrial and housing garden city in Bat'ovany 

was the last BATA company development built by 

architect and urban designer Jirí Voženílek before 

WWII. The center of the city is dominated by a 

large catholic church that can be seen to the right 

and was designed by another great architect: 

Vladimír Karfík.

Respectfully,
R

1754. Kouvola, Uimahalli

Querido Juan,

La piscina municipal cubierta de Kouvola fue 

diseñada e iniciada por Jorma Järvi hasta que este 

murió en 1962. Erkki Heloma continuó su labor hasta 

la finalización de las obras. Järvi fué también el 

arquitecto de la piscina del estadio de Helsinki y uno 

de los arquitectos que diseñó la sede central de correos 

y comunicaciones en la capital finesa.

Con afecto,
R

1753. Hotel de Mar, Palma de Mallorca, España

Querida Cristina,

"En los caminos diversos que sigue cada arquitecto 

consciente tiene que haber algo común, algo que debe 

estar en todos nosotros" 

(José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat)

Besos,
R

1752. Edificio Atalaya, Barcelona, España

Querida Angeles,

"Solamente puedes enseñar aquello en lo que creas 

profundamente, lo que no tienes asumido, no se 

transmite" (Federico Correa)

Afectuosamente,
R

1751. The Hiroshima Prefectural Office

Dear Koji,

Modern architecture in Japan demands some visits 

to this country. The Hiroshima office building, with 

its serene and clean composition is a good example 

of it.

Best regards.
R

1750. Republique Rwandaise. Monastere de Gihindamuyaga

Dear Lucio,

"What we have been doing for years is to ask people to help us organize their landscape. We are the architects and I don’t want to escape from that responsibility of being or deciding, but I do not want to decide alone" 

(Lucien Kroll)

Sincerely,
R

1749. Dakar. Le Palais du Grand Conseil

Dear Jean,

"If the eyes do not admire, the heart will not desire"
(Senegalese proverb)

Sincerely,
R

1748. Hotel Las Salinas Costa Teguise Lanzarote

Querida Lola,

"El arte no es un problema de inspiración sino de transpiración"
(Fernando Higueras)

Agradecido,
R

1747. Hôtel de Ville de Yaoundé. Cameroun

Cristina,

Yaundé es la capital de Camerún. Es también la 

segunda ciudad más poblada del país después de 

Duala. Fue fundada por comerciantes alemanes en 

1888 como centro para el comercio de marfil.
Su ayuntamiento, diseñado por el arquitecto francés 

Armand Salomon, me recuerda tristemente, con sus 

expresivos pilares, una pila de colmillos de elefantes.

Besos,
R

1746. Bacardi Rum Plant, Cataño, Puerto Rico

Querido Félix,

"Lo que a todo ser humano le gustaría es ser completamente libre para dar salida a lo que 

lleva  dentro, a cada capacidad que se posee, 

a cada talento" (Jørn Utzon)

Siempre agradecido,
R

1745. Palacio de Festivales, Santander, Cantabria

Querido Paco,

"La arquitectura debe ser hermosa aunque no funcione; capaz de conmover aunque tenga goteras" 

(Francisco J. Saenz de Oiza)

Un abrazo,
R

1744. Copenhagen. Bellevue Bathing Beach

Dear Kjeld,

This is a vintage postcard featuring one of the two 

curved kiosks sided with sheet metal decorated with colorful advertisings Arne Jacobsen designed at 

Bellevue bathing beach.

Sincerely,
R

1743. Stockholmutställningen 1930 Parkrestauranten

Dear Peter,

"Asplund found a direct path to nature and its world of forms"
(Alvar Aalto)

Sincerely,
R

1742. Equitable Building, Chicago

Dear John,

“Natalie de Blois and Gordon Bunshaft were a team, 

he took all the credit and she did all the work.” 

(Beverly Willis)

Sincerely,
R

1741. Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux

Dear Jean,

"The building's purity and geometrical clarity inspires a sense of monumentality and gracefulness."

(Herzog & de Meuron)

Regards,
R

1740. Lord's Cricket Ground. Media Center

Dear Ryan,

The Media Center was built by a shipyard in Cornwall and when finished in 1999 was the first all aluminium building of the world. The leader designer was Czech architect Jan Kaplický.

Regards,
R

1739. Sarajevo Nova željeznička stanica

Dear Miljenko,

The new Railway Station of Sarajevo was designed 

by architects from Czechoslovakia and East Germany 

and finished by Croatian and Bosnian architects. 

Works started in 1947 and ends in 1953. The station 

was declared National Monument in 2018.

Respectfully,
R

1738. Malmo Stadsteater. Salongen

Dear Ingrid,

"We are invited into the dark. Enveloped in the heart 

of darkness that calls on all the senses to measure its 

limits, we are compelled to pause." (Sigurd Lewerentz)

Respectful,
R

1737. Roosevelt (former Jai Alai) Club, Manila

Dear María Lourdes,

At the vacant lot where today is the controversial 

Torre de Manila it used to stand the Roosevelt Club, 

former Jai Alai that you may remember have seen or 

even visited. This wonderful Streamline Moderne 

landmark was sadly demolished in 2000 but it is still 

remembered by many.

Warm regards,
R

1736. Haludovo Palace Hotel, Krk, Malinska, Croatia

Dear Josip,

"You have to feel, experience and understand the space's spirit in which you create." (Boris Magaš)

Sincerely,
R

1735. JAT skyscraper, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dear Jan,

The top four floors of the old JAT (Yugoslavian Airlines) 

building are today occupied by the hotel Hecco Deluxe.
The building is the first high-rise built in Sarajevo and it 

is not a coincidence that its shape resembles the one of a 

traditional air traffic control tower.

Best,
R

1734. Varkauden Kirkko

Dear Erkki,

The parish church of Varkaus is one of the most significant Finnish churches of the functionalist period. The typical bold industrial silo structure is combined here with the more traditional freestanding campanile with natural stone insets in the base of it.

Sincerely,
R

1733. Sabaudia Azienda Agraria O.N.C.

Dear Luigi,

The main office building of the agricultural local 

agency was called "il grattacielo" (the skyscraper) because with its four-story tower was the highest 

building in Sabaudia. The buildings adjacent to it included warehouses, stables, and residential 

quarters for the O.N.C. employees.

Sincerely,
R

1732. Turku Lounais Suomen Maalaistentalo. Abo

Querida Inés,

Hace ya cinco años te envié una postal (la número 951)

muy parecida a esta que te mando ahora. Entre estas 

dos postales se puede ver que ésta última es más fiel al 

edificio original que construyó el gran maestro Aalto. 

En esta se aprecia que no hay carteles publicitarios ni 

en la cornisa ni en la esquina y que los toldos de los 

ventanales de planta baja aún no habían sido instalados. 

Esta postal tiene matasellos de 1932, solamente 3 años
después de haber concluidos las obras.

Espero que estés bien.
Un beso,
R

1731.City Hall Loop, Rapid Transit Tunnel, New York, NY

Dear George,

"The architects of America owe him [Rafael Guastavino Moreno] a debt of gratitude for not only having been a faithful and conscientious contractor, but for having made possible a larger field of architectural design." 

(Peter B. Wight)

Respectfully,
R

1730. Berlin Reinickendorf Aroser Allee

Dear Peter,

(...) Si nosotros encontráramos también una pura,
contenida, estrecha, humana franja de huerto, nuestra,
entre el río y la roca (...)
(Rainer Maria Rilke "Las Elegías de Duíno" 1922)

Regards,
R