SkyscraperCity Forum banner

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - A metropolis seen from above

6646 Views 34 Replies 14 Participants Last post by  muckie
Sábado eu e uns amigos resolvemos subir a Serra do Curral.. subimos pelo lado direito, onde futuramente será a Portaria do parque Paredão da Serra e descemos pelo Parque das Mangabeiras.. eis o resultado:

01


02


03


04


05


06


07


08


09


10


11


12


13


14


15 Invadindo a privacidade! :lol:


16


17


18


19


20


21 Mineirão, rodoviária e Afonso Pena, tudo na mesma foto!


22


23


24


25


26


27


28


29


30


31 Praça da Bandeira


32


33


34


35


36


37


38


39


40


41


42


43


44


45


46


47


48


49


50


51


52


53 Serra da Piedade, em Caeté


54


55


56 tirar foto com pressa dá nisso, foto desfocada..


57


58


59


60


61


62


63


64


65 Invasão de privacidade de novo.. :D


66


67


68


69


70


Panos:





Pics by Brazilian forumer FredBH
1 - 20 of 35 Posts
Fred. Muito bom trabalho...Sempre quis fazer isso mas nunca soube por onde subir. Vc bem que poderia dar o caminho das pedras. Tipo: Não tenho coragem de dirigir em BH (sabe como é, motorista em Brasília, sem ladeiras grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! rsrsrsrsrs). Sempre que vou a BH vou de ônibus a partir de Divinópolis. Como é que faço? Pego o ônibus na Afonso Pena, apio na Praça do Papa?...De lá teria que subir a pé?...Por onde?...Abraço.
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
By the way Bogdan...Belo Horizonte is quite different from other Brazilian cities ( in fact they are so different one from the other...Salvador, Rio, gigantic São Paulo, Brasilia, Manaus...Curitiba...) because of what you can see in these pictures: The onipresence of the surrounding mountains.

You can see more Belo Horizonte pictures on my thread here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=434788
:)
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
Sua mãe vai bem?:)
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
It is not the truth. Brazilian cities aren't "all the same". Just to make a comparison, I'll rewrite what u said, but from the view of a Brazilian about American cities FOR EXEMPLE:

"There's a certain appeal that american cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all american cities look almost the same: Some TALL dark towering buildings in the centre surrounded by calm suburbs!"

I did it just to illustrate that each country has got its type of urbanism. Seen from above, cities of the same country usually seem the same, but if u visit the cities, lots of differences can be recognized. Actually, Brazilian cities are totally different!
Wow. Very nice pics my brazilian friend. The city of Belo Horizonte has a very beautiful architecture.

Parabéns pelo belo trabalho.:applause:
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
Sorry but i have to say you're wrong. Brazil is a very large country, and cause of it, every place have your own culture, own architecture, own everything. Maybe you have this impression because almost pics of brazilian cities comonly seen here are aerial views or skyline views. Anyway, is easy to see the diference of the brazilian cities skylines.
More panos

Agora as últimas! 2 panorâmicas

Essa é mais velha, num dos encontros quando o Gutoo esteve aqui
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Inédita (não reparem no céu do lado direito.. tive que completar no photoshop - mal e porcamente diga-se de passagem :lol:)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sua mãe vai bem?:)
Did you just curse me dude? I don't understand portuguese so please next time curse me in english!:)
It is not the truth. Brazilian cities aren't "all the same". Just to make a comparison, I'll rewrite what u said, but from the view of a Brazilian about American cities FOR EXEMPLE:

"There's a certain appeal that american cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all american cities look almost the same: Some TALL dark towering buildings in the centre surrounded by calm suburbs!"

I did it just to illustrate that each country has got its type of urbanism. Seen from above, cities of the same country usually seem the same, but if u visit the cities, lots of differences can be recognized. Actually, Brazilian cities are totally different!
That was most intelligent of you, I didn'd see it like that! But: 1. american cities have landmark buildings, most of them could be recognized by them (New York, Chicago, Seattle, LA, San Fran) 2. I did mention the natural surroundings, I'm not retarded you know :D!? But except the shore lines and mountains, which make your cities unique, you have to accept that except the statue of Jesus (which is natural surroundings integrated) and that cathedral in Rio, plus the curvey wayvey building in Sao Paulo, there aren't many landmark buildings! And you can't deny the favelhas, which are omnipresent! 3. It is how "I" see things, ignorrantly from behind my computer screen, so don't take it personal! 4. I meant big cities, take a snapshot of a dense region from Sao Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte, eliminate the surroundings and tell me they don't look exactly the same! Maybe you know certain buildings, addvertisments etc. but I don't so to me that is confusing!:D

It wasn'a a critic for the urban developers of Brazil! Rather than having commie blocks, believe me I would choose a brazilian developer out of 1000! Just that I know how similar cities can be, I live in Romania, who's cities look almost identical, if not for the old quarters of town, due to the commie building projects, that follow a single pattern: build ugly and cheap!
See less See more
My City!
I am proud of your horizon, of your mountains, of your evenings...
That was most intelligent of you, I didn'd see it like that! But: 1. american cities have landmark buildings, most of them could be recognized by them (New York, Chicago, Seattle, LA, San Fran) 2. I did mention the natural surroundings, I'm not retarded you know :D!? But except the shore lines and mountains, which make your cities unique, you have to accept that except the statue of Jesus (which is natural surroundings integrated) and that cathedral in Rio, plus the curvey wayvey building in Sao Paulo, there aren't many landmark buildings! And you can't deny the favelhas, which are omnipresent! 3. It is how "I" see things, ignorrantly from behind my computer screen, so don't take it personal! 4. I meant big cities, take a snapshot of a dense region from Sao Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte, eliminate the surroundings and tell me they don't look exactly the same! Maybe you know certain buildings, addvertisments etc. but I don't so to me that is confusing!:D

It wasn'a a critic for the urban developers of Brazil! Rather than having commie blocks, believe me I would choose a brazilian developer out of 1000! Just that I know how similar cities can be, I live in Romania, who's cities look almost identical, if not for the old quarters of town, due to the commie building projects, that follow a single pattern: build ugly and cheap!
Well, I know that ur intention was not to criticise! But I am just trying to explain that what u see from ur screen is different from what u see in person. About the landmarks, here comes the same illustration: Do u think that we, Brazilians, can recognize landmark buildings in USA? We cant! I dont know almost nothing about famous buldings in USA. Thats the same situation, as u dont know much about famous buildings in Brazilian cities!!! and well, I didnt deny the favelas, all big Brazilian cities have some of them! Unfortunately, it is common here.
Bogdan...You're have some reason by saing: "But except the shore lines and mountains, which make your cities unique, you have to accept that except the statue of Jesus (which is natural surroundings integrated) and that cathedral in Rio, plus the curvey wayvey building in Sao Paulo, there aren't many landmark buildings"...Brazilian cities are very, very dense and there are no high skyscrapers. Our tallest, if I'm not wrong, is the Edificio Italia in São Paulo (50 floors only). But you are wrong when you say that there aren't landmarks here. In fact, if you consider by "landmarks" only highrises buildings, so, there aren't landmarks in most of Europe, for instance...Brazilian cities follow an European path, not a North-American path (in case you haven't noted)...Just pay attention a little bit closer and you can find some similarity between Belo Horizonte and some Mediterranean architectures (in France, for instance). Even the tropical Rio has so many architectural monuments that remember european cities than highrises that could remember North-American cities. And in fact, Bogdan, Brazilian are very, very pride of this European heritage! We make a hard work here to stay distant from USA models. We do work to build our own archictectural answer (Oscar Niemyer for exemple), but also, trying hardly to preserve our European, African and Indian heritage!
See less See more
There's a certain appeal that brazilian cities have and I can't explain it! What I can tell for sure is one thing: except the natural surroundings, to me all brazilian cities look almost the same: towering buildings mixed with dirty slum houses!

Anyway, one more thred of beautiful Belo Horizonte of Minas Gerais!
I didn't see so many favelas in this thread, only 3 or 4 pictures showing it. What I saw was very nice residential suburbs in the surroundings.

And even the favela that was shown, was not that bad. At least they are made of bricks, have electricity, running water and telephone lines.

I don't know BH, probably there are more slums (favelas), but favelas all look the same in Brasil, not the cities. And as I said, at least they have a minimum infra structure.
Stereotypes

For some, the great Latin American cities is enormous slums.They only accept that vision: American Latin cities = 70% slums.
They are blind. New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, etç, possess immense areas of bad life quality, they don't show them.
They live of your stereotypes.
For some, the great Latin American cities is enormous slums.They only accept that vision: American Latin cities = 70% slums.
They are blind. New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, etç, possess immense areas of bad life quality, they don't show them.
They live of your stereotypes.
Take it easy man, I didn't mean to offend your nationalist ego! When I think of Brasil, I think of football, carnival, beautiful women, sun, beaches, coffee, Amazon, jungle! But those footballers come from favelhas, also most beautiful women come from there! They are strikingly obvious, so tabu! It's like the pink elephant in the living room that nobody talks about, you understand what I mean! The whole world has poverty problems, Brazil handled that in it's own way! There's a neighbourhood in Bucharest called Ferentari, composed of commie blocks and houses that's very similar in violence and drugs to the favelhas, you need to be a superhero or a crazy man to walk those streets at night! So it's not like I'm pointing out that Brazil has problems and no one else has! It's just how I see it, favelhas are striking! In fact it's hard to miss a huge brown spot, don't you think?:)
When I think of Brasil, I think of football, carnival, beautiful women, sun, beaches, coffee, Amazon, jungle!
Well, this is a REALLY stereotyped view of Brasil. Looking at this pic os BH, u can see everything, but jungle, beaches, carnival, sun, Amazon...BH, which is the 3rd biggest metropolis of Brazil, has NOTHING to do with these things!!! Brazil as whole is soooooo different from Rio de Janeiro!! I mean, Brazilians are proud to have the amazon, the beautiful beaches, BUT I am totally against this close minded view of Brazil. We are MUCH more than only this.
Bogdan...Unfortunatily you have made so many mistakes with the "sun, beaches, beautiful woman, football and favelas" view, that I think, no one Brazilian could go further, trying to argue with such estheroptic vision. Brazil is much more than such bullshits as Romenia is so much than Count Dracula for instance. Sorry man, but I think you ought to look for some more accurate informtations about Brazil and Latin America as a whole!
1 - 20 of 35 Posts
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top