High above the noisy concrete and aluminium boulevards of Taipei, way beyond the city's vertiginous skyscrapers, neon lights and elevated high-speed railway tracks, almost floating in the clouds, distinct and apart, as if in another world, lies a garden of heavenly peace.
HOLLAND COTTER 'A GORGE IN THE MOUNTAINS (KAUTERSKILL CLOVE)' BY SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART The gauzy light in this vertiginous view of the Catskill Mountains from 1862 separates it from other Hudson River School landscapes in the Met's American Wing.
"I think of the building as an ode to the circle," says Francine Houben, founder and director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo, as she stands on the circular balcony at the top of a vertiginous book rotunda, beneath hoop-shaped light fittings, looking out through a screen of interlocking metal rings, as light washes down from the round window above.
Click here to watch "I think of the building as an ode to the circle," says Francine Houben, founder and director of Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo, as she stands on the circular balcony at the top of a vertiginous book rotunda, beneath hoop-shaped light fittings, looking out through a screen of interlocking metal rings, as light washes down from the round window above.
In a spectacularly vertiginous image, a broad beam of light is transformed into a spiral against a backdrop of dark vertical lines.
It stuck in my mind as Miguel guided us down the vertiginous, muddy and rocky steps by the light of a mobile phone, my girlfriend gently singing to calm her nerves.
The route begins at 3,320m and rips its way to the village of Allemont through every type of alpine terrain you can envisage: from snow and lunar-like landscapes to rocky ridgelines with vertiginous drops and forest trails where lattice light plays havoc with your vision.
The images by the cinematographer, Ashley Connor (who also shot "Butter on the Latch"), exalt bodies and movement, light and texture into frenzies of vertiginous possibility.
Least excited about: Climbing the interminable steps to the press box at the Stadium of Light – the Premier League's most vertiginous which is so high you are divorced from the atmosphere.
Looking down can be vertiginous at first, but the glass channels allow light to permeate up and down the building, and tie the entire building, inside and out, together in a way that underscores what is new about it.
Conventional technique says to avoid it, but it makes the best scrapes and scratches!" The effect she achieves is not unlike painting with a palette knife on canvas, or printing from a damaged negative -- a subtly vertiginous appearance of deep scoring that atomizes the light source and seems to reveal what lies behind.
