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Walking the streets of Polanco on our way to Museo Jumex.

Still lost and heading in the wrong direction we passed this colourful wall, entrance to Hotel Camino Real, Polanco.

Camino Real Hotels have been around since the ‘60s with 18 locations throughout Mexico over the years. None of them compare to this one in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco.

This Camino Real Polanco hotel was originally designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta for the Mexico City 1968 Olympics.

You can find bright colours throughout the property, especially pink and blue, and bold geometric shapes.

Hotel visitors drive in via this pink wall into a motor court dominated by an oversize fountain.

Some people go crazy for this stunning pink wall with its geometric and modern structure - really ?

With a 50+ year history, the Camino Real Polanco has undergone a series of transformations – mainly carried out in 1985 and 2005 – to adapt to changing hotel demands in its private and public spaces.

The wall unique honeycomb-like design gives the hotel an eye catching feature. It looks quite different from every angle.

The hotel has a lot more to offer to architecture lovers, but the iconic pink wall is still its most striking feature.

Nagele, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, the Netherlands

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After the Noordoostpolder [North-East Polder] was reclaimed from the Zuiderzee [now IJsselmeer] in 1942, the village of Nagele was built in the fifties after a design by the architect group The Eight [Aldo van Eyck, Cornelis van Eesteren, Gerrit Rietveld, Mien Ruys]. The village is built according to strict and linear urban planning and is visited by architecture lovers from all over the world.

Nagele was primarily built for farmworkers, who, up to then, lived near to the farms. Subsequently schools, churches and shops were built, causing a more diverse population. In order to effectuate even more diversity also people who were not directly bound to the Noordoostpolder were able to rent a house in Nagele. Thus lots of people from the busy Randstad area [Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht] found their way to Nagele.

This was a photo I took looking into the chancel of Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire during a recent visit. I really liked the atmosphere in the cathedral and lucked out that there were no people in the shot.