Kristina

@kriskris

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The nature of the Balkans is raw and powerful. Sunlit rocky coastlines inspire either blending architecture with nature or making nature part of the architecture itself. When I first visited the Balkans, I created a similar project for the metaverse—stone floors, cliffs, and an endless horizon above the sea instead of walls. Seeing this hotel, I felt a connection with its architectural approach—embracing and harnessing nature’s ability to heal, calm, and restore. ACRO Wellness Suites. Ag. Pelagia, Crete, Greece

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My wowmap is slowly filling up with places. Big thanks to @kugusha.eth for sharing some of her favorite spots in Dubai! I added one of them to my map and saved it to my personal work-friendly list 🤍 Koncrete is a café + concept store featuring works by local makers + collective hub designed by the local studio shell+core. It’s a clean, minimal space that helps you really focus on the task at hand — whether that’s enjoying your morning toast or wrapping up some work. Koncrete on the map, along with the rest of the wowspots in the comments. Not sure if it’s possible to make a clean hyperlink on Farcaster yet, so this’ll do for now.

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Japanese guilty pleasure 😋 Wishing you a light and sweet start to the week, just like these mochi

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After 30 minutes of searching, I finally found the pool from Boccaccio 70. This is Il Centro Balneare e Sportivo Franco Scarioni, built in 1958 based on a design by architects Gino Bozzetti and Egizio Nichelini. Unfortunately, it is currently closed for renovation. 📍 Via Valfurva, 9, Milano, Italy

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I'm watching Boccaccio '70, and the newlyweds' segment features this mind-blowing pool - enormous, downright monumental, with fluid bioorganic lines straight out of Zaha Hadid's playbook and a glazed pool wall. Wait... and this is 1962?!

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So addictive! I need the next level haha

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Have you ever tried nettle soup? My grandma used to make this soup a lot in spring and early summer. I really love it. As a kid, I was always afraid the nettles would sting my mouth 😄 Well, I’m still kind of scared of it.

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I'm super greatful to @tobystic for my firs tips and introducing me to Isaac French’s work — the guy behind a collection of boutique stays and the creator of a site where he shares curated picks of stunning hotels. I’ve already decided that at least one of them is going on my personal map. It’s a house built into a cave. The interior has clear gothic vibes — reminiscent of old stone castles. Here, the rock forms the ceiling and exterior walls, and the bed is casually thrown with hides. Brilliant use of the natural landscape. Standing ovation from me. 📍 dunlaphollow. Dunlap Rd., Rockbridge, Ohio, United States

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One of the things I really love about crypto is that you can learn to generate income that isn’t directly tied to your time. My dream is to eventually turn that income into a charitable fund — something that channels resources toward those who truly need them. I’m still at the very beginning of that journey, and it’s nowhere near a fund yet, but small steps can start now — simply by finding someone to help. I really appreciate that Farcaster is a place where you can share an idea — or a problem — and find support. Knowing you’re not alone in a tough moment can give you so much strength. That’s why I couldn’t scroll past the story of Cannelle, a dog in need of sterilization. There are already too many animals who need a home in this world. Let's give them chance.

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It’s insanely cool when natural spaces become part of something more - adding function, inviting more people in. Attending a lecture or an exhibition in a cave? Definitely something you won’t forget. And once again - China. They really know how to think outside the box. 📍Huangyan GrottoesP9XP+P3 Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui, China.

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Farcaster is literally reading my mind 😄 Just yesterday I was tipping someone and thought «would be cool to see who I interact with most» How funny if this feature's been here the whole time.

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Just distributed my second reward, same as the first - among writers I love reading. Got me thinking about my first-ever paycheck. Do you remember your first income and what you spent it on? Mine was designing a website for a sauna in the late 2000s. With that money, I bought myself a violin. My cats were highly intolerant of my practicing 😄

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Oh joy, a snowy morning. Seriously though – I was literally wearing shorts like two days ago. WTF, weather? ITAP of a weather anomaly

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Architecture is truly meaningful when it doesn't try to take center stage. It becomes a mirror of the values and philosophy of its time. Niemeyer himself wrote about the headquarters of the Communist Party: “Our shared views and political struggle were far more important than architecture." Niemeyer designed a building meant to give birth to a new society. It looks almost like a spaceship — detached from the familiar laws of earth, a place where people could rethink the rules of life and interaction. Open, futuristic spaces, where floors flow into walls and walls into ceilings, seem to gently push you toward freedom of thought. 📍 Headquarters of the French Communist Party. 2 Pl. du Colonel Fabien, Paris

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Seriously, a more expanded intro - like a pinned post, but picked by your readers. Cool

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I love those moments when you come across a photo of an interior and can’t tell if it’s an AI render or a real place. Most of the time it’s just digital art — but when, after some digging, you realize it actually exists, it’s such a thrill. One of those mind-blowing spaces is the Inspire Entertainment Resort in Seoul — basically an entire city of interactive experiences under one roof. It features Korea’s largest interactive media art exhibition themed around space, with immersive rooms that throw you into alien jungles or the glowing core of a planet. And then there’s a 150-meter indoor “street” with media facades and a media ceiling — where the roof above you starts to crumble like an ancient temple, floods with water, and giant fish swim right over your head. I got chills just watching the video — experiencing it in person must be unreal. 📍 South Korea, Incheon, Jung-gu, 127

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But there are two problems here: 1. On social media, people often don’t express themselves—they curate personas. If we extract data from these platforms, we’ll get not the real person, but their aspirational self—a heavily "edited" version. 2. Most content is just ritualistic phrases, memes, bland jokes, and reactive replies (I’d guess ~80% of my own content falls into this category.) Genuine thoughts, emotions, and doubts are rare. Even if we preserve it all, post-filtering we’d end up with a profile so oversimplified it borders on distortion.

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It got me thinking — we’re living in a unique time with incredible possibilities. For thousands of years, humans have tried to immortalize themselves — to leave a trace. Most did this through children, but memories of who they were faded within a few generations. Take my family. I have photos of my great-grandparents, but no journals. Everything I know is just how my grandmother remembered them. The generation before that? Nothing. Only a few people made it into history — writers, scientists, etc. We might know what they did, but rarely who they really were. Now, with social media, everything’s changed. We’re constantly creating content — public and private. If preserved and processed, it could form a digital replica. An AI version of someone, built from their own words. Imagine: your grandkids log in, share what they’re going through — and learn you went through the same. And how you dealt with it. We live in a great time where anyone with internet access is already leaving a trace.

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A few days ago in French class, I learned the word Brasserie. And you know how when someone keeps repeating a new word, people tease them like “ah, just learned that one, huh?” — yep, that’s me now. Brasserie again 😄 This time, I stumbled upon a Parisian brasserie with a playful design, right in the heart of the creative world of the late 19th–early 20th century — the Latin Quarter. 📍6 Cr du Commerce Saint-André, Paris

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First reward 💪 Feels way better than 3$

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