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To celebrate this week's report, we're truly thrilled to present to you EDITION 5 featuring our Top 3 publications:
1. A spectacular outdoor artwork and urban environment from USA 2. An interesting coffee shop with a market twist from Indonesia 3. An iconic thoroughfare with remarkable buildings from Venezuela
Don't forget to also check out our "Runner-Up" entries for their remarkable contributions. Our heartfelt congratulations to all selected authors and their curated posts!
If there is a sculptural piece that just seeing it makes us know where we are, it is the Cloud Gate or affectionately called by all "The Bean" because it seems that way. A large shiny steel bean that reflects everything around us and us... In different ways, with distorted curved reflections that make us play with the image and with reality. And there it is imposing and giving off rays of light that bounce off its surface.
Finding a coffee shop that is open in the morning is a bit tricky in Medan City. Usually, coffee shops that open in the morning are traditional local coffee shops such as Chinatown coffee shops, or local coffee shops that provide cheap, ready-to-brew sachets of coffee for workers. However, since the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been many aesthetic coffee shops or coffee spaces that have opened since 7 am, like the place I visited, Kopi Pagi Coffee Shop.
It has been built more than 70 years ago, at a time when I was not even born and when there were many projects underway to modernize the city under an oil bonanza that gave great income to the country. I am not going to make a reference of which book I got it from, since I have not gone to any bibliographical reference. It was a compulsory subject in my high school and college years to know about oil, so that information was engraved in my gray matter.