tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315006992024-03-14T05:44:50.621+08:00architect studio. . . . . . . . ARCHITECT'S WORDS .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-86320280493391184082011-07-18T18:41:00.000+08:002011-07-18T18:41:37.993+08:00Interviewed with Rem Koolhaas<iframe width="450" height="286" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/46_sgYBCY7c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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<b>Rem Koolhaas</b> discusses OMA‘s practice in an interview with Dutch Design Fashion Architecture:<br />
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<blockquote>"I don’t think you can make critical architecture because, in a sense, architecture always supports someone else’s impulse. On the other hand I think our architecture is thoroughly critical because every subject, every question, every ambition is analysed and is placed on the operating table, as it were…"</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-89576474256964477602011-05-28T12:17:00.002+08:002011-05-28T12:18:36.381+08:00Urban sculpture in Ljbljana Tivoli park: TIVOLI INFO POINT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HtJXfTutX0M/TeB3B1BfpLI/AAAAAAAAA_4/RPDhvcEdFHE/s1600/TIVOLI+INFO+POINT_Rok+Grdisa+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HtJXfTutX0M/TeB3B1BfpLI/AAAAAAAAA_4/RPDhvcEdFHE/s400/TIVOLI+INFO+POINT_Rok+Grdisa+3.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<blockquote>"Its an <b>open, clear and structurally dynamic form in a contrasting red color</b> that explores the <b>possibility of motion</b> in the environment, in witch this kind of exploration is needed; at the same time the movement itself is present as a natural environmental process. The idea represents a <b>blooming of a frame though five different phases</b>, a somewhat Calderian approach."<br />
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<b>Rok Grdisa</b></blockquote><b>Rok Grdisa</b><br />
Ljbljana Tivoli park, Slovenia<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo courtesy Peter Mihelic </span><br />
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more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2011/05/urban-sculpture-in-ljbljana-tivoli-park-tivoli-info-point/">plusMOOD</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-80847752324079463432011-05-11T23:29:00.002+08:002011-05-11T23:30:26.002+08:00Architecture, Vincent Scully<blockquote>"The making and the experience of architecture, as of every <b>art</b>, are always c<b>ritical-historical acts</b>, involving what the architect and the viewer have learned to <b>distinguish </b>and to <b>imagine </b>through their own <b>relationship with life and things</b>."</blockquote><br />
<b>Vincent Scully</b>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Contradiction-Architecture-introduction-Vincent/dp/B003U3U0AO?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">Introducation Notes to Second Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1977)</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-45011522389333156652011-04-05T17:30:00.001+08:002011-04-05T17:31:03.208+08:00Galleria Centercity by UNStudio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CVccnT9_Coc/TZrfu3rHt9I/AAAAAAAAA_A/JF0Gsi23XYU/s1600/08_Centercity_Kim+Yong-kwan_Galleria+Centercity_UNStudio_pM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CVccnT9_Coc/TZrfu3rHt9I/AAAAAAAAA_A/JF0Gsi23XYU/s400/08_Centercity_Kim+Yong-kwan_Galleria+Centercity_UNStudio_pM.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<b>Galleria Centercity</b> in Cheonan is just completed by Ben van Berkel / <b>UNStudio</b>.<br />
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<blockquote><i>"The <b>Galleria Cheonan</b> responds to the current retail climate in Asia, where department stores also operate as social and semi-cultural meeting places. Because of this, the quality of the public spaces within the building was treated as an integral aspect of the design."</i> </blockquote><blockquote><b>Ben van Berkel</b></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Ben van Berkel, <b>UNStudio </b><br />
<b>Galleria Centercity</b><br />
Cheonan, Korea<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/UNStudio-Falk-Jaeger/dp/3939633844?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">UNStudio</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=3939633844" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Studio-Design-Architecture-Urbanism-Infrastructure/dp/0847828786?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">UN Studio: Design Models - Architecture, Urbanism, Infrastructure</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0847828786" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote>“The <b>Kinetura </b>concept is adding a new <b>dynamic </b>dimension to common static design and architecture. By making use of the <b>flexible characteristics</b> of specific materials combined with motion-based technologies, objects transform in a silent and nearly imperceptible way into a contrasting shape with a completely different<b> functionality and expression</b>. <br />
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As if a extra dimension were involved… <b>Kinetura </b>tries to respect the ‘<b>form follows function</b>’ approach extended with an extra adaptive dimension…." </blockquote><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><b>Kinetura</b></a><br />
<b>Kinetower </b><br />
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more @ <a href="http://blog.kineticarchitecture.net/2011/02/kinetura_kinetower/">Kinetic architecture</a> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-91416452443319546222011-03-02T17:09:00.003+08:002011-03-02T17:13:00.285+08:00Building with personality, Eike Becker architekten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote>"In many cases, I compare a building with a friend, who ones certain <b>characteristics</b>. Are these <b>characteristics independent</b>, <b>accomplishing</b> and <b>inspiring</b>, a <b>personality with charisma</b> is standing in front of us."</blockquote><b>Eike Becker architekten</b><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus">Albert Camus</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist.</span> <br />
(7 November, 1913 – 4 January, 1960)<br />
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Japanese architect <b>Nikken Sekkei</b> has completed the <a href="http://www.hoki-museum.jp/en/"><b>Hoki Museum</b> (ホキ美術館)</a> in Chiba, Japan. It is Japan's first museum dedicated to Realist painting. <br />
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<blockquote>"What makes Realist painting so fascinating? Realist art works depict what the painter sees, as is. These works are intricately worked, each massively time-consuming, as the painter creates just a few works a year, facing the same canvas day after day. And when we see the worlds created in such works, we sense that the painting has so much more to say than the reality it depicts. </blockquote><blockquote>Today, the Hoki Museum collections include 300 works by some 40 painters, ranging from great masters to young artists. Up until now, there have been few opportunities to see Realist works in Japan. The Hoki Museum will now fill that void. My hope is that the Hoki Museum will be a "healing museum" where visitors can appreciate the art works slowly and thoroughly."<br />
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Masao Hoki<br />
Director, Hoki Museum</blockquote><br />
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<b><span id="goog_1667498536"></span><a href="http://www.nikken.co.jp/en">Nikken Sekkei<span id="goog_1667498537"></span></a></b><b> </b><br />
<b>Hoki Museum</b> (ホキ美術館)<br />
Chiba, Japan<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">see more photos @ <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/sets/72157625896915323/"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/sets/72157625896915323/">Ken Lee 2010 @ flickr</a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br />
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"<b>Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.</b>"<br />
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Copenhagen architects <b>BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group</b>, in collaboration with <b>TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti</b> have won the competition to design Greenland‘s <b>New National Gallery</b>.<br />
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<blockquote>"The Danish<b> functionalistic architecture</b> in Nuuk is typically <b>square boxes</b> which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both <b>physically and visually in harmony with the dramatic nature</b>, just like life in Greenland is a symbiosis of the nature. We have created a <b>simple, functional and symbolic shape</b>, where the perfect circle is supplied by the local topography which creates a unique <b>hybrid between the abstract shape and the specific location</b>."</blockquote><br />
<b>Bjarke Ingels</b>, Founder and Partner, <b>BIG</b><br />
<b>Greenland National Gallery</b><br />
Nuuk, Greenland<br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Images: © <b>BIG</b> </span><br />
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more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2011/02/big-wins-competition-to-design-greenlands-new-national-gallery/">+MOOD</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yes-More-Archicomic-Architectural-Evolution/dp/8799298805?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=8799298805" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/BIG-Bjarke-Ingels-Projects-2001-2010/dp/9881973864?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">BIG: Bjarke Ingels Group Projects 2001-2010</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=9881973864" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><br />
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<blockquote>"I am delighted to be building the Grand Theatre in Rabat… Morocco’s unique musical traditions and rich cultural history in the performing arts are renowned throughout the world. I am honoured to be part of the cultural development of the nation’s capital."</blockquote><b><i>Zaha Hadid</i>, </b>founding partner of <b>Zaha Hadid Architects</b><br />
<b>Rabat Grand Theatre</b><br />
Rabat, Morocco<b> </b><br />
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more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2010/11/zaha-hadid-architects-and-the-bouregreg-valley-development-agency-announce-the-rabat-grand-theatre/"><span id="goog_1150317082"></span>+MOOD </a><br />
<span id="goog_1150317083"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zaha-Hadid-Complete-Works/dp/0847833011?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Zaha Hadid: Complete Works</a></span><br />
<span id="goog_1150317083"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zaha-Hadid-Complete-Works-1979-2009/dp/3836502941?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Zaha Hadid: Complete Works, 1979-2009</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=3836502941" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </span><br />
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<span id="goog_1150317083"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0847833011" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-242891619799048982010-11-21T14:38:00.000+08:002010-11-21T14:38:59.413+08:00The architecture, Mies van der Rohe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/Sw0eRcUY_ZI/AAAAAAAAA7c/EnMHZQCm8Wg/s1600/Mies+van+der+Rohe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/Sw0eRcUY_ZI/AAAAAAAAA7c/EnMHZQCm8Wg/s1600/Mies+van+der+Rohe.jpg" /></a></div>“architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. there it begins.” <br />
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<b>Mies van der Rohe</b> (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-51037974569872927492010-10-02T11:03:00.001+08:002010-10-02T11:06:25.930+08:00Umeå School of Architecture by Henning Larsen Architects + White Arkitekter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TKafX_0-FQI/AAAAAAAAA8M/fwQ5cSeQKck/s1600/HLA_Umeaa_School_of_Architecture_exT_06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TKafX_0-FQI/AAAAAAAAA8M/fwQ5cSeQKck/s400/HLA_Umeaa_School_of_Architecture_exT_06.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br />
<b>Umeå School of Architecture</b> was inaugurated in late September. <br />
<blockquote>"The intention has been to design an <b>open, robust study environment</b> where each student feels part of the <b>creative study community</b>. The open layout and informal meeting places create a light and laboratory-like atmosphere supporting idea development and creative work processes."</blockquote><br />
Architect <i>Per Ebbe Hansson</i>, <b>Henning Larsen Architects</b><br />
<b>Umeå School of Architecture</b><br />
Umeå, Sweden<br />
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more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2010/10/umea-school-of-architecture-henning-larsen-architects-white-arkitekter/">+MOOD </a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Henning-Larsen-Architects-Peter-Davey/dp/8790029410?ie=UTF8&tag=architectstud-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Henning Larsen: The Architect's Studio</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=architectstud-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=8790029410" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-83874244440893872502010-08-21T14:26:00.002+08:002010-08-21T14:29:31.008+08:00WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT, HONG KONG, OMAOMA's proposal is one of the shortlisted entries for <b>WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT</b> Masterplan.<br />
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<blockquote>"We have tried to make the district a <b>microcosm of the city</b> in its combination of density and nature, discovering, to our own surprise, that we could realize the vast program and still preserve wide swaths of open space. An unsolicited part of our project is a Cultural Masterplan: a collaboration with experts from the cultural and financial worlds, based on a debriefing of Hong Kong’s stakeholders. </blockquote><blockquote><b>This cultural masterplan works in tandem with the physical plan, each informing and empowering the other</b>. It tries to establish a new zone of creativity, interplay, and production on the basis of an existing infrastructure that, I can already testify, makes a mockery of the notion that Hong Kong has 'no culture'."</blockquote><br />
<b>Rem Koolhaas </b><br />
See more <a href="http://www.wkcdauthority.hk/pe2/en/conceptual/oma/en/">Video and interactive animation</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-85719748003785109882010-08-01T12:31:00.006+08:002010-08-01T12:47:15.721+08:00CAU Central Library: Overlap, Kim in-cheurl+archium<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT5X3fNX3I/AAAAAAAAA70/ZadlaXhU8pA/s1600/exisitng_Overlap-Kim-In-Cheurl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500295233353375602" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT5X3fNX3I/AAAAAAAAA70/ZadlaXhU8pA/s400/exisitng_Overlap-Kim-In-Cheurl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 283px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Before</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT5cAY-_8I/AAAAAAAAA78/J0ectT8clAY/s1600/01_day_Overlap-Kim-In-Cheurl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500295304462663618" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT5cAY-_8I/AAAAAAAAA78/J0ectT8clAY/s400/01_day_Overlap-Kim-In-Cheurl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 298px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">After</span><br />
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This building was refurbished from an old building by Kim in-cheurl+archium.<br />
<blockquote>"Architecture is an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> identification of place</span>, a creation of <span style="font-weight: bold;"> individualism </span>that makes it unique to anything else in the world. The place thus creates a <span style="font-weight: bold;">memory with time</span>...The meaning of place is the result of an <span style="font-weight: bold;">accumulation of memories</span>."</blockquote><b>Kim in-cheurl+archium<br />
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</b><b>Kim in-cheurl+archium</b><br />
<b>CAU Central Library: Overlap<br />
</b>221 Heuk seok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea<br />
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more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2010/06/cau-central-library-overlap-kim-in-cheurl/">+MOOD</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-32686814913933715082010-08-01T12:13:00.006+08:002010-08-01T12:25:45.999+08:00Georgian Aquarium, Henning Larsen Architects<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT0ykHTEgI/AAAAAAAAA7s/HMosrtVXhSU/s1600/Henning-Larsen-Georgian-Aquarium.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 217px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/TFT0ykHTEgI/AAAAAAAAA7s/HMosrtVXhSU/s320/Henning-Larsen-Georgian-Aquarium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500290194451141122" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote>"The building will become a <span style="font-weight: bold;">landmark </span>and an <span style="font-weight: bold;">organic </span>reference to all elements of the sea… … It captures the special atmosphere by the sea and thus becomes a tribute to the power of the sea!"</blockquote>Design Director and Partner at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henning Larsen Architects</span>, Louis Becker<br /><br /><a href="http://www.henninglarsen.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Henning Larsen Architects</span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Georgian Aquarium</span><br />Rustaveli Str., Batumi, The Republic of Georgia<br /><br />via <a href="http://plusmood.com/2010/06/henning-larsen-architects/">+MOOD</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-28616344454141883842010-08-01T12:08:00.001+08:002010-08-01T12:10:53.192+08:00the architecture, Philip Johnson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SVzBhMhw4QI/AAAAAAAAA08/luF131vEl4M/s200/philip-johnson.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SVzBhMhw4QI/AAAAAAAAA08/luF131vEl4M/s200/philip-johnson.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">architecture is the art of how to waste space</span>."</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Philip Johnson</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">(July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-33949074792493412702010-08-01T12:04:00.002+08:002010-08-01T12:07:47.469+08:00Architecture, Julia Morgan<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"><blockquote>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Architecture is a visual art</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> and the buildings speak for themselves</span>."</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julia Morgan</span><br /></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-30947187551791615352010-02-28T14:48:00.003+08:002010-02-28T14:52:13.179+08:00Architecture, Spiro Kostof<blockquote>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.</span>"</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spiro Kostof</span> (1936 - 1991)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-56484716379628398702010-02-28T14:40:00.001+08:002010-02-28T14:42:14.318+08:00Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SSlsUuv_pnI/AAAAAAAAAwI/hOaArgaMrhk/s1600-h/franklloydwright.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SSlsUuv_pnI/AAAAAAAAAwI/hOaArgaMrhk/s320/franklloydwright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271863942216394354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."</span><br /><br /><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright</strong> (1867-1959)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-60426386988628436002009-12-23T23:02:00.002+08:002009-12-25T16:35:28.179+08:00Existence, by Arthur Schopenhauer<blockquote>“…<span style="font-weight: bold;">existence</span>…is a constant hurrying of the present into the dead past, a constant dying…it is clear that, as our walking is admittedly merely a constantly prevented falling, the life of our body is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever postponed death:finally, in the same way, the activity of our mind is a constantly deferred ennui. Every breath we draw wards off the death that is constantly intruding upon us.”</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arthur Schopenhauer</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-1811135219301414702009-11-25T20:03:00.007+08:002009-11-25T20:15:48.181+08:00Relationship of architecture and technology, Mies van der Rohe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/Sw0eRcUY_ZI/AAAAAAAAA7c/EnMHZQCm8Wg/s1600/Mies+van+der+Rohe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/Sw0eRcUY_ZI/AAAAAAAAA7c/EnMHZQCm8Wg/s400/Mies+van+der+Rohe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408012012550159762" border="0" /></a>“...Architecture depends upon its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. That is the reason why technology and architecture are so closely related. Our real hope is that they will grow together, that some day the one will be the expression of the other. Only then will we have an architecture worthy of its name:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> architecture as a true symbol of our time</span>”<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Mies van der Rohe </span>(March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-78509166262572716152009-09-20T19:15:00.004+08:002009-09-20T19:23:07.519+08:00Urban Mediaspace, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYPdcaalLI/AAAAAAAAA60/xsR2mqALK_A/s1600-h/Urban-Mediaspace-_Schmidt-Hammer-Lassen-Architects_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYPdcaalLI/AAAAAAAAA60/xsR2mqALK_A/s400/Urban-Mediaspace-_Schmidt-Hammer-Lassen-Architects_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383507403085616306" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYPheyyXKI/AAAAAAAAA68/gdsW4XGVpKw/s1600-h/Urban-Mediaspace-_Schmidt-Hammer-Lassen-Architects.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYPheyyXKI/AAAAAAAAA68/gdsW4XGVpKw/s400/Urban-Mediaspace-_Schmidt-Hammer-Lassen-Architects.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383507472444185762" border="0" /></a><blockquote>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">The cantilevering roof plate</span> is a dominant component of the architectural expression; during the day and especially in the evening, when <span style="font-weight: bold;">the transparent façade allows the building to glow from the inside</span>."</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.shl.dk/">Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects</a><br />Urban Mediaspace</span><br />Europaplads, Århus, Denmark<br /><br />more @ <a href="http://plusmood.com/2009/09/urban-mediaspace-schmidt-hammer-lassen-architect/">+MOOD</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-68073287570297651902009-09-20T18:55:00.005+08:002009-09-20T19:14:35.898+08:00Serpentine Pavilion 2009, SANAA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYNk-GIm9I/AAAAAAAAA6s/qNDnj7AHl8c/s1600-h/The_Serpentine_Pavilion_2009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SrYNk-GIm9I/AAAAAAAAA6s/qNDnj7AHl8c/s320/The_Serpentine_Pavilion_2009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383505333363186642" border="0" /></a><blockquote>"The Pavilion is floating aluminium, drifting freely between the trees like smoke. The reflective canopy undulates across the site, expanding the park and sky. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Its appearance changes according to the weather, allowing it to melt into the surroundings.</span><br /><br />It works as a field of activity with no walls, allowing <span style="font-weight: bold;">uninterrupted view</span> across the park and encouraging access from all sides. It is a sheltered extension of the park where people can read, relax and enjoy lovely summer days..."</blockquote>Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SANAA</span><br /><a href="http://www.serpentinegallery.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Serpentine Pavilion 2009</span></a><br />London, UK<br /><br />more @ <a href="http://www.nce.co.uk/news/structures/new-serpentine-cloud-pavilion-unveiled/5204841.article">nce</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500699.post-692062254082094232009-07-19T16:26:00.003+08:002009-07-19T16:36:40.697+08:00The Hilton in Bandung by Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SmLa69597OI/AAAAAAAAA6k/jJkWQCCb1QM/s1600-h/Hilton-Bandung-wow-01-595x371.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y637cQV6fro/SmLa69597OI/AAAAAAAAA6k/jJkWQCCb1QM/s320/Hilton-Bandung-wow-01-595x371.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360087213109275874" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote>"We began the entire design process by understanding the cultural, economic and geo-climatic context of the Bandung area… In order to tap into the visitors of this great city, and profile of the expected client base, the hotel was to deliberate internationally in spirit and be localized in design touches. High modernism fused with local traditional craft."</blockquote><br /><strong>Bandung Hilton Hotel</strong><br /><a href="http://www.wowarchitects.com/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('a/http://www.wowarchitects.com/');" target="_blank"><strong>Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects</strong></a><br /><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Bandung, Indonesia</strong><br /><br />Via <a href="http://plusmood.com/2009/07/the-hilton-in-bandung-by-warner-wong-design-wow-architects/">+MOOD</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1