Another Person’s Treasure

“Next time you see an ugly building, remember, someone designed it, and someone else paid good money for that design. Who’s the bigger fool?” - Unknown
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Disney Concert Hall and UFO

Found this image at Paper Architecture. Seems to be Frank Gehry has proven himself as a visionary architect. The aliens must have mistaken his masterpiece as a landing pat for flying saucer. I hate to say this, but the Disney Concert Hall looks like a huge skate board ramp for King Kong… … if only [...]

Canon 3D Papercraft Architecture

Talk about origami, the image of Japanese and their minimalist/miniature culture begins to flash in my mind. Origami is the art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a given result using geometric folds and crease patterns. Origami refers to all types of paper folding, even those of non-Japanese origin.
Nearly everyone [...]

Architecture Presentation Crits

Image Source : Archinet
Here are some of the best comments by lecturers and professors I’ve come across, most of these quotes are from online blogs reading (archinet), some are from words of mouth while others are first hand experience, read also the second part of presentation crits 02, here goes:

“Why are you here? Don’t come [...]

Rem Koolhaas Interview in Wired Magazine

“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming. But the generic city, the general urban condition, is happening everywhere, and just the fact that it occurs in such [...]

Frank Gehry and Bruce Ratner Proposal

Found this image in The Curbed. According to the Curbed, its a proposal by Frank that causes the client to pull out, due to unknown reasons. Here are some interesting comments droped by the readers in the Curbed:
The Pros
NYC needs some new awesome buildings!!!
Would feel like home.
The Cons
I would prefer the curves of the building [...]

Grand Canyon Skywalk

Found this article in Wired Magazine issue 14.01 interesting. Its a nice idea, but instead of a U-turn shape of skywalk, why not stairs? or series of glass cubic/spaces as galleries? They should have include bungee jump.
The view may terrify you, but there’s no cause for alarm. The Skywalk, which juts out into the air [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright Stamps

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, who was a pioneer of the modern style. He is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture. The Stamp on the right was launch in the USA in the year 1965, entitled - Frank Lloyd Wright in front of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
U.S. Postal Service [...]