Foster & Partners - Petronas University of Technology

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image source: Foster & Partners

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Note: Article by Guest Blogger
Foster & Partners and Petronas has won one of nine Aga Khan awards for architecture in the Islamic world with its University of Technology Petronas in Malaysia.
The awards, which have been instigated and sponsored by the Aga Khan, [...]

Fremantle Identity Code

Last semester we had our studio session in the heart of the city, and knowing that traveling to and from the campus took us about 1 hour, we told ourselves ‘never again’, we vow not to take part in any off campus classes, but I guess all vowels are meant to be broken.
Yes, we joined [...]

Construction Mistakes

Look at the steepness of those slopes
Not quite what I had in mind, here is a blog that has some really interesting collection of construction mistakes, only a handful of them are technical errors. The image below is definitely the mother of all construction error, can you imagine the amount of effort wasted?

image source: DavidTeoh

And [...]

Architecture Presentation, Design Review

I thought working life was tough but this week’s design presentation really change my point of view, well, in working life you’re paid to work from 9 to 5, and you’re entitled to claim additional allowance when you rush for any submission, but student life appears to be the other way around, working hours is [...]

Bodegas and offices commercial Huanacu Ltda

I’ve been really really busy for the entire week, assignments are snowballing while my balls shrink to the size of a raisin, this week’s presentation must have been the shortest ever in my life as an architecture student, 48 hours for 4 presentation boards and a model, and it is the ugliest, dullest boards and [...]

French Vision of the Year 2000

Image Source: Utopie
Found this really interesting article from Arch*Idea, These illustration speaks volume of the way a French guy in the year 1910 imagined our human civilization in the year 2000. Well, we’re now almost 100 years from 1910 but these prediction of his still appears too futuristic for our time.

Image Source: Utopie
I [...]

Farnsworth House - Blending with Nature

Image Source : Pruned
Its a boat, its a plane, its Farnsworth House! Yes, the area is prone to flood and I couldn’t agree more with Pruned that the Farnsworth House does blend harmoniously with nature in the current scenario. According to Wikipedia:
The 60 acre natural site offered Mies an opportunity to bring man’s relationship to [...]

World Trade Center 911

Download WTC Tribute in Light Wallpaper 01

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Everybody loves conspiracy, who doesn’t? Well, according to previous CNN poll, half of New Yorkers believe the US government complicity in 9/11.
The World Trade Center are the first and second buildings in history to collapse from fire, that is from what I [...]