Archive for September, 2007
Foster & Partners - Petronas University of Technology
1 Comment September 27th, 2007image source: Foster & Partners
image source: Foster & Partners
image source: Foster & Partners
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
No Comments September 25th, 2007Last 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
1 Comment September 24th, 2007
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
6 Comments September 23rd, 2007I 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
No Comments September 20th, 2007I’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
No Comments September 15th, 2007Image 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
No Comments September 13th, 2007Image 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
3 Comments September 10th, 2007Download 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 [...]





