Archive for March, 2008

Drafting is Like Riding a Horse
1 Comment March 26th, 2008

Anyone with both experience in riding a horse and drafting? Is it “Like riding a horse”, am not too sure about the riding part but it sounds as if they’re sending the wrong message: “Drafting is like riding a horse in your bikini.”.
Technorati Tags: Riding the Horse, Horse, Bikini, Architect, Drafting, [...]



Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition
No Comments March 23rd, 2008

Image Source: Serero Architects
This is last week’s news and I find it rather interesting, Paris-based Serero Architects won an open competition for the redesign of Eiffel Tower’s public reception. The deck would be temporary bolted to the slab without any new support structure, thus expanding the usable floor area from 280m square to 580m square.
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China, A Country Without Memory
1 Comment March 21st, 2008

Image Source and Copyright: Sze Tsung Leong
Clearing of the old and making way for the new, tall, definitely soulless apartment blocks. The McDonalization of architecture is China has lead to the birth of disposable architecture, in short, a society that is disposable and not worth caring, cities that are not worth defending.
Ming and Qing Dynasty [...]



Social Housing, Making Small Seem Large
3 Comments March 17th, 2008

Image Source: Wikipedia
This semester’s design class is about social housing, before we jump into the design stage, we need to understand what is social housing? I bet 9 out of 10 people would have projected an image of a stripped-down subsidized housing.
House, be it for the poor or rich must bestow on its inhabitants a [...]



When I Grow Up
5 Comments March 7th, 2008

I would like to apologize for the lack of updates, I’m having some issues with my current hosting company and things are made worst with the lack of internet at my new place, hopefully things would go back to normal in another two weeks time.
Just in case you’re wondering, this is my final year (hopefully) [...]




     

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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

    The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online (believe me, way too much). The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.








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