Archive for the 'Architecture Rumbling' Category

Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue

image source: foreignpolicy.com This article in not related to architecture, more like town planning. Since architecture is the building blocks of a city, I thought it is interesting to share this interesting information on statues. Wikipedia on Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue: The Genghis Khan Statue is a 40-metre tall statue of Ghengis Khan on horseback, [...]

Google Celebrates Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 126th Birthday

I just couldn’t help but notice the latest Google Doodle on the homepage. Today is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 126th Birthday, born March 27, 1886 and passed away on August 17, 1969.

Zaha Hadid – Once Upon A Time

Image Source – Facebook Once upon a time, in the land far far away… the side effects of too much architecture. To all the beautiful young architecture students, it is still not too late.

Architectural Critical Thinking – Sustainable Hoax, Homeless-ness And Why We Need A House

George Carlin on why we need a house: And it is houseless-ness, not homeless-ness. If your thesis is on ‘homeless-ness’, here’s a very educational video: Honestly, I don’t believe in sustainable architecture and green architecture. It is nothing more than a ‘feel’ good movement by architects to justify wasting space. Come to think of it, [...]

Daniel Libeskind On Denver Art Museum

Am not a fan of architects that imposed their ‘signature’ design on every single sites and projects and then goes on saying how well their new masterpiece blends with the surrounding… how it emerged from the ground and harmonized with the existing structure, how it spoke to nature and blah blah blah and more BS [...]

The 1KM Kingdom Tower

image source: gizmodo Ego, perhaps man, as in the male species have the urge to show off who has the longest, the highest, the biggest etc. It is in the gene, you just can’t help it. Sorry kingdom tower, here is the bad news – Skyscraper expert says 2km tower is now possible. image source: [...]

Top 10 Ugliest Building In The World

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, it is hard to determine which building is the ugliest because one man’s food is another’s poison. Members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have some very strong opinions about some of these ugly architecture. They are not architects, who are they to judge? Then again, just [...]