Rem Koolhaas’s Ras al Khaimah Convention and Exhibition Centre

Image Source: Tropolism

Image Source: Tropolism
Known as the Disneyland of architecture, Dubai has lost it all, to quote Tropolism: "Koolhaas and OMA have officially lost their marbles", a rather extraordinary big marble.
Taken from George Lucas’s Rem Koolhaas’s drawing board, the Death Star like 44-story sphere shaped building appears to be floating on the water [...]

Obama Barack the Architect

Source: TimesOnline

The World Election 2008 United States presidential election 2008 is around the corner, and this could be the most interesting election ever, that is if, a BIG if, one of the Democratic Party candidate wins the erection election.
I’m a supporter of Hillary Clinton, and a little bit of Obama, any candidate dished out by [...]

China, A Country Without Memory

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

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 [...]

Diller & Scofidio - Blur Building

Image Source: Swiss Expo 2002

Image Source: Swiss Expo 2002
Seven years ago when I was in secondary school I came across a documentary about the Swiss Expo 2002 in discovery channel, I can’t quite remember the content of the documentary but some of the finer details like the mist was rather hard to forget. [...]

Korean Robots to Construct High-Rises By 2010

Image Source: The Animatrix
We’ve been sending humans to do a robot’s job for quite sometime now, and in a few short years the Korean are going to flood the market with cheap construction robots that promise to cut labor costs by a third, construction time by 15% and the number of construction related accidents. The [...]

Kuala Lumpur Flood Control System

Sorry for the lack of updates, was away attending my cousin’s wedding, will update about that too. Anyway, while I was in Kuala Lumpur for the weekend prior to the wedding, I stumble upon a row of shop houses and their flood control system, probably they’ve given up on the local authorities and decided to [...]

Mark Khaisman Architects TapeWorks

Mark Khaisman is a Ukranian artist and architect living in Philadelphia. Since his student’s years Mark was occupied with conceptual art and architecture. He participated in conceptual architecture exhibitions in Milan, Frankfurt-on-Main, and Paris and was featured in various international publications, including “Architectural Design” London, 1989.
Mark worked as an architect, an art director in seven [...]