The city museum extension by OFIS

Monday, June 30, 2008



The project is renovation and extension of the Auersperg Palace, which is located in the heart of the protected historical city centre. The palace and the plot have a very rich history dating from prehistoric areas, to roman and medieval times. Each era added something to the building.

Through the history the purpose of the palace changed several times so the existing organisation of the plan was not suitable to host museum programme.


INFO AND IMAGES FROM ofis

John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts by Rafael Vinoly Architects

Tuesday, June 24, 2008







I found this architect is very good in doing sketches, so sharing it here with you all.
I wonder when i have that kind of confidence and skills in doing such good quality sketches.

RVAPC

Memoria Luce by Daniel Libeskind


Memoria e Luce is a memorial in Padua, Italy for victims of the 9/11 attacks on New York City.


The memorial features a twisted steel beam salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center and donated to the Regione de Venetto.


The memorial was completed in September 2005 in collaboration with Permasteelisa.

Image and Info from Daniel libeskind website

Study Abroad

Yesterday I am quiet shock when I heard dat any architecture student need to complete his part 1 and part 2 at the same university (which is recognized by LAM), then he will be considered recognized part 1 and part 2 by LAM.

If the student completed his part 1 and part 2 in different university, he need to resit the part 2 exam again although both universities are recognized by LAM.

Is this true? Can anyone help me to clarify it?

Another thing is what I heard today,
If you want to apply to study abroad, you need to have 1 year experience working in archi firm.

Is this true?

体+用

Monday, June 23, 2008

体, body and structure
用, form and application

Does anyone understand the meaning of North, South, East and West to chinese?

introducing Urbanus-都市实践

Thursday, June 19, 2008


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive unveil concept design for new Toyo Ito-designed building

Wednesday, June 18, 2008


Ito’s design calls for a three-storey building with an unexpectedly fluid steel exterior that curves to meet dramatic, towering windows.



The 139,000 sq ft interior will comprise a loose grid of interlocking spaces with gently curve walls that wind and bend throughout the structure. In places, the gallery walls will separate as if pulled aside like curtains, to allow passage between the varied exhibition areas.

Image and info from WAN

LICT Kuching final design presentation

Friday, June 13, 2008


Architecture semester 3
Project title: Room with a view

Interior Design Semester 4
Project title: Sarawak design center (old court house)

Architecture semester 5
Project title: Dead space alive

Architecture semester 1
Project title:

Architecture semester 1
Project title:

Architecture semester 3
Project title: Room with a view

Architecture semester 3
Project title: Room with a view

Architecture semester 5
Project title: Dead space alive

Photos taken by sheounz leong

Studio 8 tunnel installation

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Studio 8 created a tunnel installation made of honeycomb sandwich panels and white rolls of recycled garments. Prior to the appearance of Studio 8 Architects’ tunnel installation, modest florists squeezed into redundant archways or marooned like islands at station entrances were the closest the London Underground ever came to owning a garden.
CJ Lim of Studio 8 created Seasons through the Looking Glass – inspired by Lewis Carroll’s children’s classics – out of paper-honeycomb sandwich panels, which are probably as fragrant as the overpriced anaemic bouquets sold at station kiosks.


An exploration of the mythical underground spaces depicted in Carroll’s book, the installation refers to a scene in which the intrepid Alice falls into a deep well and lands in a bed of brambles. Visitors negotiating South Kensington’s network of escalators and pathways on an underground journey to or from the V&A pass Lim’s alternative landscape as they enter or exit the tube

image and infos from FRAME magazine

Architecture studio Himma from korea












Himma Suh , founding partner of Architecture Studio himma, seoul, Korea.
She is one of the speaker of the DATUM KL this july.

images from Architecture Studio Himma website

One year

Suddenly feel like want to share something personal here.
But first , I have to apologize for my broken english.

I have thought for several times about myself and what I wanted to be before graduate.
Initially, I really planned to work in archi firm for one year to gain experience.
But, finally I decided to venture in education.

It is almost one year since I graduated , time really fly fast and this is what it terrified me the most.
Look back what happen after graduation till now, I really feel emptiness in life.

Sometimes I really wonder do I make the right decision for my future.
Or do I have a future indeed?

I am not a type of person who need to survive with high ambitous carrer.
I just hope to have some satisfaction and simple happiness in life.

but, these few months I met a lot of people from architecture field.
I feel more n more not confident even to socialize with them.
Maybe just the personal feelings who always wanted to encourage me to runs and escape.

One year lo................................
so fast........................................
Do I do something right before?
A lot of quarrels and disappointment in life, making me more and more speechless each day.

If you know me one year before, try to compare with me one year after.
I not sure how much I have changed, but the most obvious thing changed in me is I become more and more unable to talk to people.
I lost the abilities to give spontanteous respond to people in conversation.
This is also the reasons why I prefer to keep silent all the times.

only one year
so disappointed
I feel there is no muchbond left between you all and me.
if one more year to pass, what will be left between us?

No matter where and how..................
..........................................................

Fuksas Wins Shenzhen Airport Competition

Wednesday, June 11, 2008


Rome-based Fuksas Architects, run by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, was recently selected to design the new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport.
In a banner year that saw Beijing open its enormous Norman Foster-designed Terminal 3, and Shanghai its new Terminal 2 at Pudong International Airport (designed by East China Architectural Design & Research Institute), Fuksas’s expansion will make the Shenzhen airport the fourth largest in China.


image and info from Architecture record