The Rich Mix by Penoyre and Prasad architect

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Bethnal Green Road, London
Client The Rich Mix Cultural Foundation
Completed January 2006

The building functions is indicate clearly through it's name "The Rich Mix" , it is a building with music studios, performance gallery, exhibition spaces, cafe, cinemas and studio workspaces.
Its façade of gold and silver louvres in front of a multicoloured frame provides solar control as well as a screen for projecting images.
Solar control louvres will be added to the main façade

I was searching for a project name Walworth Road Surgery, London by the same architect. However cant any related infos of the building, only manage to quote from bdonline uk :

"The practice (Penoyre-prasad architect firm) was set up in 1988 by Penoyre and Sunand Prasad,

both alumni of Edward Cullinan Architects. Their first project — a surgery for seven GPs tucked into the backlands of south London’s Walworth Road — was in fact a leaving present from their former firm. “The general brief was stay associated with the high street, to blend in with the community,” recalls Penoyre. Today, LIFT projects such as Green Wrythe Lane and Heart of Hounslow have a similar sense of neighbourliness."

Images from Penoyre-prasad website

Chinese Fishing Net of Fort Cochin

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Chinese fishing nets (Cheena vala) of Fort Kochi (Fort Cochin) in the City of Kochi (Cochin), in the Indian State of Kerala, are fixed land installations for an unusual form of fishing — shore operated lift nets.[1] Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 m or more across. Each structure is at least 10 m high and comprises a cantilever with an outstretched net suspended over the sea and large stones suspended from ropes as counterweights at the other end. Each installation is operated by a team of up to six fishermen.

It is received wisdom that the nets are Chinese in origin. This is not as improbable as the 5,000 km distance from China might suggest — Kochi is a very important centre for the spice trade attracting traders from far and wide. Some suppose that the nets were introduced by the Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Text from Wikipedia

Images from Flickr.com

To all Architecture Students

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Feel very furious when doing the students report now, just wanted to drop some words to express what I feel.
Architecture is not a easy path for anyone, even all design courses are not as easy as you think.
If you are not serious of your studies, please quit from the school, dun waste your parents money.
Students-Students (murid-murid), you all are very lucky, because your parents manage (can afford) to send you to school to study.
You might have never struggle before in life and even earn any penny to support your own living.
Imagine your parents have to work so hard to pay your school fees, Rm5000 plus for one semester, how dare you waste your parents money just by not coming to school everyday and not doing any work at all.
Think properly whether you suit to this field or not, don't think of money just a piece of paper, it consist your parents hope on you.
Can you imagine when you go to tel your parents, "Dad, I fail again this semester, I need to repeat!" Imagine what is your dad expression........
You are not longer 4 years old, you are 19 and 20 +++, please think of your future....
Depends on your parents all the time?

Be responsible of your studies............think properly................................... when you are in 30,imagine where are you and what you are doing that time, will you regret?

Please forward this message to all LICT students.

Introduce east coast architecture review blog

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

another nice blog from North Carolina http://ecoastarchreview.blogspot.com/

Hong Kong Design Institute HKDI Showcase

HongKong Design Institutes is a design school featuring various design courses: fashion design, visual communication, product design, interior design, multimedia and etc.
Some works below show by the students:








HKDI website: http://www.hkdi.edu.hk/web/showcases.jsp?fid=6

Travel Mag 旅游玩家magazine

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I like this magazine a lot, it shows a lot of travel spot by different celebrities in Malaysia. Hope to share with other bloggers.
http://www.travelmatemag.blogspot.com/

Kanner Architect Studio by Kanner Architects

brick walls painted in white with a cavermous lamella truss ceiling and concrete floors.


very clean lines maintained at each of the workspaces, natural light is collected from the glass facade.

The studio overall is very flexible and open space to accomodate different users at different time.

Images and info from Kanner ARchitect website: http://www.kannerarch.com/en/

The frieze magazine

Introduce the frieze magazine: http://www.frieze.com/magazine/

Boxhome 2007 by Sami Rintala

Monday, October 20, 2008

Boxhome is a 19 square meter dwelling with four rooms covering the basic living functions: kitchen with dining, bathroom, living room and bedroom.



The architect consider of how to use such a small space to accomodate all spaces required and the way to invite lights into the spaces.


Image and photos from Samirintala website: http://www.samirintala.com

Shigeru Ban to Design New Home for Aspen Art Museum

ASPEN, Colo.—The Aspen Art Museum has announced that Tokyo-based Shigeru Ban Architects will design a new 30,000-square-foot facility for the institution, his first museum design in the United States.

Director and chief curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson said that the design by the environmentally minded architect, part of a five-year plan to relocate the museum from its current location in a 7,000-square-foot converted hydroelectric plant, "assures Aspen an architecturally appropriate, environmentally sound, and culturally significant venue for art."

The new space, to be built and operated exclusively by private funds raised by museum donors, is planned for the Zupancis-Galena site on Aspen's East Main Street, a "green civic campus" near the city's core that will also include an expanded library, protected homestead cabins, the historic county courthouse, affordable housing, and city and county offices.

Article from Artinfo
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28143/shigeru-ban-to-design-new-home-for-aspen-art-museum/

Nice blog-HOUSE 42 (friends)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

http://www.house42.com/

Taylor architecture and interior design studio

Architectural learning
Introduce a blog from Taylor students, very nice effort and interesting posting.
Have a look into it.
Thanks afterrabbit

http://studio2006taylors.blogspot.com/

Crematorium Baumschulenweg -Berlin hidden places

Crematorium Baumschulenweg was built in the years 1996-98 and designed by Axel Schultes with Charlotte Frank. It is called as Berlin hidden place and lost in the woods of South-east Berlin suburbs.
Some books describe this is a windowless spritual building.
More fascinating than the building itself is the enclosed space, which has been compared to Stonehenge, Karnac or the Mosque at Cordoba

Outlook of the building

Ramp leading to the entrance
29 concrete supports, as made of marble, rise from the ground like trees at irregular intervals and give structure to the rectangular Hall of the Dead.

The columns with skylight.

Image from house42

CITY RACKS DESIGN COMPETITION

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The purpose of the competition is to develop functional, well-designed sidewalk racks and to generate new concepts for bicycle parking inside commercial and residential buildings. These two initiatives, in addition to NYCDOT’s commitment to increasing the number of miles of bicycle facilities, providing the City’s first sheltered bike parking stations and creating more bicycle parking at transit stations, will raise the profile of bicycling as a convenient mode of transportation in New York."

Ten finalists:




To view Other finalists please go to this website
CITY RACKS COMPETITION BLOG
http://nycityracks.wordpress.com/
The awards will be announced on October 24.
CITY RACKS COMPETITION BLOG

DESIGN ADDICT BLOG

JAM

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Due to blogger problem, unable to post this few days.
Harap Maaf
Sorry
对不起
Sinimasih (my bad Japanese...)

Paper craft from canon creative park

Siew ting has made this paper craft for me before. Now only i realise that, so happy to see it.
I wan a 3d Moneki Neko. Yes.......must look for one.
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/artist/4d9e324c-2d18-44c9-aec1-60e0c92a87ea_45_1.html

Kuching Shophouse-collection 1

Monday, October 6, 2008

Darul Kurnia 达鲁古尼亚-Heritage building in Kuching

Friday, October 3, 2008

HISTORY OF DARUL KURNIA

DARUL KURNIA WAS BUILT BY ABANG HJ ABDILLAH BIN DATU BANDAR ABANG HJ KASSIM FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES IN 1930 . IT WAS ONLY REGISTERED UNDER THE NAME OF DATU PATINGGI ABANG HJ ABDILLAH ON 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1947.

THIS BUILDING IS LOCATED AT HAJI TAHA ROAD AND TJE LAND IT STANDS COVERS 1.98 ACRES.DATU PATINGGI DIED ON 21ST NOVEMBER, 1946 AND THE PROPERTY WAS INHERITED BY HIS FIVE GRANDDAUGHTERS.

IN APRIL 1948, THE COURT ORDERED THE LAND TO BE RETURNED TO THE ESTATE OF DATU PATINGGI ABANG HJ ABDILLAH AND WAS LATER MANAGED BY HIS ELDEST GRANDSON. IN JUNE 1949,

THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD TO A CHINESE NAMED MR ONG KWAN HIN FOR $30,000.00 AND THE BUILDING WAS ONCE USED AS THE OFFICE FOR CHINA EMBASSTOR.
IN 1972, IT WAS HANDED OVER TO THE SARAWAK CHINESE COMMUNITY CHARITABLE TRUST BOARD WHO THEN RENTED TO CHUNG HUA SCHOOL ADMINISRATION FOR $100.00 A MONTH UNTIL YEAR 2002.

CURRENTLY, DARUL KURNIA IS OFFICIALY THE PREMISES OF CHUNG HUA MIDDLE SCHOOL NO 4. (RESOURCE TAKEN FROM SARAWAK MUSEUM, 1995, HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND SITES IN SARAWAK)

Ground floor plan

First floor plan
Front elevation

Left elevation

Right elevation 3d drawing

images from phayung

The Area- 3d studio max tutorial and tips

for 3d studio max users, something to share with you, the area is a website by autodesk. there are a lot of tutorials and tips by other professionals.

The area