Monday, September 15, 2008
Currently I am reading this book and wanted to introduce to all architecture lovers.
The Architecture of Fumihiko MakiSpace, City, Order and MakingBy Jennifer Taylor
Current Reading
9/11 Memorial Boston Logan Int'l Airport
The Palace of Remembrance, as the Boston project is called, was designed by the local firm Moskow Linn Architects.
The memorial sits on a prominent 2.5-acre site that is adjacent to a road leading into the airport.
Upon walking into the memorial, visitors see two winding paths that recall the flights paths of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. 
The walkways continue through a grove of Gingko trees, ending at a glass and steel structure that visitors can enter.
Image from Moskow Linn Architect
Text from Architectural Record
Image from Moskow Linn ArchitectText from Architectural Record
Harajuku Church by Ciel Rouge Creation
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Harajuku church is designed by Ciel Rouge Creation.
A very modern Japanese Church with wavy interior walls.
Entrance of the building.
The coloful chairs in contrast with the white wall create an interesting ambiance.
The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng
Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng 
Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng Igualada Cemetery -for the dead and live
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Igualada Cemeteryis situated at Barcelona Spain and designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos.
Igualada cemetery is not designed as a traditional burial ground for the dead, however emphasized on cycle of life.
The steel pole providing a curving path from the entrance.
The flow of landscape lead the live to sense the place with their experience.
The use of light and shadow.
Images from Prune
I am always interested in Cemetery projects (maybe I am weird), found this cemetery while doing lecture notes. The contrast of the living trees and the dead burial ground forms a interesting play in the cemetery.
read more here
Female Architecture of Itsuko Hasegawa
Saturday, August 30, 2008
After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Kanto Gakuin University, Itsuko Hasegawa became a research student in the Department of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1979 she established Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier. Her projects include a variety of houses and public buildings. In 1986 she received the Design prize from the Architectural Institute of Japan for her Bizan Hall project. Her residential projects also earned a Japan Cultural Design Award. She won first prize in the invited competition for the Shonandai Cultural Center. In 1997 she was elected as one of the Honorary Fellows of the RIBA. She has completed her winning entry for the Niigata City Performing Arts Center and Area Development.
Niigata City Performing Art Center
Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier
I started to like the projects by Itsuko Hasegawa, there are alot of interesting project by this female architect for ex: Yamanshi Museum of Fruit, Shonandai Cultural Center and Niigata City Performing Arts Center . Most of them are very sensitive and creative.
However, it is so hard to look for details about her.
The barn at Fallingwater by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Barn at Fallingwater is an adaptive reuse of a 19th century heavy-timber barn and its 20th century addition, framed in dimension lumber.
The 19th century structure is a bank barn, built into the side of a hill so that two levels can be accessed directly from grade level.
The barn is used by the architect as a -season event venue for receptions and barn dances
The loft space
The loft space has been part of the thermal and moisture barrier system protecting the occupied space on the lower level. This is a green adaptive reuse project adjacent to the Frank Lloyd Wright's fallingwater.
Facade of the building.
Read more about this project at Bohlin Cywinski
AIA awards-top ten green project
Nine boxes by Lebbeus Wood
Friday, August 22, 2008
This project is an occasional project by Lebbeus Wood. He is looking at the most basic element in architecture which is a box as a prime example.
For him, what transform the box actually comes from two factors, the first one is human perception and the second factor is natural forces, for example earthquarke.
Imagine how this nine boxes can be transformed into a city?
other project from Lebbeus Wood
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