tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164665482011-07-31T04:08:31.856+08:00an irreverent playground for the exchange of images and words--we suppose, essentially idea(l)s--directly or obliquely related to the field of architecture.solvent_dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17576904120623025797noreply@blogger.comBlogger3241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-15668827039909609982007-09-24T09:26:00.000+08:002007-09-24T09:28:26.535+08:00

where we used to fly kites

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-64894660218546044522007-09-01T11:37:00.000+08:002007-09-01T11:40:00.500+08:00

Rudely awakened,fueled by a yearning-without the loud sounds of drilling of concrete,without the incessant nagging by elders;A place,where my soul is at peace and mine,where I can look at the sky and smile,where I am be-ing my self.Neurotic to Them,But I question,how can one live in a placewhere there is We without the I.(by me)

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-14994828153745914052007-08-28T19:16:00.000+08:002007-08-30T09:33:57.466+08:00

According to Woolf, being independent--owing nothing to anybody--is essential to achieve the state of mind necessary to produce great art. With material and financial independence, "no force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house and clothing are mine for ever. I need not hate any man; he can not hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me" (A Room 38

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Once it happened that he was celebrating his birthday. his wife and children had given him many presents. He liked their choice immensely, and enjoyed it all thorougly. But soon the architect arrived to set things right, and to take all the decisions in difficult questions. The master greeted him with pleasure, for he had much on his mind.But the architect did not see the man's joy. He has

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With all the emotions welling, I suppose it's time to bring us all back to some other views which i think is critical to a critical discussion of our Singapore condition.(especially those who continue to believe they are acting in the service of the people and those who needs to think about the very act of preservation.)"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-16843114418095782702007-08-13T20:07:00.001+08:002007-08-14T16:26:36.315+08:00

an assignment piece i pulled out from my archive as i was clearing my table.x-posted at Like A Conceit.===Architecture for Others.In feminist academic Mary McLeod’s Everyday and “Other” Spaces, it is pointed out that the efforts of recent celebrated star architects like Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Coop Himmelblau possess but a “marginal relation” (McLeod 11) to the production of architecture

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Do buildings exist if no one can remember that they were once there? Will we be left with only the landmarks pointing to the official progress of history when buildings and spaces deemed insignificant but bearing collective memory are demolished? Perhaps someone (perhaps I) should start recording lesser known buildings- buildings that may be banal functionally but bears qualities worthy of

kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10619289866786844475noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-1629151481798376362007-08-09T13:01:00.000+08:002007-08-09T17:31:52.050+08:00

one of the most soulful and personal renditions of Majulah Singapura, hauntingly beautiful without the melody and in the full silent awe of the away ground stadium.sung by this 21yo singaporean gal who went to japan to pursue her singing career. this is dedicated to those pple for a personal contemplation of nation on this day.

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the town of singapore, on the islands of the same name, stands on a point of land near the western part of a bay, and is easily distinguished by there being just behind it, a pleasant looking hill, that is partly cleared of trees. between the point on which the town is situated, and the western one of the bay, there is a creek, in which the native vessels anchor close to the town, and it may be

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taken from Get Fuzzy" early May 2007; Bucky The Katt hires architect Stank Llyod Wrong to renovate his closet.top 5 lines by Wrong:(5) "The truth is more important than the facts, sir. Architecture is truth."(4) "Now say Skidmore, Ownings, and Merrill!"(3) "I feel coming on a strange disease... Humility."(2) "I'll hit you so hard Andrea Palladio won't be able to make your face symmetrical again!"

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The glut of en bloc sales and their accompanying gluttony of riches, the impending demolition of the National Stadium and some time ago, the 'rational' removal of the central National Library are probably fresh in most people's mind.Tan Pin Pin seeks to probe and stick something in Singaporeans' notoriously stulified minds. Not unexpected from a director who brought us Luvre Me Now (a 3 min short

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-77489200447899777762007-08-04T17:24:00.000+08:002007-08-04T18:12:26.516+08:00

to distract myself from school work, i decided today's the day i spin this site around a little.layout & design.finally got down to changing the design of this site. simple changes, although it took me the whole afternoon! guess my tutor's correct when he suggested that i suffer from some "compulsive behaviour".anyway, i'm still deliberating the colors of the links. i'm not sure if i should be

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There is no House without Imagination

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Man is a being to be imagined.- Gaston Bachelard (Poetics of Reverie, 1960)

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-45014656666497581372007-07-14T00:15:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:43:19.916+08:00

My blog is worth $564.54.How much is your blog worth?

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-67404529774833195542007-07-13T16:11:00.000+08:002007-08-04T11:58:11.671+08:00

Here is my latest dissertation abstract. Please feel free to ask questions or comment. FOR A MILIEU THAT MAXIMIZES AND REALIZES NEW POTENTIALITIES:An alternative role for the architect for a Creative City as a player of the multitude in self-organizing mesh-worksA creative city?Cities are dense - with people, resources, ideas and problems etc. Cities are complex- they are a multi-layer of systems

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-13006338332767377762007-07-06T23:36:00.000+08:002007-08-04T16:19:33.150+08:00

ok heres the catch. this is khengsoon's 1999 Eco Pod Cabin standing side by side to my 2006's Tree-House in Punggol. i swear i have never seen this work before until today, and he has never once dabbled on my butterpaper giving me any hint of how my design should develop.this is scary...

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hmm can u guys out there think of instances in spore, where the idea of home and domesticity is manifested without overt architectural intervention?eg. families zhng their vans with fridge and deck chairs to go east coast park, unwittingly creating a weekend home outside the confines of architecture; or how pple decorate their work cubicles painstakingly nice to resemble a family setting with

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i was researching chinese astrology when i came across two pages that listed dos and don'ts for designing stairs and managing your living spaces:"Feng Shui of Stairs""Cramp Spaces and Narrow Corridors"of the two, i think the one about the stairs proves more useful.

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watching all the games in the golden age of 1994 msia cup and league on tv. addictive. i am also very fortunate to be able to watch the 2005 and 2007 asean cups. TV coverage of the stadium’s roars is muffled coz they do not have mics all over the pitch like those overseas stadiums. there was one match, spore vs bahrain i watched with jansen. against a superior opposition who were cowed by the

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oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-64746235819285479182007-06-23T11:28:00.001+08:002007-08-04T11:48:58.690+08:00

haha found this absolute gem of a literary classics comics strip. this is how i got educated in the confucian classics. right now reading INTRODUCING series for freud and nietzsche.anyways this little strip here illustrates my point regarding confucianism in itself is a benign self cultivation similar to Tao and Zen. it preaches moral rule stemming from a cultural enlightenment. how modern day

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-35273462066986672462007-06-20T21:32:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:00:16.173+08:00

liddat also call conservation

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-36665997925008579362007-06-13T22:25:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:00:16.174+08:00

if hor... remy...some developer come and enbloc ur bras basah flat.... alot of money....then hor some pesky akitects come petition for gazette coz ur flat got history value....how wld u react?pondering...

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-80482190591782273752007-06-13T22:21:00.001+08:002007-08-11T19:49:58.550+08:00

Who is authenticity for? I would think that its for nobody and everybody. Authenticity can probably only be unravelled through an objective eye, which would thus mostly exclude the everyday man, and include instead the 'bystanders', academics and tourists. Yet authenticity can only be produced through the everyman's practice of his daily life. I remember LKY (gasp!) once saying that the

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I am back from 60 plus days of travelling and before I organize my experiences and thoughts; I would like to share some of Richard Senna's thoughts on experimentation/ play which I encountered while virtual 'touring' (i am such a tourist. lol) MoMA. It cannot beat going down in person but I guess the hegemonic (the source of constant bitching nowadays) West is still enlightened to share arts and

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-31993547762562248162007-06-01T23:25:00.000+08:002007-08-04T11:52:24.575+08:00

i just realised, the critique of modernism with a decidedly architectural determinism is merely a veiled attempt to uphold the moral integrity of the profession and its relevance.it is a bitter jealousy that behind the monolithic, uncanny, completely void of aesthetic could still breed cultural life. it is thought to be blasphemous that architecture had no role and effect on the cultural

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hmm. just tots. i hope i dun come across as callous or apathetic, or too sombre.the above tschumi manifesto is to be taken literally.this post is in reply of the drownings in lower seletar reservoir yesterday. the flagship project of PUB's Active Beautiful Clean waters programme.earlier i posted some whimsical pictures of the model remy and me made. basically we participated in the masterplanning

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-57491595867779068162007-05-24T19:11:00.000+08:002007-08-04T11:54:11.252+08:00

featuring the works of our graduating non year out batch.in continuation of NUS's fine tradition of exhibiting the best works along claustrophobic long corridors, we manage to actually get allocated a 30m x 2m strip of space in vivocity.shall update more when i get down vivocity to check it out (and watch pirates of the carribean)and hor do check out the interview with our very own prodigal son

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-53570765732691601542007-05-20T11:52:00.000+08:002007-08-04T18:18:00.187+08:00

"the domino prototype... has haunted architectural imagination ever since"- deyan sudjichmm. very vague now. dunno how to "ask the correct question" to tackle this academic mess.there is a basic assumption underlying this dissertation. that is, mass produced single family houses in singapore follows a basic nLKD (n living rooms, kitchen, dining) hierachy. it has greater impacts on psf pricing

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-63094572008838091092007-05-20T11:35:00.000+08:002007-08-04T11:56:15.641+08:00

zihao sayslee hsieng loong is correct when he say sporeans materialisticjitao enbloc everything oneone day istana also enblocamelia says:HAHAHA!!!

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-16131109961651972032007-05-17T14:07:00.000+08:002007-08-04T18:03:15.177+08:00

... and microstation V8 2004

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-4183641297516714642007-05-11T14:27:00.000+08:002007-08-04T11:57:02.654+08:00

nice to see new people on board and adding to the dialogue.does anyone else find the layout a little old and uninspiring? i've been meaning to do something about the state of this blog, and now that i've stopped studio (again), i guess i can compart some time for the job.the change will occur over a period of time, so don't expect a spiffy new site that soon.......how's everyone been anyway? :)

solvent_dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17576904120623025797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-76598282639986325212007-05-10T01:10:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:02:26.104+08:00

What is the aim of a dissertation? People say that in dissertations u compile knowledge from various places, digest them and come out with new knowledge. I was flipping through the past dissertations in school and realized tat most are trying to prove a hypothesis. Understandably, none concluded that the hypothesis is false. What happens if it is? Is there a need to tweak the content so

jnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-1496241827305616172007-04-28T11:38:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:02:57.934+08:00

Asked how the design world has responded to his carious Homeless Vehicle [sic] Wodiczko throws back his head and laughs at the pretensions of the so called 'designer decade'..."The minute you present a proposal, people think you must be offering a grand vision for a better future." They can't see a thing like the Homeless Vehicle or the Poliscar as the 'concretisation' of a present problem, a

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hmm. laos... very enchanting country. only remaining socialist country in ASEAN. poor, but never desperate. in vientiene, the provincial capital, most buildings are less than 3 storeys tall. no traffic congestion. no signs extreme poverty like beggars or crime. the children are earnest and dignified, preferring to work rather than beg.unlike the end of the world scenarios forwarded by castells or

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vientienelouang prabangmekong riverlao new yearvang vieng

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-49439303412045735302007-04-05T04:37:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:04:42.458+08:00

good luck for submissions......... drink more water....

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-41817075533680330632007-04-01T17:56:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:05:02.019+08:00

i like the conceptbut is the design a bit too....? erm....geesh....

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-54134625525583849732007-03-24T00:28:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:05:31.921+08:00

my friends break down and cry, almost hit by a car, stone halfway in the middle of lunch, wanna quit, give up, and forever saying they are lousy, they cannot design.what kind of education fuses such total sense of inferiority complex into urselves?what makes urself really think ur circle is arbitrary?who says that in a conservation project ur design must look old school?why is a superstructure

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-83573674398432995062007-03-22T15:20:00.000+08:002007-08-04T12:05:47.722+08:00

Hi everyone,I have started a blog on my travels on the Ong and Ong Travelling Fellowship. Please visit and will appreciate your comments.

wukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971554064008821182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-37158382369902029552007-03-15T04:01:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:44:16.172+08:00

all these new people with names like "r" or j or lameX - identify yourselves.

siohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635461615018622771noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-72563236111533349292007-03-14T00:37:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:45:23.962+08:00

the greatest pple in the history of mankindmanages to simplify existing logic into its simplest form....E = MC(sq)in nus we do the opposite....we manage to complicate non existing logic into the most complex form...

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just think about it...

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IF i am gg to have a kid next time... i'll make sure she/he must be as talented and cute as her!..........

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-34577179884491951652007-03-05T12:40:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:45:23.965+08:00

Housing is the microcosm of a society. It is autonomous. It is arguably all encompassing. With the institutional application of mass housing it becomes inevitable that certain organizing principles contradict personal choice. Capitalism is often cited as the main enemy in mainstream architectural discourses. Housing blocks in a cityscape have the capacity to self organize and evolve to

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thank you bang, for helping me set this up so i can come inside here and type nonsense.thank you bang~~~hi all. happy new year.

senhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15028386837884467510noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-34454126522731220412007-03-02T20:30:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:54:42.351+08:00

wahhhh-tahhhhhh~~~ hoot! hoot!*make some noise pple!*hoooot!~eeheheehhehehee ;p

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this is gg to be one architectural relic that is gg to touch the hearts of most pple when its gone. despite all the criticisms of modernism, the austere outlook precisely is wat appeals to sporeans in her growing years and becomes a very clear and memorable image free of visual clutter.what's its fault in being so honest that it has to go?..........pictures for ASEAN cup semi and final with james

oahiz_wandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07793633611840069617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-51794711889297984412007-03-01T11:56:00.000+08:002007-08-04T17:47:25.938+08:00

this is damn cool la.

siohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635461615018622771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16466548.post-51462287213618307682007-02-28T21:37:00.000+08:002008-12-11T20:17:55.368+08:00

I mentioned a little bit of the costa surface at Healesville here and would like to say that despite my lack of understanding in the significance of its making, I have been there personally and thoroughly enjoyed the spatial experience (whether or not it was the intended effect I'm not sure).From the outside it looks like a part of the facade. When you step in you see a circular room in the

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Yo peeps sorry for the non-participation but trust me I still do check this blog out often and am pleased it's still engaging and active. For the past months I've been doing a lot of moving, flying, resting, partying and drinking. Good fun seeing you guys back in jan! I just had my first pre-major studio yesterday. Before that I spent a bit of time reflecting and thinking about what I might wanna

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i often had the unfortunate experience of sharing a bus full of screaming teenage kids due to the mechanics of intelligent town planning and feeder bus routes.BGR, classroom politics, maplestory tactics, dolling up their blogs, and the likes... i would be perfectly honest to say, it irks me... the future of spore?i was camping out at pastamania, thinking that it wld be priced out against the

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...The amount of technical information is doubling everyone 2 years....That means for a student starting a 4 year technical or college degree....Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their 3rd year of study....It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010...

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Hi all,Been preoccupied with the messiness of life for the past few (months)? Will be leaving for Tokyo on the 25th and below is the original statement (of intent) for my Ong and Ong Travelling Fellowship trip. On hindsight, despite the fact that the proposal is only a few months old, my thoughts have been like a pendulum-swinging to and fro from the initial thinking here. Here goes (might be a

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hmm from the recently concluded PUB's Active Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters' Programme you get to see some really interesting urban design involving the beautification of canals into water features. I think this feedback board is fun, got kids drawings of wat they want. i dunno if its my idea becoz i forwarded this suggestion to my boss to let kids have a corner in the exhibition to doodle

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virgin post!-tries to think of something intelligently funny to say-YEOW SIEW!!!......okay, obviously i'm not the funniest of online-writers. but it's okay, because my beauty more than makes up for the lack of wit. -nods- hahaha... might i add that shamelessness is now to be considered a virtue (but only for me!) for the duration of whenever this post is read/ referred to :)not much to say right

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check out how representation of the city becomes more real than ur idea of a city itself. how readily we accept these symbols as opposed to real photographic imagery.

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thanks dee... whatever u choose to do in life we will always carry a figment of (y)our dream with us.... sincerely hope you find your happiness coz u deserve it in such a relentless pursuit.in a semi reclusive state now.... choosing self reflection and critique of my 4 years of nihilist attitudes to work.... trying to disengage the sadomasochist attitudes to work presentation to my tutors...

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"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do," Mr. Gehry says. "Architects have to become parental. They have to learn to be parental." By this he means that an architect has to listen to his client but also remain firm about what the architect knows best, the aesthetics of a building. This, Mr. Gehry says, is what makes an architect relevant in the process that leads to

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this is just a small note as a follow-up to a conversation i had with sio a month or two ago. while walking from our apartment to dinner, drinks, or something, she asked why so many offices in the tall towers were still lit at night when clearly no one was working.i remarked that i read about cities stipulating night lighting requirements on building owners as part of a show of the

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watched this with andrea the other day (couldnt find another eco person online lol). it is a good lesson on AR2722. but political ideologies aside, coz al gore went to hundreds of presentations, it shows how much sharpened his presentation skills have been horned. nice to pick up pointers.sobering fact to both of us is the fact that we have already breached the threshold levels of triggering next

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this is out of context...this old man and young man unlocking the bikes at the bicycle park at my MRT station tonight.... then the old man's bicycle lock whipped the young man's face ....old man apologised profusely : ... sorry sorry sorry... 我的错...the bespectacled young man spun around from his expensive mountain bike, stuck out his chin and glared at the old man : NA....BEI....CHEE....BYE.....

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an even more abridged version of the following was produced in the Straits Times on 21st Oct 2006. the full text is floating on the net, available from William Lim apparently. Jyanzi Kong qtd in yawning bread, on the Integrated Resorts for Sentosa:(bold and colors all mine; red for Michael Graves, blue for Frank Gehry)[...][Michael] Graves's project is grounded with the architecture of certainty

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Hann's studiomate--i'm guessing based on the fact that he appears on be the change, Weixiong is attempting a Singapore Experiment in line with his thesis project.i'm enjoying the angle of the spiel so far, though what's worth relishing even more are the discussions that have occurred at the blog. admittedly, various strains are off-tangent, but boy do i love strays!it would be so much better if

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an acquaintance of my mum's is doing a music survey for her research paper, would appreciate some help:Hello,I’m a student at Victoria University Wellington in New Zealand, and I’m very interested in music and its meanings for people around the globe. I’d like to invite you to participate in this study as your opinion and interest in music is highly valued for my research. The purpose of this

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hmm this brings me to another perturbing problem. the fundamental problem.i have been dismissive of the pseudo bourgeoise lifestyles of the middle class who yearn for nothing for imageable condominiums and shopping malls with cheesy names, but it is THEM who are driving the architectural scene and in fact the bulk of the capitalist market.i have an entire industry ridden with bureacracy and

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from christine song's post (via Hong Kit):anyway, today my theory of aki tutor (who is really funny) said an interesting thing.. 95% of the buildings in the USA are not designed by architects. Ninety five percent! How many sick people don't see doctors?Maybe we don't need architects..i think it is sometime in year 1 when we pondered the definitions. like what makes an aeroplane hangar or some

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for those interested in the future.Yahoo Time Capsule.from the website:[...] We think there’s no one better suited to teach future generations what the world was like in 2006. For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio – even drawings – to this electronic anthropology project. This is the first time that digital data will

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after much deliberating and experimentation, amidst instructions from our bosses to keep our model as "layman" as possible because the "heartlanders may not understand", we came to complete this model in a week.remy and i deliberated during the day time where our colleagues wld walk in and eyepower and give comments and step up the gear once they are gone.so these are the images of the complete

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i've started my own blog if anyone is interested...:)

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hi guys need ur help and brains...hmm i am in charge of making a prototype model by tues for design of a water park in lower seletar reservoir as part of a public exhibition of all the rivers and the design interventions given to them as part of PUB/CPG's masterplanning project.the key is how to bring out the river as the central theme while fading the importance of the built up environment and

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a little birdie told me that some very important architecture educator at RMIT commented that the NUS-RMIT students SHe has come across were often very strong/ good. which is why the school is looking into implementing some MArch programme that would hopefully draw more students from NUS.surprise, surprise.

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19582006ETA: 29 0218 Sep 2006 Fricontrary to our blog name, scale does matter. well, it does when pictures screw with the sidebar - d

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following the previous post, another email chalked full of sagely wisdom on the contemplation of architecture when depressed.From: yTo: mark between thoughtsSubject: RE: seeking advice.Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:54:54 +0800Dear d,I am sorry to hear that things are bit rough for you. It seems to me that there are two kinds of difficulties here. If it is about what is or what is not architecture,

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enjoy~

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http://del.icio.us/outofscalei've set up our del.icio.us account as a growing directory of interesting/ important architectural practices available on the web. at the moment, my description of the practices' works are at best "terrible", but i'm hoping to be slightly more precise with the tagging and descriptons so that people may search the directory more effectively.hope the list

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last week, i drafted some email seeking advice from various senior figures i look up to. in them, i elaborated on my downtime and sudden dissatisfaction with architecture. without prior permission though, i'm reproducing their replies as i hope they'd help anyone else in my predicament grapple with similar issues, and maybe lend some insight for other people.the first email published below i

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The past month has been an intensive work (and occasional drunkard play) phase for me and my studio mates. Following up from my previous posted individual work w.r.t slime mold and other studio stuff (not posted yet), we have managed to do the impossible and attained a studio space (a model workshop) to work in: Basically we have a huge ass site and we needed to fit

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in relation to oahiz's last post, i'm putting up an article that i'd come across some years ago when i was working on a u*p paper. Going to the Movies: Cinema Development In Singapore.highly recommended to anyone who's writing or intending to write a dissertaton, interested in urban planning, soft systems of control, and urban culture in general. or for anyone who has some free time to absorb

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i have reached enlightenment in urban planning sometime ago...the downfall of urban planners is that they religiously fearful of leaving spaced UNPLANNED. they fear it hints at incompetence.often, activities happen at UNPLANNED spaces precisely they are accidental and the dynamics of spontaneous human activities arise there. the key, henceforth, is the strategic placement of unplanned nodes for "

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my GF is the sweetest gal! says:wat did the fortune teller say?deedeeWONG, bitch god. says:told me that i won't do well in school until i hit master/ phd level. but that i'd be a really good teacher.my GF is the sweetest gal! says:haha u sure rmy GF is the sweetest gal! says:how come u came home?deedeeWONG, bitch god. says:depressed. sad. sian. the usual.deedeeWONG, bitch god. says:figured i

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there was once qiaoz made us research into the genesis of Universities.in a nutshell, what happened was the free spirited and nomadic Masters and students relationship (much akin to Confucius, Aristotle) generated great incomes for Sorbonne and Paris that the Church wanted a share (esp teaching of Theology was a prerequisite for the opening of an University), which led to great disputes over

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omg!archinect is looking for new aki school bloggers for its pretty interesting School Blog Project (duh). when i checked a year ago, it was torrance (of rojak/ post.fm fame) who represented NUS.but...OMG!!did anyone know that Hann's the current spokesperson for nus? well, along with some Adib fella, but he hasn't put up much.......eh, someone else go and sign up leh. oahiz, wuks, sio, or even

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from altesse.livejournal.com:outofscaleFinally. Planning write-ups I can read without thinking 'interspatial fusion of distended consciousness tribalisations whaaaaat??' (I am particularly reminded of a steaming post-thunderstorm afternoon spent elbowing parents of architecture students out of the way in the cramped corridors of the Slade and fuming with inchoate rage at the senselessness of it

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--- hajar1979 wrote:> To: artscommunity@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:45:53 -0000> Subject: [capacity-building] Critical theory in> architecture and design(Gharbzadegi-Exhibition)> > There will be an exhibition on the themes of> critical theory in the> fields ofarchitecture and design. Specifically, it> takes a look at> what we deem to be vernacular architecture and> questions the

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the punggol new countryside growth model...the punggol autonomous cohousing experiment...erm this is the design i kiam everyone... the one that i said i will upload when it is complete but i realise it can never be complete... leonardo does not complete his inventions u see...it comes in the height of all the talk of emergence theories wuks and sio is talking abt.basically my scheme comes as a

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Hey guys, I'm sure you guys have met my sis? She has decided to publish her own Singapore travel guide that is a little different than usual and she is looking for interested contributors.This is her brief:In a sentence, the book is "a place where words, design, and pictures come together to evoke the heart and soul of Singapore". It includes short essays on Singaporean culture, interviews, and

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Photos of my deary dear bobby the slime mould...and here are some of the experiments I did first week with Bobby Jr.: Basically i was trying to see if Bobby Jr had any human senses (i.e. vision, tactition, audition, olfaction, gustation). Turns out slime moulds can sense things (they like rock music instead of jazz cos of the bass, they like the colour blue, they prefer textured surfaces etc)

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As a response to some of the comments made from my earlier post, here's a further look into the idea of "the field" (wuks might find it helpful to work with in conjunction with the idea of emergence).In the past physicians identified space as ether defined as "an all-pervading, infinitely elastic, massless medium postulated as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves". It explained

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in light of the recent series of inspirational posts, i'd like to just comment on a post--which upon today's review--i realised i hadn't left my two cents. this refers to oahiz's account of kheng soon's vitriolic walking out of a crit.as an avid net-scourer of all things interesting, i've not come across as many collectives of people bound together by a common desire to reshape and enrich the

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lest anyone missed it, we have a new member onboard.warmest welcome to Vespaple.

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"Until the Mexico Olympics of 1968 the customary way for a high jumper to cross the bar was with his body parallel to it, in a technique known as the Western Roll. But that was about to change. A little-known athelete approached the bar, which was set at a world record height of 7 ft 4.5inches. He took off, but instead of turning his body towards the bar, he turned his back on it.He brought his

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http://www.petitiononline.com/STCopyr/petition.html

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Hi guys, its been awhile. Somehow between drifting aimlessly in my own little world up there in my head and setting out to work on my conviction to make constructive every day I have here, I have fogotten to include all of you guys in my life. ops!Being back in Singapore was great; seeing and catching up with family and friends is always good and healthy. I also got a chance to check out some of

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