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American Cities Pre-1950

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:56:52 +0000

Ticker tape and confetti floating onto the motorcade carrying the crew of the Bremen, and the crowds assembled to greet them. Broadway, New York, 1928. (Source: National Archives) A photographic journey through American Cities (visit link for more photos), pre-1950. The past always appears to be exciting, full of possibilities and opportunities. Why does the Past [...]

Inception

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:53:34 +0000

Another great movie about dreams, architects, imaginary cities and reality. Some of the cast:Ellen Page as Ariadne, the Architect – a college graduate student who constructs the world of the dream. Michael Caine as Miles, Cobb’s mentor, teacher, and father-in-law, and Ariadne’s college professor. Lukas Haas as Nash, Dom’s previous ArchitectThe most challenging effect was Limbo City [...]

Architecture And Security

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:32:34 +0000

Image Source: Neatorama Neatorama latest post – The Enemy at the Door is a must read for all architects. We have architecture and sustainability, architecture and music, architecture and this and that but never architecture and security. Architecture Dissertation is like Hollywood, the same old script with different actor and actress. Here’s some food for thought [...]

Pudu Jail 1891 – 2010, Rest in Pieces

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:37:03 +0000

Pudu Jail is more than 100 years old, build by the British with cheap labors from India, used by the Japanese as a prison camp to butcher the Chinese and by the present government for hanging 1000 criminals till the late 90’s. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like [...]

Malaysia Shanghai Expo

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:27:20 +0000

The theme of the Shanghai Expo is ‘Better City, Better Life’, like all Malaysians, food is always the main source of inspiration from architecture to technology. I’m nothing more than a graduate architect, and I bet all third year students and I can design something better than that scaled up toy model, over stretched ‘Minangkabau’ [...]