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canvas print on Operation Void Deck
Impressive blog. Thanks for writing
Conrad McKee on Wishing all our friends a Blessed Christmas!
Same to you
waiting room furniture on Operation Void Deck
Thanks for sharing this Joshua, good job.
OPEN SOURCE
Janita Han on Thu, August 6, 2009
One of the most successful open source developments going on to date are developed by coders. the collective intelligence of coders worldwide are harnessed in the open source programming for all sorts of stuff from programmes to games to graphic libraries. it makes you wonder if it is possible for designers to collaborate like the geeks.
HOUSELIFe
Janita Han on Mon, June 8, 2009
For those who’s not seen this trailer of houselife, you are missing something! This film is on Rem’s Villa Bordeux. You can buy the DVD for 65 euros here.
BIGGER THAN ARCHITECTURE
Janita Han on Mon, June 8, 2009
I’m currently subscribed to WIRED UK and it’s now become my favourite magazine! I read almost every article in it, now that’s value for money.
The main reason for this post is not to brag about WIRED, but to tell you which architects made it into this techie magazine!
WIRED issue 1: FOA’s Oslo Opera house
WIRED issue 3: Zaha Hadid’s Manchester Art Gallery
cross reference to FAST COMPANY’s list of 100 most creative people, guess who goes on the list?
drumroll…
38: Norman Foster
43:Neri Oxman from MIT Media Lab (strictly speaking she’s not really an architect but she did graduate from the AA)
68: Zaha Hadid
You can check out the full list here.
This leads to a few observations:
- Rem didn’t make the list of 100 most creative people!
- Architects rank behind JJ Abrams (14) and Stella McCartney(13).
- To get into WIRED your building has to be of a certain type of form- it has to resemble a gadget, be flowy or folding in form.
- Zaha Hadid recently lost weight, and is into fashionable type shots of herself. She has one in profile with her hair blown back!
How is this post related to Architecture in Asia?
-Nada. Just for fun. Hope you have a nice day.
OF THE SPREADING OF ARCHITECTURE TALENT
Janita Han on Wed, December 10, 2008
Good news! The economic downturn has led to really good architecture graduates looking for jobs in less-than-stellar offices. This is quite good for the industry in general because they would not all congregate in the star-architect’s office. So concentration is spread, talent is percolated throughout the practice! Healthy competitions. I predict that new names will rise up in the practice within this few years. So that we don’t always need to stick our noses into the business of the same old usual suspects.
My theory is proven correct when talking to a practice here in London. They’ve seen significant improvement in the applicants’ quality, compared to the last time they were hiring. Good eh?
Let’s see what kind of architecture is produced in this period!
ANOTHER FIRE!
Janita Han on Thu, May 22, 2008
Han Sharoun’s Berlin Philharmonie follows the fate of the TU Delft architecture faculty.
I queued in the lobby for tickets once…
read about it here.
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