I love my Flughafen, aka airport. Noooo, I am not crazy, or totally lost my mind. Keep reading please, and you will agree. Do you know how many times it saved my life on Sundays? No one wants to start the Sunday with a sentence such as “Ooppsss, no eggs for breakfast honey!” or “Ahhh [...]
January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for [...]
Another year is almost over. How did we, architects, do in the last decade? Did we accomplish our objectives? Did we give anything back to the society? Or did we all get sucked up in the “system”?
Here is a link from Los Angeles Times written by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. I found it quite interesting, [...]
The first film festival celebrating the creative spirit of architecture and design will be held on September 24-27, 2009 in Waitsfield, Vermont during the height of fall colors. An exciting selection of films, including feature-length films, documentaries and shorts will engage the audience with how architects and designers think, work and create. The films profile [...]
Climbing first the carved stone staircase and then the wooden steps took me all the way up to one of the Grossmünster’s twin towers. The 360 view from the top was magnificent. The whole Zurich was under your feet. On every turn you would see another landmark such as the Fraumünster, St. Peterskirche, Limmat, Zurich [...]
Here is another chance to walk on the sky! At 1,353 feet (412 meters), the Skydeck is the highest observatory in Chicago. It is located at the 103rd floor, and it extends 4.3 feet from the building. The view must be breath taking. I do not want to be on it when it is windy. [...]
Last weekend 2,5 hour train ride took me from Zurich to Lausanne which was my first trip within Switzerland. Lausanne is situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva. It is interesting to see how the architecture, cuisine, and language change from one side of the country to the other. Everything in here is very [...]
And the good news… (drum roll) I did find my apartment! OK, it is not the dream apartment I had in mind, but still a good one. Finding an apartment in Switzerland is not an easy task. Why? Switzerland is one of Europe’s smallest countries (133rd in the world). Also, much of the land is [...]
Monday evening just before midnight, when Chinese were celebrating the Lantern Festival, fire consumed a building in Beijing that formed part of Central China Television’s new headquarters. Initial investigation showed that the fire had been caused by illegal launches of firecrackers, said a spokesman with the Beijing Municipal Government. According to Shanghaiist, CCTV fire suspiciously [...]
The world’s leading female architect, Zaha Hadid, designed kitchen and bathroom taps for leading independent brassware designer, Triflow. If you are familiar with Hadid’s design, you can tell she carried her architectural design lines into the tap design. “…Inspired by the movement of water, the designs are a formal expression of the continuous flow of [...]
Remember the days and nights spend to finish up the model of your model. Model making requires a lot of hard work, sweat, and sleepless nights… If you know what I mean, you will appreciate Henry Kupjack’s Miniature Rooms. I had a chance to see, and appreciate his work in Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul, [...]
