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For those of us who grew up in the great white north, over pronounced any word with an OU in it and ended sentences with “eh?”, this is how it started. Sometimes it was a flat back yard that your Grandfather, Uncle or Dad would hose down. Sometimes it was the local river, [...]
Nature’s patterns and order are the result of processes and energy transferred over time and sometimes they are spectacular. Whether it is the natural architecture of a giant granite spires in Yosemite, sedimentary deposits along Colorado River canyon networks, or the bright colors of a tropical parrot fish, natural patterns never [...] or just silly? Fun design doesn’t seem to be very high on architects “to do” list, but here are a few attempts with varying degrees of success… No architect, but “NBBJ and Korda Nemeth Engineering administered the construction process.” Fred and Ginger (aka The Dancing House) by Vlado Milunic and Frank Gehry The Piano House in [...] You all know what a palindrome is, right? A word or sentence that can be read both forwards and backwards…like “do geese see god” or “never odd or even”. Jonathan Reed, a 20-something native of Atlanta, took palindromes a bit further with his submission to the AARP contest “U @ 50″ in [...] Harbin, China: Northeast Heilongjiang Province This past summer I made the mistake of going to Harbin, China to look at a potential development site and meet with the owners. Not that going to Harbin, or talking about this particular project was a mistake, the problem was that I was there in [...] |
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