Waffles!

Am I the only one who thinks of vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce the first time seeing this?

Metropol Parasol by J. Mayer H.

The Royal Wedding!

Congrats to William and Kate :D
Been watching the whole ceremony and it was soooo sweeeeet~ a fairytale wedding indeed!

Prince William and Kate look absolutely gorgeous and Harry is... well, swoon XD

Got a good look at Westminster Abbey where the ceremony took place from the tube. The place is as amazing as ever. Feast your eyes on the details.

By God I miss London.

Westminster Abbey

Twirl it like Hadid

” Twirl ” Installation by Zaha Hadid Architects

I wonder if I can walk on it?

Hogwarts?

If every bookstore in the world looks like this,

I'm gonna be a super nerd spending a whole lotta time here.

Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen 
Maastrict, The Netherlands 

Before Autocad

This is a photograph from an exhibition called

"Architecture in Uniform: 

Designing and Building for the Second World War"

at the Canadian Centre for Architecture

13 April to 18 September 2011

Think retro? ;D

Tabemashou!

Am I the only one thinking that the name of this house is plain cute?

And the shape is... *drool*

Onigiri House

NKS Architects

Aaaaah

Maybe it's the first thing you'd say when you enter here.

Plus, check out the ubercool bookshelves!

The Bay

Atelier Feichang Jianzhu

Chop 'em, build 'em

Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
Kengo Kuma & Associates

I come in peace

I kinda like its spaceship-looking interior from this perspective.

Half expecting some creature floating down the centre, but overall cool stuff.

School of Music, Arts & Crafts
Contemporânea | Portugal 2008

Criteria?

I came up with this kind of random thing after last Sunday, thought I'd share it just to see if anyone agree.

Looking for a good guy = looking for a good building.

1. sustainable 

2. good facade 

3. good construction 

4. fine mechanical / electrical system 

5. healthy environment 

6. the ones in strategical locations are usually taken

...which is why it's quite hard to find one.

Looks sustainable to me :D
Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) zooms in on BIG in "Yes Is More" exhibition.

A design

By a designer

From a designer

For a designer 

Roberto Cavalli's house

Studio Italo Rota

Experience

"Experience doesn't exist in a single CAD line. It exists when you travel."

(Pengalaman itu ada bukan hanya dalam satu garis CAD drawing. Namun ada pada saat kamu berjalan – jalan.)

- RS

You can stand under my umbrella

Although you might not need it.

Digital Water Pavilion

Zaragoza World Expo, Spain

MIT

Architects don't get nightmares

...because they don't get to sleep!

Shui

The Water House

Li Xiaodong Atelier

Shiro

"House Before House" Concept House

Sou Fujimoto Architects

When life gives you lemons

...design something with them.

Nestle Application Group Queretaro

Rojkind Arquitectos

Bling!

Guest House + Gallery for Takeo Obayashi

Tadao Ando + Olafur Eliasson

Yes Is More - BIG

I recently obtained a copy of BIG's "Yes Is More", thanks to my brother who sent it from Melbourne.

My friend said it's available in where I live, but the price is increased by 50%.

So yes, tax is a bitch.

What can I say, this Danish architect is one fun lad :)

Down the rabbit hole

What is architecture?

No, seriously, what's the appeal of something that turns a lot of people into CAD zombies?

The eggheads from Oxford wrote:

ARCHITECTURE
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːkɪtɛktʃə/

1. The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
2. The style in which a building is designed and constructed, especially with regard to a specific period, place, or culture: Georgian architecture
3. The complex or carefully designed structure of something
4. the conceptual structure and logical organization of a computer or computer-based system

If there's any appeal above, I fail to see it (-..-)


Then WHY would people want to study architecture?


I learned the hard way proving that ARCHITECTURE equals "no sleep tonight".
...or any other night for that matter.


Maybe it's because of the infamous-but-not-always-true "Oh, you're an architect? Cool! You must make a lot of money!"


Maybe it's just plain curiosity nagging my common sense.


A few days ago, on my way down, I asked my studio lecturer a true idiotic question I've been itching to ask every architect or architect-to-be.


"Sir, is it worth it to be an architect?"


 His answer was, of course, "Sure."


I know it's a wrong question to ask a practitioner, but cat isn't the only thing curiosity killed.
After a laughable "Why?", he then continued.


"We get to travel and see the world."


I gave out a hearty laugh, for my own folks answered the same almost 3 years ago.


It was the reason I jumped into the rabbit hole.
It was the reason why I stay in the Architortureland.
It was my white rabbit.

What's yours? :)