Macau Pavilion Comepition for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo (Honor Award) - Kobe Vong + Martin Leong + Ryan Leong
World Expo Pavilion has long been providing a significant impact in the development of modern architecture. A number of interesting designs are showcased in this competition and it illustrates the current architectural standard of Macau.
We are still delighted to be able to receive a Honor Award in this competition.
Competition official web site and result:
http://www.gov.mo/egi/Portal/rkw/public/view/showcomp.jsp?id=InfoShowTemp&docid=c373e91b0099a7888f6b9a72ff689595The 1st prize goes to the celebrated architect - Carlos Marreiros's "Rabbit".
Two competitions, two question marks, for the result and also for the future developement of Macau architecture and the system of architectural profession.
Macau New Central Library Competition - Thomas Chan + Ryan Leong
First large Macau architectural competition in years, which attracted 31 design entries. Above is the design by Thomas and myself. We didn't manage to get any award but it is a relatively good experience for doing such an exercise. As two young architects, our only objective is to devote and dedicate our professional knowledge and creativity to the design of the future central library of Macau.
A controversial competition with a heavily arguable result.
Competition Offical web site and result :
http://novabc.icm.gov.mo/
Architectural Competition is a demonstration of a mature and civilized city. By looking at this competition, Macau has a great difficility in order to achieve that.
The White Silhouette Phone Card
water dragon head
[Future Designs] - Closer Magazine Nov 2007
[Future Designs] -When it comes to the great skyline debate, Macau's architects say planning is the height of good sense.This article
by CloserMacau Magazine discuss the current architecture development and city planning in Macau. 4 architects - Rui Leao, Eddie Wong, Vicente Bravo and myself are given our respestive point of views regarding the current dramatic change of our city.
MacauCloser - http://www.macaucloser.com/
文化共生與交融
http://macaodaily.com/html/2008-04/15/content_159024.htmMy newspaper article about the book of Macau architect Carlos Marreiros.
Mario Botta - Single family house at Riva San Vitale, Ticino, Switzerland
Architecture Classic
-Single family house at Riva San Vitale, Ticino, Switzerland 1971-1973
-By Swiss Architect Mario Botta.
My First Roll of Lomo
One day lomography trip with Macau lomo army.
+ my 1st try of lomo lc-a.
another serious architecture
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It's Shanghai Time
Dancing New Year
2008.1.1. MOCA Shanghai. Museum of Contemporary Art .上海當代藝術館.
Lou Kau Mansion, Macau
UNESCO World Heritage. Built in 1889, Lou Kau Mansion is a two-storey, traditional grey-brick courtyard house, with the architectural characteristics of a typical xiguan Chinese residential building.
no. different.
Trying not to be the same is how harmony comes.
one day to the no man's land
Daily Exercise
Forever Worth Reading
We must always say what we see,
but above all and more difficult, we must
always see what we see.
- Le Corbusier
The Last Smart Girl
My Chinese Medicine Recipe
Work in progress .2
Work in progress - debut performance
First Design after graduation and first design in reality.
It's in Macau. My city. I work for it.
Robert Doisneau @ MAM
Graduation Exhibition
" showcased the graduation projects of 76 architecture students. This year the architecture program at UNSW has shifted its organisational texture to create 6 studio groups, each with their own investigative agenda. Within this studio context the students have then developed their individual projects. The exhibition will combine and expose these different grains to express an explorative response to the contemporary architectural context."
Graduation Project
This is the design which enable me to get my architecture degree. I concluded my 6 years study with a design which I have no regret on it. Thanks Piotrek, Sylvania, Hawin and Taichiro for their helps in the producation and also all those people who giving me support.
Once i was joking with my friend, Tatsu, saying that" you know what, probably the graduation project will be our last chance to design a building."
But now I know, unfortunately it won't be the last one. :P
My salute to Utzon and his Opera House
12/5/2007 @Sydney Opera House
17/8/2004 @ Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen
"As an architect I believe it is very important to fall in love with the nature of things instead of fighting for form and style." - Utzon
Macau's Northern District - Ilha Verde (青洲鐵皮屋區)
W-"eightwone"LS Cafe, 2003
Being the owner of a cafe is one of my life time goal and its a cafe design back to 2003.
Man Made Natural Disaster 人為的自然災難
Grand Lisboa, Macau
The forgotten portrait of someone forgotten
2003 - ryxx
Revel in Paradise
Congratulations to my friend
Johnny Wong, final year industrial design student in Poly university HK, has won the
Bosendorfer Piano Design Award with his ingenious piano design.
"My concept "Paradise" was inspired by the stair to the heaven, I have designed the form of the main lid with the semantics of a "Stairs to Heaven" which represented my deisgn is not only a grand piano buy also a grand gift which let people to feel pleasurable."
Most importantly, the prize is a round trip to Vienna!!!!! OMG!!
Graduation Exhibition
24/11-26/11. Opening this Friday at 6pm @ Tramsheds Randwick Campus
Graduation Project - work in progress
1 month left before the final presentation of my graduation project and possibility (and hopefully and sadly) the last month of my uni life. Wish me luck.
@vision+@experience, Wentworth Park, SydneyThe underlying trust of the project is to energize and densify the Wentworth Park area with a character and function distinctive in Sydney. This hybrid program ( moving image center and thermal bath house) transcends its private aspect of each of the single program in order to function as part of the public structure of the park and enrich the city space.
The Moving Image Center (@Vision), consisting of cinemas, library, gallery and restaurant, is proposed to add urban function to the park and to acquires new urban quality by the injection of media events. Locating in the northern section of Wenthwork Park, which is closely adjacent to the intersection of two busy roads with incessant traffic, the Moving Image Center confronts with the perpetual urban motion and acts as a sanctuary, providing a sense of ‘time-out’ of the real time experience. The building retreats from the harsh urban environment on one side, but maximizes its opening to the natural parkland on the other side. The facade facing the park reveals the people movement of a multitude of levels. It is an inside out building which sustains a dialogue with the park. The building is lifted off the ground to free the ground from the domination of architecture. The columns that support the building are positioned like a forest grove, creating a dialogue with the arches of the viaduct and the boulevard of trees.
The building also functions as an urban passage by establishing a direct pedestrian linkage between the nearby tram station and the fish market area. A flyover gallery connects the moving image center with the thermal bath house (@Experience), renovated from the abandoned coal bunker that locates at the water front of Blackwattle Bay. With its beautiful timber structure, the bath house portrays the maritime characteristic of the site, retraces the relationship with water and also presents a new relaxation experience to the community.
The curtain is not so certain
Menu design for Kanetanaka
Menu designed for my friend Carlos' Japanese restaurant in Macau.
Free advertisement time:
Kanetanaka - Rua Do Regedon S/N 227-237 Ka Fu Kok
extremely close to the famous "pork chop bread" in Taipa, Macau. There is a chinese temple next to "pork chop bread" and Kanetanaka is just opposite to it. ("official" address in macau is totally useless. Too complicated to remember and too difficult to find)
Graduation Project
I have been studying architecture for 5 and a half year and here comes the conclusion of it. Within these 5 years, I learned and I cried, I struggled and then I survived. I don't believe in "try your best" whatever crap but "push your limit" until I feel tired and wake up the next morning and continue to strive <<< but all these bull shitting doesn't make any sense unless your work can turn other's eyes wide open.
The rest of the year, I will be working on this graduation project and see what my distiny will lie. amen.
em rorrim tee
Above is the testing version of the new amorphism tee. The basic concept is about horror, surreal, the mix and match of classical elements with the tin toy we used to play in childhood. Further theortical explanation will be backup here later. The name "em rorrim" and the logo is designed by Orlane. Pre-order is offered now. Please email me if anyone is interested.
Amorphism Photo Album
147 days in Europe, 497 days after I left this continent. 122 photos are presented. Europe, somewhere we can find forever. Here we go:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62197383@N00/sets/72057594139362402/
41 Goulburn St., Sydney
A fashion designer's showroom and accommodation situates in China Town. An extremely narrow site with the dimension of 3.5m x 12m and is sandwiched by a youth hostel and a Chinese restaurant.
The entire design is driven by the protocol of "sound". It is achieved by the changing experiences of light, volume and materials in the building. The building acts as a musical tower and music will be played in different times of the day in order to enhance the atmosphere of the surrounding. Traditional Chinese window frame is used as a reference to the façade design. Personally I am not very satisfy with the design. But well, sometimes you will have a good time, and unfortunately sometimes, you still have to accept a hard time. : )
Sport Center, Macau
Entrance hall of the sport center. Nothing sophisticated about this design, quick 3D rendering and photoshop. Aims to provide a spacious environment for gathering and exhibition. Not sure this is gonna be build or not. If it is realized, might be able to see it in real in the future.
their. STAIR
Benny and Emily @ Guia Fortress, Macau. 26/12/06
我. am. OR.
11/14/05 Home, Sydney
Timber Multi Storey Apartment Project - Tony Sun+Ryxx (多層式木結構住宅 - 奧林匹克公園 . 雪梨)
BiBiBiBi...SPECIAL REPORT and apologize for the temporary interference of the "7 Performances in Architecture"
SO here I present the new Timber multi storey apartment project designed by Tony and myself. It's the final project of the design studio and we had spent approx. 4 weeks on it. Located near the future town center of Sydney Olympic Park, the timber apartment is right next to the edge of the brickpit. In our master planning, the brick pit edge will be public space facilities with pedestrian walkway, bicycle track, a brick pit overlook and also an overhang brick pit edge cafe.
The apartment is consisted by two blocks and they are connected by a sky garden where a swimming pool is situated. In order to create a pleasant and ecological living environment, the interior layout of different units are carefully orientated and designed for optimizing the solar access and provide natural ventilation. OM system (
http://www.passivedesign.com/index.htm) which normally used for low rise building is testified in this multi storey apartment design.
Two distinct characteristics are expressed in the two blocks. The whole building of block A is suspended by timber columns with truss system which is a significant expression of the the timber structure. The elevated building forms a shelter communal area on the ground floor for the resident and also opens to the outdoor garden next to the brick pit.
The other block is much shorter in its height in order to avoid blocking the solar access of Block A. Only two units are designed on one storey and they are surrounded by a central concrete lift core with amenity facilities. The concrete lift core helps to reduce the impact of poor acoustic performance of timber structure and also have the advantage of creating a more separate and private living environment.The size of the unit is bigger than the other block and each unit has its own gardening space. It's the idea of “houses" in an apartment block.
2nd Performance - Stage Design for "Dream Play" (表演建築之二 - 舞台設計 - "夢之劇")
Daughter: This is
Paradise!1st coal heaver: This is
hell!1st coal heaver: What have we done? We were born poor, and our parents weren't very respectable...and maybe we got arrested a couple of times.
Daughter: Arrested?
1st coal heaver: That's right...The ones who didn't get arrest are sitting up there in the casino, eating eight-course dinner with wine.
Daughter: Why don't people do something to reform things?
Lawyer: Oh they do. But
all reformers end up in prison or the madhouse.Daughter: Who puts them in the madhouse?
Layer:
All the right-think people, all those honorable...
1st coal heaver: And yet we're the foundations of society. Without the coal we deliever everything would die out or ground to a halt: the lights on the streets, in the stores, in the homes, Cold and darkness would descent over everything...
and so we sweat like hell to bring you that black coal...What do you give us in return?2nd coal heaver: Woke up an...? Children enter and screen in terror when they see the heavers.)
1st coal heaver: They scream when they see us! The scream...
2nd coal heaver: Damn it to hell...it's time to bring out the guillotines and chop away the corruption...
1st coal heaver: you said it!
Goddamn it!lawyer (to the daughter): it's all so crazy! but it's not people who are bad...it's..
Daughter: what?
The second project is to design a stage bases on Swedish author August Strindberg (1849-1912)'s "Dream play" (1901). The scene I chose is the dialogue between"daughter" (the daughter of the god) and the coal heaver. Daughter came down to the world from heaven and saw the prosperous cities with beautiful casinos and thought the world is a paradise. However, the coal heavers working underground made her realized that there is things happening in this world which she just didn't notice.
By creating two different worlds (the underground -coal mine and the modern city), the scenery is to convey the idea of unjustness and unfairness of the world). The above ground city with casinos is a completely distort space with transparent buildings and curvy floor slab (to protrait the illusionary psychological condition when money and gambling starts to take over life, the curvy floor also forms a nice media for ballet dancers). The bottom is the massive underworld with heavy machineries.
30/8/04 - 11/9/04 in Lund, Sweden
1st Performance - The STRIKEBACK of the Spaghetti
Back to 30-8-2004 which is the first design studio class in Sweden. Our tutor for this assignment, stage designer Dan Nemeteanu required us to design an object with the theme of "aggressive elememnt attacking a collective structure".
The first thing came to my mind about this project - I want to save money, I don't want to spend any unnecessary expense for busying materials.
The second thing came to my mind - But i don't have any materials at home...except my personal belongings, What i got is a pack of spaghetti I bought in Willy's (a supermarket in Sweden). And probably I can steal some forks, knives and other kitchwares from the corridor..hahaha
So..here is the recipe of my artwork:
- 1 strand of spaghetti (the aggressive element)
- 2 forks (the collective structure. no machinery - must be hand bent in order to get the right shape)
- 1 plastic plate (must be micro wave and oven NOT SUITABLE. so it can be melted and get the deformed result)
- then just glue them together!
The idea behind this piece of work is by portraying the scene when a strand of spagehetti is attacking a group of forks, the reality is twisted, and the ideology of the weak can overcome the strong is portrayed. The sense of force, momentum expressed through this sculpture.
It is the first work I did in Sweden and it had became my personal masterpiece..haha It is not the end of this project and I will try to testify more about this idea in the future.
1st year Anniversary of my Swedish Wonder
The Hives was in Sydney last Friday so Sarah (my corridor mate in Lund,Sweden) and I went to their concert in order to recall our wonderful time as exchange students. Today in history last year, I was in Lund and probably deciding which city I gonna visit next...beside travelling travelling and travelling, I DID do some works over tfere...haha..Therefore, I decided to post my "Architecture as 7 performances" series in the following days..
and here...the "famous"* sketch I did in Dresden (the hometown of Nick the Pink German). Whether you have seen it or not before, this is the newspaper version published on the Macau Daily and hope some of my friends won't have nightmare after seeing this drawing again..haha
*coz this sketch was in my uni studio in Lund, my room, outside my room and presented as a farewell gift and as well as souvenir...people is just bombarded by it..
Friend's Portrait - series 1
I am randomly drawing the portrait of my friends...stays tune..you might be the next one..:)
Project P
A study model I built for a project in Macau. Thanks Piotr for setting the lights and this max master just roughly spent 15 minutes to do it...and this drawing actaully travelled to Poland and back to Sydney...amazing internet..haha.
untitled
Light and Shadow - Brenda Lo
Brenda Lo – 4th year Communication student from the University of Macau. The idea of light and shadow is converted by the fragmental images of different objects. In comparison with my apartment series, Brenda’s photos form another perceptive of the topic “Light and Shadow”. A more implicit expression through materiality and transparency…and also it is interesting to guess what the hell she is actually photographing!? haha
P.S. these works are the first ever post from my friends in Macau.
de ROOM
I was in Spainish architect Ricardo Flores' talk last week, he uses photo stitching very subtly in his site analysis. SSOL also use similar method in his recent photos. Torturing by the urban planning readings, I decided to have some fun..:)
de APARTment (分離. 狀態)
ryxx. camperdown. sydney. 30.09.05
Nu Skool Club in KUDT05
"
Kick Up The Dust" was produced to provide a platform for Australian talents to express their passion for music and dance and to promote a type of 'alternative' performing arts scene not familiar to mainstream Australia. It has evlolved into an iconic community event for musical and dance and aims to break all cultural barriers and stereotypes, aimed at bonding all with one key element: music.
Nu Skool Club
"Kick Up The Dust 05 " was held last Saturday night and I was supporting Tony in Nu Skool Club (a self-proclaimed most aggressive underground hip hop style dance crew which won Melbourne's "Shakedow" competition and Sydney's Groove 2005"). They had a good performance but unfortunately didn't win the contest. More photos: http://www.adifferentcorner.com/image/tid/85/page/4
Surprisingly to realize the vocal of the guest performer of the show - Level28, Yuji aka, is my junior of the design course I was in. As I remember, I was talking and playing soccer with him once or twice and it is just amazing to meet him again on the stage as the vocal of the up and coming band. Great to see people fighting for their goal and achieving it in style. c'mon ryxx... www.level28.net
Colleague's works
Jimmy's "sky house"
Christine's "Experimental House"
Tony's "Peter's House"
Raymond and Peggy's Murphy Mansion
murphy mansion 0.2
Previously designed by Tsuge and Yamagishi, students from Gifu University of Japan, my task is to redesign the house in considering Australian suburban context. This timber house is designed for a retired couple and it is meant to be a prototype of sustainable housing by introducing the Japanese OM system (http://www.passivedesign.com).
The theme is to create a complex, functional, flexible and transitional living spaces and at the same time, enhance the day to day living experience of the occupant (the retired couple). This house is not merely a machine for living. Machine has no life; it is not responsible to love and feeling. 24 hours a day, from sunrise to day's end, from winter to summer, from life to death, every moment in the house is transitional and involve with time. The house is not just a volume, it responses to the light and air change, its response to the concomitancy of the couple, it responses to the joy and happiness of the visiting grandchildren…”the moment of reflection”. The house involve corporeal and perceptual transition, transition between shadow to light, between one level to another, between high and low, compression and expansion. Just like the classical sculpture, the space is not fixed, absolute, or abstract, but it is relative to a movement, a posture, a gesture. Referring to my visit to the Casa de IÁrdiaca in Barcelona, the internal courtyard is not a free green zone, but the exterior environment that participates actively in the specific quality of the interior. The tree emphasizes the vertical relationship between the ground and the sky, and also symbolizes immortality, from one generation to another.
All the above are the guidelines of my design. But eventually, I can completely get rid of all the theoretical interpretations (or bullshiting) of my idea. A beautiful building is not compose by beautiful words. What one see, what one feel is the spatiality and texturality of the building. The essence of the building finds spiritually, not verbally.
一支煙的時間 (cigarette's time)
ryxx@studio_5
Studio 5 (Level 5 of Ballarat House in Surry Hills, Sydney) is a big studio space shares by 10 architectural office. I have been working part time for one of them - cyberLAB design which is the sponsor of my soccer team! I'm participating in a cinema renovation project in Melbourne and a housing project on a challenging site in Sydney (after designing it for 1 week..i called it "the house of stairs"..I'll talk about it when the design is finished...)
Designing houses both in office and Uni but with a distinct different in the design approaches (the design in office is highly practical and the uni project is just a fantasy prototype house) cause me difficulity in separating my role. I have to keep reminding myself what I can do and what I can't do in design and hopefully I won't become mental disorder...but in fact I am for a long time already....:P
Brittany, France by Thibaut
This week I received another set of beauitful photos from my French friend Thibaut. It is Brittany locates in the northwest corner of France and it is also the place where Jean-Pierre Jeunet (the director of Amelie) filmed his latest movie "The very long engagement" / "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" in French. Oh yeah..one of my favouite actress Audrey Tautou is in the movie as well!
Brittany informtion :
http://www.brittanytourism.com/
Chefchaouen, Morocco by Jaap
Very very nice photo of a mountain city calls Chefchaouen in Morocco. It is taken by my Dutch friend Jaap who spent his summer in Southern Spain and also a trip to Morocco.
Chefchaouen -
http://lexicorient.com/morocco/chefchaouen.htm
Asian Grocery in Sydney
In contrast with my last post, it’s about another form of aesthetic. The display window of the Asian grocery is like a kaleidoscope, it is impossible to capture all the things it is displaying in one time. It is always bombarded by the colourful A4 size phone card advertisement and you have to see through the crap between the papers to "peep" at the interior of the store. Or it is full of cheap "made in China" ceramic and all in a sudden you will find two huge cans of fortune cookie sitting next to "Chinese art works". The complexity of the displays completely dissolve the materially of the glass and regenerate another fabric.
When looking at the the Asian grocery, a sense of beauty derives from the chaotic, the messiness and the complexity of the window display. Besides my nostalgic feeling, the unsophisticated setting of those Asian stores here composed an interesting journey for exploration in shopping.
Room with nothing
I am living in a really big house with 8 rooms and only one room is not occupied which is the one in the photo.
The photo is capturing my homemate Taichiro and his friend having lunch in the "room with nothing" in a sunny weekend afternoon.
The Sun is the natural source of light, it penetrates through the sky window and strike on the white wash wall. The carpet becomes the seat for the people and the table for the food and beers. In a 4m x 4m room, a minimalist of living and the purest form of aesthetic is created.
Sustainable Dwelling Studio - UNSW + GIFU Academy of Forest Science and Culture, Japan
In the past 4 weeks I was working in my design studio project which is collaboration between Gifu University in Japan and UNSW. In the beginning of the studio, Japanese students from GIFU had designed four houses based on the OM Ecosystem by OM institute Inc. The 4 houses are to form a prototype group, possibly suitable for building in Australian suburbia.
The above model is the outcome of involves the transformation of the outcomes of the GIFU student's work from a display setting to a prototype suburban cluster.
In a group of 6 - including me, Jimmy, Christine, Hermi, Tony, Carol , we came out with the idea of creating a sustainable suburban environment to improve the condition of the current sprawling, gridlocked and polluted Sydney suburbia. The buildings are located in an appropriate orientation to achieve the best solar access, open communal space and pedestrian + bicycle only inner street are provided. Using MVDRV's Hagen Ypenburg project in Hageneiland as a precedent, the inner street (communal corridor) is connected by the open communal spaces in order to shorten the travel distance from one street to another. "Ideologically" , the inner street will eventually become the main traffic access within the community and the main road will be mainly for public transportation.
Coming Up - The Historic Centre of Macao series - "The Revive of the Sleeping Lotus"
"...自李唐來 世人甚愛牡丹 予獨愛蓮之出淤泥而不染，濯清漣而不妖，中通外直，不蔓不枝，香遠益清，亭亭淨植，可遠觀而不可褻玩焉。..."- 周敦頤
"...People usually were interested in peony since Tong Dynasty.
However, I do like lotus which is clean even being in the muddy pond.
It is so pure, delicate and bright.
The lotus is consistent, continue and coherent deep inside.
It appears to be straight, proper and honest..
It gives a fantastically good smell and people could even sense its excellent smell far away.
It has no unnecessary branches.
It can be only appreciated distantly but not touched blasphemously..." A tale of lotus lover by Joy Duen Yi
Macao - "a city has been living in the shadow of Hong Kong for so long, and its image is tainted by its casinos, Mafia, and porn business, which reveals the darkest sides of humanity. The cityscape is of over-crowdedness, decadence and tiredness." - Gene K.King, Editor-in-Chief of "Urban Design and Planning Magazine"
Lotus - City flower of Macao, symbolizes the undefeated beauty coming from the most horrifying environment.
Macao has been sleeping inside the muddy pond for decades. In the beginning of the 21 century, through the handing over back to the motherland in 1999, the opening up of the casino market and the mainland China's "free-to-go" traveling policy. The pouring in of foreign investment and tourists has once again; given this tiny city an opportunity to awake from its solitude. The "crown" of the UNESCO World Heritage title has further widening the reputation of this city and for people to wipe out the dark side of Macao and catch its charm and characters on another perspective.
Articles will be posted in the coming weeks to preview and discuss the seaborne city of Macao under
the turning point of its time.
New Macau Souvenir Tee for the Hawkers
Sketchbook presents two “designer special souvenir t-shirts” in order to celebrate “The Historic Centre of Macao” becomes one of the UNESCO world heritage. The tee on the left hand side fits one of the basic criteria of a souvenir tee which is – low production cost. Black and white colour scheme (very much ryxx’s style) and simple graphic by playing with the composition of typeface which will definitely reduce the cost and the feasibility of production. A pair of eyes/telescope (depends on what u perceive, I call it “room for imagination) is formed by the enlargement of the letter “o”. (Imply the idea that as a tourist city, Macau has whole lots of interesting aspects for the tourist to explore instead of the“well known” casinos, Mafia, and porn business).
The second criteria of a souvenir tee – the used of the monument/symbol of the city. The Ruins of the St. Paul’s will not doubt be the symbolic representative of Macau. Quote from the Macao World Heritage homepage – “The historic centre of Macao is the product of East-West cultural exchange, constituting the most unique blend of cultural heritage existing the in china’s historic city.” Therefore I come up with a formula (W)est + (E)est = WE. The formula bends into the background picture of the Ruins of St.Paul’s by following the classical proportion of the façade.
The image of Ruins of St.Paul's, to a macao citizen, it seems too familiar or even boring simply because the curiosity and the beauty of it already vanish in our daily life. We walk pass it day after day and it just became part of our life that we almost forgot its exisitence.
If we miss the beauty of our surrounding and our origin. that's a tragedy.
Possibility is always there if we can realise the beauty of it once again. and I believe a simple Macao Souvenir tee can be a well designed item and hopefully next time when you visit Macau, you will able to see some hawkers selling these two t-shirts! : )
MY CITY - The Historic Center of Macao inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List
Report coming soon...with joy!
Macao World Heritage:
http://www.macauheritage.net/mherit/indexE.aspUNESCO World Heritage Center:
http://whc.unesco.org/
Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour
If anyone of you has ever visited a museum with me, for sure you will know how much I am addicted to those classical Greek and Roman sculptures. During my visited to the Louvre Museum last December, I was very impressed by the beauty of
The Psyche ranimee par le basiser de IÁmour by Italian Neoclassical sculptor
Antonio Canova.
This work portrays the final scene in the story of Cupid and Psyche which Cupid spreads his wing to give a kiss to the debilitated Psyche. The collapsing body of Psyche (force down) is lifted by Cupid (force up). Antonio Canova completely dissolved the materiality of the marble and turned it into something anti-gravity, completely weightless through the elegant gestures of the two figures. Through the hand of Canova, the single material used - marble had magical converted to different objects which their substantial reality were truly expressed - the roughness of the rock, the smoothness of the draperies…
I had done a few study sketches of the sculpture even through I dont really enjoy drawing in a public area while people are walking around…=..=
Ryxx in Sydney
wellwell...haven't updated this blog since I came back to sydney...because technically I am a tourist now, staying temporarily with Taichio. Hope everything can settle down next month. okay..back to design!
News from friendster Bulletin Board - Young Fashion talent Chan Dao crossover with H.K. Spectacle master Ting Ho Glasses. Check it out: 2/f, 531 lockhart rd, cwb or lazy shop 433, tst.
JAY'S 55 days around EUROPE
When Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta was still a student, he got the chance to meet the head of Bauhaus, German architect Walter Gropius. Ricardo asked Walter for his advice of what to do and how to keep learning architecture. Walter simply answered “Travel as much as you can.” Since then, traveling has played a great part in his road to become a master architect.
Chasing the footsteps of the master architects, my architecture classmates and friends Jay and Jeff have just started their 55 days around Europe.
http://www.jayjun.com - Their adventure is reported and there is COMPETITION and the Prize is…dun dun dun dun..check it out on the site! Jay! more competitions man!
myths in REALITY
One of the aims of this “sketchbook” is to convert an idea into reality. After launching this log for 2 months, the first real product is producd. 500 tees are produced (limited edition? Haha) However, it’s a bit late now to put the product into the market so the selling price will be pretty cheap (even though they are limited edition…wtf). But anyway, this is a good starting point! and now it's time for the winter collection!
WHY???
I beg your pardon. Normally I don't say much, but I would like to say something today.
A primary school kid was drown in the swimming pool of my apartment today. Unfortunately or fortunately (ironically), he didn't lose his life and his parent didn't lose their son. The fact is probably he will spend the rest of his life lying on the bed due to brain damage.It may seem another "typical" news headline regarding an
unlucky boy. But let me tell you the whole story, it should be like this..."In the first day of summer holiday after exam, a couple of kids are trying to enjoy a nice sunny afternoon in a private swimming pool(but they not the resident of the building). After paying
$10 each to the security guard, ridiculously, they are allowed to get in. Swimming in a pool where the life saver was basically napping or playing hide and seek with his girlfriend....one of the kid
was drown and unfortunately and fortunately...."
This news may not be exposed to the public because the management company of the apartment doesn't want to get into
trouble, the school which the kid studying doesn't want to get into
trouble, his parent, the resident of the apartment, nobody want to get into
trouble...even my parent ask me to shut up because they don't want to get into
trouble..
You may feel weird, but that's Macau.
For Majority of people, keeping silent is the way to survive. They basically don't want to know what's happening around them as long as one is living safely and comfortably
in its own sweet home*...We do have a political system, we somehow regards as a democratic society. However, the fact is that the council is just a gathering place for those merchants and rich dudes. Majority of the citizens
don't care about
politic, reason is (*). The sacred vote is given to those who are rich enough to pay my grandparent a big meal. Futhermore, we dream at the time when the number of casinos will exceed the number of schools, Macau will became a damn successful and rich city which regarded as the Eastern Las Vegas…(does anybody like to live in a desert, physically and mentally?)
Maybe you think I am annoying with bull shitting and grumbling. I just feel sad about the
IGNORANT of people.
APATHETIC kills. I strongly believe the tragedy won''t happen if someone stand out and complain the impropriate things happened around the swimming pool and I hope people can QUESTION, CRITIIZE…we are living in a society, in a world, not in a 30m square space with 3 bedrooms and 1 toilet. Today “he” is just an unfortunate boy but who can tell who gonna be the next unfortunate one… (Touchwood). These may all sounds old-fashion but it's worth while to introspect..
please...
Sometimes I think the miss of Pope John Paul II brought away the last man in the world who
defends the TRUTH. But there are always someone out there
fighting and questioning about life.
http://www.adbusters.org/home/ (thanks kit for introducing me the site)
*As a Macau citizen for 23 yrs and in order to avoid any trouble, the above news is just a story. For any similarity, it’s just coincident.”
Girl School Design, Macau
I am working in this girl school project for the last 2 months and a special feeling emerged during the design process because it is the alma mater of my best friends. I have finished my part in the primarily design stage and the first government submission drawings..so that's it for my internship and I am heading back to Sydney to finish my degree. I achieved a lot in this project and have to thanks P&T group and all the colleagues for giving me this wonderful time.
P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd : http://
www.p-t-group.com
SketchMATE - SSOL
SSOL, a young Sydney base graphic and interactive media designer. He is a rebel, and his character is highly reflected in his works. A unique style is expressed through the powerful contrast of colours, simple line work, strong theoretical backup + the merge of pop, punk, fetish, humour, outrage and ethic. But out of all, his passion towards his profession and the interest of investigating and inputting the Asian/Chinese elements in his design are making his artwork distinct.
SSOL and I am friend since the first day of my arrival in Sydney and the site of the above image was from an abandoned high-rise building in Sydney City which we slipped in without the notice of the security guard...
SSOL -
http://ssol.minisuka.org/ (contains works of relatively less explicit content..haha) check it out.
Gothic Quarter, Barcelona
people are passing by, in a narrow street, an unfamiliar space...along with the Latin music plays by the street artist...the air is dancing, my hand is dancing, its a space where nothing are gonna stop...silent is prohibited and movement is the force of life....30/12/2004 - ryxx, Barcelona.
Urban Park Design in Macau
It's s 3 weeks tender I took park in back to Feb. which was the first month of my internship and also my first project in Macau. An existing park is required to demolish and redesign in order to build a car park underneath. The location of the park is just opposite to the famous Hotel Lisboa and in the future hyper casino district (3 casinos are under construction now around the site, and this is one of the reason why a underground car park is needed) The park is a sanctuary, a meditation space, a space surrounded by the casinos physically but spatially away from it...its a park, but also an island..an island in between the sea of gambling...an island for the parent to dump their children and go to make big money themselves and come back realizing they don't even have enough money to pay for the car parking renting..:P The park is not realized but it raised a very interesting issue for me to further investigate in the future which is the relationship between the green public domain and the resplendent gambling private sector and the change of living pattern of Macau citizen under the big wave of the gambling industry....
Decisive Moment of Life
A new photoblog is launched and I'll keep upload the pictures which I took in my last trip to Euro. Btw, www.photoblog.be is a great society and showcase for photographers to exhibit their works. Good photos will be chosen as Picture of the Day.
My URL - www.photoblog.be/amorphism
New Tee
Its my first time try to draw something using Adobe Illustrator, and its what coming out..: ) The red thing is actually a piece of cloth attachs to the tee.
Drawing of the Week
The Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, dates from the 5th century but has been restored many times over the centuries, it boasts a beautiful twelith-century bell-tower and ist preceded by an interesting eleventh century portico. The church faces the founctain of the same name sculpted by F.Moratti (1700-1721). In Le Corbuiser's Vers Une Architecture, Corbu stated that in comparison with the luxurious Renaissance Catherdal, this church which serve the poor people, expresses the extraordinary dignity of mathematical calcuation and the invincible power of its scale and ratio......(p.138, Vers Une Architecture)
Sino-French Print
In order to celebrate the history and culture of the two countries, a decision was made to hold the “Sino-French culture Year”from 2003 to 2005. I am also trying to contribute my part by designing this print and it will be presented on my coming t-shirt collection.
Piotr's New work
Above is the 3rd prize winner of the concert hall design competition in Poland by my friend Piotr assoicated with architect Andrzej Makowski. Details :
http://www.ronet.pl/czolo/2005.04.25.sala_koncertowa/index.htm P.S. Piotr, can u translate it to English? :P
Amorphism Tee Series 1 - Myth
This collection of design is inspired by my visit to Budapest and other eastern european countires. Those eastern european countries are not as mythical as Greece but in another perspective, myth also associated with psychology, customs, or ideals of society. By breaking down, recomposing the elements like the patterns from the catherdal, the sculptures, etc, the print itself became a fictitious story.
Drawing of the week
The first day of 2005, I was sitting in front of Pantheon and did this drawing. I visited Pantheon 3 times in my 5 days trip in Roma. The building is changable, not the volume, but the atmosphere and the space.
Welcome to Sketchbook
welcome all to this sketcbook! it all about SHAREING IDEAS and by creating this platform I hope a whole lots of ideas can be presented to the world through all of you's participation. The t-shirt above is for my new born fashion brand and hopefully the tees will be released at the end of this month. I will post more of the designs later on and pls keep tuning and give comments! - ry.
