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
