Concrete — in your home?
Unpopular opinion: concrete is, in fact, beautiful! To better understand how my opinion of concrete fits into the mainstream (my husband thinks I’m “mad”), a couple of weeks ago, I […]
Unpopular opinion: concrete is, in fact, beautiful! To better understand how my opinion of concrete fits into the mainstream (my husband thinks I’m “mad”), a couple of weeks ago, I […]
Just last week our family, together with family friends, spent a few days in the UAE, or more precisely in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Both cities are showcases of a […]
On a recent visit to Boston, we took the opportunity to explore the countryside. Initially, the idea was to see the colourful foliage around Walden pond. The lake recently featured […]
Last weekend my husband and I had been invited to Affalterbach to celebrate a friend’s birthday — a dreamy village close to Stuttgart. With still a couple of hours left […]
The natural world and the built form have traditionally been at odds, the latter being developed to ultimately act as a protective barrier between us and our environment. Today, however, […]
Part 1 of the series “The Function of Everyday Things” What exactly is the function of a chair? On the surface, it seems a trivial question. The obvious answer is […]
The Venturi and Scott Brown couple, two architects united by their dissatisfaction with modernism and their search for something new, may be rightly heralded as the founders of postmodernism. Their […]
Recently my mother and I attended a talk by Christo in an open lecture at Hong Kong University. It was inspiring to hear how, as well as his successes, this […]
It was my first time in Copenhagen. I was looking forward to the trip but must admit, I was unsure of what to expect. Would it be similar to Stockholm or […]
Fresh from the Easter holidays, which I spent marveling at beautiful architecture, I wanted to continue my series on rendering with Copic markers with this post rendering… concrete. It may seem like a […]