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When begins and when ends the responsibility for our life?

Is a new born child responsible for the parents it has chosen?

Why does it need parents, who may feel responsible for it?

Are we born with an karmic imprint?

Do we follow our lifepath by destiny, accident or by our own responsibility?

Is the society responsible for our misery?

You are part of family, a society, a nation?

you are responsible too!

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"Partnering with I. M. Pei Architect, Pei Partnership Architects is currently designing the 15,000-square-meter Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, China. The museum will house the rich treasures of the 2,500-year-old city, and will complement both the artifacts and Suzhou itself with its traditionally inspired yet contemporary architecture. The museum will be equipped with 7,000 square meters of exhibition galleries, a 200-seat auditorium, a museum shop, administrative and curatorial offices, a research library & study center and extensive art storage facilities and several Chinese gardens. "

Pei Partnership Architects

 

 

Simple, but mind triggering...Allan Wexler

http://www.allanwexlerstudio.com/architecture/04architetcure.html

 

Shigeru Ban, who is renowned for creating architecture using raw materials, has produced a new creation in Chelsea, Manhattan. Added to some existing blocks in the surrounding, the architect has designed houses with a matel shutter system which an operation exterior feature.

 

Renderings are unveiled recently in The New York Times. The Metal Shutter Houses are scheduled for completion in fall 2008. You may also visit http://www.metalshutterhouses.com for more information. 

We've added in a "browse art" button in our portal page, so that users can now browse through the artworks done by our members! Please leave us a message here for any suggestions or comments.

 

This is not an old news about the iPhone!

 

Apple has recently announced a series of new products which includes this "iPod touch".

It is basically an iPhone without the phone, while features like WiFi web browsing and multi-touch are kept. I just can't wait to get one of these awsome looking gadgets!

 

By Chom

The new product from Google, "GoogleSky".

 

The Google has launched a service called Sky that lets you explore more than 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies within the desktop in your bedroom.

 

With the contributions from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Sky system contains more than 1 million images, forming a 3-Dimensional view of all the constellations viewable from earth.

 

Enjoy the screenshots!

 

 

Netvigating through stars

 

Quickly advancing technology has created unlimited possibility for forms and shapes. Citibloc.com has recently posted a list of ten interesting tall building projects around the world. Check it out now!

 

 

What is the latest fashion for mobile phone geeks? Look at this piece of design done by a diehard Motorola Fan then you would know. Maybe it is one of the most straightforward solutions to combine fashion and technology design together. I'm totally speechless.

 

Source: TechEBlog

 

Who is the hottest person in architecture in this week?

David Chipperfield? Zaha Hadid? Norman Foster?

All wrong.

It is a person called Annie Choi who is not even an architect, but one can't understand more about the field of architecture. Below is an open letter written to architects by Annie, enjoy it architects.

 

"Once, a long time ago in the days of yore, I had a friend who was studying architecture to become, presumably, an architect.

This friend introduced me to other friends, who were also studying architecture. Then these friends had other friends who were architects - real architects doing real architecture like designing luxury condos that look a lot like glass dildos. And these real architects knew other real architects and now the only people I know are architects. And they all design glass dildos that I will never work or live in and serve only to obstruct my view of New Jersey.

 

Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about:

 

* burritos
* hedgehogs
* coffee

 

As you can see, architecture is not on the list. I believe that architecture falls somewhere between toenail fungus and invasive colonoscopy in the list of things that interest me.

 

Perhaps if you didn¡¦t talk about it so much, I would be more interested. When you point to a glass cylinder and say proudly, hey my office designed that, I giggle and say it looks like a bong. You turn your head in disgust and shame. You think, obviously she does not understand. What does she know? She is just a writer. She is no architect. She respects vowels, not glass cocks. And then you say now I am designing a lifestyle center, and I ask what is that, and you say it is a place that offers goods and services and retail opportunities and I say you mean like a mall and you say no. It is a lifestyle center. I say it sounds like a mall. I am from the Valley, bitch. I know malls.

 

Architects, I will not lie, you confuse me. You work sixty, eighty hours a week and yet you are always poor. Why aren¡¦t you buying me a drink? Where is your bounty of riches? Maybe you spent it on merlot. Maybe you spent it on hookers and blow. I cannot be sure. It is a mystery. I will leave that to the scientists to figure out.

 

Architects love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven¡¦t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you¡¦ve worked and how much you¡¦ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets **** done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas.

 

Life is hard for me, please understand. Architects are an important part of my existence. They call me at eleven at night and say they just got off work, am I hungry? Listen, it is practically midnight. I ate hours ago. So long ago that, in fact, I am hungry again. So yes, I will go. Then I will go and there will be other architects talking about AutoCAD shortcuts and something about electric panels and can you believe that is all I did today, what a drag. I look around the table at the poor, tired, and hungry, and think to myself, I have but only one bullet left in the gun. Who will I choose?

 

I have a friend who is a doctor. He gives me drugs. I enjoy them. I have a friend who is a lawyer. He helped me sue my landlord. My architect friends have given me nothing. No drugs, no medical advice, and they don¡¦t know how to spell subpoena. One architect friend figured out that my apartment was one hundred and eighty seven square feet. That was nice. Thanks for that.

 

I suppose one could ask what someone like me brings to architects like yourselves. I bring cheer. I yell at architects when they start talking about architecture. I force them to discuss far more interesting topics, like turkey eggs. Why do we eat chicken eggs, but not turkey eggs? They are bigger. And people really like turkey. See? I am not afraid to ask the tough questions.

 

So, dear architects, I will stick around, for only a little while. I hope that one day some of you will become doctors and lawyers or will figure out my taxes. And we will laugh at the days when you spent the entire evening talking about some European you¡¦ve never met who designed a building you will never see because you are too busy working on something that will never get built. But even if that day doesn¡¦t arrive, give me a call anyway, I am free.

 

Yours truly,
Annie Choi"

Was browsing through Design Verb when I found this piece of wonderful architecture installation.

 

The old house was to be demolished in a few months. Before the house was demolished, the artists created a diverging tunnel piercing through the wooden old house. I was totally stunned by the creativity.... hmm or craziness of the artists which turns the ordinary house into such an incredible artwork.

 

It has been quite a while since it was demolished, yet it is still so excited every time you look at the pictures..

Time Magazine is picking top 50 sites of 2007, you may also wanna take part in the poll and vote for your favourite!

The famous  U.S. photographic artist Spencer Tunick, who has previously staged mass nude photo shots in a number of countries,  is looking for hundreds of volunteers to take part in the upcoming events organized by Greenpeace. Volunteers would strip naked on a shrinking glacier for photo shots, which would alarm about global warming.

 

 

If you are interested in it, sign up today at Greenpeace!

 

"The Swiss shoot, to take place the weekend of August 18-19, is meant "to symbolize the vulnerability of glaciers and the fragility of the human body," Greenpeace said in a statement released on Wednesday."Reuters

 

"It's very freeing for some people, and they often say they feel sensual. But some people are just uncomfortable. You can tell the uncomfortable ones because they often laugh or make a joke." Spencer Tunick quote