Architecture
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14 December: Los Angeles to Mexico City
Our Impression of Mexico Megacity When descending to Mexico City, a land at 2500m above sea level, we saw the city light from above, which was very very very beautiful. Too bad we didn’t have camera ready. We won’t be…
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13 December: Singapore to Manila to Los Angeles
Ready Everything was set by 10 am and we called taxi to go to the airport. Noe was really excited about going and he kept saying “wee wee wee”, which means, airplane (and cars, and boats). In Changi The check…
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Walkable Cities?
In the past, people walk to get to their destinations. Currently, “walking” is a destination by itself. People would drive to a place, park their car, and then they would walk. Are current “walkable cities” for real? Are there cities…
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Democratic Architecture?
Great architects are not democratic, they’re authoritarian. They exert themselves in a such insensitive way to their surrounding Perhaps that’s why Chandigarh failed, Brasilia failed, and Koolhaas’s Seattle Public Library also doesn’t do very well. Not to forget the EMP…
