We arrived late at night in Shenzhen’s Yantian area, which is along the beach facing Kowloon (Hong Kong’s “new territories”). This is where our client has its headquarters (Vanke Center).
Looking out from our hotel in this resort area were several huge colorful dancing figures placed on the beach with… Read more…
Despite how exhausting it becomes, I enjoy traveling to China. I visited seven times this year, and am now finishing my first trip of 2012. Our clients there continue to give us incredible opportunities for which we are extremely grateful. (See one of our completed projects–Fish in the Garden… Read more…
I’m not one to take pictures of my meals, but, after several sittings during which the food didn’t end up treating me well, I have to share this impressive meal I had with some colleagues in Shanghai.
The tofu topped with scallops and a bit of sauce was beautiful and… Read more…
Outside Hong Kong, Shanghai is arguably the center of Western culture in China.
You can see in these shots that Bohemia has finally made its way over the Great Wall, both in the eclectic Western styles of the shops and the disarray of the surrounding neighborhood.
The Bund area of Shanghai is my absolute favorite. It lies along the river, occupying the land formerly reserved for foreign customs houses and other European missions. Historically, however, it was primarily British.
A modern Peninsula Hotel was built a few years ago, yet it has a sophisticated art deco… Read more…
Maurizio Cattelan’s exihbit at the Guggenheim was an amazing hanging exhibit in the atrium. It is the first time that his work is shown together: Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite, a hanging donkey, Hitler as a child kneeling, and other commentaries on the current state of affairs.… Read more…
I traveled last weekend to New York, where I went to see the World Trade Center Memorial.
The WTC memorial is well done and very powerful. Michael Arad, a graduate of the Georgia Tech’s architecture program, along with Peer Talker, have done a great job designing the landscape, which is… Read more…
Like Atlanta for the 1996 Centennial Olympics, Guangzhou aimed to to show its progressive face to the rest of the world during last year’s Asian Games in the city. Guangzhou hired Zaha Hadid to dream and actually build one of her architectural impossibilities.
Just as Corbusier and Wright… Read more…
I last visited Bisbee, Arizona 15 years ago with my family. Then, it was almost empty. In the 1970s all of the copper and gold mines closed and the houses were available for $250. I assume hippies came there in the 70s and began to resettle away from the world. It’s… Read more…
Frank Lloyd Wright had a vision for the Arizona State capitol building, topped by a wonderful spire. It was never realized as a building, but, in the past few years, the city of Scottsdale built this wonderful spire in Wright’s honor, along with an associated shaded plaza.
The plaza… Read more…