Bangkok’s lost heritage

Driving last week end through Bangkok old China town roads, I couldn’t  help wonder like so many other times, why is nothing being done to preserve the old traditional buildings in this area? It’s heart breaking, some real gems are left to complete disrepair and neglect! I understand that restoration and preservation of traditional buildings can be a very expensive …

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WaterWorld

For Centuries human settlements developed and expanded  near waterfronts. When roads were primitive, rivers were the highways for people and goods transportation.  No wonder most of the world greatest cities are built along major rivers and seashores. Bangkok, London, Paris, Venice, like many others waterfront cities have developed over the centuries to become major metropolitan thanks to their access to …

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Recycling; designers and consumers

Environmentally Friendly, Sustainability, Green, Eco-friendly, eco-green, are all words and philosophies that designers are using to help “save the environment” by using and implementing ideas in their projects, architectural, interior, fashion, industrial or product wise. It is our social and moral obligation to help conserve and  preserve the environment around us. How a designer creates something helps dictates how the …

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The usual puzzle: Where to eat?

Many of my recent articles have been about the use of recycled materials and the importance of renewable ones. These greatly factor into our daily lives as it is something that we can touch and feel. I’ve had the opportunity these last  few weeks to meet some young students interested in design shadowing me at work.  While discussing with them, …

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Bangkok lost heritage, what’s next?

Well as promised at my last article, I did some research, not anything in great depth but enough to see what strategies and financing models have been used to salvage architectural heritage in various places across the world. The first one I came across and which has a record of successful applications is; Tax Increment Financing (TIF), the most widely …

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WATCH OUT! (for signs)

GO. STOP. RESTROOM. LIFT. STAIRS. etc …. These days we seems to be surrounded by signs, they even have signs that tell you where to find another sign, no kidding!. From the streets to inside buildings, you won’t miss them, they are SOO important and SOO many they hide the place you are trying to find. So, Why do we …

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Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre: What’s all the fuss about the Seating Sightline?

“Architect Zaha Hadid has denied her design for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre is to blame for the 600 tickets sold to Olympic spectators unaware they’ll have a restricted view of the top diving events.  “The brief for the building from LOCOG was to provide 5000 spectator seats with uninterrupted views of the 10m diving platform events,” says a statement …

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