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Building crush: Palazzo Di Giustizia
I wouldn’t trade meeting this modernist marvel for all the medieval buildings we saw on our road trip from Vicenza to Firenze and back to Milan. If the weather had been nicer, and had I been able to walk around … Continue reading
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Tagged Leonardo Ricci, Palagiustizia
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Does your house have a pedigree? In Singapore, it’s very rare for us to have the honor of photographing a house with a prestigious provenance. Unlike in the Philippines, where I was spoilt for choice when I wrote for Bluprint … Continue reading
Oh my, Gehry
The Hotel Marques de Riscal in Spain: …and this is why I don’t even think about doing architecture. If you can’t be this brilliant, either work for him (or those of his caliber), or write his praises. So I write … Continue reading
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At home in a mall An uncalled-for memory was called up by two things I read in the Straits Times yesterday and today: first, some readers had complained about the bright lights of Singapore’s three newest malls, the Ion Orchard, … Continue reading
Wayfinding
What will happen to the image of the city* when all the buildings are landmarks and there are no fabric buildings anymore? *Kevin Lynch’s The Image of a City
Dish about housing
What makes a house liveable? Where I grew up, many refuse to consider a non-landed residence a house. No land, no way. This mentality is one of the biggest reasons mass housing is a failure in our 7,107 islands (There … Continue reading
