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Why design is not valued but the execution is
“I have already selected a very good and reputable contractor for building my new house, I JUST need to have someone to design my house WHAT!!! It is a recent phone conversation I had with a potential(?) client who is looking for an architect to design his custom house. He got my contact information from…
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What would happen to those empty office buildings?
One of the most debated stories coming out of this pandemic is our relationship to work, more accurately with the location of work with different approaches: WFH model (Work from Home), hybrid model, back to work model. Some people (employees ) are favoring the WFH, some (employers) are not. The most recent WFH disagreement story I read is Apple’s mandated office…
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How to take a good architecture photo?
Even though I do not belong to AEC Industry, as I was an architecture student, I believe all the people who love buildings would love to take photos of buildings. In this blog, I will teach you how to take good architecture photos (real photographing skills, tips, and techniques), with our mobile phones. We do…
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3 Must-Know Furniture & Home Décor Brands If You Are Design/Architecture Student
After finishing my blog The 3 New Trends, Modern and Fun Furniture & Home Décor Brands You Should Know, I can not stop myself from searching for more amazing designs. I found 3 more brands that have more sense of architecture. I have seen them often throughout my university years. I wish I can have the…
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Biophilic Design
One of the perks(?) of working these days has been randomly connecting with colleagues who I have not kept in touch with for a long time. A few weeks ago, I reconnected with a colleague who was one of the panellists for the same presentation I was part of, Grey to Green Conference in 2019. Just seeing…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because of the recent events, when I saw the CAFUBE Funeral Home by LOKOMOTIV.archs office, it took more time for me to think about what the architect wants to say to the deceased and how visitors would see from this building. In the search for the intrinsic beauty of the architectural object, connubial of pure and…
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Why energy efficiency houses have to be unattractive?
There is the famous phrase we designers know well: Form vs. Function It is never the Form AND Function, but they are always in an adversarial relationship with the VS. I see this adversary relationship play well in the architecture field, especially when it comes to aesthetics in design. It is given that one (form) cannot…
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Remembering old phone call I had with a client
In the age of COVID-19, ALL of us are going through unfamiliar and stressful times…whether the lining up to get into the grocery store, trying to avoid a person while pretending that we are not, getting a doctor’s appointment through a video call (ok that was a positive one)…etc. There have been many weird and unfamiliar things/acts we had to learn…
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Simple and little things Make my home special
I believe flower has a special magic. When I was down, I would like to buy a bundle of flowers. My mood would turn bright when I saw them. This article is not about flowers, but the vases which carry the flowers. I believe the unique flower holders would give home special scenery. When I searched…
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Canadian Architect Magazine publishes Networking in Pandemic story written by Onah Jung
What has been the single biggest adjustment you had to make as a professional during this Pandemic? It is her account of serving on the architecture board (before and during the Pandemic ) and making adjustments along the way as an individual as well as a group, AIA Canada Society. Here is her story, Redesigning a networking…
