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Design should be measured
According to the McKinsey Consulting Design Index report
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The Relationship between Architects and Engineers
Left and Right Brain arguments and expectations
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What is Evidence Based Design (EBD)?
Business lesson from my boiler contractor: Evidence is better than Value
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The HomeStyle I Am Dream Of
I “fell in love” with an Asian actress named Zhou Yutong. Not only her excellent acting, nor her personality, but her taste in fashion and interior design, the home decor. I would like to introduce some amazing furniture she picked for her own home. I will also introduce her fashion style in my future blog! Poltrona…
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What would the new restaurant design be like in the post pandemic time?
Weekend dining out has been one of the biggest things I miss from pre-pandemic days. I miss many things about the dining out experience; the anticipation of getting together with friends, trying new dishes, and not having to cook!. As the city slowly allows the restaurants to open, I find myself focussing more on restaurant settings than the menus when…
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What does confidence has to do with Design?
I had an interesting conversation with an architect colleague of mine last year. It was during one of those zoom meetings where we were discussing different projects our offices were working on at the time, and also the difficulties from the pandemic. I don’t remember how we started the conversation about design and designers, but the gist of her…
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The High-Class Vibe Evaluated by The Emptiness of The Space
Pure minimalism has become the favorite design temperament of many designers around the world. They are pure, natural, rustic, and artistic. Belgian designer Vincent Van Duysen is known for his minimalist style. He set up his own office in 1990 and has since flourished in the fields of interior design and architecture. Vincent Van Duysen is good…
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Art Installations in Fashion Shows
In the last blog, I talked about the architectures at Fashion Show. When I was browsing the archives of this year’s fashion shows. I also found a lot of beautiful art installation projects, one of them is from the marvelous AMO, which is the research and design studio of the OMA architecture firm. Louis Vuitton x Axe Majueur Louis…
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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 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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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…