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interface II

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

As a country progresses with time, the city it harbours changes and evolves along. Almost like a living organism itself, every city adapts and goes through a metamorphosis of sort in tandem to the environment it is subjected to.

But it might be almost lamentable that the state of architecture, and especially so in Singapore, has been quite lacking in pace to the nation's voyage of advancement.

It doesn't take much to notice this.

Architecture here has traditionally favoured function over form, and continues to be so. The aesthetical aspect is often not given enough attention, a typical indication of cities where bureaucracy holds much power.

The Europeans have great architecture to boast, the Americans their monumental skyscrapers. All I am trying to say is, what do we Singaporeans say when we see our HDB flats and CBD in say, 50 years' time? Those with enduring designs are easily countable, meaning we probably will not see more buildings of Fullerton or Supreme Court nature in the distant future.

The crux ultimately remains unanswered - what is the defining architecture of our time?

Functional splendor. That is the direction we should be headed, and it takes bold governance to see that it can be achieved.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 6:23 AM

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