Notes since 2010
Journal
313 posts on green buildings, cities, travel and study. The most relevant come first. Every post keeps its address, so old links still work.
When Buildings Come Alive!
Singapore’s Urban Hornbills
Singapore’s Southern Ridges Park
Inside the Parkroyal on Pickering
Tree House: A Forest Turned on Its SideMost read
Jewel Changi Airport: A Rainforest Under Glass (and How to Get There)Most read
Toyo Ito at NTUMost read
Toyo Ito at Island CityMost read
50 Stunning Houses in Singapore (#001-050)
BIG Tower Nears Completion
Teshima Art Museum
Safdie’s Sky Habitat
3D Printed Block Printing
The New Funan Mall is Amazing!
Forest City Johor
LKC Natural History Museum: A Rock Full of What an Island Lost
Can you 3D Print Furniture?
This Architecture School is Net-zero Energy!
Tower as a Tree
Singapore Indian Heritage Centre
Cesar Pelli’s Yale NUS Campus
Cool Architecture in Singapore
a WOHA Tour of Singapore
Building the Best City on Earth
The World’s Longest Skygarden
10 Breathtaking Gardens in the Sky
A New Generation of Public Housing
Should We Be Building More Infrastructure for Nature?
10 Best Hotels for Architects in Singapore
Interview with Burapa Prommul of TADAH Collaboration in Bangkok
Urban Farming in Singapore
a Mountain in a Greenhouse
A Golden Garden Hotel in Bangkok
Digital Networks & the Future of Architecture
Reclaimed Timber Furniture
SG50: A Year of Architecture
Montessori Studio at IITStudent work
a Tower for the Tropics
Vertical Park School Project Midterm Review
Luxury Living in the Tropics
Towards an Urban Architecture
Boathouse Studio at IITStudent work
Can we Please Start Planting more Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
a Staycation at Parkroyal Collection Pickering
Parametric Pavilion
Metroport SingaporeStudent work
Singapore State Court
New Starchitect Designed Condos on Orchard Road
Hand Drafting at IITStudent work
About my Artwork
A Golden Crystal atop a Historic Building
Guardian Cities Instagram Takeover
Lecture: Moshe Safdie – in Search of new Typologies
Paintings of Singapore
Permeable Plaza + Canopy CourtyardStudent work
A Green Skyscraper Growing
Singapore’s Urban Otters
techno-Art Nouveau Tower
Implausible Futures
Travel Sketches from European Voyages
From Tatooine to the Tropics
Move Prentice?
Vertical Park SchoolStudent work
Superlight Chair Synthesis
Safe Space: Conceptual Chicago Torture Justice Digital Memorial
± Museum
Watercolour Sketches
Morpholio Pinup 2012 Student Competition
Varied Transparency Window
Sustainable Bricks Studio with Studio Gang
10 Amazing Architectural ArtistsMost read
Getting to the Mad Max CarparkMost read
a 90’s Vision of the Future of HousingMost read
Harry Weese’s Prison SkyscraperMost read
Stories of the Tallest Buildings in SingaporeMost read
Urban GatewayMost read
Marina BarrageMost read
Gaudi & CalatravaMost read
Thomas Heatherwick Buildings in SingaporeMost read
ArtScience Museum
Tadao Ando’s 2023 MPavilion
Toyo Ito Apartments in Singapore
An Abandoned Building in Malacca
Inside Apple’s first Floating Store!
Orchard Road: The Architecture of Singapore’s Shopping Street
Constructivism & Modernism: Part 1
Thomas Heatherwick in Hong Kong
Toyo Ito Sports Hall at NTU
Constructivism & Modernism: Part 2
A WOHA Church in Suburban Singapore
Japan’s Architecture Island
Bangkok’s Airport is Badass
Staying in an Old Malacca Shophouse
Cool Architecture in Washington DC
Samsung’s Starchitect Designed Museum
Singapore Prefab…in Melbourne?
Garden of Fine Arts
An Oasis in Urban Singapore
Is this Apple’s Coolest new Store?
David Chipperfield in Seoul
Central Park Sydney
Can we live in Urban Villages?
Mahabodhi Monastery
Singapore’s Zaha-topia
Gardens of the Future
Funenpark Amsterdam
Best Airport on Earth
a Decade of Marina Bay Sands
Helix Bridge
Fondation Cartier Paris
The Best Airport Hotel in the World
Lecture: Toyo Ito in Singapore
What I Learned at Architecture School
Church of the Light
10 Cool Train Stations
Singapore’s Brutalist Heritage
Moving Past Modernism
WOHA Train Stations
Inside the School of the Arts
Constructing with Cardboard
SANAA’S Rolex Centre
Where is OMA’s 2017 MPavilion?
Where is Amanda Levete’s 2015 MPavilion?
A Vertical Extension of a Park in Japan
Why Work as an Architect in Asia?
WOHAbeing Exhibition in Singapore
Singapore’s new National Gallery
Vienna University Campus
Alpine Railway by Zaha Hadid
How to Build in a Park
Zaha Hadid in Seoul
Lecture: Sou Fujimoto in Singapore
RIP Oscar Niemeyer
Population Decline & Culture in Chicago
Interview: Subterranean Singapore
CapitaLand Model Gallery
Bjarke Ingels is Coming to Singapore
A Ride on the Chicago ‘El’
Flora Phantasmagoria
YSL Museum Marrakech
Daniel Libeskind in Hong Kong
Lecture: Parkroyal on Pickering at WAF
a Simple Factory Building
10 Buildings I Love
i Light Marina Bay 2016
Bamboo Womb
The Chicago River Dyed Green!
Using Infrastructure to Improve Urban Environments
Asia Society Hong Kong
Metropol Parasol
an Art Fair in a Modern Green Hotel
Megachurch + Megamall
Cities as International Commodities
Paris’s Flower Tower
A Look at Alila Villas Uluwatu
Seattle Museum of Pop Culture
Grange Residence
Lecture: Bernard Tschumi Lecture at IIT
South Pond Pavilion by Studio Gang
Reflections at Keppel Bay
Heide Museum
Walker Art Center + Gehry Fish
Megashelter Studio Final
Modern Olympic Ruins in Athens
iLight Marina Bay 2014
Cartoon: Alive Architecture
Cool Architecture in Barcelona
Cool Architecture in Montreal
Deconstructivist Follies in Tampines
Space Gallery
A Walk along the High Line
Supertree Light Show
MONA Tasmania
Skyline Mural
Vertical Park Hotel
Cool Architecture in Chicago
Studio Gang Exhibition in Chicago
Cool Architecture in New York City
Bandar Seri Begawan
Caixa Forum Madrid
Green Tramways
Frank Gehry’s Fishes Around the WorldMost read
Getting to Carlo Scarpa’s Brion-Vega CemeteryMost read
Gare do OrienteMost read
Marrakech Airport
Frank Gehry in Berlin
Three Trains on a Building!
ETFE Membrane Architecture
Lasalle College of the Arts
the Largest Dome on Earth
Zumpthor’s Therme Vals
Calatrava’s Stadelhofen Station
Two Glass Courtyards by Norman Foster
Seattle Central Library
Mega-courtyard at Marina Bay
RMIT Architecture
Alvaro Siza’s Lisbon Pavilion
Capitol Theatre
Building on a Building
a Kevin Roche tower turns Morphosis
Where is Glenn Murcutt’s 2019 MPavilion?
Architects in Singapore
Strasbourg Station Metamorphosis
The Most Colourful School in the World?
Amanda Levete in Lisbon
RIP PageOne Bookstore
Cool Architecture in Tokyo
Singapore’s National Museum Expansion
Glenn Murcutt’s Australian Islamic Centre
Mexico City Courtyard Hotel
SANAA School in Essen Germany
Car Vending Machine
Lecture: Tadao Ando in Singapore
Ministere de la Culture Paris
Can an Underpass be Delightful?
Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
a Cute Concrete Factory Building
Living in Marina City
Exhibition Building
Asian Civilisations Museum Addition
Marina City Exhibition
Kinetic Artwork at Changi Airport
A House by Zaha Hadid in Singapore?
Wisma Atria Keeps Changing!
Melbourne Tectonics
Minimetro
Urban Beatbox
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Robin Boyd Foundation
Stanley Tigerman Exhibition
Lecture: Anthony Wood at IIT
Le Corbusier’s La Tourette
A Concrete Exoskeleton in Dubai
University of Chicago Campus
Vertical Park School Project Development
New Amsterdam Pavilion vs the Burnham Pavilion
Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House
Assyafaah Mosque
Dragon Playground Nostalgia
Indian Heritage Centre
Skyscraper for a Supervillain?
Maison de Verre
Igualada Cemetery
Orchard Ion Observatory
Santiago Calatrava’s Twisting Torso
3D Printed AirMesh Pavilion
Federation Square
Zaha Hadid in Hong Kong
Botta’s Chapel at Mount Tamaro
Public Transport in Venice
Chicago NATO Lockdown
Holga Shots of Fall in Chicago
Singapore University of Technology and Design
a Samsung Store by OMA
Marina City Cinemagrams
Notre Dame du Raincy
Progress on La Sagrada Familia
Light Show at ‘The Bean’
Chicago Poetry Foundation
Norman Foster Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur
Unity Temple
Cool Design Objects
Arab Institute Paris
Le Corbusier’s Villa la Roche
Banque Postale Paris
Cooper Union Morphosis
Dream Downtown Hotel NYC
A Look Inside Frank Gehry’s Pritzker Pavilion
Cool Architecture in Cincinnati
Film Photos from European Voyages
Kukje Gallery
Carlo Scarpa in Venice
Cool Architecture in Paris
Parc de la Villette
Film Photos in NYC
Cool Architecture in St. Louis
Tilt Shift Winter in Chicago
Santiago Calatrava’s Train Station in Liege
Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp
Santiago Calatrava in Valencia
Frank Gehry Exhibition at Vitra
Film Photos from European Voyages 2
Holga Shots from NYC and Chicago
Le Corbusier’s City of Chandigarh
LEGO Marina Bay Sands
Pop-up Art at Inland Steel
Chicago Skyline Sunset Timelapse
Porta Fira Towers
Milwaukee Art Museum
Taipei 101
Firminy Vert
Marina Bay Sands
Copic Marker Sketches
New York City!
Richard Rogers Exhibition in Singapore
Controlling the London Eye
Classroom Facade Study
Siege du Parti Comuniste ParisThe Barcelona Pavilion
Norman Foster in London
Richard Rogers Madrid Airport
Singapore Cityscapes
Megashelter Studio Sketches
Punch
Two Saarinen Airports
Farnsworth House
QRchitecture
IIT Open House 2012
Chicago Cinemagrams
Gehry’s Art Museum in Minneapolis
When the rain comes
The Domes on Penang Hill