October 29, 2007

reading: kerstin finger - tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes

October 22, 2007

daniel's secret town

Walking through town last week, Daniel took me into another one of the city's abandoned construction sites. Adelaide has an...

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August 19, 2007

sunset on hindley st

Maybe a week ago, leaving the mall and about to walk along Hindley St towards something and being stopped by...

April 29, 2007

it returns to wilderness

Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I've lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to...

March 11, 2007

lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …

A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now...

February 26, 2007

when in doubt … cliché and generalise

Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning's blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary...

December 14, 2006

burnley bouldering overpass

A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate...

degraves st subway alley

Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs...

November 13, 2006

leaving adelaide again

One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies...

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July 28, 2006

创意广州十三行 creative canton

It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for...

July 7, 2006

三元里 san yuan li in new york

Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely...

May 26, 2006

collapsing old buildings

There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking...

April 17, 2006

supernaut is lazy (but can read...)

I'd probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut...

March 22, 2006

park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang

A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not...

March 14, 2006

somewhere in asia...

When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, "Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle", coz I'm...

February 25, 2006

fengdu's erased horizon

Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot - in an almost diametrically opposite way - of the photography...

October 13, 2005

Traditional Architecture in modern Asia

I'm not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick...

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October 12, 2005

origami

Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia's only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at...

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October 2, 2005

architecture for dictators

Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the...

January 19, 2005

architecture of density

The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the...

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December 23, 2004

give me toilet architecture or give me death

Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for...

November 16, 2004

'second-tier city' culture

Chongqing recently expanded its boundaries to become the largest municipality in the world with a population of some 20 million...

guangzhou's tallest building

In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls...

November 13, 2004

城市謠言 - 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns

Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA...

November 5, 2004

architecture in beijing

The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini...

October 22, 2004

东山小区 dong shan town

Around 5pm it's impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow...

October 21, 2004

liwan hutong

China is keeping me busy. I'm teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a...

September 23, 2004

the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou

News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic...

September 22, 2004

taikang art street

With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist's villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental...

September 19, 2004

中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale - Beijing

As Beijing is swathed in a landscape of construction and demolition, the 中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale - Beijing opens today...

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September 12, 2004

2030 pearl river mega-city

By 2030, in a study reported on in the HK Standard, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong will have merged into...

September 10, 2004

territories at para/site

Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based...

September 9, 2004

華山 huashan - when art becomes industry

What's in a name? When it comes to art, there's a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and...

September 2, 2004

xu yong at 798 space

Xu Yong, who runs 798 Space in the Dashanzi arts district in Beijing, where the recent 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi International Arts...

August 23, 2004

ximending

The Taipei Times had a piece on Ximending, which sounds like either the kind of place I'd want to live...

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August 21, 2004

baiyun airport opens

The new 白云飞机场 Baiyun International Airport opened recently, which I'm looking forward to flying in to and schlepping around in...

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July 9, 2004

colour pollution

Hanging out on Er Sha Dao in the evening, the new apartment blocks on both sides of the river which...

June 29, 2004

shanghai diaspora

A number of attempts to save the hutong in big cities from noddy-town toilet architecture developments, and to preserve something...

June 12, 2004

小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished

The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas...

June 8, 2004

Baiyun airport

I like a good airport, especially because I don't have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where...

May 23, 2004

Box of Changes

Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart...

May 20, 2004

宋庄画家村画廊 10 years of Songzhuang Artist Village Gallery

Ten years ago Renzhuang village, a spit from the center of Beijing in the Tongzhou district, became the home of...

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May 9, 2004

Architecture in Beijing

The future of Beijing architecture is roads, motorways, expressways, and making more and bigger urban streets. Xinhuanet wrote about the...

April 29, 2004

小谷围 Xiaoguwei: Development 1 Art 0

The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects...