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Jun
30
Waterfront Design, a Three Cities Comparison
Filed Under Revitalization, architect journey, urban design | 6 Comments
Once a back area, water ways are no longer looked at being something to be hidden for. This is a good way to promote hygene and also to observe flood before it comes. During the last decades, waterfront redesign has been in trend to change a facce of a city. The pictures was taken from 3 different cities (left-right above-right down; Yogya, Shanghai, Paris), although the quality of the design is not comparable, the attention and message are clear, waterfront is exactly ‘a front’ piece.
May
24
Retracing My Early Steps in Ratmakan, Yogyakarta
Filed Under architect journey, architecture, urban design | 5 Comments
I came home to the smell of half burnt coal, traditional incense, and the hide out between alleys of the busy street of Yogya. Many memories hit realities that during these years while I was a way venturing the world, things had certainly also changed there. There’s a different beauty you will find here in contrast with
Apr
18
Venetian Canals; Veins of a City
Filed Under architect journey, architecture, public space, urban design | 6 Comments
Among all touristy places in
Apr
18
Bonn’s Marketplace
Filed Under architect journey, architecture, public space, urban design | 6 Comments
When thinking about an impact of a place that is of a city scale, with many functions and means of usage, we think about an urban space. Particularly in this 2000 year-old city; Bonn, there is the need of the whole urban scale to congregate at one point and through tradition; Germans have been used to using Marktplatz as an urban space even for political reasons.
The lay out of the square is quite similar in any German town, in front of the old Rathaus (City Hall), an opening of square fenced by commercial buildings, such as shops, cafes, and restaurants, even in some cases hotels completed with some kind of statue as a mark for the city. Read more
Apr
18
The misty and beautiful sunset approached my horizons, here by the side of
