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Let our thoughts be alike. Consciousness and temptations be one. Let’s utilize it optimally. A couple of years ago I was watching a movie “Fifth Element” functioning on Vaastu theory simulating 3-D city matrix flashing an idea which can change the way we live. Since in this never-ending maze of fashion. We are lost as to how to think about a real city matrix, which solves most of our problems.
We continue in strive of creating a perfect city matrix.
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Our last day in Beijing was the day of my first encounter with the magic number of Chinese contemporary art. 798 Art District is the happening venue of Chinese art. With only a piece of paper scribled of the address and my limited Mandarin, we arrived at a cold mid day. The cold seeped through our thin jackets and the luggage that we carried did not help us to warm our shivering bodies.
The site was built as a complex of factories during the fifties and designed by engineers …
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The first of these relationships was without doubt one of direct connection. If fire was red, then red was a quality of fire, and this was recognized by primitive people the world over.
The second type of color symbolism appears to depend not on direct connection but on association of ideas. For instance, black has often been connected in men’s minds with despair and death.
Finally, in a third type of symbolism the relation between the color and the idea is difficult
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Edited from Ariyanti (2008): “Themed Town, Thames Town” an unpublished article for Campus of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai
It was a cloudy Saturday and our group of formerly 14 people has been reduced to 8 from the morning visit to Anting New Town. Exhausted, we found out that Thames Town is really far out from to the other direction, the only way to get there was with a cab, since our limited Chinese, we asked our friend to instruct the taxi driver how to get there. After …
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NEMO, the Science Center in The Netherlands is where a visitor may find world of science and technology in a playful and entertaining way. It located just after the IJ Tunnel from the south to North, or in this case was found on the cruise on the water ways in Amsterdam. It is now green clad copper has made the boat-like green building outstandingly from its surrounding.
