Monthly Archives: November 2009
Change!
Let me mark this day (20091123) as a day for change, a day to rid of an entrenched bad habit in my life. May God help me.
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My Office/Studio (part II)
It’s such a wonderful feeling to see what you have imagined turn into reality! It took me about 2 weeks time to buy and assemble all the furniture for my office/studio following my initial design. I waited no time to move in all my school/work related stuff from my bedroom. Now I can physically isolate […]
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An Artist’s Lifestyle
Read an article on newspaper today about a renowned Chinese artist. Being merely an amateur “artist”, I don’t know who he is and I’ve never even seen his work, but I admire his lifestyle – “…一直不講究吃穿，不過奢華揮霍的生活，一生精力都在繪畫創作上…” That’s inline with how I want my home studio to be – no luxurious furnishings, just a little place […]
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My Office/Studio
My family had our flat completely furnished before moving in about 3 years ago. That is except this one room which I told my parents to leave empty for me to design and furnish. I was not even certain about moving back to HK then. The room was left untouched after all these years just […]
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Nostalgia
Most of the time this week was spent reading a book on the critical history of modern architecture. Writings on architecture could be so difficult to understand sometimes, they really have a vocabulary of its own. Perhaps the most rewarding thing I got out of reading the book is a word I looked up – […]
tagged: architecture, books, canada, life, nostalgia
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Bioclimatic Building Design
It was a bit of a relief after the last lecture of the Bioclimatic Building Design course yesterday. At the same time, I was actually a bit saddened to see our professor go. It was only 2 weeks ago when he came from New Zealand to teach us. At first, I found him to be […]
tagged: architecture, cherish, climate, hk, school
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