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Downtown Toronto
Went downtown for the first time in this vacation, it’s so inconvenient to get to the vibrant city center now that I’m staying way up North in the suburbs. Had a veal sandwich for lunch at St. Lawrence Market, briefly visited GBC (where I learned to sketch), then sat in a small park across the […]
tagged: architecture, art, canada, career, cartooning, nostalgia, school, sketches, travel
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Hardworking Day
Not too sure what got into me today, but I managed to pull myself together to complete most of my 10+ page Case Study writeup. Will need to take photos and make illustration(s) to beautify the report tomorrow… I’m thankful for a day of focus and hard work.
tagged: architecture, project, school, senv7006, thankful
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Glad to know that the vision of a famous contemporary Architect for a sustainable city is that of high-density and compact form. Wonder what other visionaries have in mind… Slowly gaining perspective and enthusiasm for my dissertation…
tagged: architecture, books, dissertation, project, school
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Dissertation
Decided to change my dissertation topic to one that I felt more interested to investigate, glad that it was approved today. I hope to find out how high-density cities fair in the many facets of sustainability. Lots to reading and writing in the coming months…
tagged: architecture, books, project, school
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Green Building
Read the <<Green Building Award 2010>> earlier, nice to see green buildings gaining momentum. Also skimmed through the BEAM+ documents in the last couple of days in preparation for a workshop starting this weekend, I can see how these certification schemes can suck the life out of architects’ imagination and creativity – luring them to […]
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Borrowed this book when I was researching for my paper, but didn’t have a chance to read it until recently. There is so much potential in introducing vegetation into the urban fabric in the form of green roofs, green walls, balcony plantings, courtyards, etc. Sometimes I ponder about pursuing a career in landscape design to […]
tagged: architecture, books, career, green, plants
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Another Paper Submitted!
Made some minor modifications and formatting tweaks before submitting the paper I completed a few weeks ago. This marks the end of the study term and the beginning of the Christmas & New Year holiday!
tagged: architecture, climate, holiday, school, thankful
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Independent Study – Submitted!
My desk hasn’t been this messy for a long time! I kind of like it this way however, it’s visual proof that I had been busy. Had been locking myself up to work on my independent study for more than a week now, just submitted the paper, RELIEF!!
tagged: architecture, happy, project, school, thankful
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WKCD
Recently all that I can think of are the two assignments that I aim to finish before the end of the month. My sleeps were often interrupted by vivid dreams and were not as revitalizing, a sign of procrastination and stress. So it felt quite refreshing when I made time to see the proposals for […]
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Experienced the drastic switch in density when I moved back from Canada more than a year ago. 40-stories seemed to be the minimum height of residential/commercial towers being erected here in the last decade or so. Living in high-density cities like HK is good in a lot of ways and will inevitably become the norm […]
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