Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …
October 16, 2010 – 8:01 am
uferhallen at night
Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …
October 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
July 25, 2010 – 9:32 am
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
June 3, 2010 – 1:18 am
there is a chimney on the other side…
… but not so much sun this spring. A view from my window in Wedding, over the BVG workshops, now …
May 6, 2010 – 7:37 am
brussels train
A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …
April 18, 2010 – 12:14 pm
Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten
Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …
April 9, 2010 – 1:50 pm
london – a proof
Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …
November 23, 2009 – 3:04 am
lx3 v2.1 1:1
While I suffer with what I shall call VogelschweinSARSgrippe, and ponder whether I can arrive in as many cities as …
October 11, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
October 10, 2009 – 2:45 am
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
September 25, 2009 – 2:27 pm
riding home at night
Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …
September 21, 2009 – 10:30 am
uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow
Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …
September 5, 2009 – 2:55 am
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
August 28, 2009 – 12:57 pm
night and trees
I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …
August 19, 2009 – 12:42 pm
brauerei fast fertig
Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …
August 12, 2009 – 1:00 pm
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
August 8, 2009 – 11:48 am
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
July 25, 2009 – 6:00 am
nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet
Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …
July 15, 2009 – 1:32 pm
a plant a brewery
Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …
July 14, 2009 – 10:53 am
brauerei, alex im hintergrund
More playing with my camera. I wondered why shooting at f/4 was leaving the background in wide-angle shots a bit …
December 14, 2006 – 7:41 pm
degraves st subway alley
Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs …
July 28, 2006 – 2:46 pm
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 – 6:57 pm
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 – 4:12 am
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
March 14, 2006 – 9:48 pm
somewhere in asia…
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …
December 1, 2005 – 8:09 pm
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
October 26, 2005 – 6:17 pm
shanghai does contemporary art
Contemporary art in China is really mostly a scene in Beijing around 798 Factory, despite other cities having something going …
October 13, 2005 – 4:02 am
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 …
October 12, 2005 – 3:02 am
origami
Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …
October 2, 2005 – 1:44 am
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 – 3:32 pm
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 …
December 23, 2004 – 6:26 pm
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 – 12:42 pm
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 – 6:56 pm
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 – 1:58 pm
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 – 9:37 pm
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 – 5:09 pm
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 – 10:37 pm
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 – 4:41 pm
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 – 11:26 pm
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, …
September 12, 2004 – 8:44 pm
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 – 10:11 pm
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 – 11:24 pm
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 – 12:36 am
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 – 8:38 pm
ximending
The Taipei Times had a piece on Ximending, which sounds like either the kind of place I’d want to live …
July 9, 2004 – 12:19 am
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 – 10:38 pm
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 – 4:42 pm
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 7, 2004 – 2:05 pm
too many buildings not enough subways
There’s nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it’s down near Shamian Island or on Er …
May 23, 2004 – 8:50 pm
Box of Changes
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart …
May 9, 2004 – 5:53 pm
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 – 4:56 pm
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, …