drafts
some of you ask what's on the drafting board these days.
a couple of drafts, as always.
coming back from china, I worked on the shanghai headquarters for vanke, our chinese clients for the wuxi project. we presented them a first draft for a low-rise office complex, with large courtyards, based on traditional chinese siheyuan architecture.
while we're waiting for their comments, kobayashisan put me on a competition for a restaurant tower in tokyo. a set of simple but unusual requirements: ten restaurant spaces, each with a ceiling height of 7.5 meters (!), stacked on top of each other. on a relatively small plot, "210 tsubo of land" (210 tatami mats, ca 700 sqm) in akasaka, a downtown business district. apart from the lofty spaces not so unusual for tokyo, where ground floor locations for retail and restaurants and bars are scarce luxury.
feels great to work on a tall and slender building, urban design in three dimensions - four facades, elevator cores, public sky lobbies, tension structures - back to my vertical shopping mall graduation project in a way. zin in wat bijklussen eveline?
yesterday I finished a first study model, by virtue of its core and snake-like structure immediately dubbed by tsushimasan and kobayashisan as the 'yakitori building'. I think we got a concept.
the hong kong based developer initially invited cesar pelli, richard rogers, shigeru ban, and SOM. looks like they want a big name, something fancy. but since there's no fee for this first phase, SOM decided to chicken out, leaving a gap cunning double agent kobayashi managed to fill in. needless to say we're the baby duck in the bunch - even 'underdog' would sound like we've got a chance...
presentation on december 8th. looks like I'll miss rod's second wedding as well (dec4th/church/seoul)... bummer!
right on time for inspiration information, there's a tiny buckminster fuller exhibit in omotesando (second floor).
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meanwhile, in scandinavia, looks like tomo is enjoying her research project - "some of their eyes are really really blue like an advertisement of contact lenses "...
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en er is een vliegtuig van eastern china airlines neergestort in een bevroren meer bij baotou, door de standaard nogal klungelig gesitueerd "in het binnenland van Mongolië, in het noorden van China". in binnenmongolië dus.
a couple of drafts, as always.
coming back from china, I worked on the shanghai headquarters for vanke, our chinese clients for the wuxi project. we presented them a first draft for a low-rise office complex, with large courtyards, based on traditional chinese siheyuan architecture.
while we're waiting for their comments, kobayashisan put me on a competition for a restaurant tower in tokyo. a set of simple but unusual requirements: ten restaurant spaces, each with a ceiling height of 7.5 meters (!), stacked on top of each other. on a relatively small plot, "210 tsubo of land" (210 tatami mats, ca 700 sqm) in akasaka, a downtown business district. apart from the lofty spaces not so unusual for tokyo, where ground floor locations for retail and restaurants and bars are scarce luxury.
feels great to work on a tall and slender building, urban design in three dimensions - four facades, elevator cores, public sky lobbies, tension structures - back to my vertical shopping mall graduation project in a way. zin in wat bijklussen eveline?
yesterday I finished a first study model, by virtue of its core and snake-like structure immediately dubbed by tsushimasan and kobayashisan as the 'yakitori building'. I think we got a concept.
the hong kong based developer initially invited cesar pelli, richard rogers, shigeru ban, and SOM. looks like they want a big name, something fancy. but since there's no fee for this first phase, SOM decided to chicken out, leaving a gap cunning double agent kobayashi managed to fill in. needless to say we're the baby duck in the bunch - even 'underdog' would sound like we've got a chance...
presentation on december 8th. looks like I'll miss rod's second wedding as well (dec4th/church/seoul)... bummer!
right on time for inspiration information, there's a tiny buckminster fuller exhibit in omotesando (second floor).
>>
meanwhile, in scandinavia, looks like tomo is enjoying her research project - "some of their eyes are really really blue like an advertisement of contact lenses "...
>>
en er is een vliegtuig van eastern china airlines neergestort in een bevroren meer bij baotou, door de standaard nogal klungelig gesitueerd "in het binnenland van Mongolië, in het noorden van China". in binnenmongolië dus.
posted by Jan at 18:28
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