Tien's Architectual and funnies blog

The debut of Ita-Ipad

lawrence1988 — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:04:43 +0000

With the recent release of the Apple Ipad, some people are looking for ways to decorate their Ipad. Here a Japanese Otaku shows off his handiwork turning a large, flat and blank surface into a work of art as shown below.

beautiful and adorable isn’t it? i hope i can get one for my iphone though.

credits to Sankaku Complex for posting this.

My AV project

lawrence1988 — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:58:23 +0000

enjoy the video about cooking from some of my University flat mates. Wishing them thank you for their support and help.

Also do check out my colleague’s project in this website http://syczy.wordpress.com/

How to make a new Windows 7 pc by Nanami Madobe

lawrence1988 — Sun, 09 May 2010 01:54:44 +0000

Anyone feels like wanting to make a new pc? Well the Official Windows 7 mascot Nanami Madobe who is voiced by singer and seiyu artist named Nana Mizuki has appeared in her own anime, appearing and sounding cute encouraging the general public to build their own PC and in a comical way in a shape of a little Windows Media Centre box.

Although undeniably glossy and well regarded, Nanami actually seems to have achieved little footing in comparison to her other previous OS-tans sisters– the amount of fan art of her is minimal, and she is entirely devoid of the kind of tongue-in-cheek references which made previous OS-tans so appealing.

credit goes to Sankaku Complex for the pictures and providing the news.

Singapore Sands SkyPark

lawrence1988 — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:45:17 +0000

The Sands SkyPark is a only one of its kind structure designed by the architect Moshe Safdie in which this structural masterwork is floating on top of the three soaring Marina bay Sands hotel tower 200m in the sky. A preview opening was conducted on the April 25th, 2010 and a grand opening version is on 23rd of June 2010.

This building is longer than the Eiffel tower when it is laid down or the total length of four and a half A380 Jumbo Jets with a notable 12,400 square meters of space and the SkyPark can host up to 3900 people. It is noted that this building is the largest and one of its kind in the world.

The Sands Skypark features a heavenly landscaped garden which houses 250 different types of trees and 650 different types of plants. There are three swimming pools which are placed on this structure with a surreal infinity edge overlooking the city. The building houses several luxurious restaurants and lounges while providing a beautiful and breathtaking view of the city below. Listed are some pictures of the building with thanks placed on the credits below.

The entrance of tower 1

Underneath view

Side of the building

a newspaper fact about the hotel:

lastly two video about the structure:

Credits goes to pictures from three different sources namely: Williamcho flickr account, SkyScrappercity.com and pictures taken by a few people from the same forum who are 130h5, Benyazhee and nsohan with the link and the other link

Manaka Nendoroid

lawrence1988 — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:48:55 +0000

Virtual bride Takane Manaka, is further made famous by the creation of a nendroid version seeing many of its suitors to dig further in their pocket to get her. She is a character for a dating simulation game known as Love Plus which is developed by Konami for the Nintendo Ds console and it came out in September 2009. Currently the game is only available in Japan but there are stories that this game will be available on the Iphone and a released of a Japanese comic about the show. Below is the picture of the character plus pics of the nendroid which will be set to be released in August 2010 by Good Smile Company.

anyone wants it can look into this site : Play Asia and info about the game and its other characters : Wikipedia

Credits to Sanakaku Complex for putting it up and Play Asia for putting the info regards the date to purchase it.

Sleep Box – Mini hotels

lawrence1988 — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:39:39 +0000

Here is an interesting one: Imagine a place to catch some sleep but in a stylish cool box plus it saves area space. Sounds cool right, well here it is, it is called mini hotels which has been slowly becoming the latest trend. Capsule inn exemplifies the bare-essentials hotel rooms for brief use, and similar concepts are popping up at airports, train stations and downtowns around the world, replacing and mimicking the “day rooms” already existing at many airports. This trend has spread to a number of airports including Yotel pods in Gatwick and Heathrow airports in London and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

Unlike their Japanese counterpart which only contains a bed and a tv, the western version are more spacious that comes with a bed, a table, a HD Tv , a wifi a place to stash your luggage and plenty of sockets to charge up your laptop or your mobile phone. Design such as these can provide an excelant comfort for people who wants to take a quick nap in fact better than sleeping on the chair. Sleep Box is designed by a Russian company called Arch Group with the mindset that the design can be installed at train stations and airports, and central public places or cities where accommodation is fully booked. the cubic size is mesuared to be by 2 m x 1,40m x 2,30m to provide execellant comfort. Payment is made at terminals where clients are given an electronic key to accessed the box that can be purchased to sleep for 15 minutes or for as many hours as the person needed.

The fourth Yotel is set to arrive in New York in 2011 with a location opening on 42nd and 10th street boasting 669 luxury rooms and the largest outside terrace in any hotel in New York . Also in Amsterdam, Citizen M has a hotel with 230 mini rooms at Schiphol Airport and a 215-room hotel in Amsterdam City. Citizen M plans to open similar hotels across Europe.

Rumour has it too that Dubai will install 50 to 70 of these sleep boxes in their Dubai Airport. It is hoped that this trnd can spread around the world and travel will be less of a headache especaily people who suffered with delay flights or waiting for long hours for the next one and don’t forget back pack travellers.

credits to the coolhunter

Vitra Haus by Herzog & de Meuron

lawrence1988 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:46:42 +0000

Here is an interesting website. It is called the www.thecoolhunter.com.au. It contains many architecture pictures and many other different categories such as fashion, lifestyle and many more. One of its post caught my eye is the building named Vitra Haus designed by Herzog and de Meuron which is a new home of www.vitra.com home collection. The building concept is based on tho themes which is the theme of a archetypal house and the ever present stacked-houses concept which made the design beautiful fresh and unique.

The building is five stories high and it contains 12 separate houses. The house is geared toward the general public and design-aware consumers who will appreciate the building as well as the Vitra products inside as there is no interior space available for the presentation of the home collection on the vitra campus in weil am rhein, between the border of Switzerland and Germany, the company commissioned the basel-based architects herzog & de meuron in 2006 to design the ‘vitrahaus’.

below are some of the exterior shots of the building:

building at night:

and now the interior of the building:

A youtube video of Jacques Herzog discusses the concept behind the ‘Vitra Haus’

Credits goes to the cool hunter and designboom.com for providing information and pictures.

Black Rock Shooter nendroid

lawrence1988 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:03:29 +0000

Black Rock Shooter is a small OVA anime based off of the Vocaloid song of the same name. Created by the artist HUKE, Black Rock Shooter is about a girl who has a giant cannon on her arm and a flame on her eye. The OVA was released in Japan on the 30th of September 2009, however the real anime series is released in spring 2010. Below is the picture of the main character plus pics of the nendroid which will be set to be released in july 2010 by Good Smile Company.

For those who want it like me, its time to start saving and try and order it.

Credits goes to sankaku complex who provided pics and info

Historical buildings in Ipswich part 1

lawrence1988 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:08:06 +0000

The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus or what was known before in the past as the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1878 to accommodated the chronic overcrowding at Goodna Lunatic Asylum. it was later renamed as the Ipswich Hospital for the Insane in 1910. The buildings are based on the Arts and craft style of design with red brick work and white pointing and upper rough cast walls in which some of the buildings still remains to this day. A good example is shown below which is the administration building that was built in 1915 and the current status :

– Admin Building 1915 and (below) how it still hasn’t change since than

Other buildings that are still remained are the Boiler house which in the old days is used to generate power for the facility and is currently being used as a community centre, building 2 or what was known in the past as Dagmar House which was being used to accommodate the mentally impaired children and an extension was added to the north side of the building in1940. This building too now serve as a lecture hall and a tutorial room for students.

– Dagmar Building 1935 and its current state (below)

– Boiler room

The Kitchen and Laundry building which is now known as building 19 and 21 used to serve as the name says kitchen and laundry. However when the Uni was opened, the building is converted as a cafe. A large patio is constructed on the western side to provide more space. The recreation building or known now as building 14 was the last of the services buildings to be completed in 1916. the building now serves as a lecture hall for students.

- Kitchen and laundry, 1915

- Kitchen and Laundry (otherwise known as building 19 and 21), 1998

Creative Music making from comedy groups III

lawrence1988 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:22:53 +0000

Comedy Court first started of in 1997 by two Malaysians by the name of Indi Nadarajah and Allan Perera. The band further expanded to an additional three people who are Patrick Teoh, Dicky Cheah and Mei Liew. The group specialized in making musical comedy and normal comedy shows in which sometimes refers to current issues happened in Malaysia. Famous shows such as “The Executive SPA” which depicts three business men who are in a spa talking about politics and economics and daily life in a funny way. Other videos that made famous which concern about current events such as the corruption and politic problems that the government is having.

this is regards to the 2008 Malaysian general election