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ResoNet at Luminale Biennale, Frankfurt

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27 February, 2010 in Latest_Articles and Light Delivery_光的递送. 2 Comments

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Note: The ResoNet | Bloom will be a new design different from ResoNet | FRED. For final images of installation and press release information, please contact info@reso-net.org . Meantime if you would like to join the event and get the latest update, please join our facebook on
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ResoNet | Bloom

Designed by: Mark Tynan & William Chen

ResoNet awakens from a dormant sleep to ‘Bloom’ in Frankfurt’s green-belt. Emerging from its origins in the forests of Cumbria; it morphs to reform in the urban forests of skyscrapers and buildings.

ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the surrounding environment, via the interaction of the public and adjacent stimulus detected by the LED net. By using Lo-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. Continue reading ‘ResoNet at Luminale Biennale, Frankfurt’

Nanjing Foshou Lake Architect Hotel (CIPEA)

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10 January, 2010 in Architect > 职业I, Latest_Articles and Material Explorers_材料探究. 2 Comments

This video shows the amazing architecture of this lakeside hotel in Nanjing, China. The hotel is the legacy behind the CIPEA project ( China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture), where 24 world renowned architects from 15 countried gathered at the lush shore of Foshou Lake, each designing a fuctional building of the hotel/resort. Easily recognized amongst the designers include established names Irata Isozaki of Japan, Steven Holl of the US, and Ettore Sortsaas of Italy. Also participated are architect David Adjaye of the UK, Mathias Klotz of Chile. Odelie Decq of France, and many other most innovative and awarded architects.  The hotel has 20 individual villas, 300+ luxurious hotel rooms, a modern art museum, a conference centre and a recreational centre & spa.

佛手湖，建筑师Architects: 周恺 马清运 张雷 Mathias Klotz Hrvoje Njiric David Adjaye Sean Godsell Odilie Decq 刘珩， 姚仁喜 Gabor Bachman 汤桦 王澍 艾未未 张永和 崔恺 Alberto Kalach Matti Sanaksenaho

Conversation with Ou Ning

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7 December, 2009 in Publishing > 出版 and Social Discourse_社会论题. 1 Comment

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(Ou Ning, Venice, June 6, 2009. Photograph by Xiao Quan.)

Founder and creative director of CDR, New Architecture special correspondent, William Hailiang Chen has recently interviewed Ou Ning who is the chief curator for 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture. Full article of interview is in Chinese and will be featured in December issue of Chinese magazine – New Architecture. There will be an English version available after the translation process is finished. Curator Ou came to London for biennale’s European preview at the Architecture Foundation on 27th/28th. Due to his busy schedule in London, the final interview was realised on Skype online on 8pm London time 10th November when he was in Shenzhen. Special thanks to Gangyi Tang and Hua Li’s assistance.

(Source from: http://www.alternativearchive.com/ouning/article.asp?id=736)

城市动员- 2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展总策展人欧宁访谈
[精选八个参展方案首次公布！请留意本文配图]

采访人：陈海亮(William Hailiang Chen)，《新建筑》杂志伦敦特约通讯员
被采访人：欧宁，2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展总策展人
采访时间：2009年11月10日晚 8 点（伦敦时间）
采访地点：Skype在线采访，伦敦-深圳

编者按：早在2009年2月，本刊通讯员刘思即对本次深圳/香港建筑城市双年展的主策展欧宁先生进行了采访，这次本刊伦敦通讯员陈海亮的访谈是对这一活动的持续追踪，刘思的访谈见欧宁的博客，其联接地址为：http://www.alternativearchive.com/ouning/article.asp?id=669 。同时感谢李华为采编提供的帮助。

陈海亮：首先，欢迎您再次来到伦敦。能否请您简要谈谈为2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展来“伦敦动员”的目的? 您已到威尼斯艺术双年展动员过了，为什么还来伦敦而不选择纽约? Continue reading ‘Conversation with Ou Ning’

Man Allegedly Builds Homemade Submarine

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7 September, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Material Explorers_材料探究. 0 Comments

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/06/man-allegedly-builds-homemade-submarine/

Is Rem’s CCTV Building X-Rated?

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7 September, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Social Discourse_社会论题. 0 Comments

http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2009/09/01/is-rems-cctv-building-x-rated/

Bamboo Scuplture by Cambodian Sopheap Pich

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4 May, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Material Explorers_材料探究. 0 Comments

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‘cycle’ by sopheap pich, 2005
rattan, steel wire
image courtesy 10 chancery lane gallery

 ‘my main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in cambodia. my tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch. the manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. this relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.’ sopheap pich was selected for the best of discovery section at shanghai art fair in 2008. more information see Designboom’s Blog Continue reading ‘Bamboo Scuplture by Cambodian Sopheap Pich’

Populous’ Mass Studio@New York

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2 April, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Light Delivery_光的递送. 0 Comments

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Continue reading ‘Populous’ Mass Studio@New York’

Andrew Palladio’s Bridge

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20 March, 2009 in Material Explorers_材料探究. 0 Comments

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Martin Margiela at ICON Magazine

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18 March, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Material Explorers_材料探究. 0 Comments

Finally, we can see the face of Martin Margiela which is published at ICON magazine this month issue. I haven’t got time to write comments yet and will do later. It is an interesting article though. I haven’t got time to sort it out my images about his 20ys retrospective show in Antwerp where I visited last year. see my old post Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp.

张永和访谈/Yung Ho Chang’s View on American Archi-education

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22 February, 2009 in Architect > 职业I, Education Discourse_教育论题 and Latest_Articles. 0 Comments

Just found out this old article from : abbs.com.cn , I think Yung Ho has strong arguments on American architectural education system in comparison to Chinese system.

访谈时间：2008 年4 月29日张永和（Yung Ho Chang），以下简称Y H C
田瑞丰，以下简称T T : 今天的采访我主要想了解一下MIT建筑系的教学特色。


Y H C : 你如果对美国建筑教育的发展不了解的话，对老的MIT也没什么了解，讲清楚现在的MIT也不容易。美国建筑教育体系，在有些地方跟国内的学校不太一样。咱们一说这个，首先有一个比较有意思的事情是，美国的学校，特别是所谓的大点儿的学校，找系主任或者院长，都有一个里头找还是外头找的问题。不像中国一般都是里头找。它这个选择是怎么做的呢？ MIT建筑系有近40个全时老师，为什么不在里面找呢？ 又比如说哈佛，现在也在找系主任，又面临这个问题。其实这里面有一个规律：所有外头找的，都是想变。想变就外头找，不想变就里头找。MIT不是第一个找我的学校，第一个找我的是哥伦比亚大学。来MIT之前我这里一个人都不认识，但哥伦比亚我有很多朋友。哥伦比亚大学当时就有人告诉我说，你要准备回答几个问题：今天世界建筑的发展是什么样的？今天建筑教育的发展是什么样的？如果你做哥伦比亚大学的院长，你打算怎么做？意思是说如何改。虽然以前没专门想过这些问题，但在国内一边实践一边也有些思考。后来就按照我当时对这几个问题的认识对哥大院长搜寻委员会讲了一通。按中国的习惯一定对那个学校的情况摸个底朝天，但当时我是没有针对性地讲的，他们根本也不在意你对哥大是否了解。最后，我在几位候选人中还处于领先地位。后来，我来MIT时就有经验了，果然又是让我谈这3个问题。中国的情况很特殊，从社会、经济，一直到建筑工作的环境。我1993年在中国开始进行实践。 Continue reading ‘张永和访谈/Yung Ho Chang’s View on American Archi-education’

Accessibility Color Wheel

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11 February, 2009 in Latest_Articles and Light Delivery_光的递送. 0 Comments

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Very useful color degin tool developed by Giacomo Mazzocato to allow choosing color interactively online, it is particularly good for webdesign.

Accessibility color wheel Continue reading ‘Accessibility Color Wheel’

Architects joining the dole queue up by 544%

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6 February, 2009 in Latest_Articles, Social Discourse_社会论题 and Z-Economy_谈经济. 0 Comments

06 February 2009, news from bdonlince.co.uk

By Will Hurst, Will Henley

RIBA and Arb voice alarm as redundancies and liquidation hit practices worldwide

Architects are joining the dole queue at a faster rate than all other occupations, new figures show.

Data from the Office for National Statistics reveals that 870 architects claimed jobseeker’s allowance for the first time in the last quarter of 2008, compared to just 135 in the same period the year before — a staggering 544% increase.

The figures, which put architects ahead of town planners, quantity surveyors, chartered surveyors and all other professions in numbers of new claimants seeking benefits, were described by RIBA president Sunand Prasad as “our worst fears coming true”.

He added: “You always hope the worst-case scenario won’t take place but we have prepared for this. We are getting three calls a day from people saying they want to remain members but have lost their jobs… and that is just the tip of the iceberg.”

The revelation topped a bad month for the profession in January, with Allen Tod Architecture going into liquidation, and Aedas, SOM, Gensler and Ryder Architects all reporting new redundancies. Even the practice of former RIBA president George Ferguson, Acanthus Ferguson Mann, has made a third of its workforce redundant, while Dutch firm OMA — which has significant British projects — laid off 50 staff. Continue reading ‘Architects joining the dole queue up by 544%’

Return of the dole queue

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8 December, 2008 in Latest_Articles and Social Discourse_社会论题. 0 Comments

Return of the dole queue
Newly unemployed managers are having to look to emerging markets for work
By Matthew Goodman and Kate Walsh

From Timesonline

It had been an exhausting summer for Richard Heald. The 50-year-old architect was project managing two important ventures: one was JP Morgan’s new headquarters in London’s Barbican and the other, much smaller in scale, was his new family home in Guildford, Surrey.

On August 11 he moved into his dream home. His wife, a commissioning editor for a publisher in Oxford, had the champagne on ice, but Heald didn’t much feel like it. He had just lost his job.

KPF, the American firm of architects for which Heald had worked as a project director over the past two years, had made him redundant, along with four other senior people in London. Just two weeks earlier the JP Morgan project, which the architects had been working on for two years, had been canned in favour of a cheaper headquarters at Canary Wharf.

Job opportunities for architects in London are limited right now, but Heald is hopeful he will find new work. It will have to happen quickly though. He spent a fortune on his new house and received no redundancy package from KPF. “There is nothing in reserve,” he said. Continue reading ‘Return of the dole queue’

Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp

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25 November, 2008 in Latest_Articles and Material Explorers_材料探究. 0 Comments

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Coming soon…..Martin Margiela’s 20 years in fashion exhibition in MOMU of Antwerp is the most impressive and inspiring fashion exhibition I have seen so far. Highly recommend if you have a chance to visit Antwerp! Don’t forget MOMU……..  Continue reading ‘Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp’

Book Launch: ‘Forming Climatic Change’@AA School

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24 November, 2008 in Latest_Articles, Material Explorers_材料探究 and Publishing > 出版. 0 Comments

Finally, my winning entry ‘Reef Surface Mobile Island’ (highlighted on blue color) for Environmental Tectonics Competition is published and the book launch will be on Tuesday 25 Nov between 12 to 2:30pm at AA School. See detail below:

Book Release

In 2006 and 2007 the Environmental, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster sponsored the Environmental Tectonics competition.  For the compilation of the book the curators sought projects that redefined common environmental parameters and explored design potential – while formulating critical and informed responses to the relation between aesthetics, ethics, tectonics and qualitative environments. The competition offered a unique opportunity to exhibit and publish relevant and important new projects as well as to understand current strands of investigation within this realm. Throughout, the focus of the publication is on ideas – ideas arising from an exploration of the complex variables surrounding environmental, sustainable and climatic design. The collected work looks beyond the typical carbon conservation solutions and instead finds resonance in projects that celebrate, organize and uncover new potentials in environmental design.

A few excerpts from the book are posted on:

www.aaees.net

The book is available for purchase for £15.00 from AA Publications and to mark the publication, will be available for £10.00 on Tuesday 25 November between 12.00 and 2.30 in the Back Members’ Room at the Architectural Association.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications

AA Publications
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
T +44 (0)20 7887 4021
F +44 (0)20 7414 0783
publications@aaschool.ac.uk

There were over 160 entries, many of them produced by teams, bringing the total numbers involved to around 250 students and professionals from more than 20 countries.  The book contains a cross-section of entries and associated activities along with articles from invited authors that punctuate the sections of work.

Contents
6 Preface by Steve Hardy
8 Ironies, Impracticalities and Ecologies by Brett Steele
11 Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects Competition

Morphological
14 Environmental Morphologies by Steve Hardy 20 BAD (Bath) by SMAQ – Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau
24 Eco-Boulevard by Belinda Tato Serrano, Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo, Diego Garcia-Setien Terol
28 Hydro Wall by Virginia San Fratello
30 Koivu Tree by Tuomas Pirinen
34 Marine Cultivation Park by Erik Brett Jacobsen
38 Biot(r)ope Sensorium by Ross McLean

Ornamental
42 Environmental Ornamentation by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee

48 Reef Surface Mobile Islands by William Hai Liang Chen
52 Private Sun/Public Shadow by Dusanka Popovska, Galit Shiff
54 Orchid Water Garden by Vincent Young
56 Fogharvester by Toby Burgess
58 Dirty Geometry Pavilions by Peter Macapia
60 Storm Watershed by Dan Marks
64 Synthetic Gardens: An Architecture of Vibrant Substrates
by Daniel Norell, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure Sustainable
68 Sustainable Environmental Design by Simos Yannas74 Handmade School by Anna Heringer, Eike Roswag
76 Eureka School by Vennila Thirumavalavan
78 Wet Wall by Watson Architecture + Design – Robert Watson, Steffen Mattaboni, Mark Cummins, Matthew Dingle
80 PhotoThermHouse by Mattias Rubin de Lima
84 Living Delta by Rafiq Azam
86 Mews House NW6 by Jonathan PileGlobal
90 Recombinant Ecologies by Andrei Martin with projects by Mohamed Abdelghafar, Darren Chan, Natalie Ghatan, Alex Jones

96 Vertical Farm by Chung Yin Ho
98 Shibaura Island Tower by Christopher Robeller
100 Radiant Hydronic and Lattice Houses by Tom Wiscombe
102 Condensation4645 by Poyuan Huang

Ecological
108 EcoMachines by Marco Poletto

116 Metabolicopera by Anna Dyson, Maria-Paz Gutierrez, Derek Keil, Sylvia Krajewski, Marion Jones
118 Machine + City by Kwok Wah Tung
120 Sustainable Housing Neighbourhood by Florian Heinzelmann, Takeru Sato
122 Aqua Cells by Fotios Vasilakis, Fani Natou
124 Climodynamic Appliances by EcoLogic Studio & AA Summer School
128 Re-Sustenance by Richard Saunders, Akram Fahmi
130 Tower of Winds by Cordula Weisser, Jon Goodbun, Brian Ford, Aran Chadwick Climatological

134 Landscape Issues by Sandra Morris

140 VOL///|||ET02 by Eduardo De Oliveira Barata
142 Dry Water by Daniel Talesnik
144 Down to Earth by Ruth Kedar
146 Wasteland by Pierre Belanger, Dave Christensen, Josh Cohen, Maya Przybylski, Jimenez Lai, Marcin Kedzior, Deanna Wasyliuk, Kim Ligers, Thomas Smahel, Rick Hippocite, Eryn Stoddart, Caria Muñoz-Puente, Melanie Kramer, Davide Gianforcaro, Gabriella Aviad
148 CPULS4TG2016 by Katrin Bohn, Andreas Viljoen, Jorge Peña Díaz
150 Hydro-Urbanism by Minseok Kim

Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects
154 2006 Competition Results
156 2007 Competition Results
159 Environmental Tectonics Participants

Pray for my architect friends in Iceland

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11 November, 2008 in Latest_Articles, Social Discourse_社会论题 and Z-Economy_谈经济. 0 Comments

Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economy’s Fall

From the New York Times

By SARAH LYALL

Published: November 8, 2008

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t know what you did wrong.”

This country, as modern and sophisticated as it is geographically isolated, still seems to be in shock. But if the events of last month — the failure of Iceland’s banks; the plummeting of its currency; the first wave of layoffs; the loss of reputation abroad — felt like a bad dream, Iceland has now awakened to find that it is all coming true.

It is not as if Reykjavik, where about two-thirds of the country’s 300,000 people live, is filled with bread lines or homeless shanties or looters smashing store windows. But this city, until recently the center of one of the world’s fastest economic booms, is now the unhappy site of one of its great crashes. It is impossible to meet anyone here who has not been profoundly affected by the financial crisis.

Overnight, people lost their savings. Prices are soaring. Once-crowded restaurants are almost empty. Banks are rationing foreign currency, and companies are finding it dauntingly difficult to do business abroad. Inflation is at 16 percent and rising. People have stopped traveling overseas. The local currency, the krona, was 65 to the dollar a year ago; now it is 130. Companies are slashing salaries, reducing workers’ hours and, in some instances, embarking on mass layoffs.

“No country has ever crashed as quickly and as badly in peacetime,” said Jon Danielsson, an economist with the London School of Economics.

The loss goes beyond the personal, shattering a proud country’s sense of itself.

“Years ago, I would say that I was Icelandic and people might say, ‘Oh, where’s that?’ ” said Katrin Runolfsdottir, 49, who was fired from her secretarial job on Oct. 31. “That was fine. But now there’s this image of us being overspenders, thieves.”

Aldis Nordfjord, a 53-year-old architect, also lost her job last month. So did all 44 of her co-workers — everyone in the company except its owners. As many as 75 percent of Iceland’s private-sector architects have probably been fired in the past few weeks, she said.

In a strange way, she said, it is comforting to be one in a crowd. “Everyone is in the same situation,” she said. “If you can imagine, if only 10 out of 40 people had been fired, it would have been different; you would have felt, ‘Why me? Why not him?’ ” Continue reading ‘Pray for my architect friends in Iceland’

Spironanodietoms

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27 September, 2008 in Light Delivery_光的递送. 0 Comments

spironanodietoms from lostinspace on Vimeo.

spironanodietoms is a ballet of abstract form to music.
music and form are interconnected. the visuals were performed in real time to the score and is audio reactive. a second pass of composition is then added to the visuals to complete an intricate relationship of motion and sound.
mixmasters tv series pairs visual artists and composers commissioning them to produce a 10 minute short film.

10 minute digital art film to music

director/visual artist: christian hogue of lost in space. commissioned by: addictive tv
for mixmasters tv series.
music by jasper norda.
software: touch and after effects

Rhythm in Light by Mary Ellen Bute

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9 September, 2008 in Latest_Articles and Light Delivery_光的递送. 0 Comments

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‘Power Cut-Global’@Monocle

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8 September, 2008 in Social Discourse_社会论题. 0 Comments

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Recommend reading:‘Power Cut-Global’

particular interesting on ‘Failing State 01 – United Kingdom’

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Abstracted a bit from magazine:

‘Preface:

Britain scores high in the life expectancy, education and GDP stakes but it’s also a country beset by failing schools, Europe’s highest rates of teenage pregnancy and festering community relations. An Australian resident in the capital says it’s time Britons turned their backs on their fatuous, frivolous lifestyles.

Written by Andrew Mueller

Anyone whose knowledge of the United Kingdom was derived entirely from consuming its media would wonder why anyone wanted to live here. Survey the acres of hand-wringing reportage and choleric opinion-slinging about crime, ungoverned immigration, burgeoning Islamism, feral youth, rampant drunkenness, decaying infrastructure, disintegrating government, failing schools, collapsing economy, an unemployable underclass, sclerotic transport, war on two possibly unwinnable fronts, and Britain sounds like Somalia with markedly worse weather.

Obviously, it isn’t that bad. Britain is, after all, a prosperous, first-world country. The UN’s Human Development Index places Britain among the world’s top 20 nations in each of its three key indicators (life expectancy, education, gross domestic product). According to Eurostat, Britain recorded net immigration of 159,500 from 2006 to 2007. It is the sixth-most popular country on earth for tourists. For many its capital, London, still feels more like the capital of the world than anywhere else. Britain is clearly doing something right. ‘

Go to buy the magazine before the new issue is coming out on 19th September.

I can’t wait to see the article ‘Provenance Pays: Why brands are bringing production back home and saying no to ‘Made in china’ in the coming issue No17.

Bubbles and How to Survive Them

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15 August, 2008 in Life > 生活, Social Discourse_社会论题 and Z-Economy_谈经济. 0 Comments

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from amazon.com

About WHCHEN

William Hailiang Chen, London UK. Photographer/Architectural Researcher Special Note: *********** I am not a fan of politics/economy and never concerned this in the past. However, since last year April I have put quite a lot of information about politics/economy due to the current social/economy uncertainty. I am not responsible for the content of external internet sites which I copied the content at the time I read. Those information doesn't represent my political view rather just the information I have collected which might infulence my judgement on viewing the world. I am open minded and eager to find out the 'truth'. You are welcome to post your opinions. Note: All images are taken by William Hailiang Chen except those specified. For using images, please contact whchen@whchen.com 陈海亮，英国伦敦 摄影爱好者/建筑研究者 注:除了特别有标注出处外的相片，其余所有相片由陈海亮所摄。如引用，请联系 whchen@whchen.com

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