Tips & Tricks & Architecture AhBoon | 25 Jun 2008
Beijing Capital International Airport - Gateway to Olympics
Beijing opens the doors this week to its latest Olympic creation, a massive glass and steel airport terminal with a graceful sloping roof that will welcome visitors to the Summer Games.
Fronted by pillars of deep imperial red, Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport boasts skylights that give it a dragon-like appearance. The huge, airy interior will have 64 Western and Chinese restaurants, 84 retail shops, and a state-of-the-art-baggage handling system. A high-speed commuter train will whisk passengers into the city, while the runway is capable of handling Airbus’ huge A380 superjumbo.
Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the building attempts to combine traditional architectural elements with up-to-date technology. Its red columns and muted gold roof are meant to evoke Beijing’s imperial palaces and temples. It took just under four years to build the terminal, its runway and most of the related infrastructure, a compressed timetable to ensure it was ready for the Olympics.
The Games are a source of great pride to the Chinese, and Beijing has been turned into a massive construction site over the last seven years as it undergoes a $40 billion makeover.
Architecture & Olympics AhBoon | 07 Apr 2008
The China Water Cube Welcome Olympic Torch
The National Aquatics Center, or simply the “Water Cube,” a blue palatial structure with an area of 80,000 sq m, that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the 2008 Summer Olympics, completed January 28, 2008.
It is situated to the east of Beichen West Bridge on the North Fourth Ring Road and to the west of National Stadium. Underneath a pure and simple facade, this translucent building embodies a complex and unrestricted framework as well as environmentally advanced technology. It is a class piece of Olympic architecture that has become a landmark structure.
The Water Cube displays its transparent effects under colorful shining lights on Monday night, March 31, 2008, the same day the Olympic torch is welcomed to Beijing at Tian’anmen Square.
Architecture AhBoon | 17 Jan 2008
Strange Airports from around the world
Airports are be one of the most sophisticated building, however some airports just built on strange places due to the geographical factors. Here are a collection of some weirdest airports from around the world. I have no idea where are most of these airports located except the one above is from [Lukla Airport] in Nepal, and the [Altiport de Courchevel] in France.
Architecture & Olympics AhBoon | 28 Sep 2007
The Egg is Opening, I mean The National Grand Theater
Workers clean the floor outside the National Grand Theater (also known as The Egg) in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 24, 2007. The National Grand Theater, an egg-shaped structure and a landmark building of China, will have its first trial show on Sept. 25.
The National Grand Theater contains a 2,416-seat opera house, a 2,017-seat concert hall and a 1,040-seat theater. It is scheduled to formally open at the end of the year.
Architecture Konfucious | 26 May 2007
Floating on The Air
The CN Tower, located in Toronto, Canada, is the world’s tallest freestanding structure on land, standing 553.33 meters (1,815 ft 5 in) tall. It is considered the signature icon of the city, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.
Travels & Architecture AhBoon | 05 Apr 2007
A 5-Star Prison in Austria
Life in prison…You think its bad ,well not so bad in this one.
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It looks like an Apple Store, isn’t it?
In Austria there is a prison from your dreams .I am sure that many of you people would leave your homes and go to ‘Justice Center Leoben‘ in Austria. Why ? Check these pictures and say that your house looks better than that one. This place actually calls you to make some crime activities. Only complaint on this cell is there is no computer and Internet in the cells.
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Architecture Konfucious | 02 Apr 2007
The Most Outrages House in the World
Some houses in the city of Zhong Qing, China were scheduled to be demolished on March 21 to make way for the development of the city. However, Yang Wu and his wife Wu Ping refuse to have their house demolished claiming the City has violated their consititution right during the process.
Pending the court judgement on the case, the authority went ahead and demolished all the other houses in the surrounding area, leaving the house of Yang Wu and Wu Ping “untouched”.
Since then, the case has caught the eyes of millions of people in the city and the entire country. At the time of this writing, the couple is still “living” in the house.
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Travels & Architecture AhBoon | 08 Mar 2007
Narrow Habitation
Can you actually stay in a house with 1 meter WIDE by 10 meters TALL?
A house calls attention in Madre de Deus, Brazil; it have three floors and even the builder had faith in what he built. Helenita, the designer and the owner of the house who is now living happily inside.
