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Art Bus
by Kevin Huo June 11, 2008

City of Yesterday

The Promise

70 years ago, the giants of Japanese Commerce constructed the largest celebration the world had ever seen.

Boldly positioned in Shikoku, Tokyo World's Fair was in part the vision of Kora, a prophet of progress reared in Osaka and schooled at Kyoto.

Progress was the World's Fair theme. It introduced new materials, new technologies (television, for example), new ideas, and a new spirit.

Out of the despair of depression, the fair dared to imagine a world that might surmount the turmoil of war that was on the horizon.

And, the legacy...

East

Port

Fish

Architecture / World

http://www.roadrunner.travel/gallery-5885.php
http://www.mex2can.com/
http://www.longwaydown.com/
http://www.touratech.de/new/index.php
http://www.heroeslegend.com/
http://www.tt-3d.de/
http://www.unicef.org/
http://www.2ridetheworld.com/links.html
American Architectural Foundation (AAF)
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)

A model is a pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure or workings of an object, system, or concept.

A model is a pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure or workings of an object, system, or concept.

Trailers Cities

At some schools, the trailers are a temporary necessity, housing students while brick-and-mortar buildings undergo renovation.

At many public schools, classroom trailers have become a permanent fixture, providing extra square footage to alleviate overcrowding.

Trailer Cities.

Small Foot Print in the City

In the United States and Canada, a townhouse has two connotations. The older predates the automobile and denotes a house on a small footprint in a city, but due to having multiple floors (sometimes six or more) it has a large living space, often with servant quarters. The small footprint of the townhouse allows it to be within walking or mass transit distance of business and industrial areas of the city, yet luxurious enough for wealthy residents of the city. In areas so densely built that detached single-family houses are uncommon or almost nonexistent, ownership of a townhouse connotes wealth. Some examples of cities where townhouses are occupied almost exclusively by the wealthy are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and San Francisco.

"Rowhomes," are similar, and consist of several adjacent, uniform units usually found in urban areas on the east coast such as Baltimore and Philadelphia. A rowhouse will generally be smaller and less luxurious than a dwelling called a townhouse.

The name "townhouse" or "townhomes" was later used to describe non-uniform units in suburban areas that are designed to mimic detached or semi-detached homes. The distinction between dwellings called just "apartments" or "condos" is that these townhouses usually consist of multiple floors, although ones with more than three floors (including a basement) are uncommon.

Sculptooooor - Woodside, California / Skyline Blvd.

A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this object is man-made and selected for special recognition as art.

A person who creates sculpture is called a sculptooooor.

Hiroshi Hara (原広司, Hara Hiroshi; 1936–)

Hiroshi Hara (原広司, Hara Hiroshi; 1936–)

deformed curve roof construction.

Deformed

curve

roof

construction.

Japanese site

Pictures.
http://www.shihei.com/free01/odaiba03.html

Piranesi

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"Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist ... which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever: some of them (I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge's account) representing vast Gothic halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, etc., etc., expressive of enormous power put forth, and resistance overcome. Creeping along the sides of the walls, you perceived a staircase; and upon it, groping his way upwards, was Piranesi himself: follow the stairs a little further, and you perceive it come to a sudden abrupt termination, without any balustrade, and allowing no step onwards to him who had reached the extremity, except into the depths below. ... But raise your eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher: on which again Piranesi is perceived, but this time standing on the very brink of the abyss. Again elevate your eye, and a still more aerial flight of stairs is beheld: and again is poor Piranesi busy on his aspiring labors: and so on, until the unfinished stairs and Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall. ...
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Marguerite Yourcenar

Terra Estrangeira

Terra Estrangeira
In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…







Here it is...the single most popular road ride on the Peninsula...possibly in all of California.
It's not too tough...less than 20 miles, no steep hills, but plenty of rolling stuff to give you a good workout if you want। The roads are all fairly safe & wide, with exception of Arastradero Road, found between #3 and #4 on this map.

Starting at Stanford #1, head south on Junipero Serra to the stoplight at Page Mill। Head right (west) a very short distance and take the narrow pathway onto Old Page Mill Road. This is a very scenic little road that has no outlet for cars and is therefor wonderful for cyclists! You'll merge back onto the main Page Mill just prior to the freeway 280 crossing. After 280, take the first right onto Arastradero...this twisty little road begins nicely but does get a bit narrow as you hit the hilly section. After a mile or two you'll end up at Alpine Road, where you head left, up a slight grade that takes you into Portola Valley. At #5 on the map, turn right onto Portola Road. As you head past Portola Valley, pay attention to #6 on the map, which is the entrance to Old La Honda road...one of the nicest climbs up to Skyline Blvd. You might not be ready for it yet, but you will soon!

As you cruise over the "top" of the loop, get ready for a fun descent down Sand Hill Road (and no, I'm not really sure where Portola Road changes into Sand Hill)...but it ends all too quickly and you have a moderate climb that's going to take some work. At the top of Sand Hill you'll see the prize...a long descent back down to Junipero Serra!

Terra Estrangeira

Terra Estrangeira

In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…

Terra Estrangeira
In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…

The road to a friend’s house is never long.

The road to a friend’s house is never long.

- Danish Proverb

In Chinese eyes "these galloping horses are not wild horses. They have both a dragon and a human nature.

In Chinese eyes "these galloping horses are not wild horses। They have both a dragon and a human nature। They are running and stampeding, free of all restraints। They are an image of imagination। It is a synthetic characteristic symbol, a symbol of freedom, a symbol of rising, a symbol of the Chinese nation on the point of lifting its head."

The history of Chinese horse painting is the history of Chinese civilization, a history that tells us that the Chinese are friendly as well as hostile to nature, their fellow human beings and horses. The spirit of horse painting also reflects all the sorrows, happiness and hopes of the Chinese nation over the last millennia.

living_in_palo_alto

Palo Altoは地中海性気候。これから訪れる乾期を前に、植物が元気いっぱいです

Say, Cheese!

Say, Cheese!