a curious questioning journey for essence

Category Archives: Metropolitan Zeitgeist

Hong Kong_Part02

Seen on designboom a critical comment by G.O.D about the walled city …
Posted in Metropolitan Zeitgeist | Tagged | Leave a comment

Cameron Sinclair

This name should be already known … in 2006 Cameron Sinclair held an inspiring speech at TED … just to keep the awareness alive it is repeated here now …
Also posted in Sense | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Roadmap 2050

Things to consider … even if the Greek situation stretches our European cohesion understanding these days … Things to consider more then ever … curtail the economic driven power … curtail the power of the financial systems …
Also posted in Sense | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Malacca_Part01

Malacca Town is the highly hybrid capital of the Malaysian state Malacca (Melaka). An overwhelming overlapped culture and religion mix. From Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, Chinese to Malayan, from Christian, Buddhism, Islamic to Hinduism … no ethnic borderline at all. During the 15th and 16th century the city had his time of prosperity and was [...]
Posted in Metropolitan Zeitgeist | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Singapore_Part02

Incredible numbers from Singapore’s Trade and Industry Ministry about the city’s economy of the first quarter 2010 announced …
Also posted in Sense | Tagged | Leave a comment

Kuala Lumpur_Part01

A short but impressive glimpse of Kuala Lumpur.
Posted in Metropolitan Zeitgeist | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Hong Kong_Part01

This is what Hong Kong is famous for in our days … A fascinating vibrating interface between China and the so called western world. We can witness its unique position once more right now in Google’s moment of bravery. An earlier irritating scenario ended in 1994. “The City Of Darkness” was demolished and the area [...]
Posted in Metropolitan Zeitgeist | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Beijing_Part01

A city alive … a moving city  … a city where people live … touching and using their environment … you can breathe, feel, see the life in the streets …
Also posted in Architecture | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Singapore_Part01

In 2007 there was this really nice animated video … which was a winning entry for a competition taking place in Singapore … this competition shows the green forward looking perspective of Singapore’s urban strategy …  in December 2009 next phase was started … more information’s about this project are available on the official homepage [...]
Also posted in Architecture | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment