As I've mentioned before, I am a total geek when it comes to architecture. Good design -- when form meets function -- makes me happy. I'm inspired by building structure all the time. The lines, the shapes ... the very presence of a building. And the creative process amazes me. My dad is a project manager so he works with all the great minds that go into a building project: the architects, the engineers, etc. -- and keeps them on task and within budget. He is the best problem solver I've ever met. Quite often a project goes over budget (sometimes by thousands of dollars), and he has to figure out how to get the project back on the budget track.
One building that I look at with utter amazement is the Star Performing Arts Centre in Singapore, which recently opened on Nov. 1, 2012. The creative process involved in dreaming up and executing a building of this size (62,000 sq. m.) has got to be insane. So many moving parts and people.
"The concept design is driven by the desire to blur the boundaries between retail
and cultural zones and indoor and outdoor spaces with flowing spatial
transitions."
Star Performing Arts Centre in Singapore.
Time Lapse Video of Construction (just through May 2010)
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