Urban problem solution for the day

I love how today even in the car-and-motorcycle-loving place like my hometown there is this growing consciousness of not relying too much on them. There's in fact a whole community dedicated of going to the workplace by bike.
Whether the reason is ecological, economical, or people simply just want to stay in shape is irrelevant. What matters is riding a bike is now hip again and I hope this trend stays strong and not merely a fad.


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Bahasa Indonesia? Gampang!

Kadang-kadang kita demikian meremehkan kemampuan berbahasa Indonesia, apalagi dengan baik dan benar. Padahal yang kita pakai setiap hari belum tentu benar. Apalagin kini kita orang Indonesia punya kebiasaan 'asyik' menyerap kata asing begitu saja tanpa mencari padanannya terlebih dahulu pada bahasa Indonesia atau bahkan mencari terlebih dahulu arti kata tersebut di kamus. Ah, kalau yang ini, memang karena kita malas membaca ya?
Contohnya pada foto di atas (klik pada gambar kalau kurang jelas), maksud hati menulis 'sintetis' yang ditulis alih-alih adalah 'sintesis'. Dua kata yang maknanya jauh berbeda.
Ketidaktahuan atau ketidakpedulian? Entahlah. Yang jelas, ini objek yang asyik buat fotografer/blogger iseng dan nyinyir seperti saya .^_^

Sebuah Pertemuan

Ada satu masa, pertemuan kolom dan atap dirayakan dengan begitu meriah. Penuh detil dan ornamen,tapi tetap tertib struktur.
Lokasi : Stasiun KA Bandung

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Interesting Interior Planter

When you think of how to define different areas in your place, you usually go with walls. However, you can always use plants as space definers (in this case between dining room and bedroom). The result? More spacious area in your place than the usual wall.
I love the brilliant execution of such a simple premise.

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Cool Stuff From My Hometown part 5-Reaching For The Sky

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One of the two towers of the Great Mosque of West Java.

Cool stuff from My Hometown part 4, Bandung Hilton / WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

I often drive past this building. While it's awesome,one question remains : what happened to local architects?

Can't we be trusted to build something of this quality or magnitude?

I believe we can.

How to gain trust (or the feeling of 'prestige' from the clients upon hiring foreign architects), however is another issue to discuss.

Bandung Hilton / WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design: "

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Cool Stuff From My Hometown, part 3

As I posted earlier, Bandung my hometown is a city full of beautiful, old buildings from the Dutch colonial era. One of such building is the Driekleur building.

Cool Stuff From My Hometown, part 2

Dubbed 'minimalistic design', this approach to post-modernity is currently a trend at least in my hometown; especially among young, newlywed couple.
Never mind the fact that the maintenance cost is gonna be enormous since Indonesia is a tropical country so those sealed-shut windows will bleed the electric bills a lot from air conditioning alone.

Cool Stuff from My Hometown, part 1

From now on, every once in a while-that is whenever the mood strikes me, I will post something in this blog about interesting stuffs in my hometown. Architecturally speaking, of course.

Bandung, Indonesia is a city adorned with old buildings that-as far as I'm concern-are like fine wine, getting prettier with time.