Walking the Emperor's Path
By Rem / in shanghai / October 23, 2010[caption id="attachment_577" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Tiananmen Square as viewed Monday morning from the Tian'an Gate"][/caption]On Monday, October 4th, I visited the Forbidden C...
Read more →The Search for the Truest Hutong
By Rem / in shanghai / October 4, 2010We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to announce my arrival to the capital of China, Beijing! Woo-who. Quite a trip that was. As some of you may know if you have read the recent New York Tim...
Read more →The Quest for Ancient China
By Rem / in shanghai / October 2, 2010Living in a city of up to 23 million people has left me starved for culture because the policy here is to obliterate the past (or, at least, recreate the past as some commercial construct/theme park)....
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Expo: Of Cattle and Design
By Rem / in shanghai / October 1, 2010On the evening of September 16th, Ahmed, a new colleague Scott and I made it out to the Expo, Pudong side. I would later learn that the attendance was somewhere in the order of 150k for the day; the evening being much less. This is a far cry from 500k during the summer, especially on weekends and obviously much less than the projected 6-700k expected during this week’s National Day Week. It is very common at the Expo to wait several hours, up to 5-7 hours (!!!) to get into one pavilion, so getting into any here is quite an accomplishment.
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The Canal Cities: Zhujiajao
By Rem / in shanghai / September 23, 2010I had the good fortune on the evening of September 3rd to meet with a fellow 'landscraper' from RISD and from the Class of 2010. Sun Li, or, Li Sun as he was known at RISD, is here in Shanghai working...
Read more → Of Foggy Afternoons
By Rem / in shanghai / September 12, 2010Yesterday afternoon I headed out to ShContemporary 2010, or the "Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair" housed in the Shanghai Exhibition Center as pictured above. This marks my first Art Fair, which bas...
Read more →The Concrete Jungle
By Rem / in shanghai / September 11, 2010[caption id="attachment_428" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="I cannot tell if this is an old structure or merely a brand new structure made to look old"][/caption]Back on August 28th, I ma...
Read more →An Architecture Career gone awry
By Rem / in shanghai / August 29, 2010How can I describe John Portman's work? The work that he did for his own house is curious, and the tower complex that he designed for Italy was provocative (if only it were actually built with white s...
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The People Unfriendly Square
By Rem / in shanghai / August 26, 2010[caption id="attachment_400" align="aligncenter" width="426"] People's Square as seen from the Urban Planning Exhibition Center[/caption]Arriving at People's Square, which I accomplished via the R...
Read more → The Essence of Chicken
By Rem / in shanghai / August 22, 2010On Saturday I tasked myself with finding a reliable food source. That meant finding a Carrefour. I deemed it too far and on Sunday found another, higher quality supermarket closer to home. But Carre...
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