September 1, 2005

• can't wait to upload some fotos...but now my computer-ing ability is limited! hehe, anyway, in my 2 first years of architecture i used to make a lot of stuff out of wood and you used to have to get wet wood (freshly chopped) so it could be worked easily. dry wood (cut and dried industrially) is used in modern construction, what you do is cut it and join it. but wet wood (greenwood) can be bent easily and basically you can do whatever you like with it, like soft lead. anyway..this wood business made me consider humidity a good thing, as the wood would stay wet, and i used to think of my skin in the same terms. after all, in greece, your skin dries like a dried tomato and you look 60 when you're only 30. humidity also seems to keep me alert, it's easier to do things, the head doesn't hurt from dehydration, and so on. i consider humidity a blessing for hot countries, as it keeps you from drying out.

  
  

  p.s. hk island eastern corridor: wow...so impressive! my friend couldn't understand why i got so excited about it. well i've only ever seen such an amazing motorway on paper, as a proposal for manhattan by asymptote architecture. (picture at start of this blog) only here, not only is it built, but it's elevated, over water, overlooks kowloon on one side, and some supertall buildings on the other. coming back from north point and looking at the buildings in central at night feels like...i dunno...the future? or a very glam sight anyway.

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