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THAWEEMONGKOL CONSTRUCTION
THAWEEWAT MONGKOLADISAI, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THAWEEMONGKOL CONSTRUCTION, TOGETHER WITH OPENBOX ARCHITECTS TALK ABOUT THEIR TRUST-BASED RELATIONSHIP
1922 ARCHITECTS
PHOTO: SONGTAM SRINAKARIN
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WHO
Piangor Pattayakorn & Songtam Srinakarin
WHAT
Architectural practice who believes architecture is not only to embrace human yet to connect them back to nature. We are obsessed with architectural language that speaks implicitly through its simplicity and details
WE SEE OUR SOULS BETTER IN THE DARK
TEXT & PHOTO: WAN CHANTAVILASVONG
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I was traveling alone on a cloudy and misty day when I found myself in a total serenity among the Ajanta caves: a world heritage site that Buddhist monks had lived in over a thousand years ago. The caves and the structures are what is left from an arduous act of digging on the stones. The deeper into the mountains, the dimmer and more blurry the light becomes one with the darkness. There, in the darkness, sit small dark rooms surrounding the main hall. Each room is a void absence of light, which is left for us to contemplate on the nature of our souls.
In this darkness, 2 craftsmen used their small lights to prolong the life of these dark voids that enrich the nature of our souls.
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Wan Chantavilasvong is a city planner and a researcher, who cherishes photography as her serious play. Her photography often portrays the similarities and differences of the environments and the lives of people in different parts of the world.
SHINHAN EX:PACE
ATELIER KI JUN KIM AND STUDIO IN LOCO JOIN FORCES TO REVAMP THE OLD BUILDING IN MYUNG-DONG AND TURN THE PLACE INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S NEW LANDMARK
SEIZETHEDAY STUDIO
THE HARUKI MURAKAMI LIBRARY
DESIGNED BY KENGO KUMA AND NAMED AFTER HARUKI MURAKAMI, THE NEWLY OPENED LIBRARY AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES, WASEDA UNIVERSITY LEADS THE READERS INTO ANOTHER SPHERE, AKIN TO READING MURAKAMI’S HYPNOTIC NOVEL WHERE ONE JOURNEY INTO ANOTHER WORLD
MEDIUMS
THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO HYPOTHESIS MATERIALIZES THE OWNER’S ARTISTIC PASSION AND THE IDENTITY OF THIS STATIONERY AND ART SUPPLIES STORE IN EKAMAI, BY REALIZING THE STORE AS THE ‘BLANK CANVAS’ WAITING FOR ALL ART LOVERS TO FULFILL
ESSENTIAL DESIRES: CONTEMPORARY ART IN THAILAND
BRIAN CURTIN, AN ART ACADEMIC AND CRITIC, ADDS THAILAND’S CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE FROM THE LATE 20TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
KENGO KUMA’S INTERVENTION IN CASA BATLLÓ
ACCOMPANYING THE RE-OPENING OF CASA BATLLÓ TO THE PUBLIC, KENGO KUMA INSERTS INTO THE BUILDING THE UNDULATING ALUMINUM CURTAIN CHAINS WHICH MESMERIZINGLY REFLECT THE BUILDING’S ICONIC CHARACTER