May 2011

May 2011 update gallery

A selection of photographs taken on recent client-commissioned assignments.

1) Architects 61′s Seascape on Sentosa
2) CSYA’s JIa condominium
3) RT + Q’s Chestnut Close residence
4) Design Collective Architecture Network’s (DCA) green roof residence
5) Twilight lighting shots of RT + Q’s Setangkai residence

DCA’s green roof residence is out this month in d+a: “the sloping garden house,” p36-40, issue 061, May 2011. “The photos came out great, Robert, big thanks to you” – Chan MunInn of DCA.

The May update gallery also includes photographs of Moshe Safdie’s ArtScience Museum and landscape shots taken on a recent visit to Guangxi in southern China. Nicknamed the Dragon’s Backbone, the curving terraced farming field system climbs up the mountainsides between between the villages of Ping’An and Dazhai.

On the writing side of the business, I completed the 5,000 words for Architects 61′s forthcoming corporate brochure and also wrote about T.R. Hamzah & Yeang’s DiGi Technology Operation Centre and a competition-winning design waste treatment plant-cum-art installation for Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Article extract: “BIG loves slopes. BIG—the Bjarke Ingels Group—the Danish architectural firm behind the Shanghai Expo 2010 Danish Pavilion bicycle ramp recently announced its competition-winning design for an unusual new sports venue and eco art installation in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Penciled in for completion in 2016, a new waste-to-energy plant will double as a ski resort and visual artwork—smoke rings rising from the building’s smoke stack are to serve as a reminder of the impact of consumption on the planet…”

Lastly, a blast from the past, a house I photographed back in 2007 appears in the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/). In the film, the villain of the story owns the house. It is in fact the Meerburg Residence by architect Staffan Törnberg. If you don’t mind sub-titles, I recommend the film.