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Blueprints in gray matter

Blueprints in gray matter

Warning: This architectural musing on Inception contains spoilers. For our review on the film, please click here.

Inception is such a movie that once you've gotten it, repeated viewings only serve to muddle and confuse the relevant issues. It’s a bit like over-reviewing for an exam; when the essentials click in your head, trying to memorize more things simply clutters up the attic of your mind. This clicking may happen after one viewing, or several, but once it happens, subsequent viewings only serve to reinforce certain details, filling in the holes in our mind.

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Public restrooms: The problems ignored

Public restrooms: The problems ignored

Improvement and Innovation

When designing a space, or thinking of a design for a space, we can't focus on aesthetics alone. A space’s design depends on its function and the people who would use the space.

 

Toilet Evolution

One facility that has gone through tremendous changes throughout time is the res...

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Don't Worry, 'S'cool

Don't Worry, 'S'cool

On needing a better title. And incidentally, schools. Happy New (School) Year!

The academic year begins once more as summer ends (and collective groans are heard from students and teachers alike) and last week, everyone lucky enough not to start their term two weeks ago trudged to school after a part...

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Urban design as social control

Urban design as social control

Where we live shapes who we are.  Paradoxically, the overall conglomerate of our identity, culture, and distinctiveness also defines the place where we live.  The degree as to which one exerts more influence on the other is a very arguable topic.  The espousal of values, morality, and behavior has b...

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Ballsy: The UP-Ayala Land Technohub

Ballsy: The UP-Ayala Land Technohub

The subject of much controversy, the UP-Ayala Land Technohub has been around for two years. Ostensibly built to augment the state university's meager budget, the establishment provides a mini-mall experience on the western end of Commonwealth Avenue.

 

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