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Philosophy of design
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 23/03/2015
» English designer, sculptor and architect Thomas Heatherwick established the Heatherwick Studio in 1994. He created the Rolling Bridge at Paddington Basin in London, on his own volition. He reinvented the iconic red London bus, down to the fabric for the seats, treating the interior of the bus like an architectural space. Heatherwick then went on to represent his homeland with the design of the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in 2010 — the Seed Cathedral, a hairy rectangular structure made with 60,000 identical clear acrylic rods, which created a curvaceous geometric interior space holding 250,000 seed samples. Sunlight travelled through the length of each rod, lighting up the space, and cast different hues throughout the day.
Sculpting Complex, Urban Cityscapes
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/03/2015
» Rattana Salee and Therdkiat Wangwatchakul walk the streets of Bangkok, recording what they see with a camera, imprinting images in their minds. Their Bangkok is personal, one that transforms frantically on the surface, and even more tumultuously below. "Representing Localities: Memory And Experience" at Thavibu Gallery presents their lives in the city, where urban development is the setting for sober contemplation.
Going for Gold
Muse, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/10/2014
» 'I remember the exact moment. It was in 2004. Hurricane Charlie swept through our town. I remember the only channel we had was NBC. We were sitting there watching the Athens Games. I remember that exact moment. I was watching this girl, Carly Patterson, and she won the Olympic All-Around Champion medal. I was like 'Man, that chick is 16 and she's a gold medallist'. That's the ultimate dream of any athlete — to compete in the greatest stage in the world. And I knew I wanted to go there one day but I had no idea how. BMX wasn't in the Olympics in 2004," says Amanda Carr. She was only 14 years old then.
Better off Dead
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 09/10/2014
» Four seasons in and The Walking Dead lurches on more tenaciously than ever. The premiere of the fourth season averaged 16.1 million viewers in the US, making it the highest-rated episode in the history of basic cable.
Distance learning
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 08/07/2014
» An hour’s drive from Mae Sariang, the paved road gives way to a dirt track. Along the way, landslides have reduced the width of the road by half. At this time of the year, the journey to Pa Daeng Mai from Mae Sariang could take about three hours.
Imitation, fantasy, flattery
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 28/05/2014
» Somewhere in Thailand stands a replica of the Trevi Fountain. Somewhere else in Thailand, Rodin’s The Thinker sits pondering his epic poem in front of the Gates of Hell.
Japanese art utopia
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 15/05/2014
» Naoshima lies midway between Hiroshima and Osaka — a small island town in the Seto Inland Sea, previously neglected and ravaged by severe water pollution from industrial waste in the 70s, revitalised by art in recent years.
Where the real junkies go
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 25/04/2014
» It’s Saturday night and Srinakharin Road is congested. Behind the massive 500,000m² Seacon Square shopping complex lies the source of the weekend evening congestion — the oasis of antique furniture and retro knick-knacks, Talad Rot Fai.
Half-a-century from home
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 21/04/2014
» In his recently published memoir, Ou Ji Ye, pen-name Shan Shan, recalls the whiff of his cousin’s unique scent as she climbed over him to get into bed. He wouldn’t know what the feeling conjured by the odour meant until his teenage years — and wouldn’t write about it for another half-a-century.
Koh Klang: A world away
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 06/03/2014
» Around this time of the year, many beaches in Krabi start to resemble the photographs of Andreas Gursky — mobbed with tourists. The New York Times recently named the southern province on the Andaman coast one of the “52 places to go in 2014”.