Tokyo to London

I was working in the library today, when I noticed something that looked remarkably familiar...
It was in an old special issue of Japan Architect dedicated to the then current 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and featured the Yoyogi National Gymnasium by Kenzo Tange:

Maybe you can see it too...

Non-other than Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Center for the 2012 London Olympics / Paralymics, possibly my favourite out of all the London 2012 architecture.

I can only assume Zaha reads her Japanese architecture. The symmetry in the above photography is a bit uncanny too

And yet I can find no reference or connection made between the two buildings on the internet. Maybe it's just me?

Introducing Project 2

Activating Urban Movement: Design a light rail station and ancillary programmes for a chosen site...

Beach House Observatory

The first project of the second half of second year in architecture school: design a beach house for a given site in Pukerua Bay, north of Wellington. I decided to design an observatory, especially after discovering you could see Mt Ruapehu some 200km distant from the coast...

Projects from other students in my tutorial group can be found here http://arci212.blogspot.co.nz/

Final A1 Panels:

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Booklet:

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Appendix:

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Final Design

I finished my design for a coffee house on Cuba St in Wellington for architecture school this week!

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I made a sketchbook of part of the development

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and now I am studying for my structures exam!