Sometimes buildings are more interested incomplete than finished. Wood framing can be beautiful and structural before it is covered with sheet rock and a coat of paint. As a building is being erected, I see so many possibilities of where the construction is going and it is almost a let down if the final reveal is less than the possibility.
Here in Hong Kong I am fascinated by all the work in progress. It is too dense for there to be much new construction but like the borg that Dwayne Bohuslav talked about, there are always additions and subtractions going on into three dimensional space. Some of the traditional bamboo scaffolding look like prosthetics attached to their shiny hosts of marble and polished steel. Some of the bamboo seems to wrap around and some extends out into the air, balanced precariously over the crowded street below.
I am almost sad when construction nears completion and the temporary supports are taken down. It is like reaching the end of one of those "choose your own adventure" books, when even though you have finally met the correct ending, it is never as fun as all the other choices you had to make to get there.
"It is no longer meaningful to see the body as a site for the psyche or
the social but rather as a structure to be monitored and modified.
The body not as a subject but as an object-- not as an object
of desire but as an object for designing." - Marshall McLuhan
Here in Hong Kong I am fascinated by all the work in progress. It is too dense for there to be much new construction but like the borg that Dwayne Bohuslav talked about, there are always additions and subtractions going on into three dimensional space. Some of the traditional bamboo scaffolding look like prosthetics attached to their shiny hosts of marble and polished steel. Some of the bamboo seems to wrap around and some extends out into the air, balanced precariously over the crowded street below.
I am almost sad when construction nears completion and the temporary supports are taken down. It is like reaching the end of one of those "choose your own adventure" books, when even though you have finally met the correct ending, it is never as fun as all the other choices you had to make to get there.
"It is no longer meaningful to see the body as a site for the psyche or
the social but rather as a structure to be monitored and modified.
The body not as a subject but as an object-- not as an object
of desire but as an object for designing." - Marshall McLuhan
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