Week 6 Peer Review

Tim Zhao

Week 6 Peer Review

Aliston Ward

Creature movies _ completed

A2 poster developed

Poster draft

For laser-cut

Habitat developed

National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux arts du Canada), located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries. [1]

The Gallery is housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988.[2] The Gallery's former director Jean Sutherland Boggs was chosen especially by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to oversee construction of the national gallery and museums.[3]

Marc Mayer was named the museum's director, succeeding Pierre Théberge, on December 8, 2008.

My words:
The National Gallery of Canada shows a magnificant visual of structure of an architecture. As the walls and windows are transparent, audience can see what are the components inside the building clearly. The design inside the building are also interesting, especially the ceiling, with many triangle shaped things standing in a circle and stack on top of each other.

Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong

The Bank of China Tower (abbreviated BOC Tower) is one of the most recognisable skyscrapers in Central, Hong Kong. It houses the headquarters for the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island.[3]

Designed by I. M. Pei, the building is 305 m (1,000.7 ft) high with two masts reaching 367.4 m (1,205.4 ft) high. It was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, and it was the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m (1,000 ft) mark. It is now the third tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.[citation needed]

Design and feng shui

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I. M. Pei, the building is 305.0 metres (1,000.7 ft) high with two masts reaching 367.4 metres (1,205.4 ft) high. The 72 story building is located near Central MTR station. This was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m (1,000 ft) mark, and the first composite space frame high-rise building. That also means it was the tallest outside America from its completion year, 1990. It is now the third tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after Two International Finance Center and Central Plaza.

A small observation deck on the 43rd floor of the building is open to the public; visits to the main observation deck on the 70th floor are by appointment only.

The structural expressionism adopted in the design of this building resembles growing bamboo shoots, symbolising livelihood and prosperity. The whole structure is supported by the five steel columns at the corners of the building, with the triangular frameworks transferring the weight of the structure onto these five columns. It is covered with glass curtain walls. While its distinctive look makes it one of Hong Kong's most identifiable landmarks today, it was the source of some controversy at one time, as the bank is the only major building in Hong Kong to have bypassed the convention of consulting with feng shui masters on matters of design prior to construction.

The building has been criticised by some practitioners of Feng Shui for its sharp edges and its negative symbolism by the numerous 'X' shapes in its original design, though Pei modified the design to some degree before construction following this feedback. The building's profile from some angles resembles that of a meat cleaver. In Feng Shui, this is described as a cleaver building and it is not difficult to observe that it is facing the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building in this guise.[citation needed]


Cultural references

The BOC Tower's bold futuristic design has made it into popular culture. It is the only Hong Kong landmark included in the city-building/simulation computer games SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4. The digitally modified facade of the building is featured in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager as the Starfleet "Communications Research Center". The building features alongside the Emirates Towers in the racing game 'Burnout Paradise'

My words:
One of the biggest reason I chose this building is because its unsymmetrical design, different parts of the builing are in different height, that fell is really fresh. We can figure out that point by looking at the image of its section.

Augmented Reality tutorial

Hand sketching

Independent study for Week 4

Creatures

Name and description of every creature(From bottom to top)
1 Little dragon
Description: A mysterious dragon with purple skins , lives high up in the mountain, in a cave with clouds surrounded.

2 Green boy
Description:A funny boy, live in snowy forest with a pond inside. This is the creature I chose to create my poster. You can get more information in my poster.

3 Alien guy
Description: Its shape is quite strange, legs are too long, made up of 3/4 of its whole height. His habitat is the place around a volcano, because it has a hot body.

4 Lovely
Description:It has two swings to fly in the air, the color of its skin is close to nature and tha habitat for him is on the trees in a rain forest.

5 Scared man
Description: It looks that he is scared everytime, his skin is combined with 3 colors and people may feel that he is shocked when looking at him. The habitat for him is a kind of valley with no living things inside.