by Muhammad Syukri


Johor Bahru was founded in 1850 by Wong Ah Fook himself together with Temenggong Daing. It was a fisher village known as Tanjong Puteri before being renamed Johor Bahru by the Sultan. Constantly growing, the village turned to a traders hub and Sungai Seget became an important feature of Johor Bahru. Jalan Trus was the main road before shifting to Jalan Wong Ah fook after the causeway was built.
After independence, Singapore departed and the Custom Complex was built. Growing to become a financial and commercial area, Johor Bahru is recognized as a city in 1994. In 1996, most of Johor Bahru main feature such as the Central Market and Bus Terminal was moved to Larkin to make way of new development and ease traffic. In 2008, the new CIQ Complex was opened to public.
Johor Bahru development is shifting from west to east. Some of future feature is transportation hub at JB Sentral by 2012, LRT System by 2015 and recognition as a Economy City by 2020.

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

This is an article titled,
"How does the Navy Design the Nuclear Supercarrier of the future?"
by Cliff Kuang

This article is about Navy design technology.

" Things work a little differently in 2009. Now, engineers and foreman can wander around a mockup of the ship without wearing helmets or boots. All they have to do is slip on a chunky black glasses, stare at a screen and step inside the ship's CAD plan"

This makes me wonder, "What about architect? Can we walk inside the building we designed?"

Its all about the matter of time. The approach of walking in a building definitely will be very interesting when the client can see the building that they are going to get.

For further reading on this article, please click here.

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From an article,
The Best Architecture in the 'Star Wars' Galaxy" by Cliff Kuang

The Architect's Journal had gathered top ten best architecture in Star Wars movie.


The list goes like this.
1. The Second Death Star

2. Jabba the Hutt's Palace,Tatooine
3. Jedi temple, Coruscant
4. Coruscant,the whole thing.
5. Artisanal dwellings, Tatooine
6. Echo Base, Hoth
7. Bright Tree Village, Endor
8. Sandcrawler, Tatooine
9. Senate Building, Coruscant
10. Cloud City, Bespin.


These movie really does impact the architecture worlds where some of these building really exist in the earth.


Spot the similarities...^^

And the list goes on...

For further resding, please click here.

Enjoy reading...^^

Prediction from The Extinction time line by Richard Watson, the petrol engined vehicle will extinct by 2036.

Thus, comes the idea of future car. What is future car and how will it looks like?

There are this 2 articles about the future car in the making which brings the interest of people from all around the world.

First of all is,
"BYD's F3DM electric Sedan Will Go on Sale in China, but the West Will Have to wait" by Clay Dillow

BYD Co, a company from China says that they will sell their very first electric sedan by December of the Year.

BYD is the largest rechargeable battery maker which wasn't into any car business. However, this company decided to take the challenge of "Green Vehicle Industry" and going to release their first ever electric sedan soon. BYD also made an agreement with Volkswagen to jointly develop electric car.

For further reading on this article, Please click here.


Meanwhile, on another article,
"Riversimple:The Open-Source Hydrogen Car" by Ariel Schwartz

brings in the British designed future car.
The Hyrban Project's Riversimple Urban Car has been unvieled in London.

The first fleet of the car will be released in 2011. However, stated the fuel consumption of this car will be up to $330 per month which is quite cosy.

This is how the car looks like.
For further reading of the article, please click here.

Happy reading...^^

An article titled,

"Obama Climate Change Report: The outlook Is Dire, the Time to Innovate Now" by Ariel Schwartz


Previously, we have The Inconvenient Truth by President Al Gore.

Now, President Obama come out with a report,

"Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States."

He stated the problems such as floods due to the rise of sea level and the deterioration of the economy due to the drop of agriculture productivity.

This report is more detailed and focused on US economy.
Besides, stated that, we need to come out with out-of-the-box solutions.

For the complete article, please click here.

Design or die! by Craig Pelkey-Landes

This is a very interesting articles that make us wonders about , "Are we designer?"

According to the article,
"Anyone that tries to improve a situation is a designer."

There are also interesting statements like,
"Design is not necessary about the look of a thing" of which I couldn't agree more.

For example, the Gustav Stickley's rocker given by Stickley during the writer's wedding day which has gave consciousness about the
"RAW POWER OF DESIGN".

I have found the picture of the rocker from another link so that we can figure out the "looks is not so important statement"

Following is the link to the article which might improve our way of thinking towards the concept of design.

Click here for the link.

and here is another link of the more complete copy of the article.

Happy reading...^^