My summer vacation has official started. All will end on the 30th of August, so I have around three and a half month’s time to do whatever I want. Of course, I will be picking up design jobs (and perhaps some writing as well, given that I write on a whim) along the way and see how it goes. After a few weeks of work I finally completed the first mockup for my club’s new site design. The old website was in shambles and we needed a new face badly.
I’m barely into the second day at home and I’m missing Singapore a lot. I miss the freedom to leave my room anytime I want and roam the streets of Singapore, fearless. In Malaysia the situation is a little different, I will have to be more cautious when I’m out and will have to try avoid late night outs at all costs.
A few weeks back, I walked around my university in the evening. I was nearing the completion of my second academic year in my university and I simply could not believe that I’m already half way through now. Two more years down the road I will graduate, then toil and tumble in the real working world.
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School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Love the cuboidal structures.
The building that houses the school of humanities, arts and social sciences is the latest addition to the sprawling university campus. It has a minimalist touch to it, with a simple colour scheme of mainly black, white, grey and earthy tones. I haven’t got the chance to explore the building much, but when I visited my academic writing tutor in the building, the interiors were very simple too. Their carpet smells nice though.
The fountain plaza underneath the blue skies
This is the fountain that connects the north academic complex and the students services center. The latter is tucked behind the trees in the background so you can’t see it quite clearly. On clear warm days you would see the birds drinking from the fountain. How adorable :)
Outside the administration office
A wide avenue brings visitor to the academic complex and the Nanyang auditorium, as well as the carparks located in the north academic complex. When we have visitors from other institutions or nations visiting, their tour buses would line the avenue, adding more life and vibrancy to this quiet stretch of campus road. Except for main functions, this place is usually deserted of vehicular and human traffic.
If you’re interested to view more photos of NTU, you can browse the Photography category. I have also published two entires containing infrared photos taken on the campus too.
Have a great week ahead, folks!
The architecture of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is really nice! I noticed that it seems to be that the buildings housing the creative majors have great architecture. Then again, on basic principle, it seems apt and I haven’t seen the rest of the other buildings in your university, so for all I know all of them are beautifully unique in their own way.
Have a wonderful summer vacation, Teddy. It’s great to see you blogging more often!
Yea, it is! I would expect it to look better than the older academic complexes in my university – in fact, the few largest buildings in my university is actually designed by the late Kenzo Tange (he also dealt with the urban planning and layout of our campus) and they have his typical mid 1980s look – less aesthetic but very, very functional indeed.
The newer buildings, criticized by some that they don’t fit Kenzo Tange’s master plan, are designed with an intention to inject a breath of fresh air to the campus. The school of art, design and media, for example, sits on a parcel of land formerly reserved as a campus green lung in the master plan. However, it blends well into the surroundings with its mimicry of rolling hills:
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There’s another historical building on campus, the Chinese Heritage Center, that has a very strong oriental influence in its architecture and looks nothing like any of the buildings on campus :P
Basically my university has a rather unique mix of different architectural style – structuralism by Kenzo Tange (the North and South academic complexes), brutalism and minimalism of the school of art, design and media, and the evident oriental influence for the architecture of the Chinese Heritage Center.