ACT XXI

Confessions and the Watercube

I am a bad blogger. As my days are becoming fuller and the nights shorter, I find myself "too busy" to keep this blog going, which is contradictory to the reason that I started writing. I figure I should do one of two things: either stop blogging altogether or start writing more, because more than a month inbetween blogging is pretty ridiculous, especially when I answer "yes" when people ask me if I have a blog. So my September 18th resolution is to blog at least once a week. I would write more often than that, but most of the things I would write about are architecture-geeky, so my targeted audience would shrink considerably. I wouldn't want to lose my two readers.

I want to get away from the "on Monday, I did this" blog format because I don't want my blog to read as a diary. I want it to showcase my thoughts and inspirations and things I find interesting in my day, not what I had for lunch or how I got to sleep in so late today.

This is what I find interesting today:


The Australian architectural firm PTW designed this building, the Watercube, for the Bejing Olympic center for the 2008 Olympic Games. Quite obviously, the inspiration for the building is a soap bubble which is only relevant to the purpose of the building in the presence of water, since the swimmers are obviously not taking a bath, but the concept of a bubble applied in architectural form is pretty amazing.

posted by Jess @ 8:33 PM