Panetteria Princi in Milan... Especially as architecture and food are directly related here. This project fuses the life elements - water, air, fire and earth, which are crucial to cooking and baking, just as they are to architecture ... In principle the Panettria consists of a single, large, lucidly articulated room where all the activities needed to make bread - one of our staple foods - and other baked goods, including selling and eating them, take place at the same time. Rigorous geometry is paired with warm colours and sensual materials: rough porphyry for the floor, rough stone blocks as counters and shaped as tables to stand at, earth-coloured brass panes as wall cladding, fire for baking - visible from everywhere, presented as a focal point - and of course wood, for the place where the kneading and baking take place. Baking as elemental, primal activity, something that is normally kept from our eyes, is deliberately thrust into the foregound, spatially intensified. It happens behind great panes of glass, and can be seen both from outside and inside. The division between manufacture and selling is removed. Both take place in the same space, on the same stage. And just as all the activities are spatially linked, so are all the materials closely related to each other.
-texts Architectural Esssentials by Claudio Silvestrin, p126 The architect, the cook, and the taste Birkhauser
Just 5 minutes from Duomo, we could get this modern, crowded bakery.
As the architect said, the space was for all social strata. It was a democratic space in which everyone feels good regardless of background or status. but you've got to dash to try their bread before lunchtime!
-photo July 2008 in Milan
Looking back to last winter in Helsinki.
Panetteria Princi in Milan
그림같이 짓지 마라. 그런 효과는 담장에게, 산에게, 해에게 넘겨줘라. 그림같이 옷을 입은 인간은 그림이 아니고, 어릿광대다. 농부는 그림 같이 옷을 입지 않는다. 그는 그 자체다. 
A magazine which I bought in triennale museo in milan. 
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Sometimes I want to go back to the time when I studied drawing and sculpture. As I have worked in the field of architecture, I seem to forget all of those art things. When I first saw David Chipperfield's projects in plans and photos, I just found it cool or cold. I haven't been any of his projects, but this picture came to me with its warmness, and story. Come to think of it, I think I used to draw indoor space, but I never drew pictures which were focused on any buildings or something like facade. Yes, actually there were no buildings to draw here, but the state of mind could be expressed well when it was described through space. Why I reminded the time is this photo looks like a painting, not an architecture photo. Soft wall finish like touches on painting, heavy concrete bench which doesn't have a headachy detail, and the sunshine... 
Living a long life is sort of another present for fans or audience, particularly as a maestro who had a hard time as a jazz musician. While most of the jazz musician had short lives, Sonny Rollins is almost 80 years old now, the god of jazz goes around the world for the music. Although he walked up with a limp on the stage, he played saxophone for about 2 hours and conducted his band. It was of course different from something that I listened in local jazz clubs. As I listened his music, I felt all of the saxophone playing that I listened before were just something in cabaret or something. Although there were too much playing percussion, generally it could never be better. 
A cafe in Louisiana museum of modern art, Denmark. After seeing inside and outside of the building, I had to have a rest. With the ocean view through wide glass window, it served cozy and warm atmosphere for visitors. I could find some familiar materials like wooden louver ceiling, brick floor, etc, as I worked with those material in 101arch.
The entrance of church Temppeliaukio in Helsinki. It was too difficult to find here, so called "rock church", because it's covered with the natural rocks. The religious architecture wasn't shallow nor superficial like any other ones with only glamourous surface. Please look at the small cross, it is the only sign that you can recognise that it is a church.
Nefés means "breath" in Turkish. Pina Bausch described Nefés of Turkey as a dance. Turk women's Nefés was not that comfortable, nor easy. It is not easy to translate social issue into art, but she did it beautifully, if I can say that Turk women's human right is sort of social issue. Almost all scenes were directed gracefully, especially concerning water and dancer's hair. The music was nice at each scene, but most of it seemed to be a bit unrelated with the dance.
Cesaria Evora, aka barefoot diva for her perfoming without shoes. 
Bar Atelier
How young I was!! I have terrible memory but I can't forget every moments in Assisi in 2001. It was first journey by myself to Europe, although I regreted travelling alone since its first day. Good things would be better if it can be shared. Thankfully, I met some nice American guys, and I had my photo taken in front of St. Francesco.
Can you recognise who's design it is? 
