i am nothing of a builder..................

And I am nothing of a builder
But here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade
To keep you home, to keep you safe
From the outside world
But the angles and the corners,
Even though my work is unparalleled,
They never seemed to meet
This structure fell about our feet
And we were free to go.........

by The Decemberists

white house, kandy (#39)

White House, Cafe and Restaurant, Kandy
Architect: Shyan Kumaradas
Photos: Waruna Gomis

rethink DC metro stations - a blog on metro architecture

Nice blog in metro (underground) architecture and the urban issues that goes with it. Great graphical analysis of urban systems.

serendib

 

Waruna Gomis' work has been published as part of an article in Serendib Magazine (Sri Lankan Air Line in-flight magazine). Few other phots of the same session are here.

Note: If you have not noticed, this article, sub-titled as "a Dutch Legacy" goes with a background picture of a British period building! 

bad architecture

Here are two interesting links on bad architecture
One is on Bad British Architecture,
and the other is on Bad South African Architecture.
Is there one on bad American architecture, I wonder?

Bad architecture Flickr group