Joshua Smith Temple Street based on 23 Temple street, Kowloon, Hong Kong Cardboard, MDF, plastic card, LED lighting, balsa wood, aluminum tubing, wire, recycled card, adhesive paper, spray paint 30 H x 22.5 H x 19.5 D 2017 Joshua Smith is an Australian artist whose sculptures are all miniatures of urban houses and scenes from famous big cities like Sidney, Los Angeles or Hong Kong that he has become enthralled with. Everything down to the graffiti on the walls, the lights within the house, and the newspapers or cigarette butts found on the streets is recreated in immense detail, but at a fraction of the size. The attention to detail and the patience he needs to reconstruct his urban scenery make Joshua Smith both a storyteller and an archeologist of the present time. Working at a small scale invites viewers into a personal and intimate relationship with the piece, while at the same time keeping him at a distance, unable to fully “enter” the work. Joshua Smith plays with scale to create intrigue, as now the viewer is larger than the buildings they are used to walking into. By this sly role reversal the viewer ends up questioning their own reality, and imagining what it’s like to be a giant to embark into a whimsical adventure.
In 1968, China embarked on a journey of reform that saw its once closed-off Communist society open-up to the rapidly globalizing world around it. This transform
Image 1 of 25 from gallery of China Fuzhou Jin Niu Shan Trans-Urban Connector / LOOK Architects. Photograph by Zhou Yue Dong
other projects' design for a pavilion in the west kowloon district highlights the idea of 'pause', creating an intimate and open space for visitors.
At dusk, Wengcheng, as the old barbican of Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, suddenly turns into a wonderful children’s football field, where kids shout joyfully, chase each other enthusiastically, kick the ball to the ancient city wall and wait for a perfect bounce-back without any...
Traditional Chinese architecture and modern skyscrapers seen from near Yuyuan. Shanghai, Sept. 2011.
In 1968, China embarked on a journey of reform that saw its once closed-off Communist society open-up to the rapidly globalizing world around it. This transform
Image 38 of 38 from gallery of Qin Garden / DOES DESIGN. Axon
The south-east region of Fujian Province in China is a quite picturesque green mountainous landscape that has long been a home to many of one of Chinas minority groups the Hakkas. The Hakkas are probably most well known for cuisine, culture but mostly for their very unique homes of which many still standing today date back over 700 years
