the waterhouse @ south bund_nhdro

Old Japanese army headquarters turned boutique hotel in Shanghai by NHDRO. Corten steel + exposed concrete…love.

(images from Dezeen)

merry christmas!!!

Hope everyone is having a Very Merry Christmas this year!  Stay warm and toasty and joyous.  I’m truly blessed to have my family and loved ones around and in my life.  (Not to mention, Grandma’s food is the best!!)  Love to all!

(image from the Boston Herald)

bulletproof

Escher stairs of piano keys, grid it up, Mondrian-esque lines and colors, tetrahedron, falling polyhedrons, florescent colors light tubes…lovin’ the chaos in this video.

“Bulletproof” by La Roux

seeing hearts…

“Love at First Sight” glasses are the best!!  They make everything happy and will have you seeing hearts.

Discovered them during Thanksgiving at Jeff and Laura’s.  Thanks Laura for the find!  Pretty much had to get me a pair myself immediately.  Noa’s being a great model.

Get a pair.  See for yourself and Remember…don’t look directly at the sun.

(images by: vivien chin)

orange + rabbit cape

Orange with his rabbit fur cape. Dave & Hannah…you have such a luxurious cat 😉

(image by: vivien chin)

lo res heels_united nude

Abstraction of a pair of heels.  Lo Res Shoe for United Nude.  Concept by Rem Koolhaas.

The Lo Res Project 3D scans objects and simplifies the number of points used to represent it, thus creating its fragmented nature (the more points, the smoother the object; the less amount of points, the more fragments and triangular).

United Nude was founded by Rem Koolhaas and Galahad Clark.

These are so awesome.  I want a pair.

(images from Dezeen and United Nude)

fall 2010_central park

 

Highlights from this year’s fall colors in Central Park.  A little behind on the post, but better late then never!

 

(images by: vivien chin)

inspired by the 1960s

Stumbled upon this image while researching hairstyle ideas for our Madmen themed xmas party this year. This was one of my favorites. Lessons I learned: updos during this time were time consuming and hard! how did you do it everyday ladies? tease tease tease that hair…and spray spray spray that hairspray…

creeping colors

Loving the way the greens, oranges, and reds are climbing up the facade. Whimsical…

(image by: vivien chin)

counting to something….

Passed by this at the intersection of John St. & Water St. (?) in Wall Street area. What’s it counting up to? First inclination is to say it’s a clock, but not sure how to read it considering it was taken at 9am one day. Mystery….I should just google it 🙂

(image by: vivien chin)

this week’s desk view: sunset

(image by: vivien chin)