The Museo Soumaya is located in Mexico City, Mexico and is named after Soumaya Doumit. The project was designed and overseen by Fernando Romero and was funded by Carlos Slim. Museo Soumaya is a privately owned museum which I had the opportunity of visiting two years ago. I was in awe of traveling from a pueblo to the city and how the funds towards buildings drastically change.

It was evident that this museum is one of luxury and is surrounded by tourists. I found it incredible that the outside was skewed and the inside also followed the pattern because it had a circular ramp. The outside was remarkable and walking through it was even more insane because of how the simplistic design complimented the building in its entirety. I also liked the message about how Carlos Slim had constructed the Museo Soumaya in honor of his wife.

The Imperial Palace, Hue

So last Christmas, me and my family went back to Vietnam to visit my family, I had the chance to visit the imperial city in Hue city. It’s the place for King and Queen live long time ago, it’s like the Forbidden palace in China but smaller. I would say it’ one of the most beautiful place I have ever visited. The palace is so huge it took me almost a day to just walk around. When I was there, I was very impressed by the buildings and big walls.

My first blog is over this 10GYM in East Tulsa. As you can see there is nothing brilliant about it’s architecture as it is just a big box of a building. It is located in a little shopping center next to a thrift store. I have been a member of this inexpensive corporate chain gym for about 5 years. It holds meaning to me as I look back to when I first started going and notice how so much has changed.  I believe it serves as a good reminder to myself of how much I have changed in the past 5 years. This gym building reminds me of the physical strength that I have gained over time but also how much I have changed as an individual.

This is my first semester here at Price College. I was pretty overwhelmed by this building at first because I thought it was pretty huge compared to the other school I went to before coming here. However, as the semester went on, I felt that the architecture and the atmosphere of the building was pretty nice. The architecture of Price College has an old style to it, but at the same time it has some modernistic characteristics to it. I love coming to Price because not only does most of my classes meet here, it gives me the sense to work hard and learn more about major at the college.

I have never been to sporting event until 5 years ago, when I went to my first Thunder game at Chesapeake Arena. I was amazed how big and well built the arena was in person. There was tons of booths and concession stands for food inside and it can house so many people at one time. It had impacted me in a positive way because I got to see a Thunder game and that the architecture was different from what I was used to seeing. It was surreal when I got to go experience my first Thunder game because not only did Thunder win, it got me interested on how people come up with ideas for different buildings.

MVRDV Architects created this small project called the Didden Village in 2006 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was created for the purpose of giving a residential area for local people. It is very small, only 120 m^2. It is on a rooftop of a historical building and atelier. There are multiple bedrooms for each person in order to keep privacy.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/132/didden-village

This is the Gwangju Folly. Located in Gwangju, South Korea. It was created in 2017 for the purpose of education for children and as a decore. This place is considered a folly because it is a small intervention that is not taken too seriously in the area. It is only 960 m^2. This is to revitalize the urbanization that is occurring in the area.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/300/gwangju-folly

This is the Ilot de l’Octroi. It is located in Rennes, France. The design was on site in 2016 and has been there for commercial and residential use. it is 8200 m^2. The architects were inspired by rocks and the geometry was based on natural rock formations like mountains and hills.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/252/ilot-de-l%E2%80%99octroi

This building is a Pho restaurant in Northside OKC. It is really small and very homey. The people there are really nice and the food is really good. When I think of this place, it reminds me of the first time I had pho. I used to live in Texas and when I moved to Oklahoma I had pho for the first time and it was so good that I always asked my parents to make me pho all the time. This restaurant brings back memories of childhood which makes me sad.

This is a little building I went by in Solvang, California. I took a picture of this little alleyway because it was very cute and small. All the buildings reminded me of Snow White huts because of how everything was very European. I went with my family last year during Spring. Apparently California rarely rains and while we were visiting this small town it rained a lot.