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.

This is the apartment complex my grandma used to live at back in Busan, South Korea. Nothing was really special about this place, but it had a lot of memories in it. Behind these apartment complexes were big mountains we used to hike for fun and eat wild strawberries. My grandma lived on the 15th floor of the last building so we never used air conditioning because the air was so cool at night. This place brings a lot of happiness in my heart.

This place is a very sentimental place for me because as a child I would spend most of my time here while my dad was going to school.  This is the campus area for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. There were lots of Koi fish and I would go here often with my dad and feed it white bread. Next to me in the yellow building was the library. There I would rent books and cassette tapes of my favorite shows like TMNT and Veggie Tales.

This is the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. The home field of the Fc Barcelona soccer team. I traveled here in June of 2015 and it took my breath away. When you walk up, they make you know of the history of the excellent team they were and still are to this day. With breathtaking ways of displaying various trophies and pictures of tremendous athletes that have played on this field I am standing before. As you walk into the stadium, you first notice the size and fan base it brings along with it.

These are the things that mean the most to me because it is a meeting point for the fans to celebrate not only what happened in the past but to create history each time the soccer club touches the field. It was truly inspiring to me to see it for myself on that day. I had grown up watching them play and to then see where all those amazing games happened left me feeling blown away. A memory I will hold on to for the rest of my life.

This is the National Weather Center (NWC) and National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).  I was first introduced to this building in 2014 when I attended the Oklahoma Mesonet Meteorology Camp. Even back then I knew that my passion was meteorology, specifically severe weather phenomenon.  I fell in love with this building!  Fast-forward four years and I am back in Oklahoma studying meteorology at the building that is known all over the world and is the epicenter of weather.

This is a beautiful building houses the National Severe Storms Laboratory, National Weather Service, Oklahoma Mesonet, Storm Prediction Center, as well as classrooms for the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology students. One of the classrooms is even on the roof of the NWC!  This allows students to experience the weather phenomenon that we study in the real world.

My outlook on this building has shifted slightly.  I used to see it as this magical place that I could see myself potentially work in one day.  Even though I still believe that, it has a more serious feeling now that I am a student and take classes in this building.  However, every time I enter this building, I think back to 2014 and cannot believe that I get the privilege to study meteorology at the National Weather Center as a student at the University of Oklahoma.

This building is the Physical Science Center on the University of Oklahoma’s campus; however it is also known as, “the blender.”  As you can see, the tall tower and style makes it look like an actual blender.  This building holds a multitude of different classes at OU ranging from English to math.  The faculty offices are in the tower and the classrooms can be found on floors 1 to 4.  Personally, I have spent hundreds of hours in this building, mostly for my math classes.

When I first came into this building during my freshman year, I was excited because I knew that many of my classes would be in this building and I would be spending a lot of time here throughout my collegiate career to earn my degree.  However, I feel as if my experience and thoughts of this building have changed since I have been here. The building itself is very closed off and does not have any windows where the students learn.  The classrooms are also incredibly hard to find, especially on the first day of class, so you usually have to get there early.  However, I do appreciate that this building does allow me to learn the necessary information that I need for my degree.

I went to Taiwan 10 years ago and I loved everything there. The thing that I found most incredible there was the Taipei 101 skyscraper. The skyscraper has 101 stories to it, and it is said to resemble a bamboo stick. When I first saw this building, I was completely amazed because I have never seen a skyscraper before and looking at it closely was breathtaking. At night, it was able to change colors on the outside of the building and I got take the elevator to the top to see the city from there. It was nice to see how elegantly they had build the skyscraper in order to be so tall and that it won’t collapse so easily. After seeing this building, I wanted to learn more about architecture because I wanted to know how they built the building.

Picture Citation

Hogg, C. (2004, December 31). Asia-Pacific | Taipei 101: A view from the top. Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4137865.stm