Accolades from Woopoo

I just voted – go Brownstoner! Checked out the other candidates- some stiff competition– now that your reno is about done, maybe it’s time to branch out a little. Perhaps sharing more knowledge about architecture would breathe some fresh air, or some decorating theory. The “bubble” arguments are a little tired.

You should post the Gridskipper contest on your site so people know to vote. Some other nominated sites did so.

Impressive that they linked to you at all, given your recent history of Asian ethnic slurs. 😉

Brownstoner is up for World’s Best Urban Architecture Blog in voting for The Urbs: 2005 Urban Blogging Awards for . Vote here:
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/gridskipper/the-urbs-2005-urban-blogging-awards-voting-begins-141053.php

using http://babelfish.altavista.com/ that last entry roughly says this:

Maintains the oneself national culture in the fast globalization tendency the characteristic? Springs up everywhere along with MaC$donald and the Kentuckey fried chicken shop from Seoul to Shanghai’s each street corner, but Manila’s high level work turret looks with Manhattan any difference, very many people has not been worrying for the oneself city at present development way “The city, looks like the airport to be same, changes more and more similarly”, this is a speech which a current very red architect â–¡storehouse Hass frequently said The Asian high production paddy rice cultivation can support more population compared to the western wheat, but this agricultural economy has the certain influence to the Asian city disposition formation The Asian can suitably process each kind of conflict, for instance construction and garden, or Kong Ru and Lao-Zhuang’s thought. The perhaps globalization and the localization also can harmoniously coexist Although the globalization has brought some kind of degree stereotyped to the city, but this is only the superficial phenomenon. Perhaps Shanghai has the skyscraper which digs up from Hueston or Atlanta, but is working in the building still is speaking Chinese, and Texas person or Georgia person’s entirely different life Perhaps our language and food can change, but that is extremely slow Asian’s manners and customs cannot merely because the Mcdonald hamburger arrival vanishes When estimate construction to some specific region influence, actual user this important attribute is frequently neglected, after but the people changed the construction down to several years completely are another appearance Winston â–¡Churchill has said: “We have molded the construction, they in turn also changed us “Moreover the people complete the project after the contractor also unceasingly to change the construction: Makes some extensions, trades the facing material, wipes out internal partition wall, recreates the house decoration and so on Although perhaps constructs when just completed was identical, came to use them from the different cultural context people with each one different way, the popular thing very quick had own characteristic Koolhaas said. “The architects can for own idea call or the scream, or add on a pagoda in 50 high roofs to go against, but all these certainly cannot change behind the city standardization landscape the basic fluxionary calculus principle”. “We should not reject this kind of globalization, but should establish own related theory.” Koolhaas suggested: “Perhaps we should give up own individuality, perhaps these individualities are fettering us.” In Koolhaas speech taunt meaning, but is extremely sincere. In his fire general lecture, he suggested the architects may regard as the present condition are “a white paper which describes for us”, even may use “to liberate” this word. No matter the Koolhaas suggestion how, the stereotyped popularity to Beijing or Hanoi’s downtown area certainly isn’t an appropriate answer. Made the response to the existing environment as well as the ancient times trace, also could look like the previous place 推平 has come equally to stimulate again the building imagination. The disorderly mutual influence in fact, which is precisely each kind is conflicting in the solution way creates, only then causes the big city to become the people the place which excitedly goes crazy for it. The Asian city future will be throughout exists by each kind of strength between “gives with demands” the decision: Not merely is the massive capitals, but also has these historical protection movement, the modernism, the environment design, the cultural localization, the government bureaucrats, is covering corruption and degeneration, enlightened plan as well as independent architect. This certainly is not a process which a tide resembles, also no format balances each kind is competing the strength, but is likely same on the acupuncture and moxibustion, experienced doctor serves with the incisive pressure in the key place to be able to help to cure the body stubborn illness. It was not one extremely strict science, but it has been already utilized several millenniums, moreover sometimes indeed also plays the role. Here quotes a storehouse Hass’s speech: “The architecture is helpless, civilization also similarly so Our all people all complain us faced with the stereotyped metropolis environment We said we need to create America, 可识别性, quality and order Perhaps however, the fact is, we have the city is, perhaps does not have any individuality itself which we longed for to provide the most good life environment (original text context, or translates 文脉).”