14.8.2025 Thursday - touching up

 Judy's auntie passes away this morning, she was 55 and the youngest of Elaine's sisters. Judy has been caring for her since she was placed under home palliative care, I wonder if Judy can now come to Japan with us. The accommodation and travel arrangements would have to be adjusted and revised of course, but I have faith in the system set up by our young people. They are very capable and caring, and would think about the best way to accommodate without minimum ripples. 

I see this in the way we share work with our work partners as well. When I tell one that the fee share is 70-30; they instinctively take on that amount of work load (and usually more) whereas when we decide that the work split is 15-85; again the word load is adjusted and revised to suit these new percentages. 

A conversation with PH who spoke to a client about a potential project in Miri

A conversation with HP who then spoke to Ellie, the M&E coordinator on site

Talking to George about solid-void relationship and honesty of expression

17.1.2025 Friday - Steel-lifting Stage 2

 I finally get to work on Block 3, and this morning I have what Ricco would call a good chat with JY. We discuss the practical aspects; Fire-fighting access, circulation, land in front of the river, we also talk about the key concepts which differentiate this with our other schemes for this client - the green link connecting all levels with pauses at every floor, views of the river, architectural language. After this, she sets off to calculate the building volume to work out the extend of the fire -fighting access. 

Block 3 apartments

22 Dec 2021 Wednesday

Wednesday - after the weekend zoom call with Penghui and Fiona, I started to sketch out the SOHO SK2. I did not have the whole idea in my head when I started, but sometimes you just have to start and hope that something will come to the surface. I also wanted to start because I had some free time, while the others are busy. It is a good lesson about getting things started.

So, early this morning, I sent out these images and hope that the others will see something to complement or to contradict me, and improve the scheme. The process goes to and fro until we think that it is ready to show the client. 
 

Late this evening, Teck rang me and asked if I was interested to look into the renovation of an existing hotel in town. I designed and oversaw the construction of his house, I found him to be bold and generous, he can be impatient but values hard work and thoroughness (we have those qualities). IJ was surprised when I told her that we do not pitch for work, and that all of our work is through referrals, which she found hard to believe. Freddie was with us then, and seemed to understand and agree with what I said. I counted and said - we have only 3 clients in total for the larger projects.

I remember that she was a little snooty (lighting supplier)