Dee Dee’s Rules

Feb 23rd, 2020 This ceiling is a study of hard fast rules of axis, symmetry and repetition resulting in an expression of beauty. You can see the coffered ceiling and stepping of the drywall that will adorned with plaster moulding. The metal stud gives us a rigid ceiling that does not shrink as opposed to a wood framed ceiling. As I say to a sander keep going to make this surface as smooth as a new born’s skin. Truly it starts with the framer for levelness and from there it layers up. The rule is Do Not Do Your Work…

Jan 27th, 2020 Waiting and waiting, then where do you go? Untitled: From the series Iran by Gohar Dashti 2013 ink-jet print in Freer Museum Washington, DC. This image resonates with as a collection of people going as a group to where and where are they allowed travel or not allowed. The strangeness is the orderly line that is formed. It scares me, be yourself and take the road less traveled. Ask yourself what are you looking for? The Freer is a small perfect museum to capture a beautiful piece of architecture and intimate collections.

Dec 23rd, 2019 Not a lot to say except look up and watch. Let’s take this motto and explore: look at the tops of buildings and away from our phones, be in the moment. If a rock is coming crashing down move aside and live. In the end nature wins and that is all true. What is more beautiful the smashed old car or the purple jagged rock; I am going with the rock. Maybe the rock would not be so beautiful without its sitting on the smashed car. That I believe, it truly takes two to Tango.

Nov 25th, 2019 Gardens by the Bay houses the Supertree Grove stating spectacular. These gardens play with scale by you experiencing the height of a tree above grade; you feel small one moment and enormous the next. The gardens are a modern form of a Central Park in NYC where you walk and ponder and feel the park in the city. So futuristic you want to fly around the gardens with an airpack and picnic in the sky: I am sure this is on its way. The astounding truism with visiting these gardens is to experience it there is no…

Oct 21ST, 2019 When you can light a building in pink, just do it. The actual building becomes a true piece of art and a lighting beacon. New in Bangkok but looking older with the balustrades and futuristic with the glow of the pink. One building many shades of ages or ageless. Architecture is art and vice versa. Perhaps this is trend with the building changing shades. Tomorrow’s colour could be a pale blue signalling a time for pause. The swirling of the balconies in repetition makes the mass playful and powerful. The form is consistent, yet the lighting makes…