Posts Tagged ‘design’
Taiwan Day 2
On my second full day, my parents and my aunt and cousin, Nathan, took a trip to Yang Ming Mountain to eat some really good chicken. Omg it was good. I don’t usually like chicken. It’s such a common flavor. Everything can taste like chicken. But the chicken here taste soooo good. I don’t know what they feed them but it’s amazing. We had this taro stuff too that was sooooo good. I’m so glad that I like eating taro now when I used to dislike it. Food is so much more fun to eat when you’re less picky. Currently, I’m working on liking bitter melon and assorted beans. Then I think I’ll be done (insects and other exotic animals aside).
Then we went to Dharma Drum Mountain, a Buddhist school for monks to drum? The place didn’t look overbearing at all and was quiet peaceful. None of that, swooping roofs, red and gold dragons or colorful sculptures. It was really modern, sleek, and minimal.
The Center was inaugurated on October 21, 2005. The buildings in the Center were designed in harmony with contours of the mountain, with brown, gray, and white as their main color, reflecting a humanistic spirit while merging with nature, and featuring a simple and moderate architectural style, making the whole environment and the complex itself a means of teaching.
In addition, in effort to realize environmental protection, ecological construction methods were adopted in constructing the buildings, so as to show respect to, preserve, and protect life and natural resources.
This was taken by someone else. Pictures aren’t allow inside the building.
The picture doesn’t do the place justice. There is a glass window behind the statue that you can look through to see the running water on the wall behind it. There is also a pool of water running around her.
Regardless of religion, it’s a really calming place and the design is really nice.
I bought this awesome mug from the gift shop.
The sillhouette is filled with silver foil and lines eminate from him. Totally my favorite cup now.
Later we went to Black Store, a restaurant my brother keeps raving about. It was good. But I felt so guilty in the end. Which is just about every night now for the past 4 days I’ve been here.
Sims Apartments
The best thing I love about Sims, as I’ve written before, is building homes. With apartments, you can build apartment homes!
Here is the front! I like the columns. It’s really too bad I can’t take pictures from building mode anymore, since I have a family moved into the penthouse, but the furniture I chose for all the homes are really luxurious. If you live on the third floor, the rooms are smaller but the furniture is better. Originally I had three homes on each side…those rooms were like…Japan tiny.
Start at the top! This is the left side of the building and open to all tenets from the recreation room two stories down. There is a bar at the bottom left corner, and lots of seats and a bubble maker (that is actually like a hookah).
This is actually the middle of the fourth floor. The elevators go up to the fourth floor, but the main door to the penthouse is right in front of the elevators, so guests have to ring the doorbell right at the elevators. I like the outdoor reclining chairs with the bookcase in the middle. The left door goes to the penthouse party room, and the right door goes to actual living space.
This is the top of the right side of the building. This floor is only available to my family that lives in the penthouse. See the stairs! Outdoor rooftop onsen > <. Gaaah. I need more decor here @_@. Plants…
The fourth floor with the walls up. The room is actually a backwards C. The space you see in the middle of the C is a balcony to the rec room. Imagine walking out and seeing the large windows and the rec room! All the railings are glass and you can go to the rooftop using the spiral stairs. This party side of the room has a bowling ball strip, disco floor, and a karaoke machine you can’t see at the top. Also a candy vending machine, (the bright green). And a bar.
Here it is with the walls down. The black and white tile flooring is the balcony.
The living space. Japanese style walls. Every room is an individually separated room. Wood floor hallways and tatami flooring in the rooms. The doors also slide. The little room in the middle is the tea room with only two walls so it is open to the third floor. Imagine being in the tea room and being able to see the third floor, the kitchen, like a loft. The spiral stairs to the third floor are right next to the main door, in that little room. I had to make it a room because those stairs go directly to the roof, and if I didn’t put the stairs in the little room, the whole floor would be freezing in the winter.
This is with the walls down. See the open space near the large windows? Loooove it. I looove lofts. The rightmost room is a sauna.
This is the third floor. See how the pent house goes down to the third floor, but only in the middle, and is occupied by other tenants on both sides. There is also no door to the third floor of the penthouse on the third floor, but there are for the other two apartment homes.
I also love this kitchen > <. Shiny stainless steel.
This is the recreational room available to all tenants. The door to here is just an open archway. Treadmills, weight lift machine, cycling, pool table, darts, and jacuzzi. Spiral staircase on the corner to go to the balcony or the rooftop. This rec room is also in between two apartment homes.
There are two elevators and also two spiral staircases, one on each side of the elevators.
View of the kitchen and the rec room.
I’d love to hang around here > <.
Second floor. Two homes on each side.
First floor walls up. I like the giant knight in the lobby @_@.
Walls down.
The outside park area. Soccer, basketball, lucky shrine, pool…
Kids big toy, and pond that is frozen over because it’s winter.
And if you still don’t really understand the pictures, here is a quick video.