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duyong

Published April 20, 2007 aesthetics , anish kapoor , architecture , craft , interiors 1 Comment

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Duyong, a restaurant designed by zlgdesign [susanne zeidler and huat lim] created from tradition, albeit reference to the art of making boats, nearly lost through the ages can be seen here in Kuala Terengganu, in Pulau Duyong. The simple geometry of a arched structure assembled to represent and echo the forms of a malay boat gives this interior its essential meaning and presence.

www.duyong.com [website]


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on philosophy

" Thinking is a form of [conscious] action, a necessary precursor to making something beautiful."

Huat LIM

on design

"Design may indeed be complex, but I could not yet imagine it to be complicated...A work can be torturously complex, extravagant, excessively vulgar even…or it can be so simple and plain, almost to the point where it is devoid of any embellishment or decoration, I wouldn’t have an issue with either, but when it is neither that it is considered utterly mundane and ugly."

Huat LIM

on architecture

Yet there is still a little problem I have to solve in my head, and that is that I think architecture is taking a bit too long to becoming like what good art is, generative and always assuming an emotive role. We have yet to make it possible for us to connect to our buildings as easily as we do with a work of art or a piece of music, or things we adore, like our children or our books.

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