In the studio, Steven Holl has an unusual record in maintaining a good relationship with customers and realizing his pursuit of the project, but inevitably he has left many regrets in his architectural career, and the seaside apartment is one of Steven’s most regretful works
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Among many well-known architects, Party A finally chose Steven because Steven knows Feng Shui and his philosophy can form an interesting connection with the unique site environment of lovely island
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The interaction between the building and the environment and the pursuit of light are his prominent design features
After the design was completed, because there was really no contractor on the island willing to contract the project, he had to visit a familiar partner in Seattle, provide him with some financial assistance with his own design fee, persuade his family to move to lovely island, and his children joined the local school
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Although Steven attaches great importance to the project, he believes that it is a model in the philosophical realization of environment and special terrain
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He expressed those wild ideas through watercolor expression, which has become an important design concept source of the project
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Waterfront apartment the site of the waterfront apartment is located on lovely island, Hawaii, which drifts along the crustal plate through a volcanic point at a rate of 3.5 inches per year
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He has won many architectural awards such as the famous Alva Alto award, the gold award of the American Institute of architects, the world culture award of his highness Komatsu palace, and won the highest honorary Medal of the Paris Institute of architecture and the honorary senior member of the Royal Institute of architects
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Steven is deeply fascinated by the characteristics of site geological changes and the properties of volcanic structure
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Watercolor sketch Steven is full of enthusiasm for the scheme
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Due to the fall of Hong Kong stock market, owners have no funds to realize the construction
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Let’s look at them
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However, the owner’s one line email made all his efforts in vain
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Bird’s-eye view of the renderings, however, was caught off guard
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The owner of the project in the north of lovely island is a Hong Kong person
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In addition, it is worth mentioning that Steven Holl is also a “painter”
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The partial perspective view of the building was finally exhibited by Steven at the Venice International Architecture Biennale, which also became the most regrettable project with great vitality
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Since 1977, he has got up early every day to draw watercolors for an hour
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World Trade Center
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Those watercolor sketches are the understanding of the project at hand in his mind
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Starting from phenomenology, its architectural works emphasize the user’s perception of the building itself
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Finally, he chose a scheme in which two L-shaped blocks are isolated from each other to show drift momentum, just like drifting crustal plates, which are separated from each other
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Extended reading of exhibition plan: Steven Holl, born in Washington in 1947, is one of the representatives of contemporary American architecture
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As a master of contemporary architecture, Steven Holl has created many classic construction projects such as the Louis Art Center of Princeton University, Simmons apartment of MIT, Helsinki Museum of contemporary art, Bellevue Art Museum and Beijing contemporary MoMA
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These sketches also carry a lot of his imagination and feelings like works of art
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After getting the general plan of the seaside apartment, Steven inspected the island for a week and drew a large number of watercolor sketches
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