ITCOW 360 [Pano Asia].

Click image to launch panoramas.

State of Buildings document some really nice hostorical buildings and their website has a cool design that overlays all the information on a big map. They are a bunch of students from NUS who has keen interest in these buildings and we were happy that we could help.

Check them out at http://stateofbuildings.sg/ Facebook them at https://www.facebook.com/SOBuildings

Originally posted on 7 Feb ’14 @ 10:28 am

Go to the collections

Originally posted on 9 Jan ’14 @ 12:00 pm

A Tour holding all the Confucius Temple Taipei panoramas.

Originally posted on 7 Jan ’14 @ 12:00 am

With just six months to go, work is intensifying at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research to restore and prepare about 2,000 animal specimens for display ahead of the big move to the new Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, ready in mid-2014. The work on the specimens is just over halfway through.

Singapore’s only natural history museum, the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has received its largest gift from the Lee Foundation. This gift and others enables the RMBR to embark on building a new purpose-designed building for its invaluable collection of animals and plants specimens. To be renamed the ‘Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum’, the new building will showcase Southeast Asian biodiversity and environmental issues in its exhibition hall.

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/

Originally posted on 23 Dec ’13 @ 12:00 pm

Originally posted on 13 Oct ’13 @ 12:28 am

Visitors viewing the arrived guards taking up posititon near the entrance of the Shrine. Bad weather offers some respite to the guard’s shift.

Originally posted on 4 Oct ’13 @ 12:00 pm

At the center of all the buildings

Originally posted on 3 Oct ’13 @ 12:00 pm

The Presidential Office Building (Chinese: 總統府; pinyin: Zǒngtǒng Fǔ) houses the Office of the President of the Republic of China. The building, located in the Zhongzheng District in the national capital of Taipei, Republic of China, was designed by architect Uheiji Nagano during the period of Japanese rule of Taiwan (1895–1945). The structure originally housed the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan. Damaged in Allied bombing during World War II, the building was restored after the war by Chen Yi, the Governor-General of the Taiwan province. It became the Presidential Office in 1950 after the Republic of China lost control of mainland China and relocated the nation’s capital to Taipei City at the end of the Chinese Civil War.

– Wikipedia

Originally posted on 3 Oct ’13 @ 12:00 am

Lingxing Gate with 8 columns and double eaved roof. Decorated with 108 studs protruding from the wooden door. On the 2 sides are stone coloumns carved with dragons.

Originally posted on 2 Oct ’13 @ 12:00 am

Ringing the love bell enar Lover’s Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, Tamsui, Taiwan

Originally posted on 1 Oct ’13 @ 12:00 am

Trees full of squirrels near the entrance to Confucius Temple. Signs telling visitors to not feed these tiny creatures.

Originally posted on 29 Sep ’13 @ 12:00 am

Originally posted on 28 Sep ’13 @ 12:00 am

Chiang Kai-shek’s car from 1972 – 1975

This is one of Chiang’s official state cars, donated by overseas Chinese in the Philippines. The 1955 GM-manufactured Cadillac is a four-door, seven-seat limousine that measures 610 (L) x 200 (W) x 163 (H) cm and weighs three tons. It is fitted with bulletproof glass and other security measures. Chiang, however, only used the vehicle once.

 

In countries that have indigenous automobile manufacturers, the government will usually commission one of the national automakers to provide a state car, or allow several to provide cars for an official state fleet. That the Taiwanese government picked something from an American manufacturer certainly shows the intimate relationship between the US and Taiwan.

 

Also of note is the car plate, which reads 0888. In Chinese language, the number 8 sounds similar to the word for abundance and good fortune, and is often the preferred number used for car plates, street numbers, cell phone numbers, etc.

Originally posted on 27 Sep ’13 @ 12:00 am

Fuyou Temple, Danshui, Taiwan

Originally posted on 26 Sep ’13 @ 12:00 am

A remake of the panos into a one page site.

Originally posted on 12 Sep ’13 @ 10:11 am

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Originally posted on 17 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 pm

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 15 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 pm

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 15 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 am

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 14 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 pm

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 14 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 am

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 13 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 am

This is part of the Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace project

http://www.13wilkieterrace.com/

Originally posted on 12 Jun ’13 @ 12:00 am