Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I saw a number of buildings like that in Asia. A colleague of mine who had been an architectural draftsman in his younger days said: “One thing I love about China: In the US we ask ‘can we build this?’, in China they ask ‘why couldn’t we build this?'”
Back in the 70s there was a brief fad of building half levels, often offset from the other levels (I’m sure this is a terrible explanation). The house I grew up in was like this. The master bedroom was off the stair landing, four steps below the second story.
Sheesh, saw the headline and feared a bimbo explosion. 🙂
Nice sky. I like this one a lot.
I saw a number of buildings like that in Asia. A colleague of mine who had been an architectural draftsman in his younger days said: “One thing I love about China: In the US we ask ‘can we build this?’, in China they ask ‘why couldn’t we build this?'”
My hotel in Bangkok was a couple blocks away from the MahaNakhon skyscraper.
@DrDaveT: Sky is everything!
@Mu Yixiao: Cool building.
Back in the 70s there was a brief fad of building half levels, often offset from the other levels (I’m sure this is a terrible explanation). The house I grew up in was like this. The master bedroom was off the stair landing, four steps below the second story.
For a pic titled “Stacked”, that was pretty phallic.