Life between Buildings
Hanoi: You Could Live Here
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 23, 2013 | Hanoi, Shopfronts
Video: 2m03sec. I like having red-wine conversations about the magnificent environments we’ve all found in our trips abroad. I...
READ MOREMen At Work Maintaining Mainstreets – Hanoi Style
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 23, 2013 | Hanoi, Men At Work Maintaining Mainstreets
Above: Pho Hang Non, near near Hang Manh, Hanoi Vietnam.Super-Chubbs would be proud!For those new to Men At Work Maintaining Mainstreets...
READ MOREBuilding Heights and Human Scale – Argument Unresolved, Or Is It?
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 20, 2013 | Ho Chi Minh City, Hotels, Skinny Buildings
A Beautiful City has a new category: Skinny Buildings We all instinctively know that our cities appear better when huge, ugly buildings do not...
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Hanoi is Embarrasing
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 19, 2013 | Hanoi, Hardware, Shopfronts
I’m in Hanoi and it’s embarrassing. I recall being in Torun, Poland and having the same thought. It’s an embarrassment of...
READ MOREiPhone Pickpocket in Hanoi – Maybe
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 18, 2013 | A Beautiful City News, Hanoi
I think I have become the proud victim of a pickpocket (Hanoi) as I have lost my iPhone. If you recive any peculiar notes, messages or texts-...
READ MOREIt’s a Sign #11, in Phnom Penh
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 16, 2013 | It's a Sign, Phnom Penh
Sell the steak, not the sizzle. That’s what I say.
READ MOREHello from Phnom Penh
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 15, 2013 | A Beautiful City News
Hello everyone. Things are going well here in Phnom Penh.Yesterday, I spent four hours in a tuk-tuk, instructing the driver to show me...
READ MOREMainstreet Rejuventation Through Innnovative Management
by Nicholas Takács | Jul 9, 2013 | East Victoria Park, People Counting, Public Art
I am proud to say I have been working with Arthur Kyron and Ben Rose of the Town of Victoria Park in their programs to rejuventate their...
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