感動我的 (19): 1.川賴先生，林女士相見，文化交流。 2. 我對喻紹發、張己任的小抽樣。 "十方樂集 柴可夫斯基第六號交響曲”悲愴”–15ips母帶分享" 3.At a U.K. A.I. summit ；Paul Klee 圖像庫的編年排列 A.I. 。 4. 美國 UAW 談判成功，中產階級的擴增 (Robert Reich) 。5.書物最難忘情 (Books Offer Shelter From the Storm of Dementia，誠品信義，紐約某公寓。。6. "Mononoke Village" Ghibli Park ， 7.反思"台灣，世界的答案：加拿大為何會認為台灣很重要？" 纽约时报中文网 等等 ......Marinelli鑄鐘廠主要為教堂製鐘 8.欣賞──鐘聲 誰在傾聽、誰在撫鐘(聖嚴和尚).......{唐宋，戴明，徐志摩}；9.日本料理 {Steve Jobs 張錯和黃英哲} 10. A New Place to Learn Civics: The Workplace 。 Steven Mithen《歌唱的尼安德特人：語言和音樂的起源》 。
感動我的 (20): "In the end, we'll all become stories." (-Margaret Atwood). “Now and Then” (Beatles).......來到蟾蜍山聚落【王溢嘉 發現台灣032】 Boy on the Bike (英國，50年後重返)。有點趣味的"路上觀察學院" 。2007年起沒缺席過的週五約會Our lightning (唐香燕) 。 "雜誌 "MAGAZINE哀歌( Jeff Jarvis)。輔仁大學校園景觀規劃案(楊英風藝術教育基金會)。開館33周年(竹久夢二美術館)、漢寶德紀念館 。校友(1973)吳文建 - - - 美惠/返台生活日記：逛逛台北、圓山飯店 中國電影「雪豹」
Architecture Icons – Series 12 / Alison Brooks is a Canadian-British architect celebrated for her innovative and human-centered approach to design. Founder of Alison Brooks Architects in London, she merges art, emotion, and precision in works like the Accordia Brass Building in Cambridge and Oxford’s Cohen Quad. Her masterpiece, The Smile, a “habitable arc poised on the horizon”, became a global sensation, viewed over 290 million times.
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14 March 1933) is an English actor, retired as of 2023.[3] Known for his distinct Cockney accent,[4] he has appeared in more than 130 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon.[5][6] He has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide.[7] Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades.[a] In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
When Michael Caine told his mother he had earned a million pounds for a film, she didn’t gasp, didn’t cheer, didn’t even blink. She furrowed her brow, puzzled by the scale of the number, and softly asked,
“How much money is this? I can't understand.”
She wasn’t asking him to repeat it. She couldn't the figure. She genuinely wanted to understand it — to translate it into something real, something she had lived her whole life chasing: security.
Ellen Frances Marie Burchell had scrubbed floors and polished furniture for other people simply to survive. Money, for her, wasn’t counted — it was stretched. Soap-burned fingers, aching spine, war-time rations, sirens over South London, two hungry boys waiting at home.
She didn’t dream of riches. She dreamt of rest.
Michael smiled, gentle, proud — and finally able to give her the one thing she had never been offered by life.
“Mum,” he said, “it means you never have to work again. Not ever.”
In that moment, the war years fell away — the shelters, the fear, the cold water, the silent prayers that her boys wouldn’t grow up trapped in the life she knew too well. She used to tell him:
“Study. Work hard. Get out. Don’t live like this.”
He had promised. And he kept it.
With Zulu, Alfie, The Ipcress File, and a thousand auditions before them — he climbed. Every performance carried the memory of his mother scrubbing someone else’s kitchen floor. Every applause echoed her voice urging him forward.
He bought her a house.
He gave her mornings without alarm clocks and nights without worry.
He took her to premieres, though she never believed she belonged to that world. Simple dress, quiet smile — forever the woman who measured life not in glamour but in peace.
She passed in 1989, not tired, not burdened — calm. Safe. Free.
And Michael — Sir Michael Caine by then — never forgot the soil he came from or the woman who tilled it for him.
Nicholas Grimshaw, 85, Dies; British Architect Known for High-Tech Designs
He melded his country’s history of engineering and industrial design with a modern sensibility to help shape the face of 21st-century Britain.
Among Mr. Grimshaw’s most idiosyncratic works was the Eden Project, opened in 2001, a building made up of a cluster of domes enclosing vast botanical gardens.Credit...Hufton + Crow, via Grimshaw
In recent decades, Mr. Grimshaw’s firm took on more commissions abroad. In New York, he designed Via Verde, a mixed-use, mixed-income housing complex in the South Bronx that opened in 2012.Credit...David Sunberg, via Grimshaw
Among his final endeavors was a project that embodied his commitment to innovative, sustainable design.
In 1976, he and Mr. Farrell had built a factory for Herman Miller, the furniture company, in Bath, England. At the time, it won praise for its flexible, spacious interiors.
Eventually Herman Miller left the factory, but Mr. Grimshaw wasn’t done. After the Bath School of Art and the Bath School of Design took it over, they commissioned him to remake it as an academic center. The renovated building opened in 2019.
“I’m getting more and more impassioned with sustainability,” he told The Financial Times in 2019. “Architects should be compelled to put in proposals for how their buildings could be converted later, from offices to flats for instance. We need to stop looking at buildings as expensive handbags on shelves.”
Terry Farrell, Whose Buildings Embodied Late 20th-Century Extremes, Dies at 87
Terry Farrell, a British architect and urban designer whose work encompassed the extremes of late 20th-century building styles, swinging from Modernist austerity to postmodernist cheek before landing somewhere in between, died on Sept. 28. He was 87.
Mr. Farrell’s headquarters for the British foreign intelligence service MI6 was described by one critic as a “wonderful paradox: the most conspicuous building in London for the most secretive organization.”Credit...Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Mr. Farrell at home in London in 2019. “My work these last 50 or so years has been heavily involved in creating a kinder, less doctrinaire world than that of the previous era of high Modernism,” he said.Credit...Christopher Owens/Contour by Getty Images 2014年，法雷爾先生發表了由英國政府委託撰寫的《法雷爾建築與建成環境評論》報告。報告提出了多項建議，其中包括建議城市設立一個“城市空間”，讓公眾可以了解並討論那些影響其環境的政策。 （法雷爾中心的設立初衷就是為了提供這樣的資源。） “Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment,”it proposed that cities create an “urban room” where members of the public could learn about and debate the policies shaping their environments. (The Farrell Centre was intended to be such a resource.)
Mr. Farrell designed attention-getting buildings like TV-am (1982), a broadcast center in London decorated with giant egg-cup finials.Credit...Richard Bryant/Arcaid Images
The Embankment Place office building in London was completed in 1990.Credit...Historic England/Heritage Images, via Getty Images
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It sits over the tracks and platforms of the Charing Cross railway station.Credit...Justin Kase/z12z, via Alamy
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Caine in the trailer for Zulu (1964)
Caine in London at the European premiere of The Dark Knight, July 2008
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