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Sorry about that . . has she gotten married yet?

Even if she has, remember that you still have the time to find your perfect match and for the fact that she was getting married means that she wasn't it.
Please don't let this make you 'resistant to love' for future relationships or even to prevent future relationships from forming because who knows what could happen. Just remain strong and remain true. If you don't you'll be doing yourself a disservice.

You are not being overly emotional, this sort of thing is extremely painful, you've been trying to move on and now you've been startled by a note to know that the relationship you had with her was truly over.

Why are friends on both sides being insensitive is what I want to know, your friends don't care about you?

He is either :

1. Bored,

2. Remorseful and wants to be friends,

3. Nosey and wants to know what's happening in your life (relates to number one),

4. Wants to get you back because he's either 1. or because he's realised what he's missed,

5. Trying to keep the friend count up, and calling all his phone contacts routinely,

6. He's trying to figure out the strange number on his phone and wants to check before he deletes it.

Crazy/random suggestions:

7. He had a dream about you, or stumbled upon some memorabilia and now he's nostalgic again (I've done this before),

8. His siblings, friends or family members are pressuring him "Whatever happened to that lovely girl you were dating."

9. He always knew he was going to come back for you, he just broke up with you to enjoy himself, and now he's back (because he's 1.)

10. He wants to play games with you because he's 1.

Good good.

I've realised that the word architecture to most Nigeria holds no position, no power.

You can construct something, giving power to the construction manager,
you can build something, giving power to the builder,
you can engineer something, . . . . . . . . . . . . .engineer, but you can't architect. . the word has to be converted into the closest verb and we lose the architect .

larez:
I am very furious at the so0called moderator who deleted my response to this obvious fool who has no clue of what Architecture is really about. People like this are the ones miseducating people in Nigeria and thus creating a whole bunch more of clueless people.

In my deleted post, I actually did a critique regarding the 2 pictures that Mr. Clueless had posted and recommended a couple of historical Architects for him to look up. I am not about to go through all that again, and may actually come back to delete all my posts in this thread. Here is a Kid in school that has barely learned anything about Architecture speaking with self deluded authority about what he knows nothing about.

If you want to make sure that your posts are not deleted, you can try and present your opinion without making insults to your 'opponent'.

Secondly, how do you know he hasn't gone to school?? What if those are his opinions?

larez:
And you sure took it out of context because it was indeed in reference to Western Architecture. Tell your knucklehead friend that. By the way, were you the one who deleted my previous post?

I did not take it out of context, I believed that your images were refering to Nigerian architecture, since that is what the original topic of thread is concerned with. You chose to go out of context in using your examples, the two pictures of lovely homes - which I really liked.

However, assuming that we were discussing architecture, in the context of Nigeria, I assumed you were suggesting those for Nigeria. It was then that I realised that all the emphasis you had placed in your speech about indeginous architecture and naive nigerian architects not developing architecture informed by the country's history contradicted the images of buildings which obviously have no relevance to the history of nigeria. You advocated compounds, and intricately decorated exteriors and the picture depicted the opposite. Was it my fault I got confused.

Anyways, we are not here to argue, it is possible to discuss without getting personal.

You are still entitled to your views and I mine. I would like to return to the original purpose of this forum.

larez:
And where did I state this? Please direct me to the statement.

It wasn't stated, but it was heavily implied.

True Architecture is a continuous study of form. It is a successful interlude between space, function and culture. You could design a "beautiful home" that lacks history and hence ingratiating.  I have found that many Nigerian Architects indeed lack Historical knowledge of Architecture. They are not cultured in styles and heritable precedence.

Fact remains that the most successful Architecture retain Historical concepts. On the advent of industrialization, the Initial Architecture remained influenced by historical concepts, styles and classical orders. This quickly evolved to a new form when the advent of Sky scrapers came into the scene. But even the Latest Skyscrapers today that are considered beautiful instead or a marvel, have roots of Classical styles.

[color=#660066]That's good to hear. My point is just that it's not such a big deal if a father takes the back seat, a choice most mothers can't choose.
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[color=#008855]If you bring out a gun, you immediately escalate the situation from theft/robbery to possibility of murder/manslaughter. Most of these robbers are on drugs and you can't reason with someone on drugs who has nothing to live for, who's identity you now know because you fought back.

It could become a shoot out, whilst if you play the good guy, yeah you'll be taken advantage of but you'll probably keep your life, think about your kids or family who might be involved in a shoot out and could be harmed.

It's really not that simple unfortunately.

I think the problem has to be the police who have provided these thugs with the weapons.
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[color=#008855]Guys I've been reading the posts, please can we keep it civil, no digs at anyone's opinions, matured discussion only. Please.


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More responses Pages 2/3/some 4:

Chrixto - All the best

Dis Guy - The same thing happened to South Africa, the architecture in places such as pretoria and Johannesburg don't reflect on their ingenious architecture in the slightest, this is where their history comes into play. We have to recognize that though the settlers that came to SA are not the natural occupants of the land, they contributed to the history of the land, and so the architecture sort of has a reason for being there. I still believe that the lessons learnt from their collonialist architectural ventures can be used to create a new architecture that returns to the vernacular. It all sounds contradictory, but what I mean is that we can evolve the indegenous architecture, but we don't need to lose the lessons learnt, especially in regards to new materials and construction techniques that may be better for the climate.

Mahal - If the roof is a sun filter, then why does it have holes above the occupied spaces? The pictures you posted of the JBN office are getting closer to the ideal, the building is white (reflects heat keeping the building cooler on the inside and light), and it has a double roof which actually relates to the climate, as it becomes a heat barrier, keeping the building cooler, since it's directly above the building it's even better as Nigeria is very close to the equator. In future we should definitely invest in solar power, we'd be silly not to. Yes, the input costs are high, but the return is very significant, especially as Nigeria is striving to be more concerned with how energy is used.

Would we have as many problems with generating electricity if every house had it's own solar power 'station', maybe, maybe not, we'll never know until we try it.

It's times like this that I urge designers, architects and engineers to please look at precedent research, regarding energy consumption. Nigeria isn't the only country that's hot!!

Moag - Yey

Lekside44 - Wish I could tell you but I don't use any, I'm currently learning to use AUTOCAD2007 (downloaded two days ago), but I usually use Google SketchUp and render it with Indigo.

Mahal - SketchUp alone could not, but if an external rendering program plugin was installed (along with the program) you could.

dblock - Fantastic!!

Yoruba - I'm more than impressed!

Mahal - Fantastic!!

Larez - Beautiful homes but they contradict your post where you stated the importance of architecture relevant to our history and country.

[color=#008855]My responses to page 1:

When I created this topic, I waited a few hours but received no responses, I have now returned to it to find that it's bursting full of life.

I believe this is symbolic of what will happen for Nigerian architecture. Whether you believe this or not is a different question.

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Justkunmi - I am in my final year of the part one BArch (Hons) course in the UK.

Desse - I agree a project that's supervised by a great architect is definitely different. You can tell.

Tmoni - Why'd you quit - I felt like quitting when I was in my first year, but the internal push just keeps me going that one extra step at a time.

Aasog - I agree with the ideas behind a construction manager who can handle the particulars of building construction much more efficiently however, I don't believe that a person trained in that can assess certain issues that an architect is trained to assess. Issues such as light quality, ambience e.t.c. It is not that I think that one is lesser than the other (since I don't know what a construction manager really does) in the bigger picture, it's just that I believe that the issues I mentioned are very important. We need to realise that being an architect is not just about painting and handing over the piece of paper to someone else to do all the dirty work. In my first year, I had such a broad curriculum, ranging for forces and physics involved with construction and structures to conceptual design, to CAD modelling, to philosophy of design, all these things contribute greatly to the success of a design of a building.

Mahal - I also agree, to many people the word does not exist, I will go on to analyse whose fault that is later, but for now, I think it's 50:50. Our Nigerian-born architects should receive more acknowldegment, the emphasis in my course is on travel - you spread the word, you bring back ideas and inspiration, not copies of American prarie houses, nor huge mansions, but a new vernacular style with a purpose. When a Nigerian architect becomes notable across the world, believe me, the public with know what the word means.

Lovestorm - Some of the blame should go to the mentality of fellow Nigerians, who do not wish to spend a kobo on home improvement - the number of people who drive fancy cars, but who's interiors lack imagination are countless, it's acceptable for the layout of the house to be clumsy, for certains rooms to eminate neglect, it's the norm - nobody blinks an eyelid. In the bigger picture, a lot of us are temporary thinkers, we want the money now, the fame now, the children now, it saddens me that there are no equivalent of 'cathedrals' or 'castles' here, they've all worn away or have been badly maintained - because no one wants to spend money on maintainance, we are easily distracted by new trends, and we never quite manage to convince ourselves that this one or that one will stay so we don't put all our eggs in one basket.
In terms of interior design, we are lacking in taste that appreciates the dawn of a new century, we immitate western styles, okay the occasional family will have a wooden carved painting of a woman carrying a baby in a wrapper. We don't realise that these styles are not in fact western, but a collection of 'what works' around the world. Ornaments were adopted from Asia, the whole idea of a centre-piece, be it a coffee table or a vase, I could go on and on. .

Junjustin - Like I'm implied above, we are short sighted unfortunately, we want the here and now, we want the house completed before we fall sick, we want grandma and granddad to live in it before they pass, or we want something to impress them, after all it took us this long to make our wealth, so why not enjoy it now - that's the mentality. With little or no precedent in great Nigerian architecture, people can't find examples to look towards for 'a better standard' of buildings. Sometimes you even have to remind me that it does exist.

zPixel - Welcome.

Sprumbaba - What do you mean?? As designers we all have various concepts. Most of us haven't been given the chance to develop these.

Woodpecker - I cannot communicate on the politics as I have little knowledge in that area.

Yoruba - I could only find ONE book on Nigerian architecture in my university library, and that was written in the 1940s (if I remember correctly) and it was written by an englishman who wanted to discuss the differences between architecture of the different tribes at the time. As for contemporary architecture, I'm not sure if I'll find anything on Amazon (I've searched. . nothing I could order).

dblock - The best of luck to you.

Three UK firms appointed to Nigerian regeneration scheme
26 June, 2009

Sheppard Robson, Arup and Davis Langdon will masterplan a 77,000m² scheme around Minna airport city

Sheppard Robson, Arup and Davis Langdon have been appointed to masterplan a 77,000km² regeneration scheme in Nigeria.

The project, which will be developed around a new airport city at Minna, has been launched by the governor of Niger State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu. The developer is Cortis Capital and Maevis, in partnership with the Niger State government.

The regeneration scheme is intended to support the country’s seven point plan to transform Nigeria by focusing on power and energy, food security, wealth creation, transport, land reforms, security and education.

Speaking at the launch, the governor said: “I am committed to the president’s seven point agenda and the creation of the new Nigeria – and this regeneration strategy plays a major role in this initiative.

“From a global perspective, we have appointed organisations with the requisite skills, experience and capability focused around masterplanning, regeneration and sustainability to successfully deliver the Minna Airport City Project (MAC).”

Tim Evans, creative director of Sheppard Robson, added: “This is an exciting project for Sheppard Robson and with our co-consultants Arup and Davis Langdon, we look forward to using our skills and experience to help the governor achieve his vision for Niger State and Nigeria.”


http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3143704"

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Yey!! My favourite words; Renegeration & Nigeria.



Hopeful.

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cheatmaker:
Happy for her. I taught she was brought up in nigeria. It would have been a better news. We need things to start happening from nigeria not african america.

[color=#008855]Yeah, not clawing for success stories wherever I can. If she purposely identifies with Nigeria, that's a different thing to her just being Nigerian. For all I know she might prefer to be called American. .
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Anyone watching last selection of big brother 9 UK, a person calling himself Sree said some few things:

- "Personally me, I like you, "
- "I am telling you on your face, "
- "It is my point of opinion, "
- "I only wore this jumper for special occasions, "

I am so very glad that I remember to correct my retaliation, furthermore you would have thought that Iam an idiot wen you are reading it.

[color=#008855]Seun, if this isn't enough for you to re-introduce private messaging I don't know what is. .
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[color=#008855]Also I think obtaining Firearms without the license or being a police is illegal - which means you might have to deal with the very same people causing the trouble and danger in the first place to illegally acquire one.
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[color=#008855]After you obtain the gun, I hope you also do in depth research on the particulars of committing murder.

If Nigerians are beginning to worry about their own safety then how does that look to tourists??
Nigeria was never really a holiday destination anyway.
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"Hamas says Israel dumping aphrodisiac gum on Gaza. ."

"Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to "corrupt the young," an official said on Tuesday. Skip related content"

"The Islamist movement that has run the densely populated and impoverished Palestinian territory for the past two years said it has detained members of a gang that helped to bring in the products."

"They admitted during the investigation they were linked to the Zionist intelligence services," he said."

"One suspect said he had received the products from an Israeli intelligence officer at a cut-rate price "with the officer saying they did not want money, but to distribute the products among the young people of Gaza," Shahwan said."

"The intelligence services are aiming to corrupt the young generation by distributing these products among students."

"The story came to light after a Palestinian man filed a complaint that his daughter had experienced "dubious side effects" after chewing the offending gum, Israeli media reported."


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090714/tod-hamas-says-israel-dumping-aphrodisia-7f81b96.html