Posts Tagged ‘copenhagen’
new city, new city
i left copenhagen about a month ago. in the interim, ive spent some time with the home clan in new jersey, with the school clan at MIT, weekending at dartmouth, a little bit in new york city, and now i am settled in the bay area for the summer.
like i wrote in my Dear [...]
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Tags: copenhagen, dwell, new york, san francisco, travel, urbanism
last sunday, these three animals embarked on a journey to the irish countryside. yearning to bust out of dublin, we lapped up a delicious irish breakfast [complete with black pudding] and were quickly on our way towards the glacial valley of Glendalough.
andrew, roger, and i had an unfair share of obstacles earlier in the weekend [...]
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Tags: branding, cities, copenhagen, nature, travel
longer, lighter, later
the days are so much longer now — after studio ends at 17:00, i have nearly 3 whole hours to sit and read at a park, before i have to hop from sunspot to sunspot to escape the creeping evening shadows.
another reason (and probably most importantly) why i adore copenhagen 1 googolplex times more now [...]
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Tags: biking, copenhagen, happiness, sun
my family came to copenhagen this weekend, and in typical chu family craving fashion, we wanted to eat asian food in a non-asian environment. so we went to wagamama, the newest restaurant addition on the Tivoli grounds. [started in london, this chain has made its way around europe and into harvard square as well]
what impressed [...]
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Tags: branding, copenhagen, food, restaurants
copenhagen café culture
never have i been more excited to do 200 pages of reading for class than when each homework assignment equals trying out a new danish cafe.
on my daily journey home from school, i pass at least ten cafes, and they’re not just any euro-ish starbucks or panera-esque chain appendage — but all so charming and [...]
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Tags: cafes, copenhagen, denmark, happiness
jutland jaunts
last weekend, the architecture + design program went on a study tour to western denmark – including the cities of arhus, aalborg, and kolding. they all reside on the jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of denmark and ‘juts’ like a finger into the north/baltic seas:
the cities in western denmark are just like smaller, quieter, [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, design, travel
classes i am taking this spring [@ DIS + university of copenhagen] :
1. danish design
2. interior architecture studio
3. european urban design theories
4. turkey at the crossroads
5. human rights in africa
fully comprehensive list of meals that i have cooked for myself thus far :
1. omelette
2. stir fry vegetables
3. tortellini with tomato sauce
4. ravioli with pesto sauce
5. [...]
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Tags: cities, copenhagen, denmark, travel
a visit to Ørestad
after getting to know mainly copenhagen city center for the past two weeks, my European Urban Design Theories [EUDT] professor scooped us up from class this afternoon and whisked us to the metro. i love the metro here because the big windows grant me this view if i squeesh into the very front cart:
our destination: [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, urbanism
hello copenhagen!
i stepped off the plane last weekend, right into the welcoming arms of 1) my wonderful new danish visiting family and 2) a grey, damp, overhanging mist whose icy fingers tickled the bone marrow of my sunshine-worshipping skeleton.
[little did i know that mister icy mist would would be looking over my shoulder...every...day. anders, who led [...]
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Tags: cities, copenhagen, denmark, happiness, sun
over winter break, i’ve been burying my bookwormy-aspiring nose into elizabeth gilbert’s eat pray love, which is turning into a delightful appetizer to my impending study abroad semester in denmark.
although i have neither a lucrative book advance, nor a messy personal divorce from which to cleanse myself, nor an intense three-pronged travel attack of 1. [...]
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Tags: bags, books, cities, copenhagen, marketing, san francisco, travel
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name: tiffany chu
location: cambridge, ma (or san francisco / copenhagen / bridgewater, nj)
industry: architecture + media studies
role: bright, bushy MIT student.
