Medan post office was established in 1911, design by Dutch architect , Snuyf. It have 1200 m² area and high 20 meter. It located in front of Merdeka square. Now it still functioned as post office and become one of the icon in Medan city. Local tourist and interlocal came here too sightseeing it J.

Thank you so much Liana for sending me this card!

Terima kasih banyak mbak Liana J

The Citic square is located in Puxi on Nanjing West Road. It is a luxury shopping complex run by Hongkong investors that focus on young and fashionable brandsto attracted the local young fashion fans. It has 50 offices, 2 meeting boardroom and seminar rooms, 2 cafes and lounges. Owning 34.500 m² new shopping malls, you can get cosmetics, jewelry, fashion clothes, watches, spa, physical fitness service, electronic goods and many more.Hmm.. very great facility in one area.

Thank you Zifeng Xia, for sending this night view card J.

This house is became meeting point for communist party of China (CPC) in January 1935 during the long march. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. In the end Mao left the meeting in position to take over military command and become the leader of communist party. After the Zunyi conference, the influence and involvement of the comintern in CPC affairs was reduced.

Thank you for the card Greta!!

Timber framing are method of building with heavy timbers rather than lumber,. Half timbered is a lattice of panels filled with a non loadbearing material infill of brick noggin or wattle andaud ( or similar methods), the frame is often exposed on the outside of the building. Usually the German fachwerkhaus has a foundation of stone or sometimes brick up to several feet and then the timber frame work  supports an irregular wodden sill. The benefits of the construction are : rapidly erected, lend itself well to prefabrication, lends well to be pre- fitting the frame, the frame can be encased, it can be tailored to suits customer, it can use recycled etc. But this also have disadvantage such us, slanting, poor prevention of cappilary movement of water, eaves that are too narrow or non- existent, too much exterior detailing that does not allow adequate rainwater run- off, noise from footsteps, wood burn etc.

So with all the list above, maybe it's not good to build that kind of home in indonesia, hehe. 

Many thank you Jutta for this postcard!!!