Architecture and interior design thread

Randomly stumbled on this...

Mental.

http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/

'a great day out'.....

or 'fuck locks'

Been there. Nice to see it once, everything else is pants.

What? Scotland?

No, that falkirk wheel. It's a great piece of engineering, but the place itself was nothing to write home about.

Scotland though, love it.

or 'fuck locks'

ways not to lock your bike

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/dreamy-camera-coffee-shop/

Quirky.

thanks, passed along!

I need to do some simple suggestive measurings of light and sound levels in different rooms at different times.

is there an app for iphone that will help me?
I've tried the first luxmeter app, but it was quite shit so I was hoping for specific recommendations.

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/04/24/foster-partners-south-quay-plaza-skyscraper-london/
moar luxury apartments for London

Is anyone an Architect here?

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/04/24/foster-partners-south-quay-plaza-skyscraper-london/
moar luxury apartments for London

I pitched to do all the branding and design work for that job... Didn't get it.

CSB

Very nice, but finished by 2026?
2026 We build tomorrow | Construïm el demà | Construimos el mañana - YouTube

Very impressive from the Chinese I must say:

http://www.designboom.com/technology/3d-printed-houses-in-24-hours-04-24-2014/

that is cool

http://tinyhouseswoon.com/north-of-the-sun-cabin/?fb_action_ids=10152187586256263&fb_action_types=og.likes

I likes the little houses, but that one is a little too remote for my tenderness.

This exhibition at my work may be of interest to some

http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/events/2014/march/jason-oddy

blurb: "Jason Oddy's forthcoming exhibition brings together photographic works from the last decade-and-a-half to ask us to look with renewed intensity at the manmade world we normally take for granted.
With their stripped down aesthetic and emphasis on geometric rhythms, Oddy's photographs of places such as Soviet sanatoria, the Pentagon or the United Nations headquarters, aim to take us beyond these specific locations to the ideas that created them. Equally the pictures ask us to consider how the manmade spaces we habitually inhabit might, at a primordial level, also inhabit us.
To help bring this enquiry into sharper focus the exhibition pivots around two distinct phases of Oddy's work. Alongside his earlier investigations of containing and at times coercive architectures, his most recent series, Concrete Spring, explores what might instead be considered an architecture of liberation. Created on the back of a British Council facilitated EU artist residency in Algiers, Concrete Spring is an in-depth examination of the extraordinary if largely forgotten post-independence legacy of celebrated Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria.
All Oddy's work seeks to bring to light the way the built environment plays a fundamental role in determining who we are. His striking, often large-scale depictions of politically charged spaces invite us to consider how no space can be considered neutral, and, moreover, how different types of architecture might imply, or even produce, different types of people."

Love these presumably 60's homes in Harlow

Those are rad.

Unless there is some clever insulating solutions, the heating bills must be immense.
Pretty cool though.

Apparently they stuff the cavities with chinchillas, you feed them through a service hatch in the kitchen. It's since been outlawed

perfect for the post global warming period

Chinchillas have feeling too

chinchilla massage - YouTube