Architecture and interior design thread

Moar Vitsoe 606 Shelving up in the flat, this time with A/B Birch ply backing.

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I did it!!!
And I got a B - quite overwhelmed actually.
Hello colleagues.

Well played!

from that led me to Walter way in lewisham shelf build social housing in1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbqJNAUOR8

good work and welcome to the circus..

Congratulations!

missed when i posted before congratulations Dron.

Thanks a lot everyone!

http://www.archdaily.com/240524/al-dar-headquarters-mz-architects

Opinion on this building?

Wow. I like it, just so bold. Almost too stark? Wonder if they couldn't have done something more interesting with the facade to break it up apart from the lattice structure.

Also - it's a fucking massive jam tart!

My first impression of was that it was awful, but having looked again my opinion is changing. I think it's just not very interesting does the shape have a function? i dont think so. But I can't really find any information on it, It would be interesting to work there though.

does the shape have a function

Only to minimise the efficiency of the footprint and maximise the build cost :-)
I think it's one of those "because we can" buildings.

Yeah haha, architects playing in their sandbox.

interesting but "now entirely privately owned" - essentailly a failure in social housing terms then

Like this?

I used to work there, it's a very nice building, both aesthetically and to work in.

@drøn congrats!

Yisss! Pew pew pew!

Looks shit.
You can build a great big circle coming out the ground, nice work lads.
Doesnt really interact with the surrounds much?

As @jaw says - it is a very nice building indeed.

Affectionately referred to by the missus as "the whoopee pie" building every time we go past it.

Other than a cave what's going to interact with a desert?

Anything? Literally anything that doesn't look like it's stuck in it. Multilayered modernist building with some sort of arched wall that rises from ground level and surrounding a portion of the building? Its next to water, could they not have played with that somehow? Marseille has some great new water front buildings.

It's similar to Radisson in Frankfurt

Makes no sense until you're in a taxi from the airport, it's the first thing you notice on your way into town, and then it's there glowing in the horizon for quite some time. Pretty clever in that sense.

This is a waterfront building in the UAE that plays with the water theme.

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Better angle:

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Besides, the desert's fairly inhospitable so I guess they don't think anything has to really interact with it.