Architecture and interior design thread

removing water stains

I've done this on some teak with the ironing method.
Came out 100%!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvjhDfSu4E

Dark marks are a diff matter! I have a dark ring on my current coffee table without any luck. I've left it there as it doesn't really matter as I have shit all on the table and is covered most of the time!

I think everyone has worked at SR at some point in their careers, I had five amazing years there. The 75th birthday / reunion was one hell of a party.

I tried that on a teak veneer sideboard, it worked for a few seconds but the stain came back after a while. Meh.

I have an old french octagonal cafe table with three spiral legs and a detailed inlay of swallows in the top. It's pretty old and in a terrible state. Stained, damaged, bits of edging missing. Anyone recommend someone who can renovate? Don't think it's overly valuable so I don't want to spend a fortune on it.

Also, I have always wanted a solid herringbone parquet floor and it may finally become a reality in our new place. Anyone got any tips or experiences?

Love this one.

Get it done by experts. A pal of mine didn't and its already coming apart... there was an advert for some for sale in my local pub recently (E3).

Oh i'll def be getting someone in.

Not just someone... an expert... she relied on reg builders to lay it...

http://www.mimahousing.com/mima-house/

Initial deposit paid. Next stop planning permissions.

Cool! Where?

Depost before planning - punchy.

Balearics. SE Mallorca to be precise. There's ways around it but I'd want to do it legally. The deposit wasn't prohibitive so if it goes up the creek than at least we've tried. I've got until 28/2/17 to get it done and for us it ticks all the boxes.

Fingers crossed this goes to plan.

i have done herringbone oiled solid oak in my flat. i second the above comment, herringbone needs quality wood, properly dried, otherwise you might not see the benefit of doing it the first place.

Brilliant. Good luck with it.

Holy cow. All the updates please. Sounds dead exciting....

Yep i'll be getting a professional herringboner in.

It looks fucking sweet thought right?

It is. We're first time buyers too.
I bought a plot of land (agricultural) for a good price a few years ago.
I've split it and have now 3,000 m2 on which I technically can build providing it's in place before the end of Feb next year. My friend who I've split the plot with let's his lamb and pigs graze on almonds, hazelnuts and olives mainly at the moment.
TBC.

Deserves a current project thread of it's own when the time comes, sounds like an amazing project.

Aces. Either I'm blind, or they don't show pricing on the site? Care to share?

Thanks. Looked at this for quite some time and really like e flexibility and versatility of this design.

There's some info on the site, prices start from €40k.

A Brutalist building in my town will be demolished.
Do buildings that actually belittle and intimidate people deserve to be saved?
There are lots of other good reasons for the take down of this structure including cost of restoration and the better use that this extremely valuable land could be put to (though history around here shows that likely wouldn't be the case).
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/public-safety-building-winnipeg-1.3531875

Hm. While I don't know all the details, it seems pretty clear from the article that materials for this building were poorly chosen. While I generally dislike brutalism, at least this building has a consistently-applied theme and a certain unity. However, as an architectural theme for the city's police headquarters (if I've read the article right), I think it sends out precisely the wrong signals.

As ever, it all really depends on whether what follows would be better, i.e. in this case whether this is a good location for a public space. Turning part of it into a car park is probably not good.

Whatever its merits, it must be pretty depressing for the architect to see it under threat of demolition in his lifetime.

I just had a closer look at the context on StreetView. It's really astonishing how badly it violates that. It should definitely go, subject to something more interesting being put there.

I've also been enjoying the Grauniad's Story of Cities series.

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/the-story-of-cities

The latest one is on the dreadful nonsense Hitler and Speer planned for Berlin:

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/14/story-of-cities-hitler-germania-berlin-nazis#img-4

Yeah, as cop headquarters it was a bad idea made even worse. The new cop shop has been a debacle as well, millions of dollars over budget refurbing the old post office, with a previous mayor neck deep in it.

This looks awesome. Just got back from Mallorca; spent a lot of my riding time wondering how I could make a living sitting in the shade of my own olive/orange/almond grove.

Did anyone go and see high rise?

Intrigued as first time project.

Pretty amazing life style, but what would one do out there to earn a crust?

(I'm there in a month)